More Snowmen!
Pasiyensya Na
Simpsons Guest Stars
Anime-zing!
Animal Missing Letters
100
D
Daniel Radcliffe
100
This group of islands go 7.5 cm closer to Alaska each year.
Hawaii
The Earth’s crust is split into gigantic pieces called tectonic plates. These plates are in constant motion, propelled by currents in the Earth’s upper mantle. Hot, less-dense rock rises before cooling and sinking, giving rise to circular convection currents which act like giant conveyor belts, slowly shifting the tectonic plates above them. Hawaii sits in the middle of the Pacific Plate, which is slowly drifting north-west towards the North American Plate, back to Alaska. The plates’ pace is comparable to the speed at which our fingernails grow.
100
S
Stephen Hawking
100
Naruto: The name of the great toad
Gamamaru
100
EDGE [8]
Hedgehog
200
K
Keira Knightley
200
This is the only planet that spins clockwise
Venus
Our Solar System started off as a swirling cloud of dust and gas which eventually collapsed into a spinning disc with the Sun at its centre. Because of this common origin, all the planets move around the Sun in the same direction and on roughly the same plane. They also all spin in the same direction (counterclockwise if observed from ‘above’) – except Uranus and Venus. Uranus spins on its side, while Venus defiantly spins in the complete opposite direction. The most likely cause of these planetary oddballs are gigantic asteroids which knocked them off course in the distant past.
200
C
Conan O'Brien
200
Dragon Ball: The nameof Goku's race
Saiyan
200
EASE [6]
Weasel
300
A
Anna Kendrick
300
20% of Earth's oxygen is produced by this diverse ecosystem.
Amazon Rainforest
Our atmosphere is made up of roughly 78 per cent nitrogen and 21 per cent oxygen, with various other gases present in small amounts. The vast majority of living organisms on Earth need oxygen to survive, converting it into carbon dioxide as they breathe. Thankfully, plants continually replenish our planet’s oxygen levels through photosynthesis. During this process, carbon dioxide and water are converted into energy, releasing oxygen as a by-product. Covering 5.5 million square kilometres (2.1 million square miles), the Amazon rainforest cycles a significant proportion of the Earth’s oxygen, absorbing large quantities of carbon dioxide at the same time.
300
Alex Trebek
300
Sailor Moon: Whose guardian cat and advisor is Luna?
Usagi Tsukino
300
DILL [9]
Armadillo
400
J
Jennifer Aniston
400
This animal is nearly undetectable by infrared cameras.
Polar Bear
Thermal cameras detect the heat lost by a subject as infrared, but polar bears are experts at conserving heat. The bears keep warm due to a thick layer of blubber under the skin. Add to this a dense fur coat and they can endure the chilliest Arctic day.
400
L
Leonard Nimoy
400
Spirited Away: The name of the elderly man who helps Chihiro find work at the Bathhouse?
Kamaji / "Boiler Geezer"
400
RILL [7]
Gorilla
500
H
Henry Cavill
500
This animal can accelerate faster than a space shuttle
Flea
A jumping flea reaches dizzying heights of about eight centimetres (three inches) in a millisecond. Acceleration is the change in speed of an object over time, often measured in ‘g’s, with one g equal to the acceleration caused by gravity on Earth (9.8 metres/32.2 feet per square second). Fleas experience 100 g, while the Space Shuttle peaked at around 5 g. The flea’s secret is a stretchy rubber-like protein which allows it to store and release energy like a spring.
500
B
Betty White
500
My Neighbor Totoro is one of Hayao Miyazaki’s best work. He retired in 2013. Fast forward to today, he is coming out of retirement to finish one more film with this title.
How Do You Live?
500
TEAT [8]
Anteater