Scientific Literacy Quiz

[Keltik (Trevor)]

You answered 38 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 76%.

Great quiz!

[Keltik (Trevor)]

I wonder how many fundamentalist religious folks ticked the first box in Q.10- "How old is the Earth"? (first option was 6000-odd years) and then were miffed to get it wrong....?

[Ric]

35/50 or 70% for me

Was never that crash hot with the biology stuff.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by bartman

Thanks JJJ, BTW what was your score????????
Cheers
bartman

I scored 34/50.
Not too bad I suppose, considering the only science I took at school was Biology. But bad enough to know that I have to get up off my butt and start doing some serious catch up study.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by Keltik

I wonder how many fundamentalist religious folks ticked the first box in Q.10- "How old is the Earth"? (first option was 6000-odd years) and then were miffed to get it wrong....?

They wouldn't be miffed. They'd just refuse to believe that they were wrong and would go on quoting chapter and verse out of the bible stating that they were correct all along. They're imbeciles.

[erick (Eric)]

43/50.

[Steffen]

I rushed it and made some avoidable boo-boos, 42/50.

Cheers
Steffen.

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

43/50 here. Always have trouble with units of measure, nanometers, converting fahrenheit to celcius and so on

Malcolm

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Who is going to own up to Googling the odd answer?

35/50

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Got to question 16 with 15 right... and then got bored, slow computer...

So I'll extrapolate that to 15/16 X 50 = 46.875

The first lot were probably the easiest so I'll quit while I'm ahead...
Mike

[OzRob (Rob)]

The biology questions got me, oh and the cloud one...39/50

At least I got all the astronomy and geology ones right!!

[blink138 (Pat)]

38, damn that biology, the clouds and a couple of basic physics laws which i should know
plus a few lucky guesses of course!
pat

[andyc (Andy)]

46/50 for me, a few biology questions wrong (got lucky on at least one more too) and the cloud one at the end. A bit shocked to get the cloud one wrong, though seems I'm not alone there! Wiki (after the quiz) put me right on the cloud...

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

The cloud one tripped me up, trying to remember 5th form Geography from 33 years ago!!

[Jeffkop (Jeff)]

28/50 ... OK gimmie da dunce cap ... and I made some logical guesses in that lot ... so not all that good.

[Stardrifter_WA]

Originally Posted by Jeffkop

28/50 ... OK gimmie da dunce cap ... and I made some logical guesses in that lot ... so not all that good.

Hey Jeff, it's a pass!

[DJDD]

40/50
That was a good quiz.

Originally Posted by Keltik

I wonder how many fundamentalist religious folks ticked the first box in Q.10- "How old is the Earth"? (first option was 6000-odd years) and then were miffed to get it wrong....?

or Q25:
25. The genus Australopithecus, one species of which was an ancestor of modern humans, first evolved on what continent?



maybe the Christian Science Monitor is not anti-evolution...I read the "About US" page and it does nto state that much, other than it is a secular publication.

[Baddad (Marty)]

I have a terrible memory but when it is prompted with the correct answer, I usually get it right.
Multi-choice tests have always been easy for me. Sometimes the answer can be from info from a previous question.

eg, the moons of Saturn and Jupiter.

Titan was already asked in relation to Saturn, so Europa had to be with Jupiter in a later question. If I am asked in a few months I may get it wrong. I'll forget that Titan is near Saturn etc.

Generally the structure of multi-choice questions are; one most correct answer, one near correct, one related and one unrelated.
eg. Q3 Amplitude, Amplification, Ampere and Amphibian, in decreasing order of correctness.

In cold and hard memory testing I only perform average or below.

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

I decided to try the test again to test memory retention. I improved slightly. From 33 right to 40 right.

[Baddad (Marty)]

I only need to remember one question to score 100%. The one on cell division.