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Another word for old.

It ends in -ly

elderly

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What is another name for killer whale? 

An Orca

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The Statue of Liberty was a gift from which nation?

France

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What is the term for a word that is similar in meaning to another word?

Synonym


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What do we call a "man made" river? (there is one in Chichester)?

A canal

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The first day of the 20th century was… 

Jan. 1, 1901.

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What do we call a 6 sided shape?

A hexagon

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Name these punctuation symbols

(   )

Brackets

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"The machines buzzed and whirred noisily."  is an example of what device?

Onomatopoeia

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Science:

How many legs do arachnids have?

8

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What are the dates of WW II?

1939 - 1945

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What type of literature features magical creatures, such as giants, gnomes, and goblins?

Fairy Tales

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What do we call a place in the desert where there is water?

An oasis

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Hair around a lion’s neck. 

(anagram of what you call a person)

Mane.

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Earth is located in what galaxy?  

The Milky Way

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IF TOM IS FACING NORTH AND TURNS 90 DEGREES TO HIS RIGHT, WHAT DIRECTION IS HE NOW FACING?

EAST

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Add a prefix and a suffix to the word happy to make a new word.

unhappiness

or unhappily

unhappier

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Why do you see often see lightning before you hear the thunder?

Light travels faster than sound


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What nationality was Karl Marx?

German

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The main series of events in a story (or a film) is called a what?

A plot

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What is the capital of Madagascar?

Antanarivo

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How many states made up the United States before Alaska and Hawaii joined? 

48

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A synonym for courageously

Bravely

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"The cat’s fur was a blanket of warmth."


This is an example og which language device?

A metaphor

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  "Five fireballs falling from the sky."

This is an example of _________________

Alliteration

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An animal that eats meat is _________________

carnivorous

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Why is Archduke Franz Ferdinand important to WWI?

His assassination caused the beginning of WWI

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"The wind screamed through the forest."

What do we call this language device?

Personification

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A bird and a fruit that comes from New Zealand

A kiwi

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Which farm animal completes the sentence below? A baby  _____ is called a foal. 

Horse

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The weather in a region

Climate

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"She sells seashells on the sea shore" is an example of a _____________________

Tongue twister

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What is the collective noun for a group of birds?

A flock

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What species can live on both water and land?

Amphibians 

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The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci is a piece from which period in history?

The Renaissance

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What type of literature is often set in the future?

Science fiction

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A large mass of ice that moves slowly down a slope or valley (like a frozen river)

A Glacier

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Name a mythical creature.

Dragon, unicorn, fairy, goblin, phoenix, troll, cyclops, dwarf

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What are the 3 states of matter?

Solid, Liquid, Gas

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Be careful of this...... anagram of garden

danger

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If the world is divided in half, what do we call the top part of the world?

The northern ______________

hemisphere


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Name 2 elements of the water cycle?

Evaporation, Transpiration, Accumulation, Percolation, Condensation, Precipitation, Runoff, 

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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

Marie Curie

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Name a book by Jane Austen

Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion

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What are the largest and the smallest ocean?

The Pacific Ocean 

The Arctic Ocean

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Small hard balls of ice which fall from the sky like rain

Hail

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What do we call the line that goes around the centre of the Earth

The Equator

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the Earth's northernmost circle of latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead 

At 23.5 degrees above the line that runs around the Earth

The Tropic of Cancer

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