1. The Amazing Universe Quiz

2. 1. What is the biggest planet in the solar system?

3. 2. What is the smallest mammal in the world?

4. 3. Which country experiences the highest average annual rainfall?

5. 4. What is tallest animal in the world?

6. 5. What are cirrus floccus, altostratus lenticularis and fractonimbus?

7. 6. What is the longest molecule?

8. 7. What is a rainbow made of?

9. 8. What is the biggest lake in the world?

10. 9. Where is the biggest desert?

11. 10. What is the tallest mountain in the world?

12. 11. In which country would you find the tallest mountain in the world?

13. 12. How deep is the deepest part of the sea?
a) 109,160 metres
b) 10,916 metres
c) 1,091.6 metres

14. 13. What do bees make from nectar?

15. 14. Where is the lowest place on dry land?

16. 15. How many species of beetle exist in the world?
a) At least 350,000
b) Up to 35,000
c) Up to 3,500

17. 16. Where do badgers live?

18. 17. What is diamond made of?

19. 18. How far away is the nearest star to our solar system?
a) 42 trillion km
b) 4.2 trillion km
c) 0.42 trillion km

20. 19. What sort of tree does an acorn grow into?

21. 20. What is the longest river in the world?

22. The Amazing Universe Quiz
Answers

23. 1. What is the biggest planet in the solar system?

24. 1. What is the biggest planet in the solar system?
Jupiter

25. 2. What is the smallest mammal in the world?

26. 2. What is the smallest mammal in the world?
Bumblebee bat (shortest)
Etruscan pygmy shrew (lightest)

27. 3. Which country experiences the highest average annual rainfall?

28. 3. Which country experiences the highest average annual rainfall?
Hawaii (annual)
India (monsoon)

29. 4. What is tallest animal in the world?

30. 4. What is tallest animal in the world?
A giraffe

31. 5. What are cirrus floccus, altostratus lenticularis and fractonimbus?

32. 5. What are cirrus floccus, altostratus lenticularis and fractonimbus?
Clouds

33. 6. What is the longest molecule?

34. 6. What is the longest molecule?
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

35. 7. What is a rainbow made of?

36. 7. What is a rainbow made of?
Different colours of light

37. 8. What is the biggest lake in the world?

38. 8. What is the biggest lake in the world?
Kazakhstan
Russia
Azerbaijan
Turkmenistan
Iran
The Caspian Sea

39. 9. Where is the biggest desert?

40. 9. Where is the biggest desert?
Antarctica

41. 10. What is the tallest mountain in the world?

42. 10. What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest

43. 11. In which country would you find the tallest mountain in the world?

44. 11. In which country would you find the tallest mountain in the world?
China (Tibet)
China (Tibet)
China (Tibet)
Nepal
Nepal
Nepal 
Mount Everest

45. 12. How deep is the deepest part of the sea?
a) 109,160 metres
b) 10,916 metres
c) 1,091.6 metres

46. 12. How deep is the deepest part of the sea?
b) 10,916 metres   
The Mariana trench
Mount Everest

47. 13. What do bees make from nectar?

48. 13. What do bees make from nectar?
Honey

49. 14. Where is the lowest place on dry land?

50. 14. Where is the lowest place on dry land?
The shores of the dead sea

51. 15. How many species of beetle exist in the world?
a) At least 350,000
b) Up to 35,000
c) Up to 3,500

52. 15. How many species of beetle exist in the world?
a) At least 350,000
b)Up to 35,000
c) Up to 3,500

53. 16. Where do badgers live?

54. 16. Where do badgers live?
Underground in burrows called setts

55. 17. What is diamond made of?

56. 17. What is diamond made of?
Carbon

57. 18. How far away is the nearest star to our solar system?
a) 42 trillion km
b) 4.2 trillion km
c) 0.42 trillion km

58. 18. How far away is the nearest star to our solar system?
a) 42 trillion km
b) 4.2 trillion km
c) 0.42 trillion km

59. 19. What sort of tree does an acorn grow into?

60. 19. What sort of tree does an acorn grow into?
An oak tree

61. 20. What is the longest river in the world?

62. 20. What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile
The Amazon

63. Photo Credits Astronomy photos by NASA Bumblebee bat by Medhi Yokubol
Pygmy shrew by Stella Nutella at en.wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license
Mount Everest by Kerem Barut
Nepal map by ‘Uwe Dedering’, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Honeycomb by ‘George Shuklin’, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic licence
Beetle by Hedwig Storch, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Badger sett © Steve Jackson,
Diamond by the U.S. Geological Survey