The Royal Quiz

Sandy Island, a land mass no larger than Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean, was discovered by James Cook in 1876. When a team of Australian scientists went to survey the island in 2012, they found that there was no island at all! They believe that Cook might have spotted a mass of floating volcanic stone and gas.

The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas! These microscopes were simple in construction, using different shapes and sizes of glass with low power (6x to 10x). They were invented by the Romans.

Blue Whales are the loudest creatures on our planet. They communicate with a series of loud vocal sounds that can be heard underwater for hundreds of kilometers. The resemblance of their calls to human music has led them to be called “songs.”