A couple people who couldn’t stay for the awards dinner have asked for the answers to the science news quiz. Here they are! With five correct answers, Jude Isabella from YES Mag won the one-year Canadian Geographic subscription. Congrats!

1. What is the weight, in ounces/grams, of all the information that passed through the Internet last year?

(a) 0.0000004 / 0.00001134

(b) 0.00004 / 0.001134

(c) 0.004 / 0.1134

(d) 0.04 / 1.134

2. This cat made headlines back in July of this year. Why?

He is reportedly able to “predict” when a nursing home’s patients were about to die.

Bonus Question. What is his name?

Oscar

3. The Phoenix Mars Lander, a robot explorer with a Canadian component aboard, lifted off from Florida in August of this year. What was the Canadian component?

A weather station

4. According to British research published earlier this year about an ancient Egyptian mummy, what is believed to be the world’s earliest known functional prosthetic body part?

A big toe

5. Researchers at the University of Alberta made headlines around the globe this year for the discovery that an odourless, colourless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic, small molecule may be an effective treatment for many forms of cancer.

DCA (dichloroacetic acid)

6. Animal researchers at the University of California at Davis uncovered a bizarre adaptive behaviour in California ground squirrels that they believe may help them win battles against rattlesnakes.

They can heat up their tails thus scaring away those pesky snakes!

7. By impregnating this common substance with carbon nanotubes and soaking it in a salt solution it becomes a battery without many of the common problems associated with traditional batteries (toxic, hard to recycle, bulky). What is this substance?

Paper

8. The governor of this state is opposed to listing polar bears on the endangered species list.

Alaska

9. Saying that accessibility has become a problem, this scientific journal recently began an experiment: it has asked its authors to write a one-page “author’s summary” in plain English, which will precede the main article.

Science

10. Of the left or right image below, which is from a brain during a pause in a piece of music?

The right