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This Valentine’s Day, we’re giving you our heartiest quiz yet! Can you beat these five questions or will the pressure be too much?

Sam arrives first to her after school Maths Club meeting. She discovers that her teacher has left a basket of Valentine’s Day chocolates. It comes with the instructions to share the chocolate evenly among the six students in the club… but Sam eats a few chocolates before anyone notices!

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, its… a drone named SUPER! Engineers from Hong Kong have just designed a drone that can zoom through forests at night without hitting any trees or branches. This owl-like ability is quite the feat! How did the engineers do it?

Double Helix reviewer, Elvie, had questions after reading The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Extinct Animals, here’s what author Sami Bayly had to say.

What’s all this buzz about quantum? Maybe you’ve heard it in science class or maybe in a sci-fi movie! No matter where you’ve come across it, you probably know it’s a bit strange, maybe confusing but also possibly an important part of the future. And all these things are true!

Did you know that wombat poo is shaped like cubes? Celebrate the fascinating reasons for how and why while making some delicious mini lamingtons.

The biggest birds today are the ostrich and Australia’s emu. Ostriches can be 2.7m tall and weigh 140kg! In the past, some birds were even bigger. Some of them, called moa, lived in New Zealand. One species of moa could grow to more than 3m tall and weigh a whopping 250kg! Moa went extinct about 600 years ago, soon after humans first made it to New Zealand.

Rita is making lamingtons for her birthday party and cuts them precisely into 5-centimetre cubes. While playing around with an antique balance scale, she discovers that one lamington is equal to 50 grams plus half a lamington. At her party, she eats one and a half lamingtons. How much did Rita’s dessert weigh?

We’re bringing the heat with this summery quiz! Can you breeze through it?

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