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#1. Which scientist won 2 Nobel Prize awards and was also the mother of a Nobel Prize winner?
Marie Curie won 2 Nobel Prizes and was also the mother of Irène Joliot-Curie who also won a Nobel Prize.
#2. Diamond scores 10 on Moh’s scale. But what does Moh’s scale actually measure?
Moh’s scale of mineral hardness is measured by seeing which minerals will scratch others.
#3. Which 2 numbers, multiplied together, make 111?
3 x 37 = 111. You can tell that 111 is divisible by 3 because 1 plus 1 plus 1 is also divisible by 3.
#4. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a big, faint blur in the night sky, but what kind of thing is it?
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby galaxy. Scientists think it might contain 30 billion stars!
#5. One shape often seen in nature is the hexagon. Which of the following include hexagons?
Honeycomb, snowflakes and insect eyes all include hexagons.
#6. What shape is our solar system?
Our solar system’s ‘bubble’, carved into space by solar wind, is actually a squashed crescent shape. It has also been compared to a deflated croissant.
#7. How fast does a Mexican wave travel around a stadium?
In 2002, researchers studied 14 Mexican waves and found they moved at about 20 seats per second, and they were about 15 seats wide!
#8. What unit of length is equivalent to approximately 3.26 light years?
A parsec is about 3.26 light years. The term comes from how the distance is measured. It’s the distance at which a star would have a parallax of one arc second.
#9. Which part of the eye holds the rods and cones that turn light into nerve signals?
The rods and cones that turn light into nerve signals are found in the retina on the back of the eye.
#10. What is 111,111,111 x 111,111,111?
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321