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2009 Ditrict Jets Fair Questions 1.
2009 Ditrict Jets Fair Questions 1.
NORTHERN PROVINCE
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SENIOR QUIZ & OLYMPIADS
1. Which law states that the force of attraction between two particles of
masses M and m is inversely proportional to the square of their distance r
apart and directly proportional to the product of the masses?
Answer: UNIVERSAL SOLVENT
Answer: E = hv
3. What do you call the type of relativity which deals with frames of
reference in uniform relative motion?
Answer: SPECIAL
Answer: 500N
Answer: 250km/hr
Answer: THERMISTORS
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7. State the formula for linear expansivity?
Answer: L2 – L1 per K
L1Q
8. What is the other name for linear expansion?
10. What do we call the angular dispersions per mean deviation of a prism or
lens?
11. Calculate the power of the lens were light rays passing through it will meet
(intersect) 80cm from the optical center
Answer: 1.25
12. Calculate the length of a simple pendulum that will have a period of exactly
1second,taking g=9.8m/s2
13.An object is released from an aero plane which is 2000m above the earths
surface. What will the magnitude of the air resistance on this object of mass
200g after attaing a terminal velocity?
Answer:2N
15. Calculate the increase in length of a 20m steel gider in a building when the
temperature changes from 00 C to 300C.
16. LASER are used in physics in different ways. What do the letter stand for?
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Answer: LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY THE STIMULATED EMISSION
RADIATION
17. What do we call a law that states that the rate of laws of heat of a body by
cooling in a steady stream of air is proportional to the excess temperature of
the body above its surroundings.
18. What do you call a constant where the potentional is divided by current
passing through a conductor? (one attempt)
Answer: RÉSISTANCE
19.A radio active element of atomic mass 20 and atomic number 10 emits a
beta particle followed by an alpha one. What mius the atomic resulting nucleus?
Answer:9
20. A gas cylinder of cross sectional area 2m2 and height 18m is filled with mair
of mass 90g.Calculate the density of air?
21. Two resistor A and B are each of resistance 2 ohms and 3 ohms are
connected to a 4 ohms resistor which is in series to A and B.Calculate the total
resistance of the three resistors?
22. What do you the potentional energy which is due to elevation position? (One
attempt)
Answer: GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY
24.A tank 4m long ,1m wide and 0.5m deep is half filled with mercury of
12000N.What the pressure on the base of the tank due to the mercury/
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through a height of 30m after consuming 60KJ of electric energy,take g=10m/s2
Answer: 50%
27.Calculate the speed on an object of mas 2kg which is dropped from a 20m
cliff upon hitting the ground take g=10m/s2
Answer: 20m/s
28. An aircraft flies 400km south and then 300km west. Calculate its
displacement from the starting point?
Answer; 500km
Answer: 180K
33. Calculate the minimum force needed to prevent an object with a mass of
40kg from sliding down a slope which forms an angle of 30 o with the horizontal
Answer: 257NEWTONS
34. What is the name of the process by which two gases mix because of their
molecular movement? (One attempt)
Answer: DIFFUSSION
Answer: ELECTRONS
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Answer: CANDELA
37. What name is given to the semi conductors which become increasingly
better conductors as they get warmer?
Answer: THERMISTORS
38. How much current flows through the water heater which is connected to a
24V supply and using 4KM.
Answer 166.7A
40. The emission of electrons when light falls upon certain metals is called?
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CHEMISTRY SENIOR QUIZ QUESTIONS
3. Substances such as water which have the ability to act as both an acid
and as a base are said to be-----------------
Answer: AMPHIPROTIC
4. A fatty acid with two or more carbon to carbon double bonds is referred
to as to as ------------
Answer: CHEMISORPTION
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7. The number of species (reactants) taking part in a chemical reaction is
called…..
Answer; MOLECULARITY
Answer; CaCO3.MgCO3
12. In a complex salt molecule, what do you call the ions that surround a
central ion of the salt ?
Answer; LIGANDS
13. What do you call a super cooled liquid which forms a hard brittle
substance that’s usually transparent and resistant to chemical attacks?
Answer; GLASS
14. The products of the concentration of the ions of a salt raised to the
appropriate powers are known as……
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16. What do you call the process by which an insoluble substance is
obtained from the mixture of two aqueous solutions?
Answer; PRECIPITATION
17. The ability of a substance to absorb water vapour from the atmosphere
without forming solution or change of a substance is called…..
Answer; HYGROSCOPIC
18. A mixture formed between a solid and a liquid in which a solid forms a
network which traps the liquid so that it can not flow freely is called……
Answer; GEL
19. What name is given to one organic compound that does not have
benzene rings in each structure?
Answer; ARENES
22. What do you call a solid in which the atoms, ions or molecules lie in a
random jumble?
23. The decay which takes place in the presence of oxygen is called…..
Answer; HALOGENOALKANES
25. The absorption of reflected infra-red radiation from the earth by gases in
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the atmosphere leading to atmospheric warming is called…….
26. Name the process for purifying Alumina for use in the Hall process
27. What do you call the formation of chains or rings by atoms of the same
element e.g. S8 rings?
Answer; CATENATE
28. What term is used for non-crystalline inorganic solids usually containing
oxides, borides and carbides……….
Answer; CERAMIC
29. What do you call the emission of light by products formed in energetically
excited states?
Answer; CHEMILUMINESCENCE
30. The large class of compounds that often contain nitrogen in ring
structures is called ……..
Answer; ALKALOIDS
31. What do you call the condition that occurs when the blood PH falls below
normal range?
Answer; ACIDOSIS
32. The sequences of bases on the DNA of eukaryotic cells that code for
amino acids is known as………….
Answer; EXONS
Answer; REM
Answer; O2-
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35. What do you call the agent (substance) that controls the quantity of
products that can be formed in a chemical reaction?
Answer; AMALGAM
37. The atoms of elements or ions having the same electron configuration
are called…….
Answer; ISOELECTRONIC
38. Fish and river life die from oxygen starvation brought by pollution. This is
called……
Answer; EUTROPHICATION
40. What do you the reaction in which two compounds react to form two
different compounds?
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SENIOR BIOLOGY QUIZZ
3. Which term is used to describe the movement of the body part towards
the midline?
ANS: ADDUCTION
5.Name the hormone which is secreted by the adrenal cortex and which
regulates sodium and potassium ion concentrations.
ANS: ALDESTERONE
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ANS: ALBUMIN
Ans; G1 (GAP 1)
8. What is the name given to the cytoplasmic division and separation of the
daughter cells during the interphase?
Ans; cytokinesis
9. When do you call the chromosomes that much one another exactry in
appearance in the 22 of the pairs
ANS; ATOSOMES
10. How many chromosomes are present in the individuals with Down
syndrome? (One attempt)
Ans; 47
11. What name is given to the segment which allows oxygen to enter into an
insect.(one attempt)
Ans; abdomen
12. Which terminology is given to the opposite flow of water over the gills and
blood in the gill filaments?(one attempt)
Ans: DIFFUSION
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Ans: WHEN THEY ARE THIRSTY
16. Name the disease associated with the thriming and weakening of the
alveolus
Ans: emphysema
17. What name is given to the flap of bone which encloses the gills in the gill
chamber
Ans: ORPECULUM
19. Name the chemicals produced by infected plants which protect health cells
from being attacked by parasite.
Ans: PHTOATXINS
Ans: pheromones’
21. The total volume of the earth in which life permanently exists is
called…………
Ans: BIOSPHERE
Ans: G1 STAGE
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Ans; STROMA
Ans: AUTOLYSIS
Ans: PYRIMIDINES
28. What type of bond is formed between guanine and cytosine…..(one attempt
only)
Ans: NUCLEOTIDES
31. What name is given to the condition in which individual have one or more
extra sex chromosomes?
Ans: KLINEFELTERSYDROME
32. What do you call a gene which controls more than one character?
Ans: PLEIOTROPIC
33. What do you call the condition in which the individuals of one species in the
same population exists into or more distinct forms?
Ans: POLYMORPHISM
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35. Name two types of cells which allow gaseous exchange in man to take
place effectively?
36. The pyramid that shows how much energy passes from one trophic level to
the next is known as……………..(one attempt only)
37. What is the name given to the type of cells found in wood stems which
enables gaseous exchange to take place(ONE ATTEMPT ONLY)
Ans: LENTCELS
Ans; HAUSTORIA
40. Organism which can respire in a short period of time in the absence of
oxygen are called……………………
Ans: FALCULTATIVE ANAEROBES.
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SENIOR QUIZ QUESTIONS MATHEMATICS
Answer: 4
Answer: 2m + c
3 The Ngoni boy knows from experience that the probability of killing a big
rat from his trap is 0.08. When two rats are trapped find the probability
that both are big expressed in standard form
4 Calculate the Gradient at the curve for the line y = 2x2 - 4x passing
through x = 4
Answer: O
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bar 3
Answer: 7
Ans:
8. How many proper subsets are there in a set with five elements
Ans: 30
Ans: X=1
Answer: 3cosX
Answer=2X-7 OR Y-2X=-7
Answer: 17 UNITS
13. Given that x<0 and 2x2 =18,what is the value of x?(one attempt)
Answer: x=-3
Answer: -12
Answer: x>-3
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15.Insert two arimethic means between 17 and 8
Answer: 14 and 11
Answer: k=-52.
Answer: x3-x2
Answer: 4
Answer: Y=100
X3
OR 102
X3
Answer: 65
Answer: 13m
25.The ratio of areas of two similar cylinders is 9:4.What is the ratio of volumes
of the two cylinders?
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Answer: 27:8 OR 27
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26. Caculate the gradient of a curve given by the equation y=2x2-4x at a point
where x=3
Answer:8
Answer: 2x+c
28. The same number is added to both the numerator and denominator of the
fraction 5
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Answer: 7
29.A man knows from long experience that when he catches a fish,the proba
bility that its too small to take home is 0.8.Find the probability that when he
catches two fish both are too small to take home.
Answer: 0.64
Answer: 6
Answer: y=1o
32.If Q is the angle of latitude in the northern hemisphere, what could be the
value of cos Q if the radius of this latitude is 3185km given that the radius of
the earth is 6370km.
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33. Given that Tan A=9
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Find the value of Sin A if A is an acute angle.
Answer: 9
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Answer: 3
35. Three consecutive terms of a GP are x+1,x+3 and x-6.What is the common
ratio of the GP if x=15
Answer: 3
4
Answer: x=4+y
Answer; 4
Answer: x=4
39. The point (4,5) is rotated through 900 anticlockwise. If the centre of the
rotation is (4, 4), what are the coordinates of the image.
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SENIOR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ QUESTIONS
1. What name is given to the super continental Body from which the
current continents originated due to continental drift
Answer: PANGEA
Answer: MONOFLOROPHOSPHATE
Answer: KLEPTOMANIAC
6. On which date and month does President Rupia Banda celebrate his
birthday?
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Answer: 20th FEBRUARY
Answer: EPI-CENTRE
7. What is a G force?
10. What do the letters I.U.D stand for as the method of family planning?
14. The town Makasa was named after a white man called…………
Answer; MEAUTHER
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18. Which ANC leader came to attend NCHWALA ceremony recently?
19. Which American president was killed after the civil war?
20. In English the letters e.g. are used to mean for example. What do
the letters e.g stand for?
21. What is the meaning of the word HOLOCOUST and when and
where did the holocaust happen?
Answer: 2012
Answer: THATCHER
Answer: CARS
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Answer: NDOLA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Answer: 0.05
31. Who gave proof for finding the area, the volume and the centre of gravity of
circle, spheres, conics and spirals?
33. What is the total sum of the first four Zambian bank notes?
Answer: K670
34. What do we call a statement involving a variable x?
Answer: PROPOSITON.
36. If the eighth of may is Monday, what day of the week is the seventeenth
day?
Answer: WEDNESDAY
38. Which one of the three footballers play for ARSENAL? SINGLEZES
POUSE, ROERT PIZES, HENRY TIARY, KOLO TOURRE
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Answer; KOLO TOURE
Answer: PIZZA
Answer: EARTH.
1. a) i. Write the Lewis structure for hypochlorous acid HClO (dot or cross)
ii) Draw two resonance structures for the SO2 (dot or cross)
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iii) Removal of NH3 (8 MARKS)
The initial pressure is 84mm and the total pressure at the end of 6 minutes is
110mm. calculate the half life of the reaction. (8
MARKS)
(10 marks)
3. i.) Aluminium is produced by electrolysis of its oxide Al2o3, dissolved in molten
cryolite Na3AIF6 . Calculate the mass of aluminium that can be produced in one
day in an electrolytic cell operating continuously at 1.00x105A.
AL=26.98g/mol Faraday constant=96500C (5 marks)
ii.) When a large amount of water is poured on 100g of calcium carbide, 28.3g
of acetylene was produced.
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equation below;
H2O(l) ↔H+(aq) + OH+(aq)+ OH-(aq)
(i.) Write an expression for the ionic product of water, Kw.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
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(ii.) Given that the ionic product of pure water at 25oC is 10-14 mol2dm-6.
Determine;
a.) the concentration of hydroxide ions in pure water.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
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b.) the concentration of hydrogen ions in pure water
…………………………………………………………………………………………
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C.) Methonoic acid is a weak acid and ionizes according to the equation
below;
HCOOH (aq) ↔ H+(aq) + HCOO-(aq)
Given that the concentration of methanoic acid is 0.5mol dm-3 and its
dissociation constant, ka=1.6x10-4 mol dm-3. Calculate;
i.) the equilibrium concentration of the hydrogen ions in methanoic
acid……………………………………………………………………………………
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ii.) the PH of methanoic
acid……………………………………………………………………………………
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…………………..
ii.) the PH of an aqueous solution is 2.5. what is the concentration of
hydrogen ions in the
solution?...........................................................................................................
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2. You are provided with a graph paper to plot a graph. Two genetic crosses
were done and data was collected as shown in the table below.
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DATA ON THE HEIGHT OF PLANTS
HEIGHT/cm 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 1 12 13 14 1 1
0 1 5 6
Number of 2 8 1 27 30 27 1 8 2 - - - - - -
plants of 7 7
species A
Number of - - - - - 2 5 9 1 1 25 29 28 1 -
plants of 3 8 2
species B
b(i) state the mode value of height of the sample of plants of species B. [1
MARK]
(ii) state the median value of height of the sample of plants of species A. [1
MARK]
(iii) calculate the mean value of height of the sample of plants of species B.sho
your working.
[5 MARK]
c) calculate the standard deviation (SD) of the height of the sample of plants of
species B.
[2
MARKS]
3. In some cattle alleles for red and white coat color are co dominant. A cross
between red bulls and white cows produces calves with red and white hairs in
their coats.
a.) if roan bulls and cows are mated together what genotype would you expect
in the calves.
b.) what ratio would you expect from a large number of matings?
c.) suggest reason why a hybrid may be sterile in the diploid condition but fertile
when tetraploid?
d.) explain why micro organism such as bacteria is frequently used in the study
of mutation? (Total= 10
marks)
4.
a.) mention two important events which occur during the synthesis stage of
interphase.
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b.) what two ways occur during gamete formation in the recombination of
genes.
(Total=4
marks)
i) range [1
MARK]
ii) time of flight [1
MARK]
iii) projectile [1
MARK]
iv) maximum height [1
MARK]
(b) a tennis ball is hit with a velocity of 3m/s at an angle of 600 to the horizontal.
Consider the the figure shown below.
RANGE
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Use the figure above to calculate the following: take g=10m/s2
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ii) capacitance--------------------------------------------------------------------
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iii) reactance-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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+Q
DIELECTRIC
-Q
Calculate:
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MARKS]
iii) the electric field strength in the gap between the plates and the dielectric--
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MARKS]
3. a.) a body of mass 5kg is placed on a horizontal plane. It is found that a force
of 10N applied horizontally to the body is just about to move it. Calculate the co-
efficient of static friction force between the body and the plane
(2)
b.) a body of mass 40kg is given acceleration of 10m/s on horizontal ground for
which the co-efficient of friction is 0.5. Calculate the force required to accelerate
the body. (Take g=10m/s2)
(2)
c.) a wheel and axle is used to raine a man of weight 70kg by application of an
effort 200N. if the radii of the wheel and axle are 400mm and 100mm
respectively, determine the efficiency of the machine.(2)
4.a.) what evidence is there to suggest that light travels in straight lines.
(2)
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c.) calculate the tension in the wire of a hammer throwers hammer of mass 7kg,
if it is being swing round at I revolution per second in a circle of radius 1.5m.
(2)
1. Given that n is inversely proportional to the square root of m plus -2. and that
n= 2 when m=4. Find the value of n when m= 0
Answer: -2
2. The range of the values 3, 4, 7, x, 10, 5, y, is 12 find the mean value of x and
y if they are equal terms
Answer: 15
Answer: 30
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4. Determine the midmost point between A ( 3, -5) and B( -7, 9)
Answer: CIRCLE
6. The sets n (A)= 47 n ( B) = 23, n ( C) = 15 are disjoint sets. Find the value of
n(A ∩ B ∩ C
Answer:X 3/2
Answer: ¼
Answer? 16.
Answer: 4
11. What is the smallest natural number which is also a prime number.(one
attempt)
Answer:2
Answer: 1500000m
Answer: 3/8
14. The area of a rectangle is 30cm2.If the breadth is 5cm,what is the
perimeter of a rectangle?
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Answer:22
Answer: 1/12
16. If the 8th of may is Monday, what day of the week is the seventeen?
Answer: WEDNESDAY.
17. Given that x lies between 2 and 9 inclusive and y lies between -5 and 3
inclusive. what is the largest possible value of x-y?
Answer:14
18. A cube has volume 125cm3 ,what is its total surface area?
Answer: 150cm
Answer: 1
Answer: 5.
21. What is the number of minutes between 23:47 hours and 04:31?
Answer; 104minutes
23. A farmer is building a fence is 48m long. He plans to put vertical posts at
3m intervals with one at each end. How many posts will he need
Answer:17
25. K500000 is shard between john and James in the ratio 3:2 respectively.
What is James’ share?
Answer: k200000
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26. Find the HCF of 8,20 and 600(one response)
Answer: 4
27. If five people shared 15 books equally, how many books can 25 people
have altogether?
Answer: 75 books
27.There are 250 pupils in a competition. I f 90% of these pupils are girls, how
many are boys?
Answer: 25
Answer:3
Answer:11
Answer: 3.09
31. If the average speed of a train is 70km/h for how long does it take to
cover a distance of 245km?
Answer: 1.68
34. The area of square field is 1600m2.Find the perimeter of this field?
Answer: 160.
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Answer 14
Answer: 3x3x7
Answer: 9800
Answer: 77:4
40. What is the difference in temperature between London -8 and Zambia 20oc
1. What is the name of the electric motor used for reversing the direction
of an electric current
Answer: COMMUTATOR
Answer: CAPACITOR
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3 A headlamp is rated 24w, 6v. How much current flows through it
Answer: 4A
Answer: RHEOSTART
Answer: AMORPHOUS
Answer: 25000kg
8. What is a ray?
Answer: 45g
Answer: GALVANOMETER
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13. A METAL BLOCK MEASURES 10CM X2CM X 2CM..WHAT IS THE
VOLUME IN METRES?
Answer: 0.00004m3
Answer: 20v
Answer: 20m/s
20. In a hydro electric power station state the correct order of the energy
change?
Answer: POTENTIONAL-KINETIC-MECHANIC-MAGNETIC-ELECTRIC
ENERGY
Answer: 3,000,000,000m/s
22. What form of energy is contained in a car battery? ONE ATTEMPT ONLY
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23. Convert 13600kg/m3 into g/cm3.
Answer: 13.6g/cm3
Answer: RESISTANCE
Answer: CIRCUIT
Answer; 78oC
29.A strip of metal formed when two metals of different heat conductivity is
called……………………………………………..
Answer: ANOMALOUS
31. When we stand around the fire, heat mostly reach us through? ONE
ATTEMPT
Answer: RADIATION
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33.A current of 10A flows through a 0.7ohms resistor. Calculate the
voltage applied across the resistor?
Answer: 7V
Answer: GALVANOMETER
35. What is the purpose of cooling the tungsten filament in the bulb?
38. What is the third color in the spectrum of light? ONE ATTEMPT ONLY
Answer: YELLOW
Answer: ALCOHOL
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ANSWER: SPIROMETER
2 Name the disease that result from the non- release of ADH when the
Hypothalamus is damaged
3 What is the name of the yellow pigment which result from the breaking down
of the Hemoglobin
ANSWER: BILINIBIA
ANSWER: CROSS
6 The part of the skin which controls the heat loss is called……………
ANS; GLUCOSE
8. What do you call the cavities which separate the gills from each other?
ANS; SPILOMETER
10. What name is given to the type of air which always found in the lungs…….
ANS; MACROPHAGES
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ANS; LATENT HEAT OF VAPORISATION
ANS; MELANOCYTES
14. What is the name of the hormone which increases the amount of
melanic produced…….
15. Name the blood vessel which carries blood to the kidney.
ANS; HEPATOCYTES
ANS; LIVER
20. Name the part of the skin responsible for the reduction of damage to
the underlying tissues by friction?
ANS; EPIDERMIS
21. Name the part of the skin which controls heat loss?
23. What is the name given to two copies of a particular gene present in a
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diploid cell?
ANS; HOMOZYGOTE
ANS; CROSS
ANS; CO-DOMINANCE
ANS; AN ECOSYSTEM
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ANS; HEAT
34. What percentage of energy assumed to flow one trophic level to the
next?
ANS; POLINATION
36. Which part of the plant receives pollen grains during pollination?
ANS; STIGMA
ANS; COROLLA
ANS; PROTOPLASM
ANS; PROKARYOTES
1 What is the name of the given to the elements in the group √ 11 of the
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periodic table
ANSWER: HALOGENS
ANSWER: 6
ANSWER: ALKALI
ANSWER. 2 MOLS
ANSWER: 100
10. Name the gas which turns damp red litmus paper blue?
ANSWER: AMMONIA
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12. What do we call the reactant used up first in a reactor?
13. The compound formed when calcium oxide reacts with silicon (11) oxide is
called……..
14. During the titration experiment, the stage at which the indicator changes
color is called………….
ANSWER.END POINT
16. The number of hydrogen ions produced per molecule of the acid is called
its………
ANSWER: BASICITY
17. What gas is formed when acid reacts with a metal carbonate
ANSWER: LIQUID
ANSWER: 14
20. What name is given to the horizontal rows on the periodic table.
ANSWER: PERIOD
ANSWER: GALVANISING
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23. State the general formula of alkanes?
ANSWER:CnH2n+2
ANSWER: ZYMASE
ANSWER:2
26. Which substance removes impurities from iron ore in the blast
furnace.
ANSWER: OXIDATION
ANSWER: OXYGEN
ANSWER: PETROLUM
33. The process by which detergents are made from fats by adding
sulphuric acid and then neutralize it with sodium hydroxide.
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ANSWER: SULPHONATION
ANSWER: PROTEINS.
ANSWER: SOLID
ANSWER: CO2
ANSWER: DURALUMIN
ANSWER: COLORLESS
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1 Name a Zambia soccer icon that attained the political portfolio of
being a member of parliament
ANSWER: MUMBWA
ANSWER: GUAUTENG
ANSWER: 1976
ANSWER: JIHAD
9. What is the name of the bird which is found on the Zambian national
flag
Represents?
Answer: EAGLE
10. How many vice president served under the late president
Mwanawasa?
Answer: 3
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11. What is the name of the former president of USA who visited
Zambia?
Answer. KAKA
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21; Barack Obama is the first black American president in the history of
America. He is number what in the line of American president?
22. Who is the vice president of the patriotic front party (P.F).
Answer; 1976
25. Which country records the greatest number of train accidents in the
world.
Answer: INDIA
26. Name the former minister in Zambia who was sentenced to 4 years
simple imprisonment by a magistrate count in 2009.
29. State the month and year when Rupiah Banda was sworn as
president?
30. In Zambia 2008 by elections who was the third runners up?
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31. Who is the longest serving president in southern Africa?
34. What other name is given to chemicals called drugs that are
prepared and sold with the intention of treating illness.
Answer; PHARMACEUTICALS
38. Which law states that the volume of a fixed mass of gas is directly
proportional to its absolute temperature, pressure kept constant?
39. What name is given to vector that bite the lips and cheeks of people?
Answer; CAPSULE.
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JUNIOR OLYMPIAD MATHEMATICS
i) lowest value of y + x
1 mark
ii). lowest value 0f x - y
1 mark
iii) maximum value of x - y
1 mark
iv) maximum value of x ÷ y
1 mark
b.A straight line passes through the points
M ( 2 , 4) and N ( 8 , 12). Calculate
2.a. The probality of a boy studying hard is 2/3 and that of passing is the
examination is 4/5. calculate
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CALCULATE
i. area of a square
1 mark
ii. Area of shaded part
2 marks
iii. Perimeter of shaded part
2 marks
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JUNIOR SCIENCE OLYMPIAD QUESTIONS
a. Gas-------------------------------------------1 mark
b. Liquid--------------------------------------- 1 mark
c. Solid-----------------------------------------1 mark
3. state the physical properties of matter-----------------------------------------------------
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marks
4. state the chemical properties of matter----------------------------------------------------
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marks
5. define a physical change----------------------------------------------------------------------
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marks
6. define a chemical change---------------------------------------------------------------------
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marks
7. in which medium would you expect molecules with the highest kinetic energy-
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-1 marks
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8. a. which shape do liquid droplets tend to assume? -----------------------------------
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2 marks
b. give reasons to support your answer in (a) above--------------------------------------
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-2 marks
10 marks
1. The surface area of one side of a cube is 100 find its volume
ANSWER: 1000
ANSWER: 1
ANSWER: -6
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ANSWER: 30
ANSWER: 0. 125
ANSWER: I over 81
7. Express ¼ as a percentage.
Answer: 25%
Answer: 2 ½
9. Find the square root of 64/9
Answer.8/3
10. What is the lowest common multiple of 5,4 and 2
Answer: 20.
Answer?1 ¼
Answer: 3
Answer: 0.875
Answer: 500g
15.What do we call a four side figure with four equal sides and four equal
angles?
Answer: SQUARE
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16.Find the sum of 20.5 and 21.5
Answer: 42
17. Two angles of a triangle are 42o and 56o.What is the third angle?
Answer: 82o
18. If the cost of 5l of cooking oil is k36, 312=00, how much change would
someone get from k50, 000=00?
Answer.k13,688=00
19.Simplify 2x +3x+7
Answer; 5x +7
Answer: 14/15.
21. Set A has elements 2 and 3,how many subsets has set A.
Answer: 4
22. Which one is the larger number between ½ and 40%( one attempt only)
Answer: ½
Answer: 7 ¾
24. A watch ticks once every second, how many times will it tick in 2minutes.
25. My grand mother celebrated her 92nd birthday in 2008.In what year was she
born?
Answer: 1916
ANSWER: 6.3
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27. Mwansa and Chile she share k50000 in the ratio 2:3.How much does
Mwansa get?
Answer: k20000
28. What is the difference between the supplement of 120o and the
complement of 84o?
Answer: 54o
Answer:36cm
30. A cube has a total surface area of 96cm2 what is the length of edge?
Answer: 8cm
31. A cyclist traveled 36km in1 ½ h. How many km did he travel in 1h?
Answer: 24km.
Answer: 55
Answer: 0.2
36. How many lines of symmetry has a triangle with two equal sides?
Answer: 1
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Answer. X=3
39. There are 210km from Kasama to Mpika and 201.5km from Mpika to
Nakonde. Which one is the longest distance?(one attempt)
Answer: k90000
1. From which two words does the term television comes from/
2. What do we call that do not allow an electric current to pass through them?
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Answer; Electromotive force (e.m.f) / voltage
4. Name a solution which is used to test the presence of starch in a green leaf.
Answer; Photosynthesis
6. What do we call a mammal that feeds on grass and other plant materials?
Answer; Herbivores
7.
1. What is the ceremonial title of the Vatican city according to the Roman
Catholic Church?
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3. How many paramount chiefs do we have in Zambia?
ANSWER: 4
ANSWER: CHIPEMBI
ANSWER: HEPTOLOGGY
8. State the name of the Bemba queen who was thought to have fallen from
heaven.
Answer: 1988
11. State the name of the newly opened high school in Nakonde district
Answer; 15
13. What is the disease that kills more people in Zambia than any other;
Answer; MALARIA
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Answer: SOUTHERN RHODISIA
16. Name the water falls found between Kawambwa and Mporokoso?
Answer: GUINEA
Answer: STEPHEN
22. Which date, month and year was Mwanawasa put to rest.
24. What do the letters COMESA stand for and where is the head quarters.
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25. What does A.T.M in banking stand for.
26. Which is the deepest falls in Africa and what is its depth?
27. What was the provincial head quarters of Northern province and what was
itws new name after independence
28. When Joseph was sold by his brothers he was taken to Egypt.What is the
name of the man where Joseph worked as a SERVANT
Answer: POTIFAR
Answer: HOLERA
31. What is the name of the latest bridge which links Luapula and Copperbelt
through
Answer: 4
34. What is the other term used in Nigeria to call an important person?
Answer: OGA
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35. What is the longest road in Zambia? One attempt
38. Where was umbilical cord for the first republican president for Zambia
buried?
Answer: 86 years
40. The burial place for the Bemba chief is called?( one attempt)
Answer: MWALULE
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3x
X-2
(a) Calculate
(b) Anne is x years old and Benny is 3 years younger than Anne. Write the
expression in terms of x in its simplest form for the sum of ages
(i) at present
2 marks
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ii) Which part of the plant cell controls all the cell activities?
1 mark
v. what is a cell?
2 marks
vi. list the three main sources of water vapour in the atmosphere.
3 marks
2. i. A block of ice has a mass of 40.5g. the density of ice is 0.9g/cm3. find the
volume of the block.(show your working)
3 marks
ii. a boy fills a tin which measures 8cm x 3cm x 2cm with water. Taking the
density of water as 1g/cm3, find the mass of the water in the tin. (show your
working). 3 marks
iv. the rating on an electrical appliance is 8W. what the voltage across the
appliance when a current of 2A flows through it. (show your working).
3 marks
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