Science Knowledge Quiz

[MtnMan]

12/12

What is really disturbing is the very very basic questions that the majority of people missed..

Of course I went to school when were expected to learn shit, and not get a gold star for just showing up.

 

[IronWing]

They're called Documentaries.

I want to see lab techs pulling each other's hair over who gets the good auto-pipette.

 

[clamum]

Sweet, I got a "Error 503 Service Unavailable" / 12!

I'd say I got 10/12 though if it would've went through.

EDIT: Ah-ha, I was right! Submitted again and I got:

You answered 10 of 12 questions correctly.

You scored better than 67% of the public, below 18% and the same as 15%.

 

[smackababy]

So, a few of the questions were rather dubious. One does't require uranium to make a nuclear bomb (fission or fusion). We use an isotope of uranium likely for ease. An isotope of plutonium and possibly americium, though the latter is still unproven. Also, the tide question is a combination of all the answers, more so than just the moon. Also, astrology isn't a science.

 

[disappoint]

12/12 But those were extremely easy.

 

[disappoint]

10/12
GED then high school diploma. I went to Job Corp and mainly took up wielding. I need to get may ass in college, but I need to apply for grants. Hell if I'm shelling out thousands of dollars!

What did they teach you to wield? A sword?

 

[disappoint]

I got potato/12 - what do I win?

1/12th of a potato. So basically 1 potato chip. If you can overclock it you'd be the world's first to do so, then you might be famous and on the next test, so there's that.

 

[John Connor]

What did they teach you to wield? A sword?

HA!

 

[cbrunny]

11/12. Missed the polio guy.

 

[DrPizza]

So, a few of the questions were rather dubious. One does't require uranium to make a nuclear bomb (fission or fusion). We use an isotope of uranium likely for ease. An isotope of plutonium and possibly americium, though the latter is still unproven. Also, the tide question is a combination of all the answers, more so than just the moon. Also, astrology isn't a science.

Your complaint about uranium/plutonium is akin to saying, "we don't need trees to build houses, because we use wood." In other words, look up where Plutonium is mined - it isn't. It only exists in trace quantities naturally. That which is used is of man-made origin, generally using Uranium as the main ingredient. (bombarding with either deuterium nuclei, else neutrons, producing another isotope of Uranium, else Neptunium, respectively. Each decays via beta minus decay(s) to either Plutonium 238 or Plutonium 239.

edit: and of course, 12/12

 

[K7SN]

11/12

got the magnifying glass one wrong, because bad graph.

also cheated on n.11 (polio vaccine) because it's a history question. and n.12 is not a science question either, it's sociology.

The magnifying glass question was tricky; 3 was the best answer for starting fires and two with light flowing the other direction was (as you night use a magnifying glass to read something (as I do in my old age) .That was the only difficult question. I chose the correct answer but figured I had a 50/50 chance on that one.

n.11 was easy for me; my parents lived in terror of Infantile paralysis (polio) so when I was about 10; Jonas Salk was a far greater man in my family; the others were history, Salk's vaccine was a godsend..

n.12 was to see if you knew the other three answers were real science - taro cards and astrology haven't been part of my vernacular since it was revealed that Frist Lady Nancy Reagan believed in the hokey. \

Your thoughts mirrored mine.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

1/12th of a potato. So basically 1 potato chip.

That's either the world's smallest potato or the world's largest potato chip.

 

[Pulsar]

They're called Documentaries.

11/12 - got the magnifying glass one wrong.

That one is actually tricky if you try to think it through. You have to understand that your eye sees the image upside down and you place the focal point in front of your eye.

 

[Pulsar]

I got the question about my sex wrong.

 

[Pulsar]

The magnifying glass question was tricky; 3 was the best answer for starting fires and two with light flowing the other direction was (as you night use a magnifying glass to read something (as I do in my old age) .That was the only difficult question. I chose the correct answer but figured I had a 50/50 chance on that one.

n.11 was easy for me; my parents lived in terror of Infantile paralysis (polio) so when I was about 10; Jonas Salk was a far greater man in my family; the others were history, Salk's vaccine was a godsend..

n.12 was to see if you knew the other three answers were real science - taro cards and astrology haven't been part of my vernacular since it was revealed that Frist Lady Nancy Reagan believed in the hokey. \

Your thoughts mirrored mine.

Nope on the magnifying glass - see my other post. In either situation, the light comes into the glass straight and gets bent toward the center. You place your eye further away than the focal point so it looks larger - remember you actually perceive everything upside down.

 

[disappoint]

That's either the world's smallest potato or the world's largest potato chip.

It's a multicore chip.

 

[Arcadio]

12/12. ATOT attracts knowledgeable people, so I'm not surprised most people got 12/12.

Disclaimer: I got the answer to the polio question by the process of elimination.

 

[Newbian]

That one is actually tricky if you try to think it through. You have to understand that your eye sees the image upside down and you place the focal point in front of your eye.

I guess the people that got it wrong never used them to burn stuff with as it shows the light being focused.

 

[John Connor]

I got the question about my sex wrong.

LOL

 

[John Connor]

I guess the people that got it wrong never used them to burn stuff with as it shows the light being focused.

That's what I'm thinking.

For me it was the graph and the polio crap. I hate graphs and how the fudge do I know who created the polio vaccine? I was thinking either the woman or dude.

 

[smackababy]

Your complaint about uranium/plutonium is akin to saying, "we don't need trees to build houses, because we use wood." In other words, look up where Plutonium is mined - it isn't. It only exists in trace quantities naturally. That which is used is of man-made origin, generally using Uranium as the main ingredient. (bombarding with either deuterium nuclei, else neutrons, producing another isotope of Uranium, else Neptunium, respectively. Each decays via beta minus decay(s) to either Plutonium 238 or Plutonium 239.

edit: and of course, 12/12

There are other proposed methods (Americium, for example, though if that is possible seems to be a debate) to create the fission (which is required for both a fission bomb and a multistage thermonuclear bomb). The question is akin to being "what is required to build a house?" and the answer being "wood". Now, wood is widely used in the production of houses, but there are other ways, so it wouldn't be required.

Another question I have a problem with is the graph question. Drawing a conclusion from the graph about something with so many other factors is not very scientific. There are so many factors that lead to tooth decay that drawing that that can't possibly be considered for such a conclusion. It really looks like a political science question on how to use numbers for your own good.

 

[IronWing]

Another question I have a problem with is the graph question. Drawing a conclusion from the graph about something with so many other factors is not very scientific. There are so many factors that lead to tooth decay that drawing that that can't possibly be considered for such a conclusion. It really looks like a political science question on how to use numbers for your own good.

All the other choices involved time. Time was not on the graph.

Edit: Forgot the teeth brushing choice So two involved time and one involved a behavior not on the graph.

 

[BUTCH1]

11/12, I missed the sugar graph question.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

I'm horrified 94% of people miss any of those.

 

[MongGrel]

11/12

got the magnifying glass one wrong, because bad graph.

also cheated on n.11 (polio vaccine) because it's a history question. and n.12 is not a science question either, it's sociology.

11/12

Same here.

But just blew through em.