Year 8 Quiz

Question 1

Which football team surprisingly won the Premier League this year?

Accepted Answer

Leicester City

Question 2

What does DNA stand for?

Accepted Answer

deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 3

How would you separate water and ink?

Accepted Answer

distillation

Question 4

What is that the equation for?

Accepted Answer

photosynthesis

Question 5

What effect does compressing a gas have on gas pressure?

Accepted Answer

Increases

Question 6

Which city is hosting this year's Olympic Games?

Accepted Answer

Rio de Janeiro

Question 7

Convection takes place in...

Accepted Answer

Gases and liquids

Question 8

Complete the equation: pressure =

Accepted Answer

force / area

Question 9

Complete the equation: metal + water -->

Accepted Answer

metal hydroxide + hydrogen

Question 10

How does alcohol affect a fetus?

Accepted Answer

can cause miscarriage

Question 11

Berlin and Munich are cities that can be found in which country?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 12

Who put the first man in space?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 13

Complete the equation: metal + oxygen -->

Accepted Answer

metal oxide

Question 14

Who is the yodeling cowgirl that Woody meets in 'Toy Story 2'?

Accepted Answer

Jessie

Question 15

In a parallel circuit, potential difference...

Accepted Answer

Is the same across each component as across the battery

Question 16

The particles in a liquid are touching each other. This means that...

Accepted Answer

It is incompressible

Question 17

Which of these authors wrote the Hunger Games trilogy?

Accepted Answer

Suzanne Collins

Question 18

Which of these will increase the strength of an electromagnet?

Accepted Answer

Add more turns to the coil

Question 19

How would you separate sand and water?

Accepted Answer

filtration

Question 20

Which of the following is a non-renewable energy source?

Accepted Answer

Natural Gas

Question 21

The most pirated TV show of last year was...

Accepted Answer

Game of Thrones

Question 22

What are Group 0 elements also known as?

Accepted Answer

Noble gases

Question 23

Anaerobic respiration...

Accepted Answer

does not use oxygen

Question 24

Where does P. Sherman live in Finding Nemo?

Accepted Answer

42 Wallaby Way, Syndey

Question 25

Who captained this years England 6 Nations team?

Accepted Answer

Dylan Hartley

Question 26

In a series circuit, current....

Accepted Answer

Stays the same all the way round

Question 27

The small hill outside Wimbledon is named after a famous tennis player. What is its name?

Accepted Answer

Henman Hill

Question 28

Who first published the theory of evolution?

Accepted Answer

Charles Darwin

Question 29

Complete the equation: metal + acid -->

Accepted Answer

salt + water

Question 30

Natural selection states that the organism best adapted to its environment will...

Accepted Answer

survive

Question 31

Sugar dissolves in water. Sugar is the...

Accepted Answer

Solute

Question 32

Edmund Hillary was the first mountaineer to scale which mountain?

Accepted Answer

Mount Everest

Question 33

Complete the equation: current =

Accepted Answer

potential difference / resistance

Question 34

Follow the lyric: "The snow glows white on the mountain tonight..."

Accepted Answer

not a footprint to be seen

Question 35

Who was Christmas number 1 in 2015?

Accepted Answer

NHS Choir

Question 36

What group do the halogens belong to?

Accepted Answer

group 7

Question 37

Which footballer scored the "Hand of God" goal in the 1986 World Cup?

Accepted Answer

Diego Maradona

Question 38

How does a sedimentary rock become a metamorphic rock?

Accepted Answer

High heat and high pressure

Question 39

Which of these is an example of continuous variation?

Accepted Answer

weight

Question 40

Timon and Pumbaa feature in which Disney film?

Accepted Answer

The Lion King

Question 41

In Bambi, what kind of animal is Thumper?

Accepted Answer

Rabbit

Question 42

Complete the equation: speed=

Accepted Answer

distance / time

Question 43

Where is your genetic material found?

Accepted Answer

nucleus of a cell

Question 44

Climate change is...

Accepted Answer

the long term change in weather patterns

Question 45

The largest volcano in the solar system was discovered on which planet?

Accepted Answer

Mars

Question 46

What year did WWII start?

Accepted Answer

1939

Question 47

What is the capital city of the USA?

Accepted Answer

Washington D.C.

Question 48

What makes plants green?

Accepted Answer

chlorphyll

Question 49

Complete this equation: carbon dioxide + water -->

Accepted Answer

glucose + oxygen

Question 50

Who is on the back of the £5 note?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Fry

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