while we're talking about science...

[_Tarski]

"You answered 49 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 98%."

Yay

But I guessed on at least two.

Of course, this was bad test in many ways. Not much actual science.

[Guest]

by the way, many of the questions are specific enough (wanted to say "tough enough", but that doesn't really do it) that I'd say anyone who does better than around 30-35/50 is actually doing pretty well. I'd guess the general public wouldn't do dramatically better than 25%, or random guessing.

So long as I am a notch above average. 27/50 which only proves I am a good guesser.

But I did get the unequal sides of a triangle right Mr.A!

ETA: And I got both Zygote and radon correct. I must be the anti-newton.

[_DrW]

48

I noticed that most questions gave two clues; e.g. atomic number and most plentiful element on Earth for the right answer (oxygen), etc.

Correct answers I did not give:

- Zygote

- Radon

I know, these were two easy questions.

Got a couple right that I had to guess on as well. Narrowed it down to two choices and then got lucky.

I agree that this was just as much of a general knowledge test as a science test.

[_EAllusion]

I'm pretty sure this means you're all my sex slaves now.

[_Ceeboo]

Ceeboo got 4 wrong.























But only did the first 10 questions.
Could be worse - I could be an atheist. :)

Peace,
Ceeboo

[_MCB]

I must admit that I am not a scientist.

But the average IQ of people on this board is probably around 140.

[_honorentheos]

I'm going to have to admit I quit. I made it to question 33 having missed one (I had no idea about the name of the object discovered beyond Pluto nor the Greek Goddess hint that came with it) but by that point I was tired of waiting for each answer to load, then the answer to appear, then the next question...my computer is kind of slow so it became a question of what I was hoping to gain by it versus the time it was taking.

To be honest, I kind of felt the exercise was just a science-heavy trivia quiz up to the point when I tapped out. The only question that kind of seemed scientific was the one that required you to know f=ma and the associated units.

And I'd have totally sucked had it been fill-in-the-blank. So 32 for 50 for me I guess.

[_honorentheos]

But only did the first 10 questions.
Could be worse - I could be an atheist. :)

Peace,
Ceeboo

...or answered "a" to question 10?

[_Sethbag]

Wow, some great scores!

The ones I missed were:

The brontosaurus - I feel kind of sheepish about this one, but I didn't know it going in and failed to eliminate the incorrect answer I actually used, the T. rex.

I actually said embryo instead of zygote, when in fact I knew that embryos implanted in women as part of IVF are multicellular. I feel pretty dumb for getting this one wrong.

I actually got the F=MA one wrong, and physics like this was actually what I studied, successfully, in college before changing over to computers! I did it too quickly, in my head, and made a really dumb math error. The answer I put was the inverse of the correct answer.

I had no idea what the name of the rock found past Pluto was, and guessed wrongly.

I got the nimbus one wrong too. I didn't know the right answer. I knew what cumulonimbus clouds look like, and so chose the "vertical" option. Didn't know they had to be precipitating.

[_DrW]

I'm pretty sure this means you're all my sex slaves now.

50/50

Well done.

Now tell us how many you weren't sure of or had to guess on.