Tuesday 18 August 2009

A science quiz

Larry Moran at Sandwalk posted this link to a science questionnaire from The Toronto Star. Some of the questions (and answer options) are a bit badly worded, but overall it's a good test of general scientific literacy.



I got them all right - 26/26 - but I had to deliberate long and hard, here and there, to work out what I was being asked.

9 comments:

NobblySan said...

hmmmm...

I only got 20.

My grand cop out is that i limited myself to not spending ages on the ones that I was stuck on.

Like you say, though, some of them are a bit vague and badly worded.

Fun, though!

Andy Holroyd said...

Given some of the wordage, 20 is a good score Nobbly.

yorksnbeans said...

Wow, considering I hated science, I scored 16! Better than I expected. (or else I'm a good guesser).

Duncanr said...

And at the bottom of the science class (just as I was at school) is me - with a score of 14

Jonam said...

Thanks...

Andy Holroyd said...

@Jonam - You are most welcome.

@The others - Thanks for the responses, we are all above average. With hindsight, I wish I had done this post differently. Now I want to know what others got wrong.

Were they the same questions I struggled with, or different ones? For me, Q9 on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is obvious. To other people it must seem like an alien concept.

Oh well, next time maybe :)

NobblySan said...

I crapped out on Heisenberg, Relativity, how old is the sun, how old is the earth, anda couple of others that I can't remember.

Mark said...

I got 17. not too bad

Andy Holroyd said...

Well done Mark.