We're Having A Heat Wave Trivia Quiz

Answer: Glass Animals

This song was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and was filmed by their neighbors on their own phones!

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Answer: Rod Steiger

"In the Heat of the Night" is a 1967 mystery drama about Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), a Philadelphia detective who becomes involved in solving a murder in a racially tense Mississippi town. The film explores prejudice, justice, and the uneasy partnership between Tibbs and local police chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger). Sidney Poitier's powerful performance helped make the film iconic, but it was Rod Steiger's great performance that won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Overall, the film won four Academy Awards.

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Answer: Increase in parks and roof gardens

With roughly half of the world's population currently living in cities and the United Nations estimating that this share will rise to over 70% by 2050, urban heat islands (UHIs) are difficult to ignore. Higher temperatures are associated with increased air pollution, hotter stormwater runoff, and an increased risk of heat stroke, exhaustion, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses. Increased demand for air conditioning overloads power grids and is a heavy economic burden, especially for poorer populations. Ironically, air conditioners themselves give off significant heat.

How cities are designed plays a big role. Tall buildings, closely grouped, block wind flows, limiting their cooling effects. The dark materials traditionally used in roofing and pavements absorb heat and release it slowly, with the heat-index differential between urban and rural areas even greater at night. Areas within cities with parks and trees experience less of a heat island effect.

Increasing tree and vegetation cover, using roof gardens, and introducing roofing materials that absorb heat and block heat transfer to buildings are just a few of the new strategies cities are developing to cope with urban heat islands.

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Answer: 2005-06 season

In the 2005-06 season, the Miami Heat won their first-ever title by defeating the Dallas Mavericks 4-2. The Heat were led by NBA Hall of Famers Shaquille O'Neal and Dwayne Wade. Dwayne Wade also won the Most Valuable Player award that year for his magnificent play in the finals.

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Answer: Compression of air molecules in front of the spacecraft

The insane temperatures during atmospheric reentry mainly come from air being compressed in front of the spacecraft. As a capsule slams into the upper atmosphere at several miles per second, the air simply can't get out of the way in time. It piles up and is squished so densely that its temperature skyrockets. It creates a superheated layer around the craft that becomes visible as a glowing plasma. This is why heat shields are so important, especially when returning from the moon, when the spacecraft arrive at much higher velocities.

This is also why you can see shooting stars, which are meteors entering the atmosphere. They hit the Earth's atmosphere traveling at ridiculous speeds, often between Mach 30 and Mach 200. The air in front is compressed instantly, heating to temperatures as high as 5,500°C (10,000°F). The heat melts and vaporizes the outer layers of the space rock, leaving a glowing trail behind it. Make a wish!

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Answer: Elephants and rabbits

When elephants and rabbits flap their ears, blood rushes through tiny surface-level veins, dissipating heat from their bodies. Others, such as dogs, cats, and deer, accomplish this by panting. Hippos appear redder when it is hot because they secrete a colorless liquid that turns bright red when exposed to heat. This liquid provides both sun and moisture protection. Storks and vultures defecate on their legs; as the liquid poop dries, it draws heat from their bodies. Other birds vibrate the muscles and bones in their throats, gular fluttering, to evacuate heat. Creatures like snails and earthworms estivate, withdrawing into a state of inactivity during excessive heat spells, much in the same way other animals hibernate in winter.

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Answer: Air conditioning

Willis Haviland Carrier patented his glorious "Apparatus for Treating Air" in 1906, marking the beginning of the era of electrical air conditioning. The idea was built from the air-conditioning system he had first designed back in 1902 for a printing plant in Brooklyn. His invention wasn't originally meant to keep people comfortable at all. It was designed to control temperature and humidity so paper wouldn't expand and contract during printing. Luckily, he realized its potential. Today, most Americans consider it necessary for survival, while Europeans are still thinking it over.

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Answer: Shish Kebab

Some researchers suggest that wind catchers, also known as wind towers and wind scoops, may date back as far as 4000 BC. What appear at first glance to be decorative embellishments, wind catchers are passive architectural structures designed to cool and ventilate buildings.

Badgir, tall, chimney-like towers, were widely used in ancient Persia. Windows at the top of the towers faced the wind, drawing in fresh air, while secondary conduits sucked warmer air up and away from the building. In Egypt, Malqaf, towers in the form of right-triangle-shaped prisms, were mounted on rooftops in pairs, with one opening facing upwind and the other downwind. There is renewed interest in the cooling potential of wind catchers in modern architecture. Two examples are the Royal Chelsea Hospital in London and the Khalifa International Stadium in Qatar, which hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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Answer: Queensland

This delightfully informative book shows Birdie and Mr Frog finding ways to cool down and feel better during a heatwave. Heatwaves are a very common occurrence in Australia, and young children find it hard to slow down and keep cool unless it is explicitly taught. The book emphasises drinking water along with activities such as being in water (under supervision) and lying down in the shade, not playing running games until it is cooler. I think it is wonderful that you can get hand puppets of Birdie and Mr Frog to make the story interactive and fun for the child.

Contributed by em1958

Answer: Global Heat Health Information Network

The Global Heat Health Information Network was founded in 2016 by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Joint Office for Climate and Health, and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The organization is working to address societal impacts resulting from extreme heat, including increasing risks to social equity, illness and death, especially of vulnerable populations; environmental impacts such as fire, poor air quality, water scarcity, drought and US radiation; and impacts on infrastructure. Actions include sharing information and strategies, providing heat-related data, and promoting partnerships.

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