The Human Body
These organs filter waste and excess water from your blood, producing urine that passes to the bladder.
What are the kidneys?
This is Earth’s natural satellite. It reflects sunlight, changes appearance throughout the month, and is responsible for much of Earth’s ocean tides.
What is the Moon?
Covering more area than all the continents combined, this is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This basketball star won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls, wore number 23, and inspired the Air Jordan shoes.
Who is Michael Jordan?
The 2026 FIFA World Cup final brought together the defending champions and the team that had won the tournament in 2010. Which two countries played in the final?
What are Argentina and Spain?
At the ends of the smallest airways are millions of tiny sacs where oxygen enters the blood and carbon dioxide leaves it. What are these sacs called?
What are alveoli?
This is the largest planet in our solar system. Its Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been observed for centuries.
What is Jupiter?
In Roman numerals, X means 10 and L means 50. What number does XL represent?
What is 40?
This American swimmer won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the most ever won by one athlete at a single Olympic Games. Across his career, he won 23 Olympic gold medals.
Who is Michael Phelps?
At the start of the 2015–16 Premier League season, few expected this club to challenge for the title. After finishing just above the relegation places the previous year, it went on to become champion. Which club was it?
What is Leicester City?
This protein in red blood cells contains iron and carries oxygen around the body. A blood test measuring it can help identify anaemia.
What is haemoglobin?
Found mainly between Mars and Jupiter, this region contains millions of rocky objects left over from the formation of the solar system.
What is the asteroid belt?
This Spanish artist painted Guernica, a large black-and-white work depicting the suffering caused by the bombing of a town during the Spanish Civil War.
Who was Pablo Picasso?
This American gymnast won four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics and has had several gymnastics skills named after her.
Who is Simone Biles?
Led by captain Imran Khan, Pakistan won its first Cricket World Cup in 1992 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Which country did Pakistan defeat in the final?
What is England?
Found in the pancreas, these cells release insulin when blood glucose rises. In type 1 diabetes, the immune system destroys them.
What are beta cells?
During the first Moon landing in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin travelled to the lunar surface in a module with this bird’s name.
What is the Eagle?
This Pakistani physicist shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for work connecting the electromagnetic and weak forces. Imperial College London later named its central library in his honour.
Who was Abdus Salam?
This Pakistani squash player went unbeaten in 555 consecutive matches, a streak that lasted more than five years during the 1980s.
Who is Jahangir Khan?
During a 1986 World Cup quarter-final against England, Diego Maradona scored a controversial goal by using his hand. What nickname did he give that goal?
What is the “Hand of God”?
When a nerve signals a muscle to contract, it releases this chemical messenger at the neuromuscular junction.
What is acetylcholine?
Last seen in Earth’s skies in 1986, this famous comet returns roughly every 76 years and is expected back in 2061. It also shares its name with a song on Billie Eilish’s album Happier Than Ever.
What is Halley’s Comet?
After a long campaign for equal voting rights, this country passed a law allowing women to vote in parliamentary elections. It became the first self-governing nation in the world to do so, making it a landmark moment in the history of women’s suffrage.
What is New Zealand?
This English cricket all-rounder scored an unbeaten 135* at Headingley in 2019, securing an unlikely one-wicket Ashes victory over Australia.
Who is Ben Stokes?
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal contested the 2012 Australian Open final, the longest Grand Slam final in tennis history. How long did it last?
What is 5 hours and 53 minutes?