How fast can you answer this week’s questions? Put yourself to the test with another Double Helix quiz.
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#1. How many kilometres can a light beam travel in an hour?
Light travels at about one billion kilometres per hour.
#2. If an animal is melanistic, what’s special about it?
A melanistic animal has a lot of the dark pigment melanin, which makes it appear black or darkly coloured.
#3. Which of the following did Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, invent?
Alfred Nobel was an expert in explosives and invented dynamite and gelignite.
#4. Compare two earthquakes, a magnitude 4 and a magnitude 6 on the moment magnitude or ‘Richter’ scale. How much more energy does the large one have?
A unit on the moment magnitude scale represents 32 times more energy. So a difference of two is about 1000 times more energy!
#5. Where would you find Titan?
Titan is Saturn’s largest moon.
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