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    How many days are there in a leap year?

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    ✓366 — the extra day, February 29, keeps our calendar aligned with the seasons.

  2. Q2Multiple choice

    What color do you get by mixing blue and yellow paint?

    • Green
    • Purple
    • Orange
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    ✓Green — a classic secondary color.

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    Which planet in our solar system is the largest?

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    ✓Jupiter — more than 1,300 Earths could fit inside it.

  4. Q4Multiple choice

    In which country would you find the ancient city of Petra, carved into rose-red cliffs?

    • Egypt
    • Jordan
    • Morocco
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    ✓Jordan — Petra was ‘rediscovered’ by the West in 1812.

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    What Italian dish’s name literally translates to ‘little strings’?

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    ✓Spaghetti — from ‘spago,’ Italian for string or twine.

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    Which mammal has the longest gestation period, at around 22 months?

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    ✓The elephant — nearly two years before a calf is born.

  7. Q7Type the answer

    What is the fear of long words humorously (and ironically) called?

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    ✓Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia — a cruelly long name for exactly the wrong phobia.

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