Who is the longest reigning British monarch? Try our kids’ quiz

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1. Iris, 9, asks: who is the longest reigning British monarch?

   1. Queen Victoria

   2. Queen Elizabeth II

   3. King Henry VIII

   4. King Athelstan

2. Chris, 8, asks: what is the tallest mountain in the world, from base to summit?

   1. Mount Everest in the Himalayas

   2. Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

   3. Mauna Kea in Hawaii

   4. Mont Blanc in the Alps

3. Tess, 8, asks: in Norse mythology, what is the name of the brother of the goddess Freya?

   1. Frigg

   2. Baldr

   3. Thor

   4. Freyr

4. Nicolas, 7, asks: why is snow white?

   1. Because of how light bounces off ice crystals in the snow

   2. Because snow has icing sugar inside it

   3. Because snow is actually made of clouds, which are often white

   4. Because snow has evolved to look beautiful and white

5. Iona, 6, asks: what is the total number of bones that a panda has in its body?

   1. 345

   2. 54

   3. 655

   4. 370

Solutions

1:B - Queen Elizabeth surpassed Queen Victoria’s record in September 2015 and has just celebrated her platinum jubilee, meaning she has been queen for 70 years, the longest of any king or queen of England., 2:C - Mauna Kea is about 9,966 metres tall from its base below the surface of the ocean to its peak 4,207.3 metres above sea level. This makes it about 1,116 metres taller than Everest, the tallest mountain above sea level., 3:D - Freyr is Freya’s brother in Norse mythology. He is the ruler of peace and fertility, rain and sunshine., 4:A - Although we can’t see it – except when we see a rainbow – sunlight is made up of lots of colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) which, mixed together, look white. Snowflakes are made up of hundreds of teeny-tiny ice crystals. When light hits the snowflakes, it reflects all the colours inside light back to our eyes and they see this as the colour white., 5:A - A panda has 345 bones in its body. Do you know how many you have? A human baby has about 300 bones at birth and they grow together into the 206 adults have.

Scores

1. 5 and above.

2. 4 and above.

3. 3 and above.

4. 2 and above.

5. 0 and above.

6. 1 and above.

Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a weekly podcast answering children’s questions, out now as a book.

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