- 1.Anton, 6, asks: has a goalkeeper ever scored a goal through a “goalkeeper’s kick”?
No, it’s against the rules
Only in video games
Yes, but only during penalty shootouts
Yes, goalkeepers have scored goals with huge kicks from their own goal
- 2.William, 6, asks: what is the biggest number that humans know?
One trillion bazillion
The number of grains of sand on Earth
A number called a googolplex – a 1 followed by a googol of zeros!
The number of protons in the universe
- 3.Miriam and Theo, 6, ask: how big is the universe?
About the size of our solar system
As big as the Milky Way galaxy
No one knows, but at least 93 billion light years across
It ends just beyond the stars we can see at night
- 4.Kira, 10, asks: in advertisements for ice-cream, which of the following is not used?
Cake icing
Actual ice-cream
Mashed potatoes
Cameras
- 5.Clara, 7, asks: how far can cats walk before they need to sleep?
Cats can walk for 10 minutes before napping
Cats can walk for ever – they don’t actually need any sleep
Cats can walk a few miles before they need a nap
Cats don’t walk – they only run
Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and the new Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book.