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  • Thursday Science Quiz: Can you do science better than 93% of Americans?
  • 5thElefant
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    well all your fuel will burn better but with large amount of hydrogen in there, the air itself would burn…no?

    Burn better is an understatement. Think blast furnace.

    Not much hydrogen would get to burn. It would run out of oxygen.

    WackoAK
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    13/13 for me, I had to think for more than a second about the Nitrogen one – I can actually recall being taught that and my younger self thinking “why don’t we all suffocate if there’s so little oxygen?”

    D0NK
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    Not much hydrogen would get to burn. It would run out of oxygen.

    well with both I think the atmosphere would change pretty quickly anyway wouldn’t it?

    if so then we are arguing semantics, something the internet was created for 🙂

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    wwaswas
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    well, I knew hydrogen was quite reactive but then I thought nitrogen was too because they make bombs out of it.

    DezB
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    Agreed. Not ideal conditions.

    Phone Jamie now, see if he does any better (or worse).

    ir_bandito
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    13/13
    Didn’t read the thread first, and was unsure about the nitrogen thing, but had an inkling that was the way to go.

    ernie_lynch
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    but then I thought nitrogen was too because they make bombs out of it.

    Do you mean “bombs” or “beer” ?

    willard
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    100%! Which is about the first time I’ve scored 100% in anything in recent times.

    glenh
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    wwaswas – Member
    well, I knew hydrogen was quite reactive but then I thought nitrogen was too because they make bombs out of it.

    I think you may still be slightly confused 🙂

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    Phone Jamie now

    I just did but all he was interested in was the usual phone sex.

    ernie_lynch
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    I think you may still be slightly confused

    I think he might be talking about nitrogen fertilizer bombs 🙂

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    ernie has it.

    Maybe they use fortified nitrogen in fertiliser 😉

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

    erm…..

    DezB
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    I just did but all he was interested in was the usual phone sex.

    *nods* .. distractions.

    5thElefant
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    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.

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

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

    If you get my drift.

    Lifer
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    Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

    13/13

    Awesumz.

    gonefishin
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    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?

    gwaelod
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    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

    gwaelod
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    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!!!

    ernie_lynch
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    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.

    GregMay
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    100%. GO me.

    Not exactly hard questions though 🙂

    5thElefant
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    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.

    Yeah, a German Jewish fella.

    ernie_lynch
    Free Member

    You mean no indigenous american was involved ?

    No wonder they were slaughtered.

    Ecky-Thump
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    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. 😐

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

    5thElefant
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    You mean no indigenous american was involved ?

    No wonder they were slaughtered.
    Actually he was Austrian, Otto Robert Frisch, he was the bloke who calculated that critical mass could be achieved. His work kicked off the whole bomb program.

    I don’t think any native americans were involved.

    DezB
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    This is mostly basic highschool stuff

    That’s the problem – we don’t have “High Schools” here.

    GrahamS
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    Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

    Inflammable is correct, from the Latin root in (“in”, “on”) and flamma (“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.

    GrahamS
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    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.

    .

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

    5thElefant
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    Hey the world needs artists as well as scientists.

    Needs is a strong word. “Has” might be better.

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

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    teamhurtmore
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    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!!

    69er
    Free Member

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

    coolhandluke
    Free Member

    Chuffed with my 13 out of 13!

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

    mrmonkfinger
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    13 here, phew!

    much laughs at dinosaur ‘science’ paper

    ernie_lynch
    Free Member

    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’.

    swavis
    Full Member

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

    andytherocketeer
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    13/13

    anything less would have been embarrassing

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

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