Q 01/05

Which hairy Ice Age relative of the elephant did Stone Age people hunt for food, bones and tusks?

A) Woolly mammoth

B) Woolly rhinoceros

C) Sabre-toothed cat

D) Giant elk

Answer · why

A) Woolly mammoth

The woolly mammoth lived alongside early humans, who hunted it for meat and turned its bones and tusks into tools, art and even the frames of huts.

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) Steel

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

A) Mould

B) Yeast

C) Mushroom

D) Lichen

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...