HOW GOOD ARE YOU AT USING THE INTERNET?

All the answers are factual and short, don’t search using whole sentences but use the key words. Copy and paste into a word document.

Get in to the habit of saving your work every few minutes, so that if there is a problem you haven’t lost all your answers.


1. What number is opposite 10 on a dartboard?
2. Where Lesotho and what is its capital?
3. If someone gave you some brine, what would they be giving you?
4. Teflon is a man made substance, what is so special about it?
5. When was Luton Town FC started?
6. To what notes are the strings on a guitar tuned to?
7. How many brothers and sisters did William Shakespeare have?
8. What is the unit of currency in Poland and what does the word actually mean?
9. Which famous figure stands on the top of the column in Trafalgar Square?
10. Have you saved your work in to your area yet? If you don’t know how to auto save, go to question 42.
11. What is unusual about the Manx Loghtan sheep?
12. What animal does the drink ‘airag’ come from?
13. If you bought 3 gross of pencils how many would you have?
14. Find out using the TFL website what is the minimum time it would take to travel from Piccadilly Circus to the Natural History Museum if you travelled at 9am on a weekday?
15. If you wanted to go to the Kent County Show, which train station would you get off at?
16. In metres work out how much taller the Burj Dubai will be compared to the Petronas Towers when it’s built?
17. In what country does the plant Halothmanus Beckettii grow?
18. What is pencil lead made out of?
19. What is the meaning of the French word coulissant?
20. How many zero’s would one googol have?
21. Which English county is directly North of Staffordshire?
22. What time does Manchester Museum open on Mondays?
23. Using a crossword solver find the missing letters of this word S – D – T – R - and its meaning.
24. Medusa is a woman found in the Greek myths, what happened to people who looked at her?
25. Who came 2nd in the Isle of Man TT SENIOR motorcycle race in 1992? (hint use their database)
26. Which is the next station after Porthmadoc on the Ffestiniog Railway?
27. What event was dropped from the Olympics in 1920?
28. Which range of mountains separates France from Spain?
29. What three flavours make up a Neapolitan ice cream?
30. What would you see if you stood at 21o 24’ N and 72o11’East? (use Google Earth)
31. What is measured in units of Lux?
32. Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman died aged 102, what drug did he invent?
33. What is the name of Postman Pat’s black and white cat?
34. In 1978, who became the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
35. Mars has two moons. Phobos is one, but what is the other one called?
36. In which year was the Mary Celeste found adrift in the Atlantic Ocean with no sign of her crew?
37. Who was the last man on the moon?
38. What was Little Miss Muffit eating when the spider sat beside her?
39. What did King Solomon order to be done to settle a dispute?
40. If two sheets of A4 sheets of paper are put side by side what is the new paper size created?
41. What is the Babbage Engine?
42. If you walked east along Cairndhuna Terrace which road would you meet?
43. You are currently using a Microsoft Office Word document. Write the sequence of operations you would have to go through to set up your computer so that it automatically saves your work every 2 minutes.
Eg. Format/Columns/Select preset 3/OK (Hint, use the ‘Help’ facility