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    What color is a ripe tomato?

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    ✓Red — botanically a fruit, though the U.S. Supreme Court once ruled it a vegetable.

  2. Q2Multiple choice

    How many sides does an octagon have?

    • Six
    • Eight
    • Ten
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    ✓Eight — ‘octo’ means eight, as in octopus.

  3. Q3Type the answer

    Which country is home to the fjords along its western coast?

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    ✓Norway — its coastline, with all the fjords, would stretch over 100,000 km.

  4. Q4Multiple choice

    In science, what state of matter is dry ice?

    • Frozen water
    • Solid carbon dioxide
    • Liquid nitrogen
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    ✓Solid carbon dioxide — it sublimes straight to gas, skipping liquid.

  5. Q5Type the answer

    Who painted the ‘The Birth of Venus’, showing the goddess rising from a shell?

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    ✓Sandro Botticelli — painted in the 1480s in Florence.

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    What is the term for an animal that eats only plants?

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    ✓Herbivore — from Latin ‘herba’ (plant) and ‘vorare’ (to devour)

  7. Q7Type the answer

    Which element makes up roughly two-thirds of the atoms in a water molecule?

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    ✓Hydrogen — two hydrogen atoms to every one oxygen, hence H₂O.

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