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How much do you know about science?
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:05 am
by Graham Kennedy
THE TEST
My score : 47 right, 3 wrong, 97%.
Missed questions :
"What word, which comes from a Greek term meaning "good kernel," describes an organism whose cells contain chromosomes inside a nucleus bounded by a membrane, as distinguished from bacterial forms of life?" I said Virus. I know diddly about biology.
"The mathematical constant e is defined as the base of the natural system of logarithms, having a numerical value of approximately what?" Never needed that one. I guessed 0.567.
"With an atomic number of 9, what chemical element is the lightest element of the halogen series? It gets its name from a Latin word meaning "stream" or "move freely."" I said Bromine. Too long since I had to check a PT!
Pretty pleased overall.
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:00 am
by Mikey
38 - 12. I am, apparently, a moron.
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:51 am
by McAvoy
Not even going to attempt that. I know I am an idiot.
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 5:37 pm
by sunnyside
41 -9 I didn't do well on some of the solar system and history questions.
I should have gotten the "Finnigans Wake" question because they mentioned the date it was written in there, but ah well.
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 11:42 pm
by Teaos
36 right 14 wrong. Above average. Biology screwed me.
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:38 pm
by Captain Seafort
42 right. Not bad.
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:47 am
by Lt. Staplic
48 - I didn't know the greek name for "Thunder Lizard", nor did I know the catalyst named from Athena's epithet
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:40 pm
by Mikey
Lt. Staplic wrote:48 - I didn't know the greek name for "Thunder Wizard", nor did I know the catalyst named from Athena's epithet
Really? Those were two of the small handful that I got right.
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 11:01 pm
by Angharrad
McAvoy wrote:Not even going to attempt that. I know I am an idiot.
25 - 25 but I got tired of wrong answers and started googling. 8)
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:01 am
by Captain Picard's Hair
Angharrad wrote:McAvoy wrote:Not even going to attempt that. I know I am an idiot.
25 - 25 but I got tired of wrong answers and started googling. 8)
I've done research on Google. I discovered that:
German porn > Russian porn
There is a conspicuous number of hot, naked girls in the Czech republic
Judging by the lack of local porn, the middle east does not actually exist.
... and among a small percent of non-porn content you can learn the basics of thermodynamics and the latest on the hunt for a Theory of Everything (though the Big Bang seems like an unfortunate double entendre)
Re: How much do you know about science?
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 3:23 am
by N'tran DS 12
92% and a couple of the mistakes were dumb ones...