The CurioQuiz

1. Guess where horses started evolving.

a) Europe b) North America c) Australia

2. What did the inventor of basketball use as a basket?

a) a dustbin hanging on a tree branch b) peach basket c) straw basket

3. What did birds evolve from?

a) dinosaurs b) coelacanths c) mammoths 

4. Did early fish who came to live on land have legs?

a) Yes, but the legs would become invisible when the fish went back into water
b) No, but used them as flippers to clap 
c) Yes, but the fish couldn’t swim and became terrestrial animals

5. Which of these animals have been there since the Earth was formed?

a) grasshoppers b) cockroaches c) cows

Answers:
1-a

North America- Horses evolved in North America and spread to Europe, Africa and Asia on the land bridge that was formed between Alaska and Siberia. 10,000 years later the horses in North America went extinct. Horses were reintroduced to the Americas when the Europeans arrived.

2-b

Peach basket- Dr James Naismith, a Canadian physicist was interested in sports physiology. He taught at Springfield College, Massachusetts as a physical education teacher. He wanted to start a new game to engage the school’s rugby and football players during the winter. He found a peach basket in the janitor’s cupboard and hung it on a railing 10 ft above the floor. But there was a problem every time the players shot the ball into the basket, they had to get the basket down to remove the ball. So, Dr Naismith decided to cut a hole in the peach basket so, the ball would come down on its own. This is how basketball was invented.

3-a

Dinosaurs- Many modern birds of today like herons, cassowary birds and ostriches evolved from dinosaurs. Birds like herons look a little like a Coelophysis, ostriches look like a struthiomimus and a cassowary bird looks a little like a corthyosaurus. These are a few examples of how birds could have evolved from dinosaurs.

4-c

Yes, but the fish couldn’t swim and became terrestrial animals- Fishes living in the Silurian and Devonian periods started evolving with flipper like legs. They then started crawling on land and later developed into reptiles and later evolved into dinosaurs. The fish then became terrestrial animals and started living on land.

5-b

Cockroaches- Cockroaches are a menace even today. They eat and scavenge for food in homes restaurants etc. They would have been a menace to the Stone- Agers too as cockroaches have been on the face of the Earth since the dinosaurs’ time.

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If you got all 5 right, then you should try starting your own blog. 

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