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Maths! The price of a house increases by 10% one year and then falls by 10% the following year. What percentage of the original price is the house now worth?

Geography! Which two of these are processes which cause erosion in rivers?

• Evaporation

• Abrasion

• Hydraulic action

• Longshore drift

• Sedimentation

English Literature! From which book, often studied by GCSE students, does the following quote come?

“…each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it”

Electronics! You see these coloured bands on a resistor. What is its resistance in Ohms?

• 1023 Ω

• 2,000 Ω

• 12,000 Ω

• 2300 Ω

Modern Foreign Languages! Which of these tiny words is not common to both French and Spanish?

• Si

• La

• Sa

• De

• A

Science! Which of these means a factor which must be kept constant during an experiment?

• Dependent variable

• Control variable

• Discrete variable

• Control experiment

• Reference variable

Music! Which of these terms directs a musician to play at a moderate pace, between 76-108 beats per minute?

• Presto

• Ritardando

• Allegro

• Andante

• a piacere

History! In 1854, John Snow investigated an outbreak of a particular disease in Soho, London. How did he successfully slow down the spread of the disease?

• He had a population of rats exterminated

• He had the handle of a water pump removed

• He persuaded everyone to drink beer, not water!

• He closed down a surgery

Food Technology! Which of these is not a real piece of advice from the Food Standards Agency?

• If holding hot food, keep it at 63^oC or above for a max of 2 hrs.

• Defrost food in the fridge or by running cold water over its container.

• Thoroughly cook all poultry, pork, duck, mince and offal.

• Cook food until it has reached a core temperature of at least 68°C for 1 minute. 

Computer Science! A number is represented by 1111 1111 in binary. If I had this many kilobytes of information, how many bits of information would I have?

• About 32,000

• About 250,000

• About 2 million

• About 2 billion