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01
 In which animal’s mouth would you find the longest tongue (about 50cm)?
The anteater

The giraffe

The puma

02
 What is the longest muscle in the human body?
Extensor digitorum, straightens the fingers
Sartorius, bends the knee and twists the leg
Frontalis, raises the eyebrows

03
 What is the average length of a human eyeball?
1 cm
2.5 cm
4 cm

04
 The Nile is the longest river in the world, it flows through 9 African countries. How long is it from the source of the White Nile?
666,695 km
6,695km
695km

05
 Which of these units is NOT used to measure length?
Angstrom
Parsec
Lux

06
 Until 1960 a metre was based on the length of a platinum and iridium bar at 0°C. In which city was this bar kept?
London
Paris
New York

07
 At 5.15 metres, Hoo Sateow of Chang Mai, Thailand, had the longest what?
Toenails
Fingernails
Hair

08
 If all of the chromosomes in a single human cell were unravelled and laid end to end how far would they stretch?
2 centimetres
2 metres
2 kilometres

09
 The dinosaur therizinosaurus (scythe lizard) had claws 91cm long. Surprisingly this dinosaur was probably...
Omnivorous
Herbivorous
Carnivorous

10
 According to the theory of relativity the faster an object is moving the SHORTER it gets. At 99% of the speed of light (1,068,460,320 km/hr) how short would a meter rod become?
0.14 metres

1.58 metres
1.99 metres




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