1. What bird can fly backward?

 
 
 
 
 

2. Which animal produces the loudest natural sound?

 
 
 
 
 

3. In which year did British archaeologist Howard Carter first enter the sealed burial chamber of King Tutankhamun of Egypt?

 
 
 
 
 

4. In what year was the disease Smallpox, which had killed 300 million people in the 20th Century, eradicated?

 
 
 
 
 

5. In what year did Mt Pelee erupt on the island of Martinique, destroying the town of St Pierre and killing over 30,000 people in just 3 minutes?

 
 
 
 
 

6. In what year were approximately 100,000 flights cancelled across Europe, affecting over 100 million passengers, due to huge cloud of volcanic ash following an eruption in Iceland?

 
 
 
 
 

7. Lagomorph, refers to what type of animal?

 
 
 
 
 

8. In what year did British inventor Birt Acres patent film camera/projector?

 
 
 
 
 

9. In 1925 The Butler Act banned the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in schools in which USA state?

 
 
 
 
 

10. In which country was astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born?

 
 
 
 
 

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