This is just a brief sample of the spectacular questions we collected from children to inspire our educational materials.
These questions are originating from our sample of kids and youth aged 6 to 14. We have a whole database (thousands!) of them; and as we gathered it, we came to realise that while many of these questions sound a lot like the ones we asked when we were that age, we still don’t actually know all the answers as adults. Do you?
- How does animal poison work?
- How many litres of water are necessary to save a whale on the shore?
- What are people and animals cloned for?
- Why do we want to know things?
- Does God use the internet?
- Where does the water in the rivers and oceans come from?
- How is it possible that God has always existed?
- Is it possible to survive a black hole?
- Why do we walk on two legs?
- What did people eat and drink in ancient Egypt?
- What are humans made out of?
- Did dinosaurs live in Poland?
- Who comes up with street names?
- Why do people protest on streets sometimes?
- How do you negotiate for the latest Renault Laguna?
- Why does avid explode when mixed with water rather than with more acid?
- Are computers intelligent or stupid?
- Why does very salty water push objects to the surface?
- Are dinosaurs still alive underground?
- How long with the Sun be sufficient for?
- Do computers know languages?
- What does a child psychologist do?
- What happens in court?
- Is it difficult to make chemical mixtures?
- Why are there wars in the world?
- Why do we have knees?
- Why is air transparent?
- Why do women give birth to children among humans, but among seahorses, it is the male that gives birth?
- Why does lighting a match create fire?
- Do humans continue evolving?
- What can I do when I don’t feel well?
- What is the meaning of life?
- Is a black hole a pipe to another dimension?
- Is white a colour?
- What to our genes say about our past?
- What happens during a nuclear explosion?
- Since when has punk rock existed, and who invented it?
- What do we need the Moon for?
- What will be in the future?
- What will happen with the Sun in 3 billion years?
- Why can we manage just fine in a strange city?
- Why was there only one program per day on television in the past?
- Will there be any aircrafts that are faster than light?
- Can we learn physics on the football pitch?
- How is it possible that an aircraft rises?
- Do animals ever get bored?
- How is it possible that we can talk?
- If we kept on digging underground, would we ever reach the nucleus of the Earth?
- Is American populated only by Americans?
- Where do ideas come from?
- What will happen in the future?
- What is the weight of the Sun and of the Moon?
- Why are boys shy with girls?
- Why do people get older?
- How was the first human cell created?
- Why is water wet to the touch?
- Will the internet one day be able to conquer the minds of other civilisations’ inhabitants?
- Is the bass violin an adult violin?
- Does time pass in the Universe the same way it does on Earth?
- What is it like in the Universe?
- What makes people poor?
- Why do we attend school?
- When will people be able to live under water?
- Does the Universe have borders?
- Why are the eyes of people gelled over?
- Why do we catch a cold sometimes?
- Is there only one type of mathematics?
- Which planet is the coldest?
- Why do girls prefer to have long hair?
- What moves the Earth?
- How difficult was work in ancient Rome?
- How many grains of sand are in the world?
- Was technology used in ancient times?
- Do adults have to listen to someone?
- What is interesting in the sky when it is observed?
- Who gave birth to God?
- How were hot and cold created?
- Is reality really real?
- What happens with an animal soul when it dies?
- Why are we more clever than robots?
- How much time does it take for a rocket to fly into space and what happens with it next?
- How is it possible that an opera singer has such a strong voice?
- Are apes wiser than people?
- What will the next inventions related to the internet be like?
- How many teeth does a crocodile have?
- How did children live time ago?
- Is there a second Earth somewhere?
- What would happen if a car driving at the light speed would turn its headlights on?
- How can we fight hunger in the world?
- How does someone become hypnotised?
- Will I get a job when I grow up?
- Why are dinosaurs named in Latin?
- What does lightning have on the inside?
- What is beyond the Universe?
- Why is there no oxygen in the Universe?
- What are chewing gum and other bogey toys made from?
- How is an invention invented?
- How did people invent glass?
- How do we know that something is good or bad?
- Why do bears and hedgehogs fall asleep for winter?
- Which drug would be preferably invented?
- Why can’t we exceed the lines in a notebook?
- Why do ships sink and aircrafts fall in the Bermuda Triangle?
- Which animal existed first?
- Why are Frenchmen French and Englishmen English?
- Does a day on the Moon last as long as a day on Earth?
- How do our bones keep together?
- Are the scientists who are interested in sports?
- What is a recently discovered fruit?
- Who can become a scientist?
- How is it possible that we see a blue sky, whereas the Universe is black?
- When is a stone noble?
- Who invented chemistry?
- What are Italians saying with their hands?
- Why do cows get “mad?”
- How do bees learn?
- Why are lakes, streams, seas, and oceans made out of water?
- Are seals cold?
- Who determined the borders?
- How are crabs built?
- How many insects are there on Earth?
- Why are people something else than only skin, meat and bones, but they are able to move, speak and think?
- Why does my grandma have knee pains?
- Who invented school and why did they do it?
- Is it worth believing in something like the lottery?
- Why can you bounce on a trampoline?
- Why do people keep and breed plants and animals in cages, whereas plants and animals do not do anything to people?
- What can I do so that my teeth don’t go bad?
- Why do worms multiply so rapidly?
- How quickly can you go?
- Why are there fairy tales and why are invented stories told?
- How does music come out of CDs?
- What is our brain able to do?
- Can different stones affect the comfort and mood of people?
- What exactly happens with our waste?
- When does one become a scientist?
- What are the smallest computers in the world?
- What man was the first ape in the world?
- How was science created?
- Until when did the kings have power and when was it taken over by presidents?
- Why doesn’t gravity work on other planets?
- What is the latest discovery of scientists in the 21st century?
- Who invented money?
- Can we see the past?
- Where is “the sky” and where is space?
- Does a computer have a heart?
- How many drops of water are in all the oceans on the world?
- In how many days can we go around the Earth?
- Does everyone in the world drink Coca-Cola?
- What do people live for?
- How much does a photon weigh?
- Are the penalties necessary?
- Why does hydrogen act as a bomb?
- Who invented toys and plays and what do we play for?
- Why do we eat various parts of various vegetables (for example, the carrot root, rather than its leaves or flowers)?
- Am I unique?
- What will happen when I bend over backwards?
- How do birds know when to fly to warm countries?
- How is music created?
- Why is politics a touchy subject?
- What is a side rotation of a ball?
- What is probability?
- Can our solar system fall into a black hole?
- Why do some languages sound funny?
- Why do we follow fashion?
- What are the dos and don’ts for Police?
- Who determines the law?
- Why does the Earth shake sometimes?
- Who invented the names of all the countries?
- How do computers compose a message?
- What is space made out of?
- What remedy is in a medicine ball?
- What are colours?
- Why does everything know how to grow/live?
- Can a new animal be born to the world one day?
- If we use the water how is it possible that it is available all the time?
- Why must the man sleep?
- How many races of guinea pigs are there?
- Why is someone allowed to tell me what to do?
- What did the world look like before it existed?
- How many volts does a thunderstorm have?
- Where does air on Earth come from?
- What do musical instruments come from?
- Can children fly to space?
- How did we start using electricity?
- Are scientists of the opinion that a world with flying cars or robots, for example, can be created one day?
- Will it be possible to visit the Universe?
- How were horses created?
- What is oxygen and how is it created?
- For how many years have the spelling principles been binding and why are they so complicated?
- Why do we dream while we sleep?
- Why does a baboon have a violet rear?
- How is it possible that the Universe was once the size of a fist?
- In how many years will the Sun go down?
- Can we think illogically?
- Why do men and some women have a moustache?
- Why do we get bored?
- How do we know who is guilty when nobody admits to what was done?
- Why does the Earth consist of slabs?
- Can plants communicate with each other?
- Why don’t some substances explode when mixed?
- How are images created in our mind?
- What is actually good and bad?
- Why do humans cry, but animals don’t?
- What was the Columbus family like?
- Why do we have 5 fingers rather than 4?
- Can we move forwards or backwards in time?
- Where does toothpaste come from?
- Can we can see the sounds?
- How to become the richest man of the world?
- Why do the medusas burn?
- Can we die and be born again?
- How does a remedy work?
- Did fish really come ashore?
- Why does fish not have pulmonary?
- Why are animals so different from each other?
- How many years are necessary to create an international space station?
- Do computers commit errors?
- How is it possible that birds fly?
- What is gold made out of?
- What are stones made out of?
- What exactly is physics?
- Why do people sleepwalk?
- What will happen with a piece of chalk if it gets lit on fire?
- Why can’t we see currents?
- Can I still study when I am nervous?
- Why do cuticles grow around the nails?
- How come glass doesn’t get soaked?
- What is the sky we can see above us?
- How does a car gearbox work?
- How is an aurora created?
- Why do pyramids have a conical shape?
- What do different customs come from?
- What does an octopus make paint from?
- Can children with ADHD think normally?
- How did we fly to the Moon?
- What do we do while we sleep?
- When did we invent football?
- Who invented the right and the left sides?
- How does a computer know what to do?
- Why does brain think, rather than heart?
- What does bending a ball consist of?
- Can we clone a dinosaur?
- How are messages transmitted over facsimile?
- How do scientists know that olives have 2,000 years if they cannot see their rings?
- How much time does it take for a man to burn on the Sun?
- Why will the events in my life never repeat?
- Is the work of a scientist difficult?
- What is energy made from?
- Can we get into the inside of the Earth?
- Why do dreams come true when a star falls?
- Why does a horse sleep while standing?
- In how many years will the Earth cease to exist?
- Why were teachers invented?
- Can nervous cells commit errors?
- Where does water in rivers and oceans come from?
- How do mobile phones work?
- How many colours does the world have?
- Why is the air invisible?
- What is the highest number of the world?
- Why is football so popular?
- Can a computer understand me?
- Why are there different seasons of the year and do they have to be in the order the are?
- Can we breathe with other gas?
- What are feelings?
- Why are tails often dangerous?
- How many dimensions does the space-time continuum have ?
- Who invented the word “mum?”
- How many muscles does a person have?
- Why is it cold at night in a hot desert?
- Where do horses come from?
- How is it possible that we can communicate by emails?
- Why do frogs jump rather than fly?
- When was school created and what for?
- Is it possible to draw every physical figure?
- How many diseases are there?
- Is it true that in everything flies in a rocket, especially people?
- Why do people differ between each other?
- Why does the Moon look sometimes like a croissant?
- How does one become a wise businesswoman or sharp businessman?
- Are there any primary schools for scientists?
- How did the Incas die?
- Why are apes similar to people?
- How do animals understand our language?
- How many human lifeforms are there on Earth?
- Will there be no school one day?
- Why do trees breathe with carbon dioxide?
- What can we do when everybody is arguing?
- How are supernovas formed?
- Do stars die?
- Why is a rainbow always the same shape?
- How should you divide your pocket money well?
- How does insurance operate?
- Did snakes have legs a long time ago?
- Why do plastic bags decompose for so long?
- Why does the euro cost so many dollars?
- How does an X-ray work?
- Why is sugar dissolved in tea?
- How can we say everything by means of zero and one?
- Why don’t birds die as they sit on electrical lines?
- How did the dinosaurs die?
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