Example Questions
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Age Range: 5 to 11
These questions may be used for the Question of the Day activity described here or the Instant Messaging activity described here. You can also make up some of your own. As well as improving general knowledge, the questions can also be used to reinforce work that you may be doing in school at the moment. All questions should be appropriate for the level and age of the children in your class (the following ones are mostly suitable for Key Stage 2).
1) Who was the first person to walk on the moon? Answer - Neil Armstrong
2) What is the Roman numeral for 9? Answer - IX
3) In which year did the Titanic sink? Answer - 1912
4) What is a Granny Smith? Answer - A type of apple
5) When did the British National Lottery begin? Answer - 1994
6) In which country is Oklahoma? Answer - U.S.A.
7) What is origami? Answer - The art of paper-folding
8) At what temperature does water boil? Answer - 100 degrees centigrade / celsius
9) What colour is cyan? Answer - Blue / Green
10) Who wrote the book "Babe - the Sheep Pig"? Answer - Dick-King Smith
11) Who wrote the book "The Witches"? Answer - Roald Dahl
12) What are the seven colours of the Rainbow? Answer - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet
13) In which year was the Battle of Hastings? Answer - 1066
14) How many seconds are there in an hour? Answer - 360
15) How many minutes are there in a day? Answer - 1440
16) What does BC stand for? Answer - Before Christ
17) What is the name of a bicycle which only has one wheel? Answer - a Unicycle
18) What language did the Romans speak? Answer - Latin
19) What is the highest mountain in Great Britain? Answer - Ben Nevis
20) What is the largest ocean in the world? Answer - The Pacific Ocean
21) What is a carnivore? Answer - Something which eats meat
22) In which year was the Great Fire of London? Answer - 1666
23) In which year did Neil Armstrong first walk on the moon? Answer - 1969
24) What is the name of the world's longest river and in which continent is it? Answer - The Nile, in Africa.
25) What is a verb / adjective / noun? (delete as appropriate) Answer - A doing word / A describing word / An object, place or person
26) Who was the lady with the lamp? Answer - Florence Nightingale
27) How many sides does an Octagon have? Answer - Eight
28) Who wrote Great Expectations? Answer - Charles Dickens
29) What is the yellow part inside an egg called? Answer - The yolk
30) How many children are there in our school? Answer - varies according to school!
31) Why did the chicken cross the road? Answer - Numerous possible answers - give prizes to the funniest
32) What is the name of the lion cub in the Disney film, The Lion King? Answer - Simba
33) What is the name of Yogi Bear's small friend? Answer - Boo Boo
34) What is the name of Donald Duck's girlfriend? Answer - Daisy
35) When is Donald Duck's birthday? Answer - 9th June
36) How old was Mickey Mouse be in the year 2000? Answer - 72 years old
37) What is 79 + 65? Answer - 144
38) What is the capital of the U.S.A.? Answer - Washington DC
39) Spell "Rainbow" (not suitable for Question of the Day activity for obvious reasons!)
40) What is the opposite of Hot? Answer - Cold
41) What is the opposite of Light? Answer - Dark or Heavy
42) What is the opposite of Hard? Answer - Soft or Easy
43) What is the opposite of Sharp? Answer - Blunt
44) What is the opposite of Dry? Answer - Wet
45) What happened to Pinocchio when he told a lie? Answer - His nose grew
46) What is a preposition? Answer - A word which tells you where something is.
47) What is 5.7 + 7.2? Answer - 12.9
48) On a farm, there are 81 chickens, 5 dogs and 27 cows. How many animals are there altogether?
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