Tutor Quiz 06/10/23

1. Why do tigers have stripes?

• Because tigers find stripes attractive

• So baby tigers know which one is their mum

• To help hide tigers from their predators and prey

• Tigers have copied the pattern of zebras – their favourite things to hunt!

2. How do babies learn to talk?

• Babies love faces, so they watch their parents when they speak and try to copy.

• By listening to singing, babies learn speech patterns and rhythms.

• By playing games! It teaches them to listen.

• All of the above.

3. How tall are giraffes?

• All giraffes are more than 6 metres tall

• About 5 metres

• Between 4 and 5.5 metres

• Between 7 and 8 metres

4. Why do people have bogeys up their nose?

• So we have something to play with when we’re bored

• Bogeys are dried mucus, the stuff lining our nostrils

• To give us an emergency snack if we get hungry

• Cavemen used bogeys as glue to stick up drawings – and we still have them

5. How were humans named “human”?

• From the Old French word “humain”, meaning “of man”.

• From “humanus”, Latin for “man of earth”.

• From the Proto-Indo-European “dhghemon”, meaning “earthly being”.

• All of the above

6. Nasa's Osiris-Rex mission has returned some samples from the asteroid Bennu. In which US state did it land?

• Utah

• Nevada

• Arkansas

• Arizona

7. The UK government also excelled itself this week with a marketing campaign suggesting which favourite childhood character had been invented in London, when in fact they were famously invented in Scotland?

• Doctor Who

• Noddy

• Peppa Pig

• Dennis the Menace

8. It is the anniversary of William the Conquerer's arrival in England when he hung around for a couple of weeks before helping Harold Godwinson to permanently "do one" near Hastings.

10. But where did William eventually die in 1087?

• Caen

• Chelmsford

• Rouen

• York

9. Which of these countries has a border with Russia that is the furthest north?

• KazakhstanIt

• Uzbekistan

• Georgia

• Azerbaijan

10. Which continent only has two seasons?

• Antarctica

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe