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ROUND 1
Just how brilliant is Father Christmas?!
Super Santa
How many children does Father Christmas
have to deliver presents to?
a)
b)
c)
d)
378 million children
3 billion children
6 million children
3 children (all the rest haven’t been good)
a) I have to
deliver to
378 million
children!
Super Santa
If each present on Santa’s sleigh has a mass
of 1kg, how much does he have to carry?
a)
b)
c)
d)
350 tons (58 elephants)
1000 tons (15 Abrams Battle tanks)
350,000 tons (4 QE2s)
5.9736×1021 tons (1 Earth)
Super Santa
How fast would Santa have to go in order to
deliver all the presents in one night?
a)
b)
c)
d)
90 miles per hour
60 metres a second
1000 miles per hour
650 miles per second
Chewy! Is
that Santa?!
ROUND 2
Reindeers have very wet and warm noses.
It is likely that Rudolph's nose was red due
to a parasitic infection.
Nice.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer….
Another name for a reindeer is a:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hart
Pudu
Caribou
Muntjac
c) I’m a
caribou!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer….
How far do reindeer migrate every year?
a)
b)
c)
d)
500 km
5000 km
100,000 km
They don’t migrate
b) And I
would walk
5000km….
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer….
Which of the following statements is NOT
true:
a) A reindeer grows a new set of antlers every year
b) Reindeers have a poisonous spine on their back legs
c) The reindeer is the only species where the males
AND females grow antlers
d) A reindeer’s antlers can grow up to 1.3m long
b) I got no
poison
spine, fool!
ROUND 3
The Christmas star is likely to have been a
star dying, a comet, or the conjunction of a
planet with a constellation.
Star of wonder, star of light….
A star is NOT:
a)
b)
c)
d)
a massive, luminous ball of plasma
another planet far away
a celestial body of hot gases
a thermonuclear reaction
Star of wonder, star of light….
A comet is:
a) a ball of ice, dust and rock particles that glows
b) a ball of rock from space that enters a planet’s
atmosphere
c) a ball of rock from space that hits a planet’s
surface
d) a large mass of rock with a high metal content
Star of wonder, star of light….
How much mass is added to the Earth
every year from meteorites?
a)
b)
c)
d)
100 kg
2000 kg
50,000 kg
10 billion (10,000,000,000) kg
Star of wonder, star of light….
A meteorite hits the Earth with the
energy of a Hiroshima nuclear bomb
once every:
a)
b)
c)
d)
year
5000 years
500,000 years
10,000,000 years
ROUND 4
Christmas just isn’t the same without snow!
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
Let it snow…
Snow flakes are symmetrical because:
a)
b)
c)
d)
They’re good like that
Of the crystalline structure of ice
Dust is symmetrical too
Bacteria in the air eats away at them
Let it snow…
What is “Snowball Earth”?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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
Let it snow…
What colour is snow?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Transparent
Blue
Yellow
White