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Posted on 12/10/2011 7:19:01 PM PST by chessplayer
You may have an opinion on climate change, evolution education, stem-cell research, and science funding. But do you have the facts to back up your opinion? This quiz will test your basic scientific literacy.
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To: chessplayer
Got 44 out of 50. Cheated a bit - opened a tab to the Periodic table, dictionary, and search engine.
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posted on
12/11/2011 6:29:29 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: chessplayer
I have science degrees. I gave up after getting two of the first four wrong. Really, does it matter if one knows that Mendel made his observations on pea pods and not fruit flies; or that that Federales issued a stamp in 1989 with a brontosaurus on it and not some other dinosaur?
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/11/2011 6:47:18 AM PST
by
ml/nj
To: ml/nj
The quiz is BS. If you kept going according to the CSM to be scientific you have to memorize the Periodic table. Did you know Radon was heavier than Xenon? LOL.
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posted on
12/11/2011 6:51:15 AM PST
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: chessplayer
Unless you have read the novel Finnegan's Wake, you will have no idea what the correct answer is. Yeah...that one is aimed directly at the geeks in the room.
BTW...I got 44 out of 50.
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posted on
12/11/2011 6:59:31 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
To: rawcatslyentist
#3 Requires obscure philatelist knowledge, not scientific. You mean number 4 and you only need to know about dinosaurs and how they were named years ago.
145
posted on
12/11/2011 7:01:31 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
To: Forgiven_Sinner
The test was heavy on astronomy, physics, and chemistry, with a dash of biology, meteorology, and geology. LOL! Doesn't that just about cover them all?
146
posted on
12/11/2011 7:04:50 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
To: listenhillary
The ads took so long to load I gave up. Use Firefox and an extension/add-on called Ghostery. You can easily block all of that crud. Works like a charm.
147
posted on
12/11/2011 7:06:17 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I actually got it right without reading Finnegan’s wake. The other particles listed were well known and defined by the 1930’s so it had to be the quark.
148
posted on
12/11/2011 7:08:03 AM PST
by
Mom MD
(The country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
To: Delta 21
How long did it take you to figure out that the "previous" button actually worked? About as long as it took me to decide if I wanted to cheat or not.
149
posted on
12/11/2011 7:12:07 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
To: central_va
Did you know Radon was heavier than Xenon? Actually, yes. And I don't think that is quite as ridiculous as the ones I cited. But really, what matters is that you can give the answer to that question with a Periodic Table in front of you. I'm sure that I wouldn't be able to answer with certainty for the majority of element pairs. (And I just looked at a table and I see that I was lucky in my answer about Xenon. I thought it was lower in the table.)
ML/NJ
150
posted on
12/11/2011 7:38:53 AM PST
by
ml/nj
To: chessplayer
ugghh 38... there were a few i realized right after I picked em. Not too great with the physics, but I got all the chemistry questions correct.
151
posted on
12/11/2011 12:04:08 PM PST
by
TypicalWhiteAdolescent
(The code of competence is the only system of morality that is on a gold standard.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Because they were VERY distracting in 7th/8th grade... up through age 40.
I'll be a SEXagenarian in a few months. They're still distracting. God's given me a lot of grace lately, but the females of the specie can be quite distracting.
152
posted on
12/11/2011 12:26:08 PM PST
by
gitmo
(Hatred of those who think differently is the left's unifying principle.-Ralph Peters NY Post)
To: JRandomFreeper
I only know 1 word in italian and it’s a nasty one....
To: reg45; dr_lew
Of course, you're both right... I misquoted the question in my post. Regarding the element with an atomic number of 8, and my thought was carbon, as I clicked on the submit button I remembered the isotope of carbon, C14, with the atomic weight of carbon being 12.
The last time I dealt with chemistry was 1980, so I guess making those mistakes after more than 30 years isn't too bad.
Mark
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posted on
12/11/2011 3:01:40 PM PST
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: boop
I couldn’t have named palladium off the top of my head, but since that question mentioned the goddess Athena, and since I’ve been an avid fan of Greek mythology all my life, it was easy to pick it out as a derivative of her honorific name, Pallas Athene.
To: heartwood
156
posted on
12/11/2011 4:42:43 PM PST
by
reg45
(I'm not angry that Lincoln freed the slaves. I'm angry that Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.)
To: heartwood
The committee for names almost named it after Heisenberg, but too many committee members were uncertain about the choice.
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posted on
12/11/2011 4:45:48 PM PST
by
reg45
(I'm not angry that Lincoln freed the slaves. I'm angry that Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
“The test was heavy on astronomy, physics, and chemistry, with a dash of biology, meteorology, and geology.
LOL! Doesn’t that just about cover them all?”
Pretty much! I guess they were weak on anthropology, botany, ornithology, and oceanography!
Seriously, I’m proud to be part of the Freeper community. To have an average grade here is to be a cut above the hoi polloi.
I was embarrassed to have missed the one with joule (I put watt), but I got a couple of guesses right. The test doesn’t really prove anything, but general knowledge and memory of various science facts. It does help to have a working knowledge of Greek letters and prefixes and the scientific theories that use them.
158
posted on
12/11/2011 6:31:05 PM PST
by
Forgiven_Sinner
(Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
To: Forgiven_Sinner
Folks here are definitely a cut above.
It's sad that about 80-90% of high school students today couldn't get 50% of these questions right.
But then, I couldn't have done it when I was 17 either. A lot of these things you learn just by reading, living and paying attention over the space of 30 years on this planet.
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posted on
12/12/2011 8:08:58 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
To: chessplayer
35/50 Probably 4 or 5 I should have gotten but rushed.
160
posted on
12/12/2011 8:38:45 AM PST
by
palmer
(Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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