Mathematics
2 + 2 = ?
Bonus 100 points:
2 - (-2) = ?
4.
How do you calculate density?
Mass divided by volume.
What is the biggest country in the world, by area?
Russia.
Which disciple denied Jesus 3 times?
Peter.
How many times per minute does the average adult blink?
15 - 20.
What is the name of the measurement from the centre of a circle to any point on the circle?
Radius.
How many colours are in a rainbow?
Bonus 200 points:
Name them in the correct order.
7.
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
Which country is a peninsula shaped like a boot?
Italy
What was the secret of Samson's great strength?
His hair.
How many hearts does an octopus have?
Bonus 200 points:
Name an animal that does not have a heart.
3.
Bonus: Sponges, jellyfish, sea anemones, starfish, sea cucumbers, flatworms (including tapeworms), and sea urchins do not have a heart.
What does this symbol mean: ≤
Less than or equal to.
What can occur when tectonic plates move along fault lines?
An earthquake.
Name 3 countries that speak Arabic as an official language.
Bonus 300 points if you can name 6.
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates
Who was Bathsheba's first husband?
Uriah the Hittite.
What is the only food that will never spoil?
Honey.
2x - 3 = 11.
What is the value of x?
7.
What is smaller than a galaxy but larger than a star?
A solar system.
Name the 5 oceans of the world.
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and the Antarctic.
What was the first miracle that Jesus performed?
He turned water into wine at a wedding.
What was the first animal to travel to outer space?
A fruit fly (together with its fruit fly friends).
What is the square root of the square root of 81?
3.
(The square root of 81 is 9, because 9 x 9 = 81. The square root of 9 is 3, because 3 x 3 = 9.)
What is caused by the moon's gravitational pull?
Tides.
What is the smallest country in the world, by area?
Vatican City.
Which human author wrote the most words in the Bible?
Bonus 500 points: Which book of the Bible did Agur and Lemuel each write one chapter of?
Moses.
(He wrote the first five books of the Bible plus one Psalm, for a total of approximately 125,139 words!)
Bonus: Proverbs.
Which organ in the human body cannot feel pain?
The brain.