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How much do you know about science?

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THE TEST

My score : 47 right, 3 wrong, 97%.

Missed questions :

"What word, which comes from a Greek term meaning "good kernel," describes an organism whose cells contain chromosomes inside a nucleus bounded by a membrane, as distinguished from bacterial forms of life?" I said Virus. I know diddly about biology.

"The mathematical constant e is defined as the base of the natural system of logarithms, having a numerical value of approximately what?" Never needed that one. I guessed 0.567.

"With an atomic number of 9, what chemical element is the lightest element of the halogen series? It gets its name from a Latin word meaning "stream" or "move freely."" I said Bromine. Too long since I had to check a PT!

Pretty pleased overall. :)
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38 - 12. I am, apparently, a moron.
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Not even going to attempt that. I know I am an idiot.
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41 -9 I didn't do well on some of the solar system and history questions.

I should have gotten the "Finnigans Wake" question because they mentioned the date it was written in there, but ah well.
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36 right 14 wrong. Above average. Biology screwed me.
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42 right. Not bad.
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48 - I didn't know the greek name for "Thunder Lizard", nor did I know the catalyst named from Athena's epithet
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Lt. Staplic wrote:48 - I didn't know the greek name for "Thunder Wizard", nor did I know the catalyst named from Athena's epithet
Really? Those were two of the small handful that I got right.
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McAvoy wrote:Not even going to attempt that. I know I am an idiot.
25 - 25 but I got tired of wrong answers and started googling. 8)
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Angharrad wrote:
McAvoy wrote:Not even going to attempt that. I know I am an idiot.
25 - 25 but I got tired of wrong answers and started googling. 8)
I've done research on Google. I discovered that:

German porn > Russian porn
There is a conspicuous number of hot, naked girls in the Czech republic
Judging by the lack of local porn, the middle east does not actually exist.

... and among a small percent of non-porn content you can learn the basics of thermodynamics and the latest on the hunt for a Theory of Everything (though the Big Bang seems like an unfortunate double entendre)
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92% and a couple of the mistakes were dumb ones...
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