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You answered 60% of questions correctly. Scroll down to see answers for each question.
Here's how all readers fared:
Score 0-19 % 20-39 % 40-59 % 60-79 % 80-100 %
Readers 3 % 18 % 43 % 31 % 6 %
* 10342 total responses
1. The same principles of mathematics that physicists use in string theory can be applied to analyzing:
Correct
A. A string quartet. Correct
D. Cases of wildfires. Correct
C. Mammoth. Read the full story.
4. Astronaut Thomas Reiter began a five-month tour of duty as the first European member of the international space station crew. Which country is he from?
Sweden is not correct.
D. Germany. Read the full story.
5. The space shuttle Discovery's mission to the international space station is being extended by a day, bringing the total number of mission days to:
Correct
B. Thirteen. Read the full story.
6. Scientists have identified a new species of ancient aquatic reptile, dubbed Umoonasaurus, that lived off the coast of this land area 115 million years ago:
Japan is not correct.
C. Australia. Read the full story.
7. Wildlife officials in Mexico, the United States and Canada have agreed to work together to protect this creature, which makes a spectacular migration every year from Canada to Mexico:
Correct
A. The monarch butterfly. Read the full story.
8. Tai Shan, whose name means peaceful mountain, just spent her first birthday in the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. What kind of animal is he?
Correct
C. A panda. Read the full story.
9. Scientists and dreamers from NASA and elsewhere have established a new foundation to focus on the real-life prospects for this:
An invisibility cloak is not correct.
A. Interstellar flight. Read the full story.
10. Scientists have developed a mosquito repellent using chemicals found in:
Mosquitoes is not correct.
C. Humans. Read the full story.
Here's how all readers fared:
Score 0-19 % 20-39 % 40-59 % 60-79 % 80-100 %
Readers 3 % 18 % 43 % 31 % 6 %
* 10342 total responses
1. The same principles of mathematics that physicists use in string theory can be applied to analyzing:
Correct
A. A string quartet. Correct
D. Cases of wildfires. Correct
C. Mammoth. Read the full story.
4. Astronaut Thomas Reiter began a five-month tour of duty as the first European member of the international space station crew. Which country is he from?
Sweden is not correct.
D. Germany. Read the full story.
5. The space shuttle Discovery's mission to the international space station is being extended by a day, bringing the total number of mission days to:
Correct
B. Thirteen. Read the full story.
6. Scientists have identified a new species of ancient aquatic reptile, dubbed Umoonasaurus, that lived off the coast of this land area 115 million years ago:
Japan is not correct.
C. Australia. Read the full story.
7. Wildlife officials in Mexico, the United States and Canada have agreed to work together to protect this creature, which makes a spectacular migration every year from Canada to Mexico:
Correct
A. The monarch butterfly. Read the full story.
8. Tai Shan, whose name means peaceful mountain, just spent her first birthday in the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. What kind of animal is he?
Correct
C. A panda. Read the full story.
9. Scientists and dreamers from NASA and elsewhere have established a new foundation to focus on the real-life prospects for this:
An invisibility cloak is not correct.
A. Interstellar flight. Read the full story.
10. Scientists have developed a mosquito repellent using chemicals found in:
Mosquitoes is not correct.
C. Humans. Read the full story.
60%
80%. Missed #9 and #10. I must have gotten lazy in the final stretch...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10790555/?score=80&resp=1,4,3,4,2,3,3,3,4,4,#anc_SciSpaceQuiz_060711
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10790555/?score=80&resp=1,4,3,4,2,3,3,3,4,4,#anc_SciSpaceQuiz_060711
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10790555/?score=100&resp=1,4,3,4,2,3,3,3,1,3,#anc_SciSpaceQuiz_060711
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60%
20% through an error in the page. I really got 10%. Oh yah. Go me.
what does this have to do with science?
theres no hypothesis, no experiment, no data, no results, no analysis, no argument, and no writing.
theres no hypothesis, no experiment, no data, no results, no analysis, no argument, and no writing.
its more like trivial persuit
Yeah. This has nothing to do with science.
More about your free time to have read their recent headlines. They even provide links to their stories on the results page. "Test your knowledge of the week’s science and space news".
Oh. And I faired 50%.
I got 1, 5, 7, 8, 9 correct.
More about your free time to have read their recent headlines. They even provide links to their stories on the results page. "Test your knowledge of the week’s science and space news".
Oh. And I faired 50%.
I got 1, 5, 7, 8, 9 correct.
XD 30%