Long Ago
5 questions · Four answers, and only one is true. Can you spot it?
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Question 1 of 5
Who built the pyramids?
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- A They are built of separate blocks, stacked one on another.
- B Those who built them were skilled workers, fed and housed for the job.
- C Every clue left behind — tools, villages, records — is a human one.
- D They raised them as tombs for their kings, shifting colossal blocks with ramps, ropes and sledges.
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Question 2 of 5
How did people live long ago?
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- A Finding enough to eat was work from morning to night.
- B Almost everything about the day was different.
- C Everything was made by hand, and the stories were told round the fire. Some animals they painted are still on cave walls.
- D Cities came late; hunting and gathering came first.
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Question 3 of 5
Where did the dinosaurs go?
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- A Look out of the window: the birds are their family.
- B The big ones died out — but birds are dinosaurs still here, and a huge crater near Mexico is very likely the dent it left.
- C One bad season would not have finished them; the change lasted far longer.
- D People arrived tens of millions of years too late.
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Question 4 of 5
How do we know about dinosaurs?
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- A The huge ones have been gone for millions of years.
- B Bones, teeth and footprints turned to stone. Some skeletons are complete enough to stand up in a museum.
- C Stories cannot reach back that far.
- D Nobody ever saw one; people and dinosaurs never met.
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Question 5 of 5
What were dinosaurs?
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- A Dragons are stories; dinosaurs left bones behind.
- B Today's lizards are cousins, not dinosaurs.
- C Dinosaurs were reptiles, and mammals were small and quiet beside them.
- D Some were plant eaters and some meat eaters. Their name means “terrible lizard”, though many were gentle nibblers.
