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     Feel enlightened? See how much you've learned about lightning by flashing through these high-voltage questions. When you get all the answers right, click the bolt for your reward.

Each lightning flash contains about one ___________ volts of electricity.
million
billion
trillion

Lightning flashes may appear in the form of ball lightning, spider lightning, and __________ lightning.
strobe
cloud
flashbulb

Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous electricity experiment using a kite, string, and a _____________.
boat
key
book

Which region in the U.S. has the most intense concentration of cloud-to-ground lightning?
central California
western Washington
central Florida

Lightning strikes somewhere on the surface of the earth about 100 times every _____________.
second
minute
hour