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1 A ringed planet
(Studying Saturn’s rings)
2 A desert discovery
(Egypt’s boy pharaoh, Tutankhamun)
3 A Time Lord’s transport
(Celebrating Doctor Who)
4 A graffiti artist
(Celebrating the story of hip-hop)
5 A former US president
(Barack Obama)
6 A newly crowned monarch
(King Charles’s coronation)
7 A brilliant thinker
(Albert Einstein, physicist, who had big ideas about space and time)
8 A rare rhino
(Working to save the black rhino)
9 A climate striker
(Greta Thunberg, who started her School Strikes for Climate in 2018)
10 A novel outfit
(A World Book Day costume)
11 A bathroom essential
(Toilet roll ran short during the Covid-19 lockdown)
12 Some woolly mice
(A “step towards” recreating a woolly mammoth)
13 A treasure mask
(Exploring the mysteries of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial hoard)
14 Two Lionesses
(England women’s football team)
15 A girl on a phone
(Should smartphones be banned for children?)
16 A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop
(A book by Kate Wakeling that won The Week Junior Book of the Year: Poetry award in 2024)
17 A vote for change
(The UK votes to leave the European Union)
18 A feathered video game star
(Angry Birds celebrated 15 years in 2024)
19 A character who stood for election
(Count Binface, who competed in several elections, including against Boris Johnson in 2019 and Rishi Sunak in 2024)
20 A colourful thank you
(The rainbows drawn to thank the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic)
21 A campaigner for girls’ education
(Malala Yousafzai)
22 Snails halt road improvements
(The discovery of some rare snails meant roadworks were delayed for years)
23 A poet in a pink jacket
(Former Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho)
24 Roman bum care
(Romans used a sponge on a stick after using the loo)
25 A singer who caused an Earth tremor
(Taylor Swift, at her concert in Edinburgh)
26 A top literary prize
(The Week Junior’s very own Book Awards)
27 A famous stargazer
(Physicist, TV presenter and musician Brian Cox)
28 A games console
(Nintendo Switch)
29 A CBeebies presenter
(George Webster)
30 Three red squirrels
(These rare creatures are protected by pine martens)
31 A smoky form of transport
(The UK celebrates 200 years of the modern railway)
32 A greedy bear
(A bear broke into a bakery and stole cakes)
33 A chess-playing robot
(Robots are learning human skills)
34 A friendly marine mammal
(Bottlenose dolphins seem to have “accents”, depending on where they come from)
35 A pricey pizza
(A chef charged £100 for a pineapple pizza because he hated the topping)
36 A clever ape
(Chimps were spotted using sticks as tools)
37 A scared lettuce
(Lack of rain caused a brief vegetable shortage)
38 A huge statue
(Easter Island statues created by a complex civilisation)
39 Two homesick astronauts
(Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore return to Earth after they got stuck on the International Space Station)
40 An activist footballer
(Marcus Rashford campaigns for school meals for children)
41 A Prime Minister’s furry friend
(Larry the cat, who lives at No.10 Downing Street)
42 Glittery poo
(A keeper fed zoo animals special glitter to track their poos and check their health)
43 A very valuable loo
(An artist made a solid gold toilet, which was stolen)
44 A wheelchair racer
(ParalympicsGB came second in the medals table at Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games, with 124 medals in total)
45 A skateboarding star
(Sky Brown, who won an Olympic Games bronze medal, aged 13)
46 Happy New Year!
(Dragon displays celebrate Lunar New Year)
47 A lifeboat
(The RNLI celebrated 200 years in 2024)
48 Some of The Week Junior team
(Anna, Vanessa and Dave hard at work)
49 A naughty dog
(A calendar went on sale that featured dogs going to the loo)
50 A beautiful planet
(Earth, our wonder-filled home)
