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Count · How many?
How many ladybirds were there?
Answer 38
In 1907 Francis Galton found that the middle guess of 787 people at a fair landed within 1% of an ox's real weight: averaging many guesses beats most single ones.
Tilt · What angle?
How high can the two halves of London's Tower Bridge be raised?
Answer 86.0°
86°: each half, or bascule, lifts almost upright to let tall ships through. The bridge opened in 1894.
Sources: University of Illinois, Mechanical Science and Engineering · Tower Bridge's brilliant bascule, Golden Tours · Tower Bridge, the largest opening bridge in the world
Shade · What color?
What red is NASA's “worm” logo?
Answer #E03C31
PANTONE 179, which the logo's designers made “NASA Red”; about #E03C31 on screen.
Hold · How long?
Hold for the gap the Highway Code asks drivers to leave behind the car in front on a fast road.
Answer 2.00 s
At least 2 seconds, and at least double that on wet roads, says rule 126 of the UK's Highway Code.
Sources: The Highway Code · Rule 126, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service · Stopping distances
Fill · How much?
How much of the Earth's land is covered by forest?
Answer 32%
About 32%, some 4.14 billion hectares, according to the FAO's 2025 global assessment.
Sources: FAO · Global deforestation slows, but forests remain under pressure, UN-REDD Programme · Global deforestation slows, FAO report shows