10 years and over:
1. What is the type of grain most commonly used for baking bread? 2. Why are the native people of America known as Indians? 1 ■ 3. In which country do the white-skinned, hairy Ainu live? 4. What is the special name for a painting of a group of objects such as a bowl of fruit or a vase of flowers? 5. Who painted the Mona Lisa and where, can it be seen? 6. What is the name of the ancient art of foretelling the future from the ■ positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies? 7. So far nine planets have been discovered. Six of them have been known
since ancient times. The other three were discovered in 1781, 1846 and 1930. What are the names of the last three? 8. How can the age of a tree be told? 9. Which part of the eucalyptus tree does eucalyptus oil come from? 10. What is the name of the kind of well where water rises to the surface without being pumped? 11. What is a gnomon? 12. How many legs does a spider have? 13. What is the city the legendary brothers Romulus and Remus are reputed to have founded In 753 8.C.? 14. How did Louis XVI and his Queen, Marie Atoinette, of France die? 15. What is a civil war?
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