Quiz for 8 year olds

10. Count in twos 5 times: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10.

True. Count in fives 12 times: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60.

12. Go through the 3 times table: 3 × 12 = 36.

235 → 325 → 352 → 532. Compare the hundreds first, then the tens, then the ones.

75. Tens, then ones: 60 + 10 = 70, 1 + 4 = 5, so 70 + 5 = 75.

5. Go through the 3 times table: 3 × 5 = 15.

79. Tens, then ones: 40 + 30 = 70, 8 + 1 = 9, so 70 + 9 = 79.

False. 7 × 4 = 28. 4 × 7 is double, then double again: 7, 14, 28.

9. Think backwards: 9 × 3 = 27, so 27 ÷ 3 = 9.

True. The 3 is in the ones place, so its value is 3.

100. The 1 is in the hundreds place, so its value is 100.

Which country's flag is this?

• Poland
• Finland
• Greece
• Netherlands

Netherlands. About a quarter of the Netherlands lies below sea level.

Which country's flag is this?

• Poland
• Sweden
• United Kingdom
• Denmark

Sweden. Sweden has around 267,000 islands, more than any other country.

False. It's Tokyo. Greater Tokyo is home to more than 30 million people.

Turkey (Türkiye). Ankara became the capital in 1923, when modern Türkiye was founded.

True or false: This is the flag of Egypt.

True. It's Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest human-made structure for about 3,800 years.

True or false: This is the flag of Thailand.

False. It's South Korea. The four black symbols on South Korea's flag stand for heaven, earth, water and fire.

Denmark. Denmark's flag is often called the oldest national flag still in use.

Russia. Russia is so wide it covers 11 time zones.

Portugal. Portugal produces more cork than any other country.

Meat. Compsognathus was about the size of a chicken. One fossil has a whole lizard inside its stomach.

Egg thief. It was found on top of a nest of eggs, so scientists thought it was stealing them.

Apollo 11. The Apollo 11 crew brought back about 22 kilograms of Moon rock and dust.

False. It's the other way round. Earth goes round the Sun, once a year.

A huge asteroid hitting Earth. About 66 million years ago, an asteroid around 10 km wide slammed into Earth near what is now Mexico.

In its thick stem. A cactus has spines instead of leaves, so it loses very little water in the desert.

Jupiter → Saturn → Uranus → Neptune. Neptune is so far out that sunlight takes about four hours to reach it.

Reptile. Sea turtles often return to the beach where they hatched to lay their own eggs.

True. The Milky Way is a spiral of more than 100 billion stars, and we live out in one of its arms.

True. Giganotosaurus was one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs, about as big as T. rex.

Terrible lizard. The scientist Richard Owen made up the word in 1842, from Greek words meaning terrible lizard.

False. Ferns and mosses never flower. They spread using tiny spores instead.

False. The Moon has no light of its own. It shines with sunlight bouncing off its surface.

International Space Station. The International Space Station is about the size of a football pitch.

A shark. Megalodon was a giant shark that lived millions of years after the last giant dinosaurs had gone.

length. Length comes from long: swap the o for e and add th, just like strength.

Whose. Whose asks who something belongs to.

opposite. Opposite has double p and ends in site.

therefore. Therefore is there plus fore, and it keeps the e of there.

threw. Threw is the past of throw. Through means in one side and out the other.

popular. Popular ends in ar, just like particular.

guard. Guard has a silent u after the g, like guess and guide.

appear. Appear has double p. Disappear keeps both p's and just adds dis.

imagine. Imagine and image come from the same Latin word, and both have just one m.

straight. Straight has a silent gh, just like eight and weight.