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Explosive numbers - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 61 times
- The average score is 5 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| The power of a supernova in watts | Based on supernova ASSASN-15lh. A mere one second of this supernova had a billion trillion times more energy than the biggest nuclear blast ever created. | 220000000000000000000000000000000000000 | 81%
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| The Richter scale number of the most powerful known earthquake | Valdivia Earthquake, Chile (1960) | 9.5 | 81%
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| A typical distance that a tectonic plate will move due to a large earthquake (in metres) | Up to 50m has been reported. | 3 | 50%
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| Record wind speed on Earth in mph | A tornado in Oklahoma, 3 May 1999 | 302 | 50%
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| Record wind speed on Earth (excepting tornadoes) in mph | Barrow Island, Australia, April 10th, 1996. | 253 | 45%
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| Distance from Krakatoa to Mauritius, where the eruption was heard, in miles | The Krakatoa volcano erupted in 1883. | 4,800 | 45%
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| How many years ago the last supervolcano erupted | Taupo in New Zealand. | 27,000 | 31%
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| The mass of a thimbleful of neutron star material, in tons | That's about 300 Empire State Buildings. | 100 million | 29%
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| The speed in mph at which a dracula ant can move its mandibles | The fastest movement of any animal on Earth. | 200 | 29%
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| The speed of the fastest aircraft ever, in mph | The unmanned NASA X-43. | 6,755 | 26%
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| The sun could fit this many times into red supergiant UY Scuti | Remarkably, UY Scuti is only 7-10 times heavier than the sun. | 5 billion | 21%
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| Highest known wind speed anywhere, in mph | On Neptune. | 1,200 | 19%
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| The hottest temperature ever measured, in Kelvin | In a quark-gluon plasma created in an experiment. | 2 trillion | 19%
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| The amount of uranium, in grams, which underwent nuclear fission in the Hiroshima bomb | Approximately. | 1 | 17%
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| The height of the highest-ever tsunami, in metres | Lituya Bay, Alaska, 1958. Several scientific sources quote this number. Wikipedia lists the height as 120 metres. | 524 | 5%
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