Literacy/History
Chronology
Weird Words #2
Science
Numeracy
Melbourne class
Animal yeah/nah
100
Healthy is a/an:
A) adverb
B) verb
C) adjective
D) noun
C) adjective
100
How many years are in a century?
100 years
100
Sozzled, squiffy, and soused are all old school synonyms for what?
Being drunk
100
What gas do trees produce via the process of photosynthesis?
Oxygen
100
What's wrong with this data display?
Wrong sizes of segments
100
According to rigorous data collection, who is Melbourne's most accurate basketball goal shooter?
Luke
100
A Chinese zoo advertised encounters with rare wildlife, including these penguins.
Yeah/nah?
Nah - if you look VERY closely, you'll notice these are inflatable, plastic toys.
200
Is this image of a group of construction workers on their lunch break an example of a primary or a secondary source?
Primary
200
In the phrase 204 BCE, what does BCE stand for?
Before Common Era
200
Which word is closest in meaning to nuanced?
A) Confusing
B) Complex
C) Careless
B) Complex
200
Entomology is the field of science concerned with studying:
A) Ents
B) Insects
C) Humans
D) Marine animals
B) insects
200
Numerical data which can be counted is known as _____ data.
discrete
200
According to rigorous data collection, who is Melbourne's most accurate netball goal shooter?
*There are two equally talented netball goal shooters!! Double points for both
John and Luke
200
An Italian circus claims this is a panda.
Yeah/nah?
Nah - it's a painted dog.
300
Complete the sentence:
Secondary sources are useful when studying the past because they...
Multiple answers possible
300
True or false
2019 BCE is longer ago than 1023BCE
TRUE
300
What is the name given to the type of running training which involves alternating between bursts of sprinting and slower walking/jogging, also known more commonly as "interval training"?
A) Poopnik
B) Fartlek
C) Burple
B) Fartlek
300
Sodium (chemical symbol Na) is a highly explosive metal.
Chlorine (chemical symbol Cl) is a poisonous gas.
If you combine the two to make sodium chloride, or NaCl, you end up with:
A) water
B) honey
C) salt
D) dynamite
C) salt
300
What is missing from this data display?
The y-axis values (frequency)
300
According to rigorous data collection, who is Melbourne's most accurate football goal kicker?
Sadiq
300
An Egyptian zoo claims this is a zebra.
Yeah/nah?
Nah - it's a donkey painted with black and white stripes.
400
Identify the adverb in the following sentence:
Studying the past can help us to think critically about the present.
Double points: Which of the two verbs in the sentence does this adverb describe?
Studying the past can help us to think critically about our the present.
400
If 58AD is in the 1st century, then 1754AD is in the ___________________ century.
18th
400
Complete the sentence:
A ________ approach to health and wellbeing involves addressing or treating the whole person, not just physical illness, disability or disease.
A) holistic
B) heuristic
C) hypnotic
A) holistic
400
Chaetophractus vellerosus is the scientific name of which funnily-named animal?
A) Screaming hairy armadillo
B) Tasselled wobbegong
C) Aha ha wasp
A) Screaming hairy armadillo
400
What is the value of the missing segment of this pie chart?
17%
400
According to rigorous data collection, who is Melbourne's most accurate footy goal kicker?
Matty
400
A Chinese zoo labels this as an "African lion". Yeah/nah?
Nah - it's a Tibetan mastiff dog. It barked at zoo visitors, giving the game away.
500
Taken from the Greek root words khronos (time) and logia (order), what word means "arranging of events or dates in the order that they happened"?
Chronology
500
This tablet is dated from 1250 BCE, roughly how old is it?
It is roughly 3200 years old
500
If you were experiencing some "brain fog," you might choose to describe yourself as feeling:
A) discombobulated
B) exuberant
C) maleficent
A) discombobulated
500
Some researchers have argued that human tastebuds are actually only capable of differentiating between 5 basic or overall tastes, and the rest of taste is actually due to our sense of smell.
What are the 5 tastes? 100 points for each
Sour
Sweet
Salty
Bitter
Savoury (also known as umami)
500
How many years ago was 2023 BC (also known as BCE)?
2023 AD --> Year 0 = 2023 years
Year 0 ---> 2023 BC = 2023 years
2023 + 2023 = 4066 years
500
Did Luke have his operation on his left or right leg?
Left
500
Is this a real sunbear or a human in a bear costume?
No one knows!! All answers correct