The really tough one seems to be what is the biggest component of air. Only 20% of test takers, and 31% of college grads, got that correct.
Of course I got a perfect score, they’ll have to step up the questions a bit....
How about a few bonus questions
14: Guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine are:
a. Artifical sweeteners
b. Vitamins
c. Components of DNA
d. Spices
15: The basic principles of the digital computer were invented by:
a. Bill Gates
b. Grace Hopper
c. Johnny von Neumann
d. IBM
16: The first successful nuclear reactor:
a. Was built by Madame Curie in her garden in France
b. Was built in Hanford, Idaho following the end of WWII
c. Was built under a football stadium in Chicago
d. Was developed in Nazi Germany, but never used for anything
No 15-16 aren't science and technology, rather history.
No 14 is just too easy.
Sorry, but must disagree, my 'e. fill-in the blank' would be Charles Babbage (1791-1871) whose mechanical calculating engines had all of the basic operational units that modern computers use.
The problem with your questions is that only one is a science question. The other two are history questions.
I do horrible at history. Unless the history is about a seminal scientist who revealed a fundamental principle used by all scientists afterwards, I probably won’t know the answer.
For bonus credit: draw the structures of adenine, guanine, cytidine, and thymine without looking them up. ;)
I thought the basic principles of computers were invented by Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace...