Hello and welcome to the first fasab quiz of 2015.
Twenty questions that cover history, geography, science, music and nature and maybe more.
Some of them are quite easy though, so don’t be alarmed.
And as always, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: By what more common name are the 3rd Molars known?
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Q. 2: What do snakes use their tongues for?
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Q. 3: What is the diameter in meters, of the circle from which a discus is thrown?
a) 1.5 meters b) 2.5 meters c) 3.5 meters
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Q. 4: What disease is an infection of the intestine caused by drinking dirty water?
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Q. 5: Which federal state consists of 26 Cantons?
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Q. 6: What is 9 percent of 9?
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Q. 7: What is the more common name for the chemical symbol ‘fe2o3’?
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Q. 8: What are the only 2 mammals to lay eggs rather than give birth to live offspring? (You get a point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get both correct.)
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Q. 9: What killer disease very prevalent in past centuries was controlled by Jonas Salk’s vaccine?
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Q. 10: What type of fuel do jet aircraft use?
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Q. 11: How many minutes are there in a week?
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Q. 12: Common Salt is a compound formed from 2 elements, one is sodium what is the other?
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Q. 13: Which bird has ‘golden’, ‘silver’, ‘Lady Amherst’ and ‘argus’ varieties?
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Q. 14: What alternative name is given to the River Thames as it passes through Oxford, a name that has been very prominent in the international news recently for a very different reason?
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Q. 15: What is the second month of the year to have exactly 30 days?
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Q. 16: What kind of paper is used to test whether a liquid is acid or alkali?
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Q. 17: What are the two heaviest land animals? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 18: The ancient city of Machu Picchu is in which country?
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Q. 19: Walter Frederick Morrison invented the ‘Pluto platter’ in 1948, but what is it more commonly known as today?
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Q. 20: What is the better known stage name of Robyn Fenty?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: By what more common name are the 3rd Molars known?
A. 1: Wisdom teeth.
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Q. 2: What do snakes use their tongues for?
A. 2: Hearing.
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Q. 3: What is the diameter in meters, of the circle from which a discus is thrown?
a) 1.5 meters b) 2.5 meters c) 3.5 meters
A. 3: The correct answer is b) 2.5 meters.
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Q. 4: What disease is an infection of the intestine caused by drinking dirty water?
A. 4: Cholera.
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Q. 5: Which federal state consists of 26 Cantons?
A. 5: Switzerland.
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Q. 6: What is 9 percent of 9?
A. 6: It is 0.81.
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Q. 7: What is the more common name for the chemical symbol ‘fe2o3’?
A. 7: Rust.
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Q. 8: What are the only 2 mammals to lay eggs rather than give birth to live offspring? (You get a point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get both correct.)
A. 8: Duckbilled platypus and the spiny anteater (will accept just ‘anteater’).
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Q. 9: What killer disease very prevalent in past centuries was controlled by Jonas Salk’s vaccine?
A. 9: Polio.
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Q. 10: What type of fuel do jet aircraft use?
A. 10: Kerosene.
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Q. 11: How many minutes are there in a week?
A. 11: There are 10,080.
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Q. 12: Common Salt is a compound formed from 2 elements, one is sodium what is the other?
A. 12: Chlorine
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Q. 13: Which bird has ‘golden’, ‘silver’, ‘Lady Amherst’ and ‘argus’ varieties?
A. 13: Pheasant.
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Q. 14: What alternative name is given to the River Thames as it passes through Oxford, a name that has been very prominent in the international news recently for a very different reason?
A. 14: It is called the ‘Isis’, the name also used for the militant Islamic terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
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Q. 15: What is the second month of the year to have exactly 30 days?
A. 15: June.
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Q. 16: What kind of paper is used to test whether a liquid is acid or alkali?
A. 16: Litmus.
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Q. 17: What are the two heaviest land animals? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 17: The elephant and the hippopotamus.
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Q. 18: The ancient city of Machu Picchu is in which country?
A. 18: Peru.
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Q. 19: Walter Frederick Morrison invented the ‘Pluto platter’ in 1948, but what is it more commonly known as today?
A. 19: The ‘Frisbee’.
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Q. 20: What is the better known stage name of Robyn Fenty?
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