A series of clues will appear on the screen. As soon as you know the answer, fill out an answer on your sheet and bring it to me at the front. I’ll give you:

5 candy canes after the first clue4 candy canes after the second clue 3 candy canes after the third clue etc

You won’t lose points for guessing, but you can only have one guess per clue!

Whilst the game is in progress you must cut out the candy canes NEATLY and glue them onto your piece of A4 paper.

At the end of the game add up the numbers of the NEATLY GLUED IN candy canes & the team with the highest number wins. Any canes not NEATLY glued in do not count!

This area of the world makes up 1/3 of Finland and the most northerly part of Sweden.

The sun here is visible around the clock for 73 days of the summer.

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Santa Claus lives in Rovaniemi in this place

These are birds but they cannot fly

The male of this species takes care of the babies

They eat snow as a source of fresh water

They have adapted to live in the coldest places on the planet

This effect is caused by the Earth’s magnetic field

The correct word for this is the Aurora Borealis

You can view this in Scotland, but to be certain of seeing it you need to travel further north

This effect happens during our winter time

The capital city of this country is Reykjavic. This is the northernmost capital in the world

This country caused chaos in 2010 when UK airports closed

This country was created by undersea volcanoes that grew up above sea level

They speak Icelandic here

These animals can grow 10 feet tall and weigh over 1400 pounds.  In the wild they live up to age 25

These land animals are very good swimmers

This animal has white fur for camouflage in ice and snow and black skin to absorb heat from the sun's rays to help keep them warm

This animal lives where there are no plants so it has adapted to a carnivorous diet (mainly seals)

This sport was first developed in the 1960s and 1970s. It first became a winter olympic sport in 1998

It involves using a piece of equipment that is similar in principle to a surfboard, but with a boot that is set into the board for the feet.

The most common injuries in this sport are to the wrist, shoulder, and head

There are many tourist resorts in Europe that cater for this sport

This is the driest continent on Earth. It receives less than 2 inches of precipitation a year.

There are no native people living here.

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This continent has no government and is not owned by any country.

I contain ice crystals that can be as large as baseballs

I cover 10% of the Earth’s land area

I am the largest moving object on the planet

I am actually white, but I often look blue

These aren't always white. Years ago, when coal was used in factories and homes, these were often grey.

The average one falls at a speed of 3.1 miles per hour.

Each one has its own unique shape

These are made up of ice crystals

He was born in 1868 and he was a Naval Officer (he was a Naval Cadet at the age of 13)

His middle name was Falcon

He died of starvation and exposure in his tent in Antarctica on 29 March 1912.

He raced the Norwegian Roald Amundsen to the South Pole. Amundsen got there before him.

This can only take place in very cold places

This test uses compacted snow

This is a test for CO2 emissions and global warming

This DVD was released in 2002

It stars a stupid sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed tiger named Diego, and an acorn-loving saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat

The film was the first of a trilogy. The third film had the words ‘dawn of dinosaurs’ in its title

The film is set at a time when the Earth was much colder than it is today

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This is the second largest country in the World in terms of land area (9,971,000 square km)

The capital city is Ottawa

The northern coast of this country is permanently ice-bound or severely obstructed for most of the year.

This month holds the shortest day of the year

This is a month of the year that ends in the letter R

Until 46 B.C., this month only had 29 days. But the Roman statesman Julius Caesar added two days, which made it 31 days.

The name of this month comes from the Latin for “ten”, as it was the 10th month in the Roman Calendar

This is a USA state beginning with A.

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This is the state flag

This is the most northerly US state

These animals are herded by the Sami people of Northern Europe

Santa has one called Rudolf

Male of this species drop their antlers at the end of the Winter and re-grow them again in January or February

Their hair is hollow to insulate them from cold. Their feet are large to be able to support them on snow. Their sense of smell is good to be able to find food under snow

These kill more than 150 people worldwide each year

Most deaths result from suffocation

90% of people caught in these hazards start them themselves Statistics show that 93 percent

of victims survive if rescued within 15 minutes. After 45 minutes, only 20 to 30 percent of victims are alive. After two hours, very few people survive