Earth's Frozen Poles

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Three rounds: Quick Start, Risk or Reward, and a final wager. Questions have a 20-second answer clock; the final question has 30 seconds. There is no pause.

Use each lifeline once: 50/50 removes two wrong answers; Ask the Hosts removes one. Only one lifeline per question.

Safe earns 100 points without a loss. Bold risks 250 points and needs a 250-point balance. All In doubles or loses your balance and needs more than 250 points. The final wager uses 50-point steps.

Local results are not saved or ranked. Once loaded, play continues offline. Refresh or leaving starts over.

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How much do you know about the frozen poles of our home planet?

Sample questions


  1. Since 1958, Arctic ice cover has lost how much of its thickness at the end of summer?
  2. What is the coldest part of an ice sheet?
  3. Ice sheets are made of snow that builds up and gets compressed into ice, which then flows downhill toward the coast. What controls the mass of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets?

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