[Closed] Thursday Science Quiz: Can you do science better than 93% of Americans?

I think you may still be slightly confused

I think he might be talking about nitrogen fertilizer bombs 🙂

ernie has it.

Maybe they use fortified nitrogen in fertiliser 😉

And on questions like continental drift- you can know the answer but disagree with it on principle.

erm.....

[i]I just did but all he was interested in was the usual phone sex.[/i]

*nods* .. distractions.

And on questions like continental drift- you can know the answer but disagree with it on principle.

I don't have many principles but I stick to them damnit!

I take a principled stand against Britain getting closer to Europe.

If you get my drift.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

13/13

Awesumz.

Makes you wonder how they ever managed to land a man on the moon.

Or did they ?

Wasn't that largely down to the Germans?

As for the Nitrogen, I'm amazed that so many people got that wrong. Getting the third most common gas in the atmosphere wrong I can understand (it's Argon) but the first two?

5thElefant - Member

And on questions like continental drift- you can know the answer but disagree with it on principle.

That's awesome. Taking a principled stand against geological processes.

I for one would like to see a facebook campagin organised against those nasty pyroclastic flows

gonefishin - Member

As for the Nitrogen, I'm amazed that so many people got that wrong. Getting the third most common gas in the atmosphere wrong I can understand (it's Argon) but the first two?

Water Vapourist!!!

Wasn't that largely down to the Germans?

Yes of course it was. The Germans probably also showed those daft Americans who know bugger all about science, or even how to spell the word "maths", how to build nuclear weapons.

100%. GO me.

Not exactly hard questions though 🙂

Yes of course it was. The Germans probably also showed those daft Americans who know bugger all about science, or even how to spell the word "maths", how to build nuclear weapons.

You mean no indigenous american was involved ?

No wonder they were slaughtered.

Genuinely shocked that so many folk on here are not getting 13/13. 😯
This is mostly basic highschool stuff (and a bit of current affairs).

Sadly, I shall no longer be able to place the absolute confidence that I previously did in the all-knowing oracle that is the STW forum. 😐

No-one pointed out the bad grammar in some of those questions then?

You mean no indigenous american was involved ?

No wonder they were slaughtered.

I don't think any native americans were involved.

[i]This is mostly basic highschool stuff[/i]

That's the problem - we don't have "High Schools" here.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

Inflammable is correct, from the Latin root [i]in[/i] ("in", "on") and [i]flamma[/i] ("flame")

But apparently too many people (understandably) misinterpret inflammable to be the opposite of flammable. Which has fairly dire consequences!

So these days we mostly just say flammable.

Sadly, I shall no longer be able to place the absolute confidence that I previously did in the all-knowing oracle that is the STW forum.

Hey the world needs artists as well as scientists.

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(well, when I say "world", I mainly mean McDonalds 🙂 )

Hey the world needs artists as well as scientists.

Hope this is the right video (can't play it on this computer)

Phew, 13/13 and I only did one science O level. Thank goodness for opportunity to supervise GCSE revision - especially the electrons!!

That is a worrying survey!!

Bit late to the party but a respectable 13/13 here. What's the prize?

Chuffed with my 13 out of 13!

A long time since I got 100% in a test.

13 here, phew!

much laughs at dinosaur 'science' paper

What's the prize?

The prize is that you can smugly declare how daft the Americans are.

Despite the fact that they tell us what to do, and we do exactly what they tell us. It's called the 'Special Relationship'.

13/13 Wot skillz! Shove over Prof Cox! 😀

13/13

anything less would have been embarrassing

think I got the demographic ones at the end right, too

Have to ask ernie_lynch - did you actually do the test??

Yes I did, thanks for asking.

eh ? 1% out of 1006 got them all wrong 😯

My pleasure.

1% out of 1006 got them all wrong

They probably didn't answer the phone 🙂

Yeah, a German Jewish fella.

But the guy who showed them how to build space rockets was a German war criminal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

If my maths was right earlier on you'd expect 2 people out of 1000 to get them all wrong if everyone was guessing.

Phew 13/13. that desmond did me proud

Now I'm depressed, we are being told what to do by the thick bully in the playground, who'd a thunk it?

Yawn. Think you would find exactly the same (if not probably worse) in the UK to be honest with the poor level of science teaching in british schools.

Talking to my wife about this.. it seems that in US education they still do a certain amount of drilling of a selection of facts, which isn't really popular here. So the function of red blood cells is subject to drilling, but the composition of the atmosphere is not. So the former becomes something that 'everyone knows'. The stats for the respective questions back that up.

I got 13/13, but I teach A level physics and have taught GCSE Science, so you'd hope that I would 🙂

Yawn. Think you would find exactly the same (if not probably worse) in the UK to be honest with the poor level of science teaching in british schools.

Anyone passing GCSE Science [s]would[/s] [i]should[/i] know the answers to all 13 questions. Do you have any evidence for alleged poor level of science teaching in the UK? (Better evidence than for Diet Coke being bad for you, obviously.)

Disagree with poor science teaching argument. I reckon:

Common Entrance science covers 1,4,5,7,10,12
GSCE 2,8,9
Inbetween/common sense 3,6,11,13

School kids should be able to score well but parents may have "forgotten" some of it!!!

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