BBC Knowledge Asia Edition - December 2014

A cave engraving found in Gibraltar

may be the best evidence yet for

Neanderthal art. What symbol

does the etching resemble?

a) A hashtag

b) A question mark

c) An asterisk

Complete the recent headline:

‘_________-powered battery could

charge your phone’

a) Urine

b) Sweat

c) Saliva

Which fictional character was

recently sent into space aboard

a Japanese micro-satellite?

a) Hello Kitty

b) Godzilla

c) Mario

This odd-looking critter is a baby

aye-aye lemur being weighed

at North Carolina’s Duke Lemur

Center. To which island are

lemurs endemic?

a) Mauritius

b) Majorca

c) Madagascar

According to psychologists at

King’s College London, what

could predict a child’s future

intelligence?

a) Their drawings

b) The length of their earlobes

c) Their parents’ jobs

Recent research at the University

of Exeter has refuted what

commonly held belief?

a) That magpies steal shiny objects

b) That bulls are enraged by the

colour red

c) That goldfish have a

three-second memory

Astronomers have mapped the

huge supercluster of galaxies to

which the Milky Way belongs.

They’ve dubbed it ‘Laniakea’,

but what does this mean in

Hawaiian?

a) Exquisite sky

b) Celestial sphere

c) Immeasurable heaven

Computer scientists from

Birmingham University have

developed a robot capable of what?

a) Polishing your car

b) Loading your dishwasher

c) Taking out your rubbish and

sorting your recycling

Complete the recent headline:

‘Spending less time ______ ______

could be the key to living longer’

a) Sitting down

b) Phoning friends

c) Watching TV

The world’s last known passenger

pigeon died 100 years ago. What

was her name?

a) Mabel

b) Maggie

c) Martha

Scientists have discovered the most

complete giant sauropod dinosaur

skeleton yet. Roughly how much

did the Dreadnoughtus weigh?

a) 20 tonnes

b) 40 tonnes

c) 60 tonnes

This snazzy Soviet dog spacesuit

recently went up for auction.

What was the name of the Soviet

dog who in 1957 became the first

animal to orbit Earth?

a) Lisichka

b) Laika

c) Lenin

This otherworldly image

is a close-up of which

creepy-crawly?

a) Bed bug

b) Human flea

c) Deer tick

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PHOTO: MARCUS DESIENO, AUCTINATA/KLAS FOERSTER, DAVID HARING/DUKE LEMUR CENTER