38/50
I sucked on most of the physics questions and kicked ass on the chemistry, since I just finished reading The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements.
45 / 50. Got Watt and Joule mixed up, and hadn’t a clue on 4 others so guessed wrong. All the others I knew.
37 - biology and reading too fast did me in. Sheesh, it’s not like it’s a timed test. I have to say, I did impress myself with how much chemistry I remembered, as I hated that almost as much as I hated biology.
48/50
Not a bad test, but much of it was a test of scientific trivia rather than literacy (Mendel’s pea plants for example). Despite my high score, I’m only scientifically literate in that I have a fair understanding of principals. My actual ability to carry out scientific experiments or calculations is very limited.
I got the first four right then got fed up with the irritating website design and quit.
No kidding. I gave up after about 10 questions. It’s way too slow.
God grief that took ages, you have to load the (slow CPU sucking) page twice for each question? Argh!
45/50
Who the heck knows what ‘nimbus’ means?
Seriously! having to click twice for every answer…just do them all at the end, or give the answer from the last one on the same page as the question for the next!
That, letting my script-blocker “un-block” enough scripts to let me use the damn thing…seriously, there must have been two dozen different website all trying to run a script on that page!
I got 47/50. The three I missed were:
Heaviest noble gas
The planet past Pluto (guessed Ceres.)
And what Nimbus meant.
Yes, the website is pretty awful. I found loading it in Chrome made it more bearable.
35/50
I consider myself fairly smart, but I am not a science expert by a lot. I did know many of the answers I missed once the correct answer was revealed. A lot of 50/50 misses and some lazy/quick answering.
That was when calculus really started making sense to me. I realized that was where all those formulas came from and that I didn’t need to memorize them anymore. I got 43/50 but will admit I guessed right on 3 or 4 of them. Got the first one wrong by clicking the wrong line.
No. It was actually an interstitial link in a news article I read.
J.
You guys are smart! 37/50. A few of the correct were simply guesses but I also got a couple wrong by answering too fast or by mis-clicking.
I’m surprised nimbus is the one that gave most people problems. Not eukaryote? I don’t remember ever hearing that word, but don’t TV weathermen talk about cumulonimbus clouds? (Yes, OK, I should have seen “eu” like in euphonious, means good. I didn’t think of that in time.)
I was only able to get palladium by knowing Pallas was another name for Athena, so that wasn’t really about science. I did know Eris, but I would have been able to get it anyway from the “goddess of discord” hint.
I’m actually pretty proud of my 32/50 score. I did not think I would do that well. Science has never interested me and the last time I took a proper science class was junior year of high school Chemistry (1986). That being said, a number of the ones I got right are because I have a working knowledge of Greek and Latin roots.
47 with some educated guessing.
40/50.
Besides the already mentioned awful lot of clicking, I too found a lot of questions not very science-oriented - I got several with the Greek names, not by knowing the concepts.
I also dislike the strong US layperson centric - billions and millions instead of the usual 10 to the power of … which is used in science for a reason. Even if the UK has now followed US usage, that still doesn’t mean billions are the same everywhere. I also didn’t know some of the derived English names (for triangles) etc.
For a real test, I would want more testing whether somebody understands the concept, and not, whether he knows what lowercase greek letter is used for friction, or that quarks are related to poetry instead of milk products.
The eukaryote question was one that I got because of the root involved. I couldn’t think of any words with similar roots or connections to nimbus and the weatherman I listen to on the radio rarely refers to types of clouds, so I had to guess and missed it.
46/50. The only one I am embarrassed to have gotten wrong is nanometers - off by an order of magnitude. (Seriously, real scientists don’t use centimeters much.)
How am I supposed to remember my greek constants after all this time? “mu” ??