What is the tallest house in the world? Try our kids’ quiz

1. Leon, 6, asks: what is the tallest house in the world?

   1. The White House, Washington DC

   2. Buckingham Palace in London

   3. Falcon Nest in Prescott, Arizona

   4. The home of Sultan Kösen in Turkey, the tallest man in the world

2. Alice, 10, asks: why isn’t Pluto a planet any more?

   1. Scientists say it’s a star

   2. It has shrunk to the size of a rock

   3. It has moved too far away to be part of our solar system

   4. It’s called a dwarf planet

3. Blake, 7, asks: how long does it take for light to travel from the sun to Earth?

   1. About 3.5 seconds

   2. Approximately 8 minutes

   3. About 2 and a half years

   4. About 45 million years

4. Erin, 10 asks: why do freckles come out more in the sun?

   1. Freckles are there in winter, but sunlight means you see them more clearly

   2. When you’re in the sun, your body makes more of a chemical called melanin

   3. To make your skin look sun-kissed and healthy

   4. Freckles just love the sun

5. Eloise, 8, asks: why do we get pins and needles?

   1. You get them when you’re bored with sitting and want to run around

   2. You get them when the blood supply to a part of your body has been cut off

   3. You get them when you’re feeling angry or upset

   4. You get them when you’re cold – it’s like shivering

Solutions

1:C - Falcon Nest in Prescott, Arizona, is the world’s tallest single-family home. It was designed by architect Sukumar Pal; it is 10 storeys high – 38 metres tall! , 2:D - Pluto is now known as a dwarf planet. To be a planet you have to be big enough to be made into a round shape by the gravitational orbit around the sun, and big enough to clear any nearby objects and debris. Pluto is round, but hasn’t cleared the area around its orbit so is still a dwarf., 3:B - It takes about eight minutes for light to travel from the sun to Earth – so we only ever see it as it was eight minutes ago!, 4:B - Freckles are made by a chemical called melanin, the same chemical that creates different skin tones and hair colours. When we spend lots of time in the sun, our bodies make extra melanin to protect our skin, and the melanin makes freckles., 5:B - You get pins and needles when the blood supply to a part of your body has been cut off, like when you have been sitting cross-legged and your feet have got squashed. The pins and needles come as the blood flow returns to the nerves.

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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