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This article from slashdot led me to this test.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2008/08/test-your-scien.html?loc=interstitialskip

1. The center of the Earth is very hot.
2. All radioactivity is man-made.
3. It is the father’s gene that decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl.
4. Lasers work by focusing sound waves.
5. Electrons are smaller than atoms.
6. Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria.
7. The universe began with a huge explosion.
8. The continents on which we live have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move in the future.
9. Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.
10. Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?
11. How long does it take for the Earth to go around the sun?
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Take this science quiz (to yourself) and post how many you got right. Be honest!
 
1. The center of the Earth is very hot. T
2. All radioactivity is man-made. F
3. It is the father’s gene that decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl. T
4. Lasers work by focusing sound waves. F
5. Electrons are smaller than atoms. T
6. Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria. F
7. The universe began with a huge explosion. T
8. The continents on which we live have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move in the future. T
9. Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals. T
10. Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth? E around S
11. How long does it take for the Earth to go around the sun? 1 year
 
The problem is that there are a lot of people who just have no interest in how or why the world around them works.

Also, this "quiz" was from USA Today... what were you expecting?
 
I got 10 right, cuz I wasnt sure about the spooge question (#3)

But I was wondering about #7, Isnt the big bang theory just a theory? No one really knows how the universe started, there is just speculation, right?
 
I missed three, but that's cause I don't agree with the huge explosion one and the "humans came from ameobas". The other one I missed was the Lasers, I have no clue how those work.
 
JPatrick said:
I got 10 right, cuz I wasnt sure about the spooge question (#3)

But I was wondering about #7, Isnt the big bang theory just a theory? No one really knows how the universe started, there is just speculation, right?
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Everything is a theory. Its like the theory of you being straight. In reality, so far everything that theory predicts that we can test has come back correct. Technically, the newest revision of the theory should be called The Big Inflation and your theory should be called the The Big Homo.
kiwi said:
I missed three, but that's cause I don't agree with the huge explosion one and the "humans came from ameobas". The other one I missed was the Lasers, I have no clue how those work.
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It was a quiz about how much you know about science, not religion silly. :p
 
fly said:
Everything is a theory. Its like the theory of you being straight. In reality, so far everything that theory predicts that we can test has come back correct. Technically, the newest revision of the theory should be called The Big Inflation and your theory should be called the The Big Homo.

It was a quiz about how much you know about science, not religion silly. :p
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I still think I'm right and all of you are wrong. :D
 
kiwi said:
I still think I'm right and all of you are wrong. :D
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haha, here's how I answered it

T
F
T
F
T
F
Unknown, possibly
T
Unknown, but likely
Earth goes around the sun
365 days, or 366 on a leap year.

Do I get half credit for 7 and 9? :fly:
 
Got 'em all right...passed the test on to my daughter who got them all, then my son who also answered them all correctly...is this good or pathetic?
 
10/11

I got the father's genes wrong. Biology was never a strength.


edit:

Your answer to #3 is wrong. The question reads "It is the father's gene that decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl," which is false, not true. While it is true that the father's contribution determines the gender of a baby, it has nothing to do with any individual *gene*, but with whether there is an X or Y *chromosome* in the sperm which fertilizes the egg. A quiz to determine basic science literacy is pretty useless if the quiz writers themselves don't know the difference between a gene and a chromosome.
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I'm going to go with this. So even though I got one 'wrong' I got them all right. Suck it Trebeck.
 
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