I’m not sure if this makes sense. If the British use the same system as the Americans, how is that US-centric? Or are you complaining about the false cognate billion between English and other European languages? But there are a great many false cognates. Why focus on this one?
Some of us do. For some insane, unfathomable reason in astronomy/astrophysics the cgs system is used more often than the SI system. This means we use ergs instead of Joules, Gauss instead of Tesla, and yes, cm instead of m.
50/50.
I WAGed on at least 10 of them.
36/50. Fell down on quite a few of the physics questions, especially those involving Greek symbols. Considering I haven’t had any formal scientific education since I was 16 (now 28), I’m quite pleased with that.
39/50
Better than I should have got, to be frank. My physics is awful.
32/50. Apparently I have forgotten everything I’ve ever learned. However, to be fair, I’m old and I never studied geology or astronomy. At least 5 that I missed were astronomy questions. (We will conveniently ignore the fact that I also missed 3 questions on elements and I was supposedly a chemistry major-I could have done much better with a periodic table in front of me).
So go ahead, heap shame on me because I no longer remember the metric system or what a joule is.
I gave up at number 10 because the site was so slow and cumbersome.
Also I got only 6/10 right (and at least two were complete guesses) so I probably wouldn’t even have broken 30. And, I’m OK with that. 
47/50
Missed nano, the name of the dwarf planet bigger than Pluto, and the meaning of -nimbus.
44/50. Pretty pathetic.
43 out of 50. Muffed a couple, but guessed right on a few, so it evens out.
45, I only guessed on a couple but like others here, I was immensely helped by the inclusion of etymology information. I even skipped right to the answer occasionally when I saw the etymology (no, those weren’t the ones I missed :))
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Interrupting Cow
Interrrup-
MOOOOOOOO!
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Interrupting Coefficient of Friction
Interrup-
Muuuuuuuu!
That’s why I remember that one. (I got 44 btw).
37/50 and I think that’s a fair score.
I’m guessing we won’t get responses from the 20/50 crowd though.
I got 41 out of 50. I was a little annoyed at the one-problem-per-page part. I think it’s for generating revenue by hosting ads, as some of the comments on that page suggest. Yea! It looks like I beat the OP!
41/50 Damn Nimbus cloud! 
It was not knowing Greek, but Greek mythology that helped me answer several questions.
- Missed methane, mu, meitosis, Max Planck, and the nanometers one by reading it as “meters” instead of centimeters. Proving that I’m a genius with questions whose answers don’t start with “m”, apparently.
Esp. because we didn’t call it “mu” - it was pronounced mü, written with the greek letter.
And yes, I messed that up, too, because I know the order milli-mikro-nano as 10 to minus 3, minus 6 and minus 9 METERS not cm.
Because the Brits used to have a different system, like the continent, and only later switched to the US system.
And other false cognates didn’t come up in this science quiz.
Like I said, real scientists use ISO units and powers of ten to avoid the whole language problems (and to make calculation easier than writing out strings of zeroes).
Other problems with English, of course - we don’t use a greek name for an uneven triangle, because that’s the normal case. We use words to denote triangles that are different because they are equiliteral or right-angled or otherwise odd, but the norm is only that a triangle has three sides.
Or “name the element with Nr. 12 and symbol K” it’s called Kalium in my language, but I can never remember that it’s called potassium in English (but I could eliminate the other choices).
That’s precisly the reason why chemical and math symbols were invented in the first place, to eliminate problems with different languages.
49/50.
Yes… those f’in CLOUDS. :mad:
49 out of 50.
I guessed wrong on the Mitosis / Meiosis :smack:
High school Biology was so long ago…