Science quiz! See how you stack up.

[Tunaman 562]

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly.

[Bob2222 317]

13/13 " You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%."

 

I'm just an old guy, bitterly clinging to my guns and Bible.

 

If the results are really that bad, it's scary and shows how people are bamboozled to elect the kind of politicians they do.

[Duppie 73]

12 out of 13.....i'm OK with that score.

[bennj 215]

12 out of 13, after a stiff glass of wine I might add. Overall, questions seemed kind of simple though.

[Underdog 1,593]

Now lets have a history quiz.

[Soju 153]

You answered 12 of 13 questions correctly.

 

You scored better than 85% of the public, below 7% and the same as 8%.

 

I thought that was good until I read the responses in this thread. Apparently I actually suck. Either that or the people who did worse aren't posting...

[mipafox 438]

This is a retard quiz, not a science quiz. I'm glad most of you got 12 or higher, I can see some people (nobody I know) simply not knowing one answer.

[voyager9 3,441]

This is a retard quiz, not a science quiz. I'm glad most of you got 12 or higher, I can see some people (nobody I know) simply not knowing one answer.

 

Was it the male/female one? 'Cause honestly that one had me stumped for a good 15 minutes.

[mipafox 438]

Was it the male/female one?  'Cause honestly that one had me stumped for a good 15 minutes.

 

That issue stumped a few people I knew back in the day for more than 15 minutes.

[Arbelest 29]

I got 12/13. I went herpderp mode and picked hydrogen for the atmosphere question.

 

Same, mine was more of a guess though.

[1LtCAP 4,264]

13 outta 13. they almost threw me with the "are you male or female" and age groups.

 

i'm an auto tech.

[tuktuk 16]

You answered 12 of 13 questions correctly

happy to be in the company of well read individuals

 

I was going through it too fast, should've thought a lil longer on this one. obvious answer ...

 

Which gas makes up most of the Earth's atmosphere?

 

You answered "Carbon dioxide"

 

The correct answer is "Nitrogen"

[HardCorr 0]

11 out of 13. I have been out of school for 12 years, I'm cool with my score.

[Sleeper 8]

12/13

I got the atmosphere one wrong too. But does time count? I did the whole quiz in under a minute!

[TheLugNutZ 21]

12 for 13.

[Mike48 0]

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly.

This quiz is a joint effort between the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine.

You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%.

 

when I went to school I was allowed to bring in my unloaded cap gun to show and tell, and we had Metal and wood shop courses....also my 8th grade science teacher was a babe so I hung on every word she said.

[Recon Racoon 49]

13/13, and I'm half asleep.

 

Science was my preferred class in school. Took everything from General Science to Physics.

[silverado427 10,822]

12 out of 13. oh well

[Malsua 1,422]

True, but the question was worded to pick any greenhouse gas... CO2 is actually worse than methane, but ONLY because there is double+ the amount and it stays up there longer..

 

molecule to molecue, methane traps 25 times more heat than CO2.

Water vapor is responsible for about 95% of the heat retention of reflected solar energy.

 

CO2 is a trace gas. It's ability to retain solar radiation maxes out in two rather narrow infrared spectrum bands fairly early. Once saturation is met, adding more CO2 to the atmosphere doesn't increase warming.

 

Think of it like colors bands. You know that white light contains every color of the spectrum. CO2 can only stop a very narrow band of color, say certain greens. Once you've stopped all of those greens from reflecting back into space, no matter how much more CO2 you add to the atmosphere, the reds, blues, purples, yellows, etc will still be reflected back to space, even at 100% concentration of CO2. Methane on the other hand stops 25 times more of the spectrum than CO2. Water vapor blocks 95% of the spectrum of light.

 

Water Vapor works in both directions. As sunlight hits the oceans, water vapor is created....it goes into the sky and traps heat. So why doesn't the planet boil over? Water Vapor in the sky then reflects new incoming heat back to space, cooling the planet. Mars and Venus both have atmospheres full of Carbon dioxide. One is hot, one is cold. It's all about the density and the lack of nitrogen rather than the composition.

 

Besides...if you think CO2 is heating the planet...read what NASA recently published about the gas: http://principia-sci...atmosphere.html

"New Discovery: NASA discovery proves carbon dioxide cools the atmosphere"

[Jon 264]

I got 12/13. I went herpderp mode and picked hydrogen for the atmosphere question.

 

This.

[HardCorr 0]

11 out of 13. I have been out of school for 12 years, I'm cool with my score.

[Krdshrk 3,878]

Aced it....

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly.

[ryan_j 0]

13 out of 13. I could have answered these when I was in high school.

 

I am no scientist unless you consider a computer scientist to be a scientist.

[Wolfjon 0]

I got 1 wrong I drew a blank on the electrons vs atoms... overall I thought they were pretty easy but I also had the advantage that I used to work on lasers for a metal fab back though the 90's...

[djg0770 481]

This quiz is designed for the "are you smarter than a 5th grader" USA crowd. Society is a bell shaped curve and frankly, most of the people I have met through the forum are on the right side of the bell IYKWIM...

[Rutgers1983 0]

12 out of 13. Missed fracking oh well

[Scrappy 0]

Damn that evil nitrogen!!!

[jgofnj 5]

2 out of 13. Oh well.

[AverageJoe 95]

"Which is the better way to determine whether a new drug is effective in treating a disease? If a scientist has a group of 1,000 volunteers with the disease to study, should she…"

 

C. Get back in the kitchen.

 

I find this question very sexist.

[plode 0]

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly.