Quiz for 9 year olds with answers

9. The 9 is in the ones place, so its value is 9.

810. The ones digit is 3. Less than 5 rounds down, so 813 becomes 810.

44. For 11 times a number up to 9, write that number twice: 4 × 11 = 44.

8. Go through the 12 times table: 12 × 8 = 96.

10. Think backwards: 10 × 4 = 40, so 40 ÷ 4 = 10.

False. 514 rounds to 510. The ones digit is 4. Less than 5 rounds down, so 514 becomes 510.

1,000. The 1 is in the thousands place, so its value is 1,000.

True. Go through the 5 times table: 5 × 7 = 35.

64. 8 × 8 is double, double and double again: 8, 16, 32, 64.

False. Mount Everest is on the border of Nepal and China. Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level. The first known climb to the top was in 1953.

United States. The Hollywood Sign went up in 1923 to advertise new houses. It first said Hollywoodland.

Europe. Switzerland is landlocked, surrounded by France, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Italy.

Europe. Denmark is made up of the Jutland peninsula and hundreds of islands.

Great Pyramid → Parthenon → Eiffel Tower. Oldest first: Great Pyramid (about 2560 BC), Parthenon (about 440 BC), Eiffel Tower (1889).

Tehran. Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebrated in Iran, begins on the first day of spring.

Which country's flag is this?

• Peru
• Argentina
• Chile
• Uruguay

Chile. Chile is more than 4,000 km long but, on average, under 200 km wide.

Tunis. Some Star Wars desert scenes were filmed in Tunisia, and Luke Skywalker's home planet is named after the town of Tataouine.

True. The Louvre is in France. The Louvre in Paris is home to the Mona Lisa. It was a royal palace before it became a museum.

Iron. Rust is iron joined with oxygen and water. That is why bikes left out in the rain go rusty.

Liquid. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature. Hg comes from hydrargyrum, meaning watery silver.

False. It ate meat. One fossil Allosaurus tail bone has a wound that matches the shape of a Stegosaurus spike.

Frogspawn → Tadpole → Froglet → Frog. A young tadpole breathes with gills, like a fish, before it grows lungs and legs.

True. Silver is a solid. Silver carries electricity better than any other metal. Ag comes from the Latin argentum.

Neptune. Neptune is so far away that one trip round the Sun takes about 165 Earth years.

Birds. Birds evolved from small feathered dinosaurs, so scientists count every bird as a living dinosaur.

False. Bats are mammals, the only ones that can truly fly.

True. Apollo 11 landed in July 1969. Millions of people watched the first steps live on television.

Tin. The thin coat of tin stops the steel from rusting and from reacting with the food.

Spine lizard. It was named after the long spines on its back that held up its sail.

Yuri Gagarin. Yuri Gagarin circled Earth once in 1961. His whole flight took less than two hours.

Columbus reaches the Americas (1492) → Great Fire of London (1666) → First people on the Moon (1969). The Great Fire of London broke out in 1666. It started in a bakery on Pudding Lane and burned for four days.

False. T. rex died out about 66 million years ago, millions of years before the first people.

Work starts on Hadrian's Wall. Work started on Hadrian's Wall in AD 122, 1,839 years before the first person went into space.

Roman conquest of Britain begins. The Roman conquest of Britain began in AD 43, 1,954 years before the first Harry Potter book was published.

Stonehenge's big stones raised. Stonehenge's big stones were raised in around 2500 BC, about 4,400 years before the First World War began.

True. Vikings raid Lindisfarne: AD 793. Second World War begins: 1939. The Vikings raided Lindisfarne in AD 793. The raid on this island monastery is often seen as the start of the Viking Age.

False. Gunpowder Plot foiled: 1605. Titanic sinks: 1912. The Gunpowder Plot was foiled in 1605. Guy Fawkes was caught under Parliament with barrels of gunpowder. Bonfire Night remembers it on 5 November.

True. Eighth is eight plus h, so there's one h in the middle and one at the end.

difficult. Difficult has double f. Say it in three parts: dif, fi, cult.

probably. Probably is probable with the le at the end changed to ly.

February. February is named after Februa, an old Roman festival held in that month.

group. Group uses ou for its oo sound, like soup and you.

grammar. Grammar has double m and ends in ar, not er.

minute. Minute ends in ute, like cute. Said another way, the same spelling means tiny.

occasion. Occasion has double c and a single s.