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Xploration Sci Q: Dare to Be Smart

19 minutes 22 seconds

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Person holds out an iPad displaying a digital city street map. Behind the iPad is a table painted to represent the basic roads and waterways of the same city map.

This episode dares audience members to be science smart. Watch as contestants compete. Part of the "Sci Q" series.

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Runtime: 19 minutes 22 seconds

Topic: Science, Sports and Recreation
Subtopic: Science Experiments, Science Methods, Sports and Games
Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
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Release Year: 2008
Producer/Distributor: Steve Rotfeld Productions
Series: Xploration Sci Q
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Animated astronaut disembarks from a shuttle that has landed on the white rocky landscape of the moon as the sun shines in the distance.

Blue arrows indicate a cold front moving south towards Kansas and red arrows indicate a warm front moving North into the same region. Areas of North Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Southern South Dakota are highlighted in yellow.

Graphic shows the silhouette of a human head with the brain illuminated and the label, “100%.”

Hand-sketched drawings of scientific diagrams and several mathematical equations against a black background.

Digital illustration shows a backdrop that displays a brown chalkboard covered in scientific equations behind the text, “Sci Q.”

Person holds out an iPad displaying a digital city street map. Behind the iPad is a table painted to represent the basic roads and waterways of the same city map.

Against a black background, we see a question that reads, “True or false. Jupiter has more than 50 moons.”

Black and white woodpecker braces itself against a tree limb, ready to peck.

River rushes towards us as snowy mountains loom large in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Weightless astronaut effortlessly backflips inside the cabin of a space shuttle, tucking his knees in towards his chest.