Science 50 question science quiz - how will you do?

[garyw]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/20...the-most-common-gas-in-the-Earth-s-atmosphere

I scored 34 out of 50 - did well for the Physics ones and any question about space and surprised myself by getting the geology ones right but lost out utterly with biology!

How will you do?

Note: Just a bit of fun and to compare scores!

 

[APDAF]

I got 43 out of the 50.

I blame my biology teacher for not being in that lesson.

 

[Loru]

41/50. I'd be better (by 3) if my English was better. Other fails were from biology and 1 from chemistry.

 

[Keatah]

whew.. what a click-fest. got sick of it before finishing. as of q28 i hadn't missed any.

 

[Quick_Nick]

I got 45 out of 50. I should have known a couple more. And I incorrectly second-guessed the one about the expansion of the universe and the one about Pluto's demotion. I saved myself by avoiding second guesses from then on.
I didn't have a chance on the cloud one or the dinosaur stamp one.

 

[Linguofreak]

My actual score was 46 out of 50, but one question somehow got counted as unanswered (I'm pretty sure I did answer it, and in any case, I know I knew the correct answer), and another I answered wrongly because I didn't read it fully. So my actual score should have been 47 or 48 out of 50.

My weaknesses are apparently in meteorology and the history of biology.

 

[Eli13]

39 Correct.

I ran into a bit of trouble of some of the physics and the periodic table.
Time to go brush up on that.

 

[Quick_Nick]

39 Correct.

I ran into a bit of trouble of some of the physics and the periodic table.
Time to go brush up on that.

Periodic table was a little difficult for me as well. I'm good at test-taking though and I could remember enough to get through it.
And you don't know how much I wanted to change my answer about the composition of the Earth's crust... (I got it right without changing :3)

 

[Eli13]

Periodic table was a little difficult for me as well. I'm good at test-taking though and I could remember enough to get through it.
And you don't know how much I wanted to change my answer about the composition of the Earth's crust... (I got it right without changing :3)

Well, I don't have any more than a 8th grade class to rely on for it [the periodic table]. I haven't taken chemistry yet, as I took Biology 9th grade and opted for AP Biology this year.

(I'm pretty sure I got that one wrong, though. Can't quite remember for sure. )

 

[Evil_Onyx]

37 of 50, one silly mistake, not bad since its been a decade since I've done any biology and have never been that good with chemistry.

 

[DanM]

45/50. Knowing a bit about latin and greek helped, but that was also somewhat of a weakness.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

45 Correct 5 Wrong
You answered 45 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 90%.

Tripped up on the dinosaur stamp, watt vs. Joule, most abundant element, Austroalpithicus, and h for Planck instead of Heisenburg.

 

[Pipcard]

47 out of 50.

I made educated guesses/guesstimates on some questions.

I completely guessed on the one about electrical resistance, since I don't know about it at all, but got it right. And maybe the one about catalytic converters. And the one about the suffix -nimbus (but that was more of an educated guess).

And I swear that I never looked at anything else while taking the quiz.

What I answered (spoilers): http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/9075/50quiz.png

 

[n72.75]

50/50

ba-dum tish...

 

[MattBaker]

You answered 39 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 78%.

Objection on one question: The ISS could reach magnitudes of -5 at its perigee, totally illuminated and right above your head:dry:

And I have to agree with Dan, greek and latin helped a lot, or greek mythology in the Athena->catalytic converter question.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Objection on one question: The ISS could reach magnitudes of -5 at its perigee, totally illuminated and right above your head:dry:

Overruled: "Natural object"

 

[Notebook]

Failed through lack of patience, gave up after 4 questions, site just sat there, ho-hum...

N.

 

[dgatsoulis]

48/50 missed the stupid fahrenheit-celsius question and got suckered in answering that Australopithicus was from Australia. :facepalm:

The Greek questions were a no-brainer of course as the answers were quite litteral.

 

[Rtyh-12]

44/50, did some stupid mistakes. Highlights include a fail at Newton's first law (that's what happens when the questions are too easy, you stop thinking...), the catalytic converters one (and I knew enough Greek mythology to answer it :facepalm and the Planck's constant one (I stopped thinking again). The others were mostly biology.

 

[FADEC]

I guess I am amongst the most uneducated members of the community: You answered 27 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 54%.