What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
What is the highest points total in a season ever achieved by a team in the English Premier League?
100
Man City (2017/18)
Animal 1
Orca / Killer Whale
Flag 4
Sweden
Usain Bolt's world record time for the 100m sprint?
9.58 seconds
In 1964, this company was founded as 'Blue Ribbon Sports', before it changed its name (in 1971), to what we know it as today?
Nike, Inc
Which F1 driver has the 3rd most GP wins (behind Lewis Hamilton (93) and Michael Schumacher (91)
Sebastian Vettel (53)
Animal 2
King Cobra
Flag 2
Australia
Of the 2,208 passengers in the Titanic, how many survived?
705
Famous musician with the birth name of Farrokh Bulsara
Freddy Mercury
In 1950, India withdrew from the World Cup because FIFA refused to let them do what?
Play barefoot
Animal 3
Bald Eagle
Flag 3
Nigeria
What is the highest ever officially recorded temperature in South Africa?
50.0 degrees celcius
Dunbrody, Eastern Cape, 3 Nov 1918
‘Zr’ is the symbol for which chemical element?
Zirconium
In athletics, what’s the last event in a decathlon?
1500m
Animal 4
Llama
(will accept: Guanaco, Alpaca, Vicuna)
Flag 1
Bangladesh
How many ribs do humans have?
24
Which is the only part of the body that has no blood supply.
Cornea (of the eye).
It receives oxygen directly from the air.
Who is the only woman in the history of the Olympic Games to have won both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events
Penny Heyns (RSA)
1996 Atlanta Olympic Games
Animal 5
Bat eared fox
Flag 5
Uruguay
World record for Javelin throw for men?
98.48m
Jan Železný (1996)