Packet no. 19
A week has seven days. How many days are in two weeks?
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Answer: fourteen (14)
Seven plus seven is fourteen, the same as two times seven. Two weeks are also called a fortnight.
Trick questions and funny riddles for kids
A trick question is short and has a twist. The answer is often simple once you look at it from the right angle.
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When there are no apples in the basket, that is how many there are. I am round like an egg. Which number am I?
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A dog has this many legs, and so does a cat. How many legs is that?
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This is how many noses every person has. Which number is it?
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This is how many eyes you have on your face. Which number is it?
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This is how many days there are in one week. Which number is it?
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Which number is the biggest: three, five or one?
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Which word is the longest: CAT, OWL or HEDGEHOG?
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They carry you to school every day, and at the end each one has five toes inside a shoe. What are they?
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When you are tired, you lie down in bed and close your eyes. What are you doing?
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The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina has a yellow triangle and a row of white stars. What colour is the background?
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It comes once a year, everyone sings to you, and you blow out the candles on a cake. What is it?
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Spring, summer, autumn and winter. How many seasons is that?
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Answers (turn the page round) 1. zero (0) · 2. four (4) · 3. one (1) · 4. two (2) · 5. seven (7) · 6. five (5) · 7. hedgehog · 8. your feet · 9. sleeping · 10. blue · 11. your birthday · 12. four (4)
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A week has seven days. How many days are in two weeks?
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Turn me upside down and I become a six. Which number am I?
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Which number comes straight after ninety-nine?
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There are four apples on the table. You take two. How many apples do you have?
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Some cats sit in a room. Each cat can see three other cats. How many cats are in the room?
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How many letters are in the word SHIP? Careful: SH makes one sound, but it is written with two letters.
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I am the kind of word that says what someone does: run, write, sing. What am I called?
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I am the kind of word that names people, animals and things: Sam, cat, table. What am I called?
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What do we call lots of birds flying together?
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What do we call a baby cat?
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Which mark do we write at the end of a question?
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What kind of letter starts every sentence: a small one or a capital one?
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I am the biggest animal in the world. I live in the sea, yet I am not a fish. Who am I?
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I have no colour, no taste and no smell, yet no plant can grow without me. What am I?
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I am the part of a plant that lives underground. I hold the plant steady and drink water. What am I?
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I am the red planet, fourth in line from the Sun. What is my name?
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First the lightning flashes, and then you hear my rumble. What am I?
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I am the biggest organ of your body. I cover all of you and protect you from dirt and cold. What am I?
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You have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Which sense tells you that a cat's fur is soft?
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Before you eat, you wash them with soap so germs do not get into your mouth. What are they?
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I live inside your head, and right now I am working out the answer to this riddle. What am I?
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How many times a day should you brush your teeth?
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I am the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Miljacka river flows through me. What is my name?
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When you drop an apple, it falls to the ground because the Earth pulls it. What is that pull called?
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In this sport you throw the ball into a hoop high up on a board. Which sport is it?
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On which continent is Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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What do we call a picture in which the painter paints themself?
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I come after Monday and before Wednesday. Which day am I?
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I am the first month of the year, and I start with the New Year celebrations. Which month am I?
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I am the shortest month, and every fourth year I get one extra day. Which month am I?
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The short hand points to three and the long hand points to twelve. What time is it?
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It is always ahead of you and everyone waits for it, but when it arrives, it is called today. What is it?
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How many months are there in a year?
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Which day ends the week in Bosnian calendars?
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Which month comes after March?
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The short hand points to six and the long hand to twelve. What time is it?
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How many minutes are there in one hour?
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What do we call the day that came before today?
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In which month is the longest day of the year in Europe?
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Answers (turn the page round) 1. fourteen (14) · 2. nine (9) · 3. a hundred (100) · 4. two (2) · 5. four (4) · 6. four letters (4) · 7. a verb · 8. a noun · 9. a flock · 10. a kitten · 11. a question mark (?) · 12. a capital letter · 13. the blue whale · 14. water · 15. the root · 16. Mars · 17. thunder · 18. your skin · 19. touch · 20. your hands · 21. your brain · 22. twice (2) · 23. Sarajevo · 24. gravity · 25. basketball · 26. Europe · 27. a self-portrait · 28. Tuesday · 29. January · 30. February · 31. three o'clock (3:00) · 32. tomorrow · 33. twelve (12) · 34. Sunday · 35. April · 36. six o'clock (6:00) · 37. sixty (60) · 38. yesterday · 39. June
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What is the biggest number written with two digits?
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Round forty-seven to the nearest ten.
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I have three sisters and two brothers. How many children are there in our family?
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In the alphabet I come straight after S and just before U. Which letter am I?
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When there is only one, we say child. What do we say when there are many?
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What do we call a word that means the same as another word, like big and large?
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Which letter appears most often in the word ABRACADABRA?
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What kind of word are on, in, under and behind?
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Finish the saying: Practice makes ...
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What are words called that sound like the thing they describe, like boom, meow and tick tock?
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What do we call the part we add to the start of a word to change its meaning, like UN in UNHAPPY?
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I am the planet you live on. I am third in line from the Sun. What is my name?
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I eat apples and fish, honey and meat. I am not fussy at all. What is an animal like me called?
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Plants make food from sunlight, water and air. What is this process called?
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What are animals called whose babies drink their mother's milk, like cows, dogs and people?
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What are birds called that fly to warmer places every autumn and come back in spring?
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It grows on your head, yet it does not hurt when the hairdresser cuts it. What is it?
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Messages from your brain to your muscles travel along thin threads all over your body. What are they called?
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Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. How many senses is that?
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When you are in the sun, your skin makes a vitamin by itself. Which one?
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I was written in 1189 and I mention Ban Kulin. I am one of the oldest documents about Bosnia. What am I?
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I am the highest mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina, standing on the border with Montenegro. What is my name?
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In a competition, first place gets gold and second place gets silver. Which medal does third place get?
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What is the highest mountain in the world?
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Who painted the Mona Lisa, the woman with the mysterious smile?
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What is a scientist who studies the stars and planets called?
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What is the capital of France, famous for the Eiffel Tower?
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What is it called when the water in a puddle slowly turns into vapour in the sun and disappears?
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On most maps, which direction is at the top?
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How many days are there in a year that is not a leap year?
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I last a hundred years. What am I called?
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How many days does April have?
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About how many weeks are there in a year: 12, 52 or 365?
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What do we call a period of ten years?
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What spins around itself so that day and night take turns?
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In spring, clocks in Europe change by one hour. Do they go forward or back?
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Answers (turn the page round) 1. ninety-nine (99) · 2. fifty (50) · 3. six (6) · 4. the letter T · 5. children · 6. a synonym · 7. the letter A · 8. a preposition · 9. perfect · 10. onomatopoeia · 11. a prefix · 12. Earth · 13. an omnivore · 14. photosynthesis · 15. mammals · 16. migrating birds · 17. your hair · 18. nerves · 19. five (5) · 20. vitamin D · 21. the Charter of Ban Kulin · 22. Maglić · 23. bronze · 24. Mount Everest · 25. Leonardo da Vinci · 26. an astronomer · 27. Paris · 28. evaporation · 29. north · 30. 365 · 31. a century · 32. thirty (30) · 33. fifty-two (52) · 34. a decade · 35. the Earth · 36. forward
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How many letters are in the word KNIGHT? Some of them make no sound at all!
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Finish the saying: The early bird catches the ...
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How many vowels are in the word ALPHABET?
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Which word has only one letter and means me?
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What do we call a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet?
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Which word has none of the vowels A, E, I, O or U: TREE, RHYTHM, HOUSE or APPLE?
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Bosnian schools teach two alphabets. One is Latin. What is the other?
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I come when the light goes away. The more of me there is, the less you see. What am I?
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I am the gas you breathe in. Plants release me from their leaves, and fire cannot burn without me. What am I?
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What is the biggest desert in the world? Careful, it is not the Sahara.
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The Moon pulls on the sea, so twice a day the water rises and falls. What is it called when the sea comes in high?
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A rooster lays an egg right on the top of a roof. Which way will the egg roll?
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At the North Pole the sun does not set for months in summer and does not rise for months in winter. What is that long winter darkness called?
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I live in your ear, but I hear nothing. I help you stay up when you stand on one leg. What am I?
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Which is the longest and strongest bone in your body? It is in your upper leg.
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These teeth come in last, only in adults, and they are named after being clever. What are they called?
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Before people could write, they painted animals on cave walls. What do we call that time before writing?
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I am the biggest ocean on Earth, and my name says I am peaceful. What am I called?
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Which star is closest to the Earth? Careful, the answer is easier than you think.
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I am a continent and a country at the same time. What is my name?
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Which is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
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This Greek mathematician is famous for a rule about the sides of a right-angled triangle. Who is it?
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Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
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Which is the biggest planet in the Solar System?
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What is a poem of exactly fourteen lines called?
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Which writer born in Bosnia wrote the novel The Bridge on the Drina and won the Nobel Prize?
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How is water written as a chemical formula?
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Which season begins with the shortest day of the year?
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In which year does the twenty-second century begin?
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What is the day called when daytime is longest and night is shortest in the year?
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What is the phase called when the Moon disappears completely from the sky?
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Answers (turn the page round) 1. six letters (6) · 2. worm · 3. three (3) · 4. I · 5. a pangram · 6. rhythm · 7. Cyrillic · 8. darkness · 9. oxygen · 10. Antarctica · 11. high tide · 12. neither way, roosters do not lay eggs · 13. the polar night · 14. your sense of balance · 15. the thigh bone (femur) · 16. wisdom teeth · 17. prehistory · 18. the Pacific Ocean · 19. the Sun · 20. Australia · 21. mercury · 22. Pythagoras · 23. Neil Armstrong · 24. Jupiter · 25. a sonnet · 26. Ivo Andrić · 27. H₂O · 28. winter · 29. 2101 · 30. the summer solstice · 31. the new moon
Trick questions and funny riddles
A trick question is short and has a twist, which is why it is often funny: the answer is simpler than it seems, or it hides in the question itself. Roosters do not lay eggs, and whoever takes two apples has two apples.
Why they help
Trick questions teach children to listen carefully and read to the end, the same skill they need for word problems at school.
Fun for groups
They are perfect for birthday parties, car rides and family evenings. Send one to grandma or a friend and ask if they know the answer.
Trick questions for kids: every riddle with its answer
For reading aloud, in class or at home. The answer is hidden under each riddle.
4 to 6 Pick the picture
When there are no apples in the basket, that is how many there are. I am round like an egg. Which number am I?
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Answer: zero (0)
Did you know? Write a zero after a one and you get ten: 10. Zero is small, but it matters.
A dog has this many legs, and so does a cat. How many legs is that?
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Answer: four (4)
Did you know? Animals that walk on four legs are called quadrupeds. Dogs, cats, horses and cows are all quadrupeds.
This is how many noses every person has. Which number is it?
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Answer: one (1)
Did you know? We write one as a straight line: 1. The Romans wrote it with the letter I.
This is how many eyes you have on your face. Which number is it?
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Answer: two (2)
Did you know? Lots of things on your body come in pairs: eyes, ears, hands and feet. A pair means two.
This is how many days there are in one week. Which number is it?
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Answer: seven (7)
Did you know? Saturday and Sunday are the weekend, and on the other five days we go to school.
Which number is the biggest: three, five or one?
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Answer: five (5)
Did you know? When numbers stand in a row, the bigger number comes later: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Which word is the longest: CAT, OWL or HEDGEHOG?
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Answer: hedgehog
Did you know? Hedgehog has eight letters, while cat and owl have only three.
They carry you to school every day, and at the end each one has five toes inside a shoe. What are they?
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Answer: your feet
Did you know? Each foot has lots of small bones. That is why we can walk, jump and keep our balance.
When you are tired, you lie down in bed and close your eyes. What are you doing?
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Answer: sleeping
Did you know? While you sleep, your body grows and rests, and your brain sorts out everything you learned that day.
The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina has a yellow triangle and a row of white stars. What colour is the background?
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Answer: blue
Did you know? The yellow triangle on the flag recalls the shape of Bosnia and Herzegovina on a map.
It comes once a year, everyone sings to you, and you blow out the candles on a cake. What is it?
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Answer: your birthday
Did you know? Your birthday falls on the same date every year, and on that day you turn one year older.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter. How many seasons is that?
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Answer: four (4)
Did you know? The seasons come in the same order every year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
7 to 9 Choose or type
A week has seven days. How many days are in two weeks?
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Answer: fourteen (14)
Did you know? Seven plus seven is fourteen, the same as two times seven. Two weeks are also called a fortnight.
Turn me upside down and I become a six. Which number am I?
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Answer: nine (9)
Did you know? That is why a little line is sometimes drawn under a 6 or a 9, so nobody mixes them up.
Which number comes straight after ninety-nine?
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Answer: a hundred (100)
Did you know? A hundred is the first number with three digits. Ten tens make one hundred.
There are four apples on the table. You take two. How many apples do you have?
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Answer: two (2)
Did you know? In a word problem, the most important thing is to read the question right to the end.
Some cats sit in a room. Each cat can see three other cats. How many cats are in the room?
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Answer: four (4)
Did you know? Each cat sees the other three, not itself. So it is the same four cats.
How many letters are in the word SHIP? Careful: SH makes one sound, but it is written with two letters.
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Answer: four letters (4)
Did you know? In English, two letters can make one sound, like sh, ch and th. They still count as two letters.
I am the kind of word that says what someone does: run, write, sing. What am I called?
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Answer: a verb
Did you know? Verbs tell us what happens. In The dog barks, the word barks is a verb.
I am the kind of word that names people, animals and things: Sam, cat, table. What am I called?
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Answer: a noun
Did you know? Names of people, towns and rivers start with a capital letter: Sam, London, Thames.
What do we call lots of birds flying together?
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Answer: a flock
Did you know? Groups of animals have special names: a flock of birds, a swarm of bees, a herd of horses and a pack of wolves.
What do we call a baby cat?
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Answer: a kitten
Did you know? Many animal babies have their own names: kitten, puppy, calf and foal.
Which mark do we write at the end of a question?
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Answer: a question mark (?)
Did you know? A statement ends with a full stop, a question with a question mark and an exclamation with an exclamation mark.
What kind of letter starts every sentence: a small one or a capital one?
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Answer: a capital letter
Did you know? We use a capital letter at the start of a sentence and for names: Sam, London, Thames.
I am the biggest animal in the world. I live in the sea, yet I am not a fish. Who am I?
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Answer: the blue whale
Did you know? A whale breathes with lungs, so it comes up for air. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived.
I have no colour, no taste and no smell, yet no plant can grow without me. What am I?
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Answer: water
Did you know? Water covers most of the Earth, but only a small part of it is fresh water we can drink.
I am the part of a plant that lives underground. I hold the plant steady and drink water. What am I?
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Answer: the root
Did you know? Roots hold a plant firmly in the ground and soak up water and minerals.
I am the red planet, fourth in line from the Sun. What is my name?
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Answer: Mars
Did you know? Mars is red because its soil is full of iron that has rusted.
First the lightning flashes, and then you hear my rumble. What am I?
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Answer: thunder
Did you know? Light travels faster than sound, so you see the lightning before you hear the thunder.
I am the biggest organ of your body. I cover all of you and protect you from dirt and cold. What am I?
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Answer: your skin
Did you know? Your skin is always renewing itself: old cells flake off and new ones grow underneath.
You have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Which sense tells you that a cat's fur is soft?
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Answer: touch
Did you know? Your fingertips, lips and tongue are the most sensitive to touch.
Before you eat, you wash them with soap so germs do not get into your mouth. What are they?
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Answer: your hands
Did you know? Wash your hands with soap for as long as it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice.
I live inside your head, and right now I am working out the answer to this riddle. What am I?
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Answer: your brain
Did you know? Your brain runs your whole body: breathing, moving, remembering and dreaming.
How many times a day should you brush your teeth?
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Answer: twice (2)
Did you know? Brush your teeth in the morning and at night, for two minutes each time.
I am the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Miljacka river flows through me. What is my name?
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Answer: Sarajevo
Did you know? Sarajevo hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1984.
When you drop an apple, it falls to the ground because the Earth pulls it. What is that pull called?
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Answer: gravity
Did you know? Gravity keeps the Moon going round the Earth and the Earth going round the Sun.
In this sport you throw the ball into a hoop high up on a board. Which sport is it?
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Answer: basketball
Did you know? In basketball each team has five players on the court.
On which continent is Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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Answer: Europe
Did you know? There are seven continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica.
What do we call a picture in which the painter paints themself?
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Answer: a self-portrait
Did you know? Painters often made self-portraits by looking at themselves in a mirror.
I come after Monday and before Wednesday. Which day am I?
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Answer: Tuesday
Did you know? A week has seven days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
I am the first month of the year, and I start with the New Year celebrations. Which month am I?
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Answer: January
Did you know? A year has twelve months, from January to December.
I am the shortest month, and every fourth year I get one extra day. Which month am I?
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Answer: February
Did you know? A year with one extra day is called a leap year. Then February has twenty-nine days.
The short hand points to three and the long hand points to twelve. What time is it?
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Answer: three o'clock (3:00)
Did you know? The short hand shows the hours and the long hand shows the minutes. When the long hand is on twelve, it is exactly on the hour.
It is always ahead of you and everyone waits for it, but when it arrives, it is called today. What is it?
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Answer: tomorrow
Did you know? Yesterday is the past, today is the present, and tomorrow is the future.
How many months are there in a year?
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Answer: twelve (12)
Did you know? A year has twelve months and four seasons, with three months in each.
Which day ends the week in Bosnian calendars?
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Answer: Sunday
Did you know? Saturday and Sunday together make the weekend.
Which month comes after March?
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Answer: April
Did you know? April weather is changeable: sunshine one moment and rain the next.
The short hand points to six and the long hand to twelve. What time is it?
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Answer: six o'clock (6:00)
Did you know? At six o'clock the two hands stand in one straight line.
How many minutes are there in one hour?
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Answer: sixty (60)
Did you know? The long hand goes all the way round in sixty minutes, while the short hand moves on one number.
What do we call the day that came before today?
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Answer: yesterday
Did you know? Yesterday, today and tomorrow help us say when something happened or will happen.
In which month is the longest day of the year in Europe?
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Answer: June
Did you know? The longest day is around 21 June, when summer begins.
10 and 11 Type the answer
What is the biggest number written with two digits?
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Answer: ninety-nine (99)
Did you know? There are exactly ninety two-digit numbers, from 10 to 99.
Round forty-seven to the nearest ten.
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Answer: fifty (50)
Did you know? Rounding helps you estimate quickly: 47 is about 50.
I have three sisters and two brothers. How many children are there in our family?
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Answer: six (6)
Did you know? The trap in questions like this is forgetting the person asking.
In the alphabet I come straight after S and just before U. Which letter am I?
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Answer: the letter T
Did you know? The end of the English alphabet goes R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. Z is the last letter.
When there is only one, we say child. What do we say when there are many?
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Answer: children
Did you know? Some words change completely in the plural: child and children, mouse and mice, person and people.
What do we call a word that means the same as another word, like big and large?
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Answer: a synonym
Did you know? Synonyms are words with the same meaning, like happy and glad. They keep a story from sounding dull.
Which letter appears most often in the word ABRACADABRA?
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Answer: the letter A
Did you know? In abracadabra the letter A appears five times, and B and R twice each.
What kind of word are on, in, under and behind?
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Answer: a preposition
Did you know? Prepositions show how things relate: the book is on the table, and the cat is under it.
Finish the saying: Practice makes ...
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Answer: perfect
Did you know? This saying means that you get better at anything by doing it again and again.
What are words called that sound like the thing they describe, like boom, meow and tick tock?
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Answer: onomatopoeia
Did you know? Onomatopoeia copies sounds: a dog goes woof, a clock goes tick tock, and a door creaks.
What do we call the part we add to the start of a word to change its meaning, like UN in UNHAPPY?
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Answer: a prefix
Did you know? Prefixes change what a word means: happy and unhappy, write and rewrite.
I am the planet you live on. I am third in line from the Sun. What is my name?
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Answer: Earth
Did you know? The Earth takes a year to travel round the Sun and a day to spin once around itself.
I eat apples and fish, honey and meat. I am not fussy at all. What is an animal like me called?
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Answer: an omnivore
Did you know? A cow is a herbivore, a wolf is a carnivore, and bears and people are omnivores.
Plants make food from sunlight, water and air. What is this process called?
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Answer: photosynthesis
Did you know? For photosynthesis a plant needs the green pigment chlorophyll. That is why leaves are green.
What are animals called whose babies drink their mother's milk, like cows, dogs and people?
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Answer: mammals
Did you know? Whales and bats are both mammals, even though one swims and the other flies.
What are birds called that fly to warmer places every autumn and come back in spring?
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Answer: migrating birds
Did you know? Some migrating birds fly halfway around the world to spend the winter somewhere warm.
It grows on your head, yet it does not hurt when the hairdresser cuts it. What is it?
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Answer: your hair
Did you know? Hair and nails have no nerves, so it does not hurt when they are cut.
Messages from your brain to your muscles travel along thin threads all over your body. What are they called?
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Answer: nerves
Did you know? A message travels along your nerves so fast that you pull your hand away from something hot at once.
Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. How many senses is that?
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Answer: five (5)
Did you know? Each sense has its own organ: eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin.
When you are in the sun, your skin makes a vitamin by itself. Which one?
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Answer: vitamin D
Did you know? Vitamin D helps your bones take in calcium, which is why time outdoors is healthy.
I was written in 1189 and I mention Ban Kulin. I am one of the oldest documents about Bosnia. What am I?
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Answer: the Charter of Ban Kulin
Did you know? The Charter of Ban Kulin was written in Bosnian Cyrillic and promised Dubrovnik's merchants free trade in Bosnia.
I am the highest mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina, standing on the border with Montenegro. What is my name?
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Answer: Maglić
Did you know? Maglić is in Sutjeska National Park, the oldest national park in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In a competition, first place gets gold and second place gets silver. Which medal does third place get?
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Answer: bronze
Did you know? The Olympic Games began in ancient Greece. The five rings on the Olympic flag stand for five inhabited continents.
What is the highest mountain in the world?
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Answer: Mount Everest
Did you know? Mount Everest lies on the border of Nepal and China, and it was first climbed in 1953.
Who painted the Mona Lisa, the woman with the mysterious smile?
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Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Did you know? Leonardo drew flying machines hundreds of years before the first aeroplane was built.
What is a scientist who studies the stars and planets called?
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Answer: an astronomer
Did you know? Some telescopes orbit the Earth high above the clouds, so they can see further into space.
What is the capital of France, famous for the Eiffel Tower?
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Answer: Paris
Did you know? The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 for a great world fair.
What is it called when the water in a puddle slowly turns into vapour in the sun and disappears?
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Answer: evaporation
Did you know? Evaporation is part of the water cycle: water evaporates, forms clouds and falls again as rain.
On most maps, which direction is at the top?
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Answer: north
Did you know? Maps are usually drawn with north at the top, which is why we say up north.
How many days are there in a year that is not a leap year?
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Answer: 365
Did you know? The Earth takes about 365 days and six hours to go round the Sun. Every fourth year those six hours add up to one extra day.
I last a hundred years. What am I called?
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Answer: a century
Did you know? We are living in the twenty-first century, which began in 2001.
How many days does April have?
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Answer: thirty (30)
Did you know? Thirty days have April, June, September and November. February has twenty-eight or twenty-nine, and all the rest have thirty-one.
About how many weeks are there in a year: 12, 52 or 365?
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Answer: fifty-two (52)
Did you know? A year has fifty-two weeks and one or two extra days.
What do we call a period of ten years?
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Answer: a decade
Did you know? Ten years make a decade, a hundred make a century and a thousand make a millennium.
What spins around itself so that day and night take turns?
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Answer: the Earth
Did you know? The half of the Earth facing the Sun has day, and the other half has night.
In spring, clocks in Europe change by one hour. Do they go forward or back?
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Answer: forward
Did you know? Spring forward, fall back: in spring clocks go forward and in autumn they go back, so evenings stay light for longer.
12+ Hard riddles
How many letters are in the word KNIGHT? Some of them make no sound at all!
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Answer: six letters (6)
Did you know? English has many silent letters, like the k in knight and the w in write.
Finish the saying: The early bird catches the ...
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Answer: worm
Did you know? Sayings are short pieces of old wisdom. This one means that starting early pays off.
How many vowels are in the word ALPHABET?
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Answer: three (3)
Did you know? Every English syllable has a vowel sound. Sometimes Y does the job, as in sky and gym.
Which word has only one letter and means me?
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Answer: I
Did you know? English has two common one-letter words: I and a.
What do we call a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet?
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Answer: a pangram
Did you know? The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is a famous English pangram.
Which word has none of the vowels A, E, I, O or U: TREE, RHYTHM, HOUSE or APPLE?
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Answer: rhythm
Did you know? In rhythm the letter Y does the work of a vowel, so the word is still easy to say.
Bosnian schools teach two alphabets. One is Latin. What is the other?
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Answer: Cyrillic
Did you know? The Bosnian Latin and Cyrillic alphabets both have thirty letters, and each Latin letter matches one Cyrillic letter.
I come when the light goes away. The more of me there is, the less you see. What am I?
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Answer: darkness
Did you know? Eyes see only the light that bounces off things. In total darkness there is nothing for them to see.
I am the gas you breathe in. Plants release me from their leaves, and fire cannot burn without me. What am I?
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Answer: oxygen
Did you know? Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. That is why forests matter for clean air.
What is the biggest desert in the world? Careful, it is not the Sahara.
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Answer: Antarctica
Did you know? A desert is a place with very little rain or snow, so icy Antarctica is a desert too.
The Moon pulls on the sea, so twice a day the water rises and falls. What is it called when the sea comes in high?
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Answer: high tide
Did you know? High tide and low tide take turns about twice a day.
A rooster lays an egg right on the top of a roof. Which way will the egg roll?
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Answer: neither way, roosters do not lay eggs
Did you know? Hens lay eggs. A rooster crows and looks after the flock.
At the North Pole the sun does not set for months in summer and does not rise for months in winter. What is that long winter darkness called?
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Answer: the polar night
Did you know? At the poles, day and night each last about half a year, because the Earth is tilted.
I live in your ear, but I hear nothing. I help you stay up when you stand on one leg. What am I?
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Answer: your sense of balance
Did you know? When you spin round and round, the liquid in your ear keeps moving, so you feel dizzy even after you stop.
Which is the longest and strongest bone in your body? It is in your upper leg.
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Answer: the thigh bone (femur)
Did you know? Your thigh bone is about a quarter of your height.
These teeth come in last, only in adults, and they are named after being clever. What are they called?
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Answer: wisdom teeth
Did you know? Wisdom teeth usually come through between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five, and some people never get them.
Before people could write, they painted animals on cave walls. What do we call that time before writing?
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Answer: prehistory
Did you know? History begins when people start writing events down. Everything before that is called prehistory.
I am the biggest ocean on Earth, and my name says I am peaceful. What am I called?
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Answer: the Pacific Ocean
Did you know? The Pacific Ocean is so big that all the continents together would fit inside it.
Which star is closest to the Earth? Careful, the answer is easier than you think.
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Answer: the Sun
Did you know? Sunlight takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth.
I am a continent and a country at the same time. What is my name?
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Answer: Australia
Did you know? Australia is the only country that covers a whole continent.
Which is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
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Answer: mercury
Did you know? Mercury was once used in thermometers, but it is avoided today because it is poisonous.
This Greek mathematician is famous for a rule about the sides of a right-angled triangle. Who is it?
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Answer: Pythagoras
Did you know? Pythagoras's theorem says the square of the longest side equals the squares of the other two added together.
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
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Answer: Neil Armstrong
Did you know? Armstrong stepped onto the Moon in 1969, and Buzz Aldrin joined him a few minutes later.
Which is the biggest planet in the Solar System?
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Answer: Jupiter
Did you know? Jupiter is so big that all the other planets together would fit inside it.
What is a poem of exactly fourteen lines called?
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Answer: a sonnet
Did you know? A sonnet has fourteen lines, often split into groups of four, four, three and three, or three groups of four and a closing pair.
Which writer born in Bosnia wrote the novel The Bridge on the Drina and won the Nobel Prize?
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Answer: Ivo Andrić
Did you know? Ivo Andrić won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.
How is water written as a chemical formula?
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Answer: H₂O
Did you know? A water molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
Which season begins with the shortest day of the year?
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Answer: winter
Did you know? The shortest day is around 21 December. From then on, the days slowly get longer.
In which year does the twenty-second century begin?
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Answer: 2101
Did you know? Centuries start with a year ending in 01, because there was no year zero.
What is the day called when daytime is longest and night is shortest in the year?
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Answer: the summer solstice
Did you know? The summer solstice is around 21 June, and the winter solstice, the shortest day, is around 21 December.
What is the phase called when the Moon disappears completely from the sky?
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Answer: the new moon
Did you know? At new moon the Moon sits between the Earth and the Sun, so its lit side faces away from us.