Hardware
A1200.

Considerations
The graphics must be able to load as quickly as possible.
The cartoon image that changes will be smaller than the screen (as shown).
The image will be 64col (if poss.).
Questions
 

Description

The user will be presented with a start screen saying "all life contains DNA, swat something to start."

After they have swatted the first button there is a screen saying "LIFE = DNA......prepare to swat" with a 3 sec countdown and then the game begins.

The user is presented with an image and told what buttons to swat in order to answer correctly.

For the first question they are given 10 sec to answer (however as soon as they swat something it moves on),

the next image they have 9 sec the next 8 sec etc. until they are down to one sec to answer, the next 5 questions after that will be one sec until it gets to question 15 when it will drop by .1 sec per question until the person gets the question wrong or does not answer in time.

At that point if they were wrong they will be presented with a screen saying something like, "surprise surprise - there really is DNA in pumpkin because it used to be a living plant"

or "believe it or not, there is no DNA in snot as it has never been alive" or "well as it happens no one is really sure whether there is DNA in tooth enamel - have another go"

(each of these responses would have to be tied to an image, so there would be as many responses as there are images) .If the user is too slow in answering they will be told that they were too slow

and then told what the answer was

They are then shown how many questions they got correct and what place they are in compared to all the other users of the exhibit, e.g. "you answered 15 questions correctly which puts you in 10th place overall - you are DN Average or DN Awful or DN Amazing or DN Astonishing.

The exhibit then returns to the opening screen. The questions will always start from the next question in line rather than returning to the beginning for the next user. There may therefore have to be two lists of questions, easy ones and difficult ones?

The questions:
person
yabbie
fly
wheat
dog
frog
tree
flower
grass
leaf
stump
virus
bacteria
dust mite
flea
coral
seaweed
lichen
mushroom
mould
spider
jellyfish
stick insect
dung beetle
hair
snot
poo
wine
flour
bread
frozen peas
milk
ice cream
yoghurt
cheese
baked beans
yeast
sea monkey
bank teller
glow worm
 

brick
nail
stone
diamond
dirt
waterfall
cloud
computer
television
aeroplane
car
robot
screwdriver
salt
air
fart?
atom
bullet
coca cola
game boy
oil
electricity
telephone
clock
ATM
glass
volcano
the moon
breath
fossils
 
 

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