Fively #007

If you’d rather play this day first, don’t look yet.

1. Count · How many?

   How many houses were there?

   Answer 175

   After a crowded picture, the next one tends to look emptier: our sense of number adapts, like our sense of brightness.

2. Tilt · What angle?

   How steep is the Stoosbahn, the world's steepest funicular, at its steepest?

   Answer 47.7°

   47.7°, a gradient of 110%. It opened in Switzerland in 2017, and its barrel-shaped cabins turn to keep the floor level.

   Sources: Guinness World Records · Steepest funicular, Wikipedia · Stoosbahn

3. Shade · What color?

   What purple is a Cadbury chocolate wrapper?

   Answer #330072

   PANTONE 2685 C, about #330072 on screen. Cadbury has used it for about a century, and fought Nestlé in court over it.

   Sources: Design Week · Cadbury and PANTONE 2685 C purple, ColorXS · Pantone 2685 C, Pantone Colors · 2685 C

4. Hold · How long?

   Hold for as long as the oldest surviving film, shot in a garden in Leeds in 1888.

   Answer 2.11 s

   About 2.11 seconds: Louis Le Prince's Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed in October 1888.

   Sources: Wikipedia · Roundhay Garden Scene, ACMI · Roundhay Garden Scene

5. Fill · How much?

   How much of the Earth's fresh water is frozen in ice caps and glaciers?

   Answer 69%

   About 69%. Most of the rest, about 30%, is underground; lakes and rivers hold only a sliver.

   Sources: USGS · Where is Earth's water?, Penn State · Water distribution on Earth