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ROUND 1 Just how brilliant is Father Christmas?! Super Santa 1) How many children does Father Christmas have to deliver presents to? a) b) c) d) 378 million children 3 billion children 6 million children 3 children (all the rest haven’t been good) Super Santa 2) If each present on Santa’s sleigh has a mass of 1kg, how much does he have to carry? a) b) c) d) 350 tons (58 elephants) 1000 tons (15 Abrams Battle tanks) 350,000 tons (4 QE2s) 5.9736×1021 tons (1 Earth) Super Santa 3) How fast would Santa have to go in order to deliver all the presents in one night? a) b) c) d) 90 miles per hour 60 metres a second 1000 miles per hour 650 miles per second Super Santa 4) Which Brighton school made the news last year when they banned Santa thinking that he was invented by Coca Cola? a) b) c) d) Dorothy Stringer Steiner School Hove Park Varndean ROUND 2 Reindeers have very wet and warm noses. It is likely that Rudolph's nose was red due to a parasitic infection. Nice. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…. 5) Another name for a reindeer is a: a) b) c) d) Hart Pudu Caribou Muntjac Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…. 6) How far do reindeer migrate every year? a) b) c) d) 500 km 5000 km 100,000 km They don’t migrate Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…. 7) A large male reindeer has a mass of 300kg. What size force is this? a) b) c) d) 30 Newtons 150 Newtons 300 Newtons 3000 Newtons Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…. 8) Which of the following statements is NOT true: a) A reindeer grows a new set of antlers every year b) Reindeers have a poisonous spine on their back legs c) The reindeer is the only species where the males AND females grow antlers d) A reindeer’s antlers can grow up to 1.3m long ROUND 3 The Christmas star is likely to have been a star dying, a comet, or the conjunction of a planet with a constellation. Star of wonder, star of light…. 9) A star is NOT: a) b) c) d) a massive, luminous ball of plasma another planet far away a celestial body of hot gases a thermonuclear reaction Star of wonder, star of light…. 10) A comet is: a) a ball of ice, dust and rock particles that glows b) a ball of rock from space that enters a planet’s atmosphere c) a ball of rock from space that hits a planet’s surface d) a large mass of rock with a high metal content Star of wonder, star of light…. 11) How much mass is added to the Earth every year from meteorites? a) b) c) d) 100 kg 2000 kg 50,000 kg 10 billion (10,000,000,000) kg Star of wonder, star of light…. 12) A meteorite hits the Earth with the energy of a Hiroshima nuclear bomb once every: a) b) c) d) year 5000 years 500,000 years 10,000,000 years ROUND 4 Christmas just isn’t the same without snow! Let it snow… 13) Snow flakes are formed when: a) Angel tears freeze on the way down from Heaven b) Space dust freezes upon entering our atmosphere c) Cloud temperatures reach freezing point allowing ice crystals to form around dust particles. d) The wind blows sea salt into the upper atmosphere Let it snow… 14) Snow flakes are symmetrical because: a) b) c) d) They’re good like that Of the crystalline structure of ice Dust is symmetrical too Bacteria in the air eats away at them Let it snow… 15) What is “Snowball Earth”? a) b) c) d) A type of frost in Alaska A frozen chocolate pudding A dirty lump of snow A period in Earth’s history when the entire planet was frozen over Let it snow… 16) What colour is snow? a) b) c) d) Transparent Blue Yellow White Drum roll please! 1a) I have to deliver to 378 million of you little *&($”%! Chewy! Is that Santa?! 4 b) Its the Steiner School that think I’m too commercial ! 5 c) I’m a caribou! 6 b) And I would walk 5000km…. 7 d) I weigh 3000 N! Too many pies! 8 b) I got no poison spine, fool! So how did you do? 0 to 4 – No presents for you! 5 to 8 – Santa’s Little Helper 9 to 12 – Clearly one of the three kings! 13 to 16 – Some kind of Christmas weirdo!