Q 01/05

Which Ice Age animal did Stone Age people hunt for meat and then use its bones to build the frames of huts?

A) Woolly mammoth

B) Woolly rhinoceros

C) Sabre-toothed cat

D) Giant elk

Answer · why

A) Woolly mammoth

The woolly mammoth, a hairy relative of today's elephants, lived alongside early humans, who hunted it for meat and carved its bones and tusks into to...

Q 02/05

Which volcano near Naples erupted in AD 79 and buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum?

A) Etna

B) Vesuvius

C) Stromboli

D) Krakatoa

Answer · why

B) Vesuvius

Vesuvius wiped out Pompeii, Herculaneum and several smaller settlements, and the deep ash preserved streets, houses and even bread so well that they c...

Q 03/05

Which boy pharaoh's treasure-filled tomb did Howard Carter uncover in the Valley of the Kings in 1922?

A) Ramesses II

B) Cleopatra

C) Tutankhamun

D) Akhenaten

Answer · why

C) Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun's tomb was found in 1922 by a team led by Howard Carter and paid for by Lord Carnarvon, and although robbers had got in long ago, it still...

Q 04/05

Which metal, a mix of copper and a little tin, names the age that followed the Stone Age in Britain?

A) Iron

B) Brass

C) Pewter

D) Bronze

Answer · why

D) Bronze

Bronze is typically about 88% copper with tin making up most of the rest, and the mixture is much harder than pure copper, so it made far better tools...

Q 05/05

Which ingredient makes bread dough rise by feeding on its sugars and giving off carbon dioxide gas?

A) Baking soda

B) Yeast

C) Gluten

D) Cornflour

Answer · why

B) Yeast

Yeast is a tiny single-celled fungus, and the gas it breathes out gets trapped as bubbles that make a loaf light and airy instead of a hard flat brick...