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Happy New Year from Planet Science! To celebrate another circuit round the sun we’ve put together an anniversary quiz. If anything special happens in science this year, in 2016 there’ll be 10th anniversary….but for now here’s some stuff that happened neat chunks of time ago in the past.
Your prize, should you be pulled out of the winners hat, is this colourtastic clock that changes hue every hour, so you know what time it is in the middle of the night just by the colour of the glow!
10 Years ago…
10 Days ago….
10 Seconds ago…
GO!
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5 Years Ago… In July 2001 a Titanosaur skeleton was found in Madagascar. At 15 metres long, what were these dinosaurs thought to have eaten?
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Take-out
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People who couldn’t run fast
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Plants |
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10 Years Ago… Michael Johnson shattered the 200m world record in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He ran the distance in 19.32 seconds, about what speed is this?
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4 km/h
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40 km/h
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400 km/h
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20 Years Ago… In January 1986 Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Uranus. The blue-green planet gets its colour from methane ice, but the main gases that form this gas giant planet are…
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Hydrogen and Helium
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Antium and Decium
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Sodium and Chlorine |
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50 Years Ago… John Bardeen, the 1956 Physics Nobel Prize winner, is one of only four Nobel winners who have managed to do what?
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Win an Olympic gold medal (Greco-roman wrestling)
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Climb Mount Everest backwards
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Win the Nobel Prize twice. |
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100 Years Ago… Clyde W. Tombaugh was born in 1906. Which planet did he discover?
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Vulcan
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Earth
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Pluto |
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150 Years Ago… An ancient skull was found in 1856 in the NEANDER Valley. The first of its kind to be discovered, what species did this skull belong to?
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Tyrannosaurus
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Neanderthal
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Homo Sapiens |
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And… JJ Thomson was born in 1856. Which subatomic particle is he famous for discovering?
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Quack
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Quorn
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Electron |
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200 Years Ago… The first amino acid to be identified - asparagine - was discovered in 1806. Amino acids make up what?
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Proteins
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Plaster of Paris
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The Sun |
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250 Years Ago… Mozart was born in Vienna in January 1756. Known as the "Mozart Effect", a science paper in the 1990s claimed that listening to Mozart might improve what?
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Intelligence
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Appetite
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Temper |
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300 Years Ago… Born in 1706, Benjamin Franklin is famous for proving that lightning is electrical, and also for inventing what?
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The lightning conductor
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Laser technology
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The microwave oven |
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