PE Week Quiz – Sample

Questions and Answers

Here are some helpful questions and answers to get your schools PE Week Quiz started. Publish one/
two questions per day and ask students/classes to submit their answers to the office or into a box out-
side the gymnasium!

Prizes can be awarded to the winners!

Questions Answers
1. Which of the following is not an Olympic Sport; Basketball, Cricket,
Cricket
Athletics or Swimming
2. Which of the following activities is best for improving cardiovascu-
Aerobics
lar health: sit ups, aerobics, bowling, stretching?
3. True or False; Physical Activity is the same as exercise False

4. True or False; Regular physical activity can prevent high blood pres-
True
sure, help arthritis and improve depression

5. What are the main sources of energy? Carbohydrates

6. Which of these types of exercise is best at helping you maintain
strong bones; Aerobics, weight-bearing exercise, resistance exercise, All of the above
all of the above?
7. Which of these types of exercise is anaerobic; 100m sprint, yoga,
100m Sprint
walking briskly, swimming 6 x 50m laps
30 minutes per day spread
8. How much physical activity is enough?
over 5 days
Swimming, sailing, shot put,
skateboarding, skiing,
9. List 5 sports that begin with the letter ‘S’ snowboarding, soccer,
softball, surfing, sumo
wrestling, squash
Carrot, Capsicum Cabbage,
10. Name 4 Vegetable that begin with the letter C Cucumber, Cauliflower,
Celery, Corn
11. True or False; no vegetable has cholesterol True

12. True or False; the nutritional value of vegetables decreases during

True
the cooking process

13. True or false; watermelon contains 92% water True

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 14. How many serves of fruit and vegetables should you consume
2 Fruit and 5 Vegetables
each day?

15. Which long-serving basketball coach retired in 2005, after coach-

Lindsay Gaze
ing the Melbourne Tigers for 35 years?

16. Which AFL team won their third premiership in a row in 2003? Brisbane Lions

17. Where were the Summer Olympics held in 2012? London

18. Who finished with the most Gold medals at the Summer Olympics
United States of America
in 2012?
19. How many Gold Medals did Australia win in the London Olympics
7
in 2012?
20. Which foods burn off body fat;
a. Grapefruit and kelp, b. Onions and Garlic, c. food doesn’t burn off c. food doesn’t burn off fat
fat, d hot chips

21. True or false; skipping meals will help you lose weight False

22. Which of the following may be a physical symptom of depression;

d. all of the above
a. headaches, b. increased appetite, c, insomnia, d. all of the above
Gold Coast Suns and Greater
23. Which are the two newest teams to the AFL Competition?
Western Sydney Giants
24. In which year did the AFL first have 18 teams competing? 2012
25. There is only one type of exercise that requires you to hold your
Swimming
breath to complete the exercise, what is it?

26. What is the strongest muscle in your body? Heart

27. How many kilometres of nerves do you think are in the human
72.4 kilometres
body?

28. Which muscle in the body is the only muscle that is attached at
The tongue
one end?

29. How many bones are there in the human body? 206

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