History
"H" Vocabulary
Twelve
Sport
Science
100

This satellite was the first to be released successfully into space.

What is the Sputnik 1?

100

A danger or risk. (or a jeopardy!)

What is a hazard?

100

Twelve is written as this in Roman numerals.

What is XII?

100
This sport is the national sport of the United States of America.

What is baseball?

100

A typical adult human has this amount of teeth.

What is 32?

200

After 1945, this international body was created to prevent another world war.

What is the United Nations?

200

To capture and seize a vehicle and force it to change course.

What is hijack?

200

The "Twelve Apostles" are a landform offshore of which country?

What is Australia?

200

Water polo has this many players on one team at once.

What is 7?

200

An acorn is the fruit of this type of deciduous tree.

What is an oak tree?

400

The battles at Fort Sumter and Shiloh happened in this war.

What is the American Civil War?

400

Excessive speed or urgency of action or movement.

What is haste?

400

Twelve men have walked on the moon - who was the second?

Who is Buzz Aldrin?

400

A standard marathon is this length (to the nearest kilometre).

What is 42 kilometres?

400

Acceleration multiplied by mass gives you the value of this component of physics.

What is force?

800

This person was the first democratically elected person of Russia.

Who is Boris Yeltsin?

800

A shop or a department that sells items used in sewing.

What is a haberdashery?

800

This man, born in 1912, is the person credited for the breaking of the Enigma code.

Who is Alan Turing?

800

This sport uses such terms as “stale fish” and “mule kick”.

What is snowboarding?

800

The echidna and the platypus are classified as this type of mammal.

What is a monotreme?

1000

This ancient city was the first ever to reach a population of one million.

What is Rome?

1000

The currency of Ukraine.

What is the hryvnia?

1000

This country has only won 12 gold medals throughout their Olympic career. (since 2022)

What is Slovenia?

1000

"Cheese Rolling" is a unique sport that involves this specific type of cheese.

What is Double Gloucester cheese?

1000

You would find the 'pinna' on this part of your body.

What is the ear?

M
e
n
u