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Happy New Year one and all! We thought we'd celebrate all things 'fourish' for 2004 with a quiz based on the science of that lovely even number. So use some of those four fingers on each hand and get tapping with your answers – there are digital i-TOPS to be won – guess how many???? each features yes, that's right, 4 different interactive spinning games!
So...

1...2...3...4...

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FOUR QUIZ >>>

01 What were the four elements in ancient times said to be?

Earth, wind, foam and fire

Wind, air, breeze and water

Earth, air, fire and water

Reveal answer


02 Humans have four different types of teeth, what are they?

Grinders, munchers, grippers and biters

Molars, premolars, canines and incisors

Molars, premolars, felines and incisions

Reveal answer


03 Which NASA spacecraft was sent to all four gas giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?

Voyager 2

Apollo 11

Galileo

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04 A shape with four sides, such as a square, is known as what?

Octahedron

Dodecagon

Quadrilateral

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05 Which of these creatures does NOT have four wings?

Red Admiral butterflies

The extinct Microraptor gui dinosaur

Flying squirrels

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06 According to Einstein what is the fourth dimension?

An imaginary place in the mind

Time

The place where ghosts exist

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07 Our taste buds react to what four taste sensations?

Soft, hard, sharp and squishy

Bitter, sweet, sour and salty

Chocolate, pasta, lemon and sherbet

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08 The four chemicals, nitrogen, oxygen, argon and carbon dioxide make up most of the atmosphere of which planet?

Mercury

Earth

Jupiter

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09 A cow's stomach has four compartments to help it digest its food. Which of these animals also has four stomach compartments?

Sheep

Cats

Elephants

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10 At what temperature is liquid water at its most compact (most dense)?

-4C

4C

444C

Reveal answer


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