Transcript Junior Maths Enrichment

Junior Maths Enrichment
Table Quiz
December 2014
Round 1: Q1
How many squares are in the diagram below?
Round 1: Q2
What is the sum
of the first 15
odd numbers?
Round 1: Q3
You have 64 candle stubs in
your possession. You can
make one full candle from
four stubs. It takes 1 hour
for a full candle to burn
down to a stub. If you can
only light full candles, what
is the maximum number of
hours of candlelight that
you can have?
Round 1: Q4
How many two digit
numbers are divisible
by neither 2 nor 3?
Round 1: Q5
How many times can the word SPOON be formed if:
-you can use each letter in the table exactly once
in each word and once you have used a combination
of letters you can’t swap some letters around and
count this twice
S
O
P
S
P
O
O
N
Round 1: Q6
1. Which major House of Fashion manufactured uniforms for The
Schutzstaffel (SS) during the 1930's?
2. Which country has the airline KLM?
3. In the Simpsons, which famous musician did Marge like to paint?
4. What is the collective noun for a group of monkeys?
5. In which country is the world’s largest pyramid?
6. If a month has a Friday the thirteenth then on what day of the week
would that month begin?
7. Which is the biggest lake in the Republic of Ireland?
8. In 1988, which ‘Irishman’ who put the ball in the back of the English net?
9. What is Harry Potter’s owl called?
10.What sport does Rory McIlroy’s girlfriend play?
Round
Round1:
2:Q1
Q1
How many triangles
are in this picture?
Round1:
Round
2: Q
Q2
How many times does the digit 9 occur in the
numbers 1 to 999?
Round 2: Q3
Imagine a small chess board, 3 by 3. If you place a knight on the top
left hand corner, how many different squares can the knight reach in
three or fewer moves?
(Remember the knight moves in an L-shape - so either two across and
one down/up or one across and two down/up)
Round
Round1:
2:Q3
Q4
What is the 21st number in this sequence:
2012, 2011, 2008, 2003, 1996...
Round 2: Q5
Eoin is painting a border of 210 tiles in the
following pattern:
and so on...
How many blue tiles will there be in total?
How many yellow tiles will there be in total?
Round 2: Q6
Name these four famous Mathematicians
Round
Round1:
3:Q4
Q1
How
many
triangles
are there
in this
picture?
Round 3: Q2
What is the smallest integer, which, when multiplied by 7 gives a
number consisting of only 4's?
Round 3: Q3
Many years ago, a cruise liner sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The survivors luckily landed on a remote desert island. There was
enough food for the 135 people to last four weeks. Nine days later a
rescue ship appeared, unluckily this ship also sank, leaving an
additional 36 people stranded on the island to now share the original
rationed food. The food obviously had to be re-rationed, everyone was
now on three-quarters of the original ration, so how many days in total
would the food last, from the day of the original sinking?
Round 3: Q4
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What is the name of Postman Pat’s pet cat?
What was Mohammad Ali’s birth name?
How many dots are there on a pair of dice?
What is A.A. Milne most famous for?
How many different scoring areas are there on a standard dart board?
What does the chemical symbol Pb stand for?
7. Anthony Stark is the alter-ego of which super-hero?
8. In May 2006, Belfast Airport officially changed its name in honour
of which famous Irishman?
9. Which artist painted ‘Sunflowers’?
10.Who sings the song “Call Me Maybe”?
Round
Round1:
3:Q3
Q5
How many
sets are in
this picture?
A set is made out of three cards such that in each of the four
features (shape, colour, number and shading) they are
either all different or all the same.
Round 3: Q6
Every year, just before my birthday, I open my money box to see
how much money I have. Imagine my surprise when I found
exactly €49.58 made up of equal numbers of 2c, 5c, 10c and 20c
coins. How many of each coin did I find?
Round 3: Q7
1.What does QED stand for?
2.Who invented the Cartesian
(coordinate) plane?