Just found this quiz:
Science Quiz
It was much harder than I expected. I thought I was reasonably science-astute, but I only got 36 out of 50.
J.
40 out of 50
42/50, missed a couple by answering too fast.
Pretty tough!
42/50. I did a lot better than I was expecting, considering I got the second question wrong.
44/50. A couple of them surprised me.
Why is the gravity on Mars so low?
39/50. I kept screwing up on those lame-ass derived units from physics. (Seriously, who the hell remembers what a newton is once you pass the final? Bah!)
It’s smaller than most people think. (That’s what she said.)
40/50.
44/50
Missed the postage stamp one, and one that I should have known - if I hadn’t taken my last Physics class 30 years ago…
The person grading your final. 
45 here. I got a couple of the biology and geology ones wrong. And why do I care about cloud classification?
42/50
- Kicking myself on some of them. Also, that’s the most annoying website ever.
47 
I got all of them, but I did have to guess on three of them:
- The tied-for-last in terms of surface gravity one.
- The Greek letter used for the coefficient of friction one.
- The Athena one.
That’s better luck than I usually have. Anyway, some of the questions, though, I don’t think address scientific literacy all that well. The origin of the word “quark” seems to be of no importance, really. And the questions about e and uneven triangles are really more about math. Also, I think knowing who discovered what and what ideas are named after who is not particularly important for scientific literacy. Like the question on redshift should have been more on what redshift is exactly and what that means about the universe and not on whose name is attached to the idea.
47/50 – I found knowing a bit of Latin and Greek was a help.
47/50. Rather better than I expected, to be honest.
44/50. And there was one I knew, just clicked the wrong answer, 14 trillion instead of 14 billion.
Why the fuck do you have to click twice for each question? Answer once, compile at the end!
41/50
- The chemistry* and physics were cake, but the biology questions killed me.My confidence on those was 25%.
The unit questions were the easy ones.
*except the chemistry questions that I could have easily answered if I had a periodic table in front of me. I missed most of those. I’m not sure if that would be cheating or not. If you were really science illiterate then having a periodic table in front of you wouldn’t help, would it?
My thoughts (and score) exactly. I picked up a couple that would otherwise have been 1/2 or 1/3 guesses based on Greek and Latin roots in the answers (the “Good Kernal” question comes to mind.)