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THE SCIENCE OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ

THE SCIENCE OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ. ROUND 1. SUPER SANTA. Just how brilliant is Father Christmas?!. Super Santa. 1) 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).

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THE SCIENCE OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ

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  1. THE SCIENCE OF CHRISTMAS QUIZ

  2. ROUND 1 SUPER SANTA Just how brilliant is Father Christmas?!

  3. Super Santa 1) 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)

  4. Super Santa 2) If each present on Santa’s sleigh has a mass of 1kg, how much does he have to carry? • 350 tons (58 elephants) • 1000 tons (15 Abrams Battle tanks) • 350,000 tons (4 QE2s) • 5.9736×1021 tons (1 Earth)

  5. Super Santa 3) How fast would Santa have to go in order to deliver all the presents in one night? • 90 miles per hour • 60 metres a second • 1000 miles per hour • 650 miles per second

  6. Super Santa 4) Which Brighton school made the news last year when they banned Santa thinking that he was invented by Coca Cola? • Dorothy Stringer • Steiner School • Hove Park • Varndean

  7. ROUND 2 RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER Reindeers have very wet and warm noses. It is likely that Rudolph's nose was red due to a parasitic infection. Nice.

  8. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…. 5) Another name for a reindeer is a: • Hart • Pudu • Caribou • Muntjac

  9. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…. 6) How far do reindeer migrate every year? • 500 km • 5000 km • 100,000 km • They don’t migrate

  10. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…. 7) A large male reindeer has a mass of 300kg. What size force is this? • 30 Newtons • 150 Newtons • 300 Newtons • 3000 Newtons

  11. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…. 8) Which of the following statements is NOT true: • A reindeer grows a new set of antlers every year • Reindeers have a poisonous spine on their back legs • The reindeer is the only species where the males AND females grow antlers • A reindeer’s antlers can grow up to 1.3m long

  12. ROUND 3 STAR OF WONDER, STAR OF LIGHT... The Christmas star is likely to have been a star dying, a comet, or the conjunction of a planet with a constellation.

  13. Star of wonder, star of light…. 9) A star is NOT: • a massive, luminous ball of plasma • another planet far away • a celestial body of hot gases • a thermonuclear reaction

  14. Star of wonder, star of light…. 10) A comet is: • a ball of ice, dust and rock particles that glows • a ball of rock from space that enters a planet’s atmosphere • a ball of rock from space that hits a planet’s surface • a large mass of rock with a high metal content

  15. Star of wonder, star of light…. 11) How much mass is added to the Earth every year from meteorites? • 100 kg • 2000 kg • 50,000 kg • 10 billion (10,000,000,000) kg

  16. Star of wonder, star of light…. 12) A meteorite hits the Earth with the energy of a Hiroshima nuclear bomb once every: • year • 5000 years • 500,000 years • 10,000,000 years

  17. ROUND 4 LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW! Christmas just isn’t the same without snow!

  18. Let it snow… 13) Snow flakes are formed when: • Angel tears freeze on the way down from Heaven • Space dust freezes upon entering our atmosphere • Cloud temperatures reach freezing point allowing ice crystals to form around dust particles. • The wind blows sea salt into the upper atmosphere

  19. Let it snow… 14) Snow flakes are symmetrical because: • They’re good like that • Of the crystalline structure of ice • Dust is symmetrical too • Bacteria in the air eats away at them

  20. Let it snow… 15) What is “Snowball Earth”? • A type of frost in Alaska • A frozen chocolate pudding • A dirty lump of snow • A period in Earth’s history when the entire planet was frozen over

  21. Let it snow… 16) What colour is snow? • Transparent • Blue • Yellow • White

  22. THE ANSWERS... Drum roll please!

  23. 1a) I have to deliver to 378 million of you little *&($”%!

  24. 2 c) 350,000 tons (4 QE2s)

  25. 3 d) 650 miles per second Chewy! Is that Santa?!

  26. 4 b) Its the Steiner School that think I’m too commercial!

  27. 5 c) I’m a caribou!

  28. 6 b) And I would walk 5000km….

  29. 7 d) I weigh 3000 N! Too many pies!

  30. 8 b) I got no poison spine, fool!

  31. 9 b) A star is a star NOT a planet

  32. 10 a) a ball of ice, dust and rock particles that glows

  33. 11 d) 10 billion kg

  34. 12 a) once every year

  35. 13 c) Cloud temperatures reach freezing point allowing ice crystals to form around dust particles

  36. 14 b) the crystalline structure of ice

  37. 15 d) the whole planet was frozen from 790 to 630 million years ago

  38. 16 a) Transparent - it appears white because the crystals act as prisms breaking up light into the entire colour spectrum.

  39. So how did you do? 0 to 4 – No presents for you! 5 to 8 – Santa’s Little Helper 9 to 12 – Clearly one of the three kings! 13 to 16 – Some kind of Christmas weirdo!

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