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General Knowledge 6 (Age: 11-18)

	1) What do you do to a Euphonium ?
	a	Blow it
	b	Bang it
	c	Slap it
	d	Jump on it
	2) If a creature is Arboreal, where does it live ?
	a	Underground
	b	In water
	c	In sand
	d	In a tree
	3) What is a Zeppelin ?
	a	a submarine
	b	a car
	c	a plane
	d	an airship
	4) In roman mythology Neptune is the god of ?
	a	War
	b	Love
	c	the sea
	d	the sun
	5) How far is the earth from the sun?
	a	56 million km
	b	124 million km
	c	228million km
	d	317 million km
	6) The Mercalli scale measures what ?
	a	the movement of the tides
	b	air pressure
	c	earthquake damage
	d	gravity
	7) Liquid lava from a volcano has an average temperature of ?
	a	200degrees
	b	500degrees
	c	1000degrees
	d	2000degrees
	8) The worlds largest glacier ,Lambert Glacier is how long ?
	a	100km
	b	200km
	c	700km
	d	1000km
	9) What is the largest tree ?
	a	Redwood
	b	Ash
	c	Oak
	d	Elm
	10) Life in the form of bacteria and algae first appeared in the ocean how long ago ?
	a	1000million years
	b	2500million years
	c	3000million years
	d	3500million years
	11) What is the estimated number of species of insect in the world ?
	a	100,000
	b	300,000
	c	750,000
	d	1,000,000
	12) What is the most dangerous invertebrate to humans ?
	a	Spiders
	b	Snakes
	c	Mosquitoes
	d	Scorpions
	13) The dodo was declared extinct in 1662. Which island was its natural home ?
	a	The Maldives
	b	New Guinea
	c	Galapagos Islands
	d	Mauritius
	14) The worlds smallest mammal is the Kitty hog-nosed bat from Thailand. How much does it weight ?
	a	2 Grams
	b	20 Grams
	c	100 Grams
	d	200 Grams
	15) The Flying Fox is a type of what?
	a	Bat
	b	Bird
	c	Fox
	d	Dog
	16) Captain Cook was finally killed by natives in 1779 but where ?
	a	Australia
	b	New Zealand
	c	Hawaii
	d	Japan
	17) The first man on the South Pole was ?
	a	Robert Peary
	b	Ronald Amundsen
	c	Captain Scott
	d	Edmund Hilary
	18) Tanks were first used in which war ?
	a	Boer War
	b	World War 1
	c	World War 2
	d	Korean War
	19) India won Independence from the British Empire in which year ?
	a	1946
	b	1948
	c	1953
	d	1958
	20) On average how many times does the heart beat in a lifetime ?
	a	100 Million
	b	500 Million
	c	1 Billion
	d	2 Billion

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