You can add the Scandinavians to that “we”.
ETA: And I agree that quite a few of the questions were more language or culturally related than science related. US stamps and the Greek name for Athena? Really?
I got 44 out of 50, or 88%.
I concede, I was helped by some of the trivial clues. That is, I knew Pallas was another name for Athena, even though I didn’t know what the element palladium was used for. In he same way, I didn’t know there was water on Titan… but since Saturn was a Titan, it was easy to guess that one was Saturn’s moon.
So… was I really science literate or simply well versed in classical literature and mythology.
48/50
I’ll fess up to 28. I’m not ashamed - more than half!
I would have 31 but I second guessed myself on 3 questions and got them wrong.
**44/50 **
I majored in Music Education, back in the day.
You would’ve learned that in the meteorology portion of Private Pilot ground school.
I got 37 out of 50, should have gotten more. But it took, literally, over a half hour to get through the slooooow web pages cluttered with ads, ads, and more ads. I think I lost focus after a while.
46/50 A number of 2-choice lucky guesses, and 4 2-choice unlucky guesses (cloud, surface gravity, ch4 and redshift discoverer). I should have missed nano also except the answer I thought it was wasn’t given (forgot about micro).
45/50 - Darn that mitosis and Radon, anyhoo! Not too bad though, for a dumb ol’ hippie musician.
46
Better than I thought I’d do, to be honest.
38/50, which, if everyone else is honest, is about the lowest score of this bunch.
To be fair, I haven’t had to use most of that for 50 years. And I never took astronomy, but didn’t miss any of the astronomy questions, so go figure. Maybe I do better on the subjects that I learned outside the classroom.
And the site was lightning-fast for me, although the double-display was a little annoying. Still, it was good to have confirmation immediately.
I got all 50. My excuse is that I’m a trivia sponge with very good recall. The only one I didn’t know outright without thinking was “Mars”. I had to use some deduction on that real quick, but it became apparent that it was the only possible choice.
Don’t worry, though…I’d bomb a literature quiz in spectacular “are you mentally handicapped?” fashion.
39/50. Can’t believe how much chemistry I could remember. Ones I got wrong; Mendel’s observations, I thought fruit flies based on fast reproduction cycle. Nanocentimetres I should have known, said 1,000,000. For some reason I thought carbon was the most common element in the crust. The DNA one was a blind guess. So was the Newton on a 200g object. An object’s mass and velocity equalling force I should have known. Mathematical constant e; no bloody idea. Friction I misremembered as epsilon, not mu. Triangle question was just embarrassing, I said isosceles. Was torn between Plank and Heisenberg for the sizes of quanta and went for the wrong one. No idea about clouds, seems to be a common theme.
39/50
According to the answer to question #47, the suffix nimbus added to the name of a cloud indicates “it is precipitating.”
Nimbus means “rain”, but a cumulonimbus cloud doesn’t have to have precipitation falling from it, does it?
Also 36, and it was exactly the other way around for me. Bio is my thing. Chem and phyisics, not so much.
And why were there math problems on there? Math is a tool of science, not science itself.
41/50. I never took physics (which I highly regret), and my only chemistry was a killer soil chemistry class. On the other hand, I’m decent with Greek roots and great with Greek mythology, and those saved my score from being much lower.
48 out of 50: I missed zygote (thought that wasn’t until it had a handful of cells, not just one) and nimbus.
On the question about e, you can actually use logarithms in any base to do problems like radioactive decay and compound interest, and e actually shows up more obviously in compound interest than it does in most science problems.
And for the record, Titan does not have liquid water on its surface-- The question just said “liquid”, and the liquid on Titan is mostly methane and ammonia.
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