the science of christmas quiz
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THE SCIENCE OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ. ROUND 1. SUPER SANTA. Just how brilliant is Father Christmas?!. Super Santa. How many children does Father Christmas have to deliver presents to? 378 million children 3 billion children 6 million children 3 children (all the rest haven’t been good). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Just how brilliant is Father Christmas?!
ROUND 1
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Super Santa
How many children does Father Christmas have to deliver presents to?
a) 378 million childrenb) 3 billion childrenc) 6 million childrend) 3 children (all the rest haven’t been
good)
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a) I have to deliver to
378 million children!
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Super Santa
If each present on Santa’s sleigh has a mass of 1kg, how much does he have to carry?
a) 350 tons (58 elephants)b) 1000 tons (15 Abrams Battle tanks)c) 350,000 tons (4 QE2s)d) 5.9736×1021 tons (1 Earth)
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Super Santa
How fast would Santa have to go in order to deliver all the presents in one night?
a) 90 miles per hourb) 60 metres a secondc) 1000 miles per hourd) 650 miles per second
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Chewy! Is that Santa?!
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Reindeers have very wet and warm noses. It is likely that Rudolph's nose was red
due to a parasitic infection. Nice.
ROUND 2
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer….
Another name for a reindeer is a:
a) Hartb) Puduc) Cariboud) Muntjac
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c) I’m a caribou!
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer….
How far do reindeer migrate every year?
a) 500 kmb) 5000 kmc) 100,000 kmd) They don’t migrate
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b) And I would walk 5000km….
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer….
Which of the following statements is NOT true:
a) A reindeer grows a new set of antlers every yearb) Reindeers have a poisonous spine on their back
legsc) The reindeer is the only species where the males
AND females grow antlersd) A reindeer’s antlers can grow up to 1.3m long
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b) I got no poison
spine, fool!
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The Christmas star is likely to have been a star dying, a comet, or the conjunction of a
planet with a constellation.
ROUND 3
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Star of wonder, star of light…. A star is NOT:
a) a massive, luminous ball of plasma b) another planet far awayc) a celestial body of hot gases d) a thermonuclear reaction
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Star of wonder, star of light…. A comet is:
a) a ball of ice, dust and rock particles that glowsb) a ball of rock from space that enters a planet’s
atmospherec) a ball of rock from space that hits a planet’s
surfaced) a large mass of rock with a high metal content
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Star of wonder, star of light….
How much mass is added to the Earth every year from meteorites?
a) 100 kgb) 2000 kgc) 50,000 kgd) 10 billion (10,000,000,000) kg
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Star of wonder, star of light….
A meteorite hits the Earth with the energy of a Hiroshima nuclear bomb once every:
a) yearb) 5000 yearsc) 500,000 yearsd) 10,000,000 years
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Christmas just isn’t the same without snow!
ROUND 4
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Let it snow… Snow flakes are formed when:
a) Angel tears freeze on the way down from Heaven
b) Space dust freezes upon entering our atmosphere
c) Cloud temperatures reach freezing point allowing ice crystals to form around dust particles.
d) The wind blows sea salt into the upper atmosphere
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Let it snow… Snow flakes are symmetrical because:
a) They’re good like thatb) Of the crystalline structure of icec) Dust is symmetrical tood) Bacteria in the air eats away at them
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Let it snow…
What is “Snowball Earth”?
a) A type of frost in Alaskab) A frozen chocolate puddingc) A dirty lump of snowd) A period in Earth’s history when the
entire planet was frozen over
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Let it snow…
What colour is snow?
a) Transparentb) Bluec) Yellowd) White
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