
02/02/21 weekly news quiz
Authored by Sophie Dodds
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7th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This week, researchers at the Swedish Museum of Natural History may have just discovered Earth’s oldest rock! It has been dated at around four billion years old, but where was it found?
In the Sahara desert
At the bottom of the Atlantic ocean
In the Amazon rainforest
On the Moon
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An extremely rare Pokémon card sold for $360,000 (£264,000) at auction. This makes it the second most expensive in history, but which card was it?
First edition Charizard
Illustrator Pikachu
Shiny Mew
Shiny Blastoise
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Last weekend, two of the biggest football clubs in the world went head to head in the FA cup, Manchester United and Liverpool. However, which English team has won the most FA Cups?
Manchester United
Liverpool
Arsenal
Chelsea
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Palaeontologists are excavating a fossil of an enormous dinosaur, the Titanosaur. As the name suggests, the Titanosaur was huge, but how big did they get?
40 feet long
131 feet long
240 feet long
10 feet long
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who won this years Junior Bake Off?
Reece
Robbie
Naima
Cece
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Nathan Evans, from Airdrie in Scotland, quit his job doing after kick-starting a new viral craze of sea-shantying on TikTok and signing a record deal?
Postman
Binman
Carpenter
Electrician
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Captain Sir Tom Moore has been receiving a mountain of support from celebrities, politicians and sportspeople after being admitted to hospital with COVID-19. How much did the 100 year old raise for the NHS last year?
£33 million
£26 million
£40 million
£42 million
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