{"id":260,"date":"2009-08-11T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/humanspark\/?p=260"},"modified":"2009-08-11T17:42:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:42:24","slug":"spark-blog-twitter-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/humanspark\/featured\/spark-blog-twitter-trivia\/260\/","title":{"rendered":"Spark Blog: Twitter Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"captionRight\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/humanspark\/files\/2009\/08\/286_blog25_alan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-263\" title=\"Alan Alda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/humanspark\/files\/2009\/08\/286_blog25_alan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alan Alda in <em>The Human Spark<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Think you know what it means to be human? Can you think creatively, make tools, communicate with the use of language and make moral judgments?\u00a0Can you use Google and Twitter?<\/p>\n<p>If so, wrangle with these trivia questions to receive free science DVDs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When was Charles Darwin born?<\/li>\n<li>When were the Lascaux cave paintings discovered?<\/li>\n<li>What animal is our closest living relative?<\/li>\n<li>What science series did Alan Alda host prior to <em>The Human Spark<\/em>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Send the answers to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/braindish\" target=\"_blank\">BrainDish<\/a>, THIRTEEN\u2019s brand new Twitter account.\u00a0 The thirteenth person to answer all four questions correctly will receive a free DVD box set of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/innovation\" target=\"_blank\"><em>INNOVATION<\/em> series<\/a> and a box set of <em>The Human Spark<\/em> when it premiers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s how it works:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionRight\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/braindish\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-261\" title=\"BrainDish\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/humanspark\/files\/2009\/08\/224_blog25_braindish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Tweet your answers to @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/braindish\" target=\"_blank\">BrainDish<\/a> in the following format:<br \/>\n<strong>@BrainDish 1) dd\/mm\/yyyy 2) dd\/mm\/yyyy 3) animal 4) series name<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>2.<\/strong> Don\u2019t forget to follow us @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/braindish\" target=\"_blank\">BrainDish<\/a> for future contests and updates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>3.<\/strong> Sit back and wait to see if you\u2019re a winner.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it!\u00a0 So simple, even a chimp could do it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/braindish\" target=\"_blank\">BrainDish<\/a> is THIRTEEN Science\u2019s official new Twitter feed. 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