A summer thunderstorm rolls in, you see a flash, and the air right around that lightning bolt heats up. How does that temperature actually stack up against the surface of the sun? About the same as the sun The sun wins easily — lightning is roughly 1/10 as hot Lightning is about 5 times hotter than the sun's surface Lightning is hundreds of times hotter than the sun None What's the single largest living organism on Earth? A blue whale A grove of clonal redwoods in California A giant kelp forest off the coast of Tasmania A honey fungus growing under a forest in Oregon None Most of the oxygen you're breathing right now — where does it actually come from? Trees, mostly the rainforests Trees and grasses, in roughly equal measure Tiny photosynthesizing organisms in the ocean Volcanic activity and atmospheric chemistry None Wombats — those stout, burrowing Australian marsupials — hold a biological record no other animal can match. What is it? They produce cube-shaped poop They have three functional hearts They can survive being completely frozen They glow bright blue under UV light None Pretend physics lets you drill a frictionless tunnel straight through the center of the Earth and you jump in. Roughly how long would it take to come out the other side? About 10 minutes About 42 minutes About 2 hours About 6 hours None Bees can do something with their eyesight that scientists genuinely didn't think was possible for a creature with such a tiny brain. What is it? See colors that humans can't even imagine Read simple text — they recognize a handful of written words Recognize and remember individual human faces See more than 200 frames per second of slow-motion detail None Time's up
