Mind Tricks
The name of an image that tricks your eyes into seeing something differently from reality.
An optical illusion.
The largest animal living on Earth today.
The blue whale
The capital of Japan.
Tokyo
Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
Fiction! Lightning can strike the same place repeatedly.
In a video game, whad do we call the instructions that tell a computer what to do?
A program or code
The reason why a song can get stuck in your head even when you don't want to think about it.
Because the brain can involuntarily repeat a catchy song, often called an earworm
An animal that has three hearts and blue blood.
An octopus
Which country is home to the ancient city of Petra?
Jordan
Bananas are botanically classified as berries, but strawberries are not.
Fact! Botanical definitions differ from everyday culinary categories
A character has three lives and loses one life each time they touch an enemy. How many lives remain after two collisions?
1 life
What psychological bias makes people more likely to notice info that supports what they already believe?
A confirmation bias
The name of the process plants use to turn light energy into chemical energy.
Photosynthesis
The smallest independent country in the world by area.
Vatican City
Humans only use 10% of their brains.
Fiction! Many brain regions have known functions, and the brain is active across a wide range of activities.
In binary, the number system computers commonly use, what is the decimal number 5 written as?
101
The reason why two people can remember the same event differently.
Because memories can be influenced by attention, interpretation and later information
Why do flamingos often appear pink?
Because they have pigments in their bodies that contribute to the pink colour.
Which two countries share the longest international land border in the world?
Canada and the United States
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
Fact! Venus rotates once in about 243 Earth days but orbits the Sun in about 225 days. Here, a day means one full rotation relative to the stars
When a game repeats an action exactly four times. If each repetition gives 25 points, the amount of points earned altogether is.
100 points. This is an example of repetition, which programming loops can handle.
You flip a fair coin five times and get heads every time. Is tails now more likely on the next flip?
No, because each flip is independent and the probability is still 50%
What is the name of the process in which some animals enter a state of of reduced activity to conserve energy during difficult situations?
Torpor. Hibernation is a long-term form of this strategy
Which sea is famous for having no land coastline and being defined by ocean currents instead?
The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean
Water always boils at exactly 100°C .
Fiction! It boils at about 100°C at standard atmospheric pressure. The boiling point changes with pressure
In a simplified game simulation, an object falls five metres each second. Ignoring acceleration and air resistance, how far does it fall in six seconds?
30 metres. Multiply 5 by 6. The constant-speed assumption makes this a simplified physics model