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Science Knowledge Quiz

JC Callender said:
Maybe those who received low scores aren't in a big hurry to post them. I got a 10 btw. I didn't know the speed at which water boils at certain altitudes and how light is dispersed through a magnifying glass, two things which certainly could've enriched my life beyond my wildest dreams if I would've known them sooner.
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A 10 is still well above average....that puts you, what, ahead of 40% of americans, according to this thing?


I missed the atrology/astronomy question. I often get those two mixed up.
 
well I got 13/12, so there
 
I got a 10. I missed the two talking about the naked trapeze artists.
 
MaggieD said:
I got a 10. I missed the two talking about the naked trapeze artists.
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Maybe I need to take that test again. I do not remember any naked people. My interest in now, shall we say, piqued.
 
12/12
 
Redress said:
First, the overal results: What Americans know and don't know about science | Pew Research Center

The quiz itself: Science Knowledge Quiz | Pew Research Center. It is only 12 questions, it does not take long.

I got 11 of 12:
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I got 10 of 12. (actually it marked me as 9, but I knew the answer on one but mistakenly marked the wrong thing, so since this is for fun, I'm going to count it as correct!) I'm not a science person, so I'm lucky I got that many.

I missed the boiling water thing. Didn't know that. You'd think that would've been mentioned in ONE of the many cookbooks I've used. I also missed the magnifying glass. I couldn't remember whether the thingamajigs spread out on the other side, or converged. Spreading out is a prism, I think, but I got confused.

At question 9, I asked "IS THIS EVER GOING TO END????" Science tests are painful.
 
I got them all, attended public school did not go to college. My 14 year old son would have aced is.
 
11 of 12 i got the one about how altitude effected boiling points wrong
 
faithful_servant said:
Too easy... Most of those questions I would have gotten right when I was 12.
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I wouldn't have. Cell phones hadn't been invented then. ;)

And I have an emotional block against graphs. I answered the drawings and graph questions correctly, but I suffered for it. I always have a least a second of sheer panic.
 
nota bene said:
I wouldn't have. Cell phones hadn't been invented then. ;)

And I have an emotional block against graphs. I answered the drawings and graph questions correctly, but I suffered for it. I always have a least a second of sheer panic.
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That was why I threw in the qualifier "most".
 
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