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What meat attracts stone giants?
Answer: Stone giant’s favourite meat is mountain goat
What propaganda technique includes using positive words with no evidence?
Answer: Glittering generalities
The temperature at midnight was –8°C.
By 9 a.m., it had risen by 11°C.
During the afternoon, it fell by 6°C.
In the evening, it rose by 4°C.
What was the temperature at the end of the evening?
Answer: 1°C
A book pushed across a desk slows down because of this force acting between the two surfaces.
What is friction?
What colour is made by mixing blue and red?
Answer: Purple
What does Greta Thunberg talk about in her activist speeches?
Answer: Climate change
What ideology did the USSR promote during the Cold War?
Answer: Communism
A runner completed three sections of a race:
How far did the runner travel altogether?
Answer: 10.4 km
This force pulls all objects toward the centre of the Earth.
What is gravity?
What game is played on a board with 64 black and white squares?
Answer: Chess
What is the name of Varjak's mentor he meets in his dreams?
Answer: Jalal
What city was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius during the Roman times?
Answer: Pompeii and Herculaneum
12.8 + 4.75 − 3.6 + 2.05
Answer: 16
When the forces acting on an object are equal and opposite, the object does not move. These forces are described as this.
What are balanced forces?
Which musical instrument has 88 keys?
Answer: Piano
How many skills does Varjak learn?
Answer: even mystical skills
Blaming an individual or small group for a problem though it may not be true is known as...
Answer: Scapegoating
A treasure hunter starts at (3, 4) on a grid.
She moves:
What are her final coordinates?
Answer: (6, 3)
A spring stretches when a weight is added. The greater the force applied, the greater the stretch — this relationship is named after this scientist.
Who is Hooke?
What is the name of the famous toy company that is known for its colourful interlocking bricks?
Answer: LEGO
What does P.E.R.S.U.A.D.E stand for?
Answer: Personal, emotive, rhetorical questions, say it again, undermine, anecdote, direct, exaggeration
What was the name for the data collection of number of people called?
Answer: pedestrian count
A rectangular playground is 15 m long and 18 m wide.
A square sandpit with sides of 6 m is built inside the playground.
What area of the playground is not covered by the sandpit?
Answer: 234 m²
This scientific unit is used to measure force, named after the scientist who described the three laws of motion.
What is a Newton?
Which bird is the fast-running in the world?
Answer: Osterich