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Soon, yes in March, it will officially be the first day of spring! So to celebrate, with a terrible play on words, here's a quiz, all about springs and springiness, including bungee jumping and the lifts of the Empire State building!
There are 10 Slinkys to be won so sping into action! It's not the easiest quiz ever, so spring a surprise on your family and bounce them in to help you!
All wound up?
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Betty Oliver survived a fall of 75 stories when the cable snapped in the Empire State Building lift. What piled up on the ground below the lift and acted like a spring, saving her life?
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Bricks
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The lift cable |
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Other lifts |
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Which scientist has a law named after him which explains how springs and other stretchy things stretch?
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Hooke
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Line
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Sinker
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What part of a cell has a double helix shape – like two springs coiled together.
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Cell membrane
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Chloroplast
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DNA |
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To jump higher on a pogo stick you need to jump…
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on very soft ground.
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in time with the spring’s natural frequency.
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only once a week. |
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| 06 |
When a bungee jumper is at the bottom of their fall - before they ping back up into the air again - their energy is in what form?
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Nuclear energy |
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Kinetic energy
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Elastic potential energy |
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| 07 |
Which of these clocks does not need cogs to tell the correct time?
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Pendulum clock |
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Wind-up alarm clock
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Atomic clock |
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| 10 |
Springs can be stretched and compressed along their length, called extension springs, or twisted making the spring rotate, these are called torsional springs. Where would you typically find a torsional spring?
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A mattress |
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A measuring scale
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A mouse trap |
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