Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz

[Johnny Rico]

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Please note that there are 50 questions, and the way it's set up it will actually take you 150 clicks to finish the test. Some of the questions seemed absurdly easy, but there are (at least for me) a few killer questions in there.

For the record, I got a 90%. I suspect I would have scored a bit higher in my school days, but it has been almost 30 years...

[Lucky Luciano]

1. Will take a look tomorrow

[qazplm]

2. I got an 86 percent

but some of the questions didn't really test scientific literacy but simply esoteric knowledge/fun facts.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Very cool. 80% - good on chemistry and biology - weakest on physics (just like in school!).

Was never great on units, physical properties, etc. (then again, I did double major in chem and bio!)

[Confusious]

4. Ugh, I suck. 74%

Geology and Biology. Haven't take either one since high school... 24 years ago.

Lots of shit I usually just look up if I need to know. Even my hard ass chem teacher didn't make us memorize the entire periodic table.

As Einstein said... "If I need it, I remember it, if I don't, I just remember where to look it up."

Or something like that...

(excuses, excuses...)

[tridim]

5. That's a really good test.

LOL at the answers for Earth's age.

[krispos42]

6. 84%.

Bah...

[laconicsax]

7. 98%

Got my watts and joules mixed up.

[Lil Missy]

8. later ...

[MrModerate]

9. Embarrassingly, 86%, but physics has always been my downfall . . .

Not to mention getting snookered by the "Australopithecus" question.

[TheMadMonk]

11. Aust type prefix = Southern not Australian. /nt

[TheMadMonk]

10. Pleasantly surprised myself with 96%. /nt

[Doc_Technical]

12. 58%

If I had any pride, I would be embarassed.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. A good Ninth Grade level Science Test Final..

It reminded me of the science class I co taught, which had ninth and tenth graders in it. The knowledge is at that level. I haven't taught science in years so I scored a 86 which goes to show ....... you forget shit.

[HereSince1628]

14. 94%...ok, but my undergrad chem and physics instructors would roll in their graves

at the though of me presuming to be literate in physical science!

[Dead_Parrot]

15. 88%

Kicking myself at some of the stuff I fluffed.

[Orsino]

16. 100%

B.S. Physics: it's not just for getting chicks!

But I taught chem and astronomy, and won a state prize in biology long ago. My science knowledge is not deep anymore, but it's still broad.

[pokerfan]

17. You answered 48 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 96%.

My high school biology teacher would kick my ass for botching up meiosis & mitosis and I also flubbed the cloud one (nimbus?). But I must express my disagreement with this manner of teaching of science or measuring scientific literacy as the memorization of a bunch of facts.

Feynman on the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something:

[Motown_Johnny]

18. I got 80%

damn



I should have known the Max Plank one but the letter "h" made me go with Heisenberg


stupid stupid stupid

oh well, it was still fun, thanks for posting

[YankeyMCC]

19. You answered 43 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 86%.

A little disappointing...I did make a couple mistakes due to rushing I don't think it would've broke 95% though

[freethought]

20. Same as few other people. 43 out of 50, or 86%

Some of the more involved physics questions got me.

[Johnny Rico]

21. Yah, it's been a while since I had to use the symbol for the coefficient of friction...

[freethought]

22. I got that one right, however it was pretty much a guess.

Some of the things I don't even recall:

Correct answer was "Joule" when I answered "Pascal"
The acceleration equation.
Pluto's moon is actually Eris.
I answered "Force" when the correct answer was "Momentum".
Palladium in catalytic converters? Wow, that was a surprise on my part.
A scalene triangle has no equal sides.
The factor 'h' is named after Max Planck and not Werner Heisenberg.

As you can see the physics questions got me.

All in all however, I am pretty happy with that score

[Johnny Rico]

23. Pluto's moon isn't Eris...

Eris is the largest dwarf planet in the Solar System. Pluto's moons are Charon, Nix, Hydra, and S/2011 P 1.

I only got Palladium in catalytic converters because of the clue that the answer was related to the Greek goddess Athena, who I knew was sometimes known as Pallas Athena.

[jberryhill]

24. 86%

Although that includes one mouse selection error.