Homework Quiz

Have a go at our Homework Quiz! If you want some clues, you can follow the links below to look for the answers (all the HINT links are taken from our Weblinks A-Z and Hot Topics featured on our Homework Help page at www.birmingham.gov.uk/homeworksupport)

Here's an easy one to start you off. They get harder....!

1. Which dinosaur weighed up to 7 tons, had a large row of pointed plates and a powerful beaked mouth, but only ate plants like ferns? Torosaurus, Diplodocus or Stegosaurus?

HINT: Go to Dinosaurs - Useful Websites. You could try the BBC site 'Walking with Dinosaurs.

2. What year was the first powered, sustained, and human-piloted flight? Was it in 1903, 1905 or 1911?

HINT: Go to Design and Technology - Useful Websites. You could try the Great Achievements website to find out the history of the aeroplane.

3. Which is the largest part of the brain, the cerebrum, the diencephalon, or the cerebellum?

HINT: Go to Human Body - Useful Websites. You could try the BBC Science site on the human body.

4. What was the first Genetically Modified food created? A tobacco plant in 1983, a soya bean plant in 1990 or a tomato plant in 1996?

HINT - Go to the Hot Topics file on GM foods.

5. Who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911? Alexander Fleming, Marie Curie or Ernest Rutherford?

HINT: Go to People - Useful Websites.

6. Does a cell phone (mobile) use the same technology as a CD player, a radio or a calculator?

HINT: Go to Science - Useful Websites. You could try How Stuff Works

7. Who was responsible for the earliest structural beginnings of the Great Tower (later the White Tower) now part of the Tower of London complex - William the Conqueror, Richard I or Henry VIII?

HINT: Go to Tourism - Useful Websites

8. Who is Macbeth with when he meets the three witches or 'weird sisters' in Shakespeare's Scottish play? Duncan, Macduff or Banquo?

HINT: Go to Authors, Illustrators and Books - Useful Websites

9. The International Marine Signal Flag for the letter F is a white cross on a blue background, a red diamond on a white background or a plain yellow square?

HINT: Go to Communication - Useful Websites

10. In which religion is it usual for people to be cremated when they die? Hinduism, Christianity or Islam?

HINT: Go to Religious Studies - Useful Websites. You could try the Rites of Passage website.

Answers

Our Homework Quiz started off as a competition. The winners each received a book token and a ruler-calculator.