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  1. Count · How many?

    How many cherries were there?

    Answer 62

    At six months old, babies can already tell 8 dots from 16, long before they learn to count.

  2. Tilt · What angle?

    How steep is Baldwin Street, in New Zealand, at its steepest?

    Answer 19.2°

    About 19°, a gradient of 34.8%: in 2020 Guinness World Records named it the world's steepest street again.

    Sources: Guinness World Records · Baldwin Street reinstated as the world's steepest street, Wikipedia · Baldwin Street

  3. Shade · What color?

    What yellow is Snapchat's logo?

    Answer #FFFC00

    #FFFC00, or RGB 255, 252, 0: almost the brightest yellow a screen can show.

    Sources: Snap · Brand guidelines, Brand Palettes · Snapchat colours, Brand Color Code · Snapchat

  4. Hold · How long?

    Hold for as long as a cheetah takes to go from standing still to 96 km/h.

    Answer 3.00 s

    Under 3 seconds, quicker than most sports cars: the cheetah is the fastest animal on land.

    Sources: Britannica · How fast are cheetahs?, PBS Nature · Cheetah

  5. Fill · How much?

    How much of 18-carat gold is pure gold?

    Answer 75%

    75%: 18 parts in 24, which is why it is stamped 750. Pure gold is 24 carats.

    Sources: Wikipedia · Fineness, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · CAMEO: Karat