Q 01/05

Which animals, shown living beside cave people in The Flintstones, died out long before the first humans?

A) Sabre-toothed cats

B) Cave bears

C) Dinosaurs

D) Giant sloths

Answer · why

C) Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs, apart from the line that became birds, were wiped out about 66 million years ago. The oldest known stone tools were made more than 60 milli...

Q 02/05

Which famous Australopithecus skeleton, found in Ethiopia in 1974, was named after a Beatles song played in camp?

A) Rita

B) Lucy

C) Julia

D) Michelle

Answer · why

B) Lucy

Lucy got her name from the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, played over and over in camp that night. About 40% of her skeleton survived, from a...

Q 03/05

What nickname was given to the 5,300-year-old mummy that two tourists found in glacier ice in the Alps in 1991?

A) Ginger

B) Juanita

C) Ardi

D) Ötzi

Answer · why

D) Ötzi

Ötzi is named after the Ötztal Alps on the Austria–Italy border, where he lay frozen. An arrowhead buried in his left shoulder suggests that he was ki...

Q 04/05

Which stone circle on Salisbury Plain includes bluestones hauled about 150 miles from the Preseli Hills of Wales?

A) Avebury

B) Callanish

C) Castlerigg

D) Stonehenge

Answer · why

D) Stonehenge

Stonehenge also holds a stone from even farther away: a 2024 study traced its Altar Stone to north-east Scotland, some 700 km from Salisbury Plain.

Q 05/05

Which animal was the first to be domesticated, living alongside hunter-gatherers long before farming began?

A) Dog

B) Sheep

C) Goat

D) Pig

Answer · why

A) Dog

The dog is also the only large carnivore people have ever domesticated. Ancient DNA suggests the bond began near the peak of the last Ice Age, among h...