Seeing as you guys liked the quiz on Russia so much, I saw this and thought you might be interested. I took the quiz and scored 50%. I didn't actually know the answers to several of the ones I got right, but, I'm not above taking credit for guessing :)
http://www.space.com/16681-alien-planets-quiz.html
30%
Unobtainium -> Ha!
Quote from: LongBlade on January 14, 2014, 08:23:24 PM
30%
Same here. There is a reason I don't teach any of the sciences.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on January 14, 2014, 08:26:04 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on January 14, 2014, 08:23:24 PM
30%
Same here. There is a reason I don't teach any of the sciences.
Great sense of humor on some of those questions. Most were pretty specific. If you don't follow the news of exoplanets on a near-daily basis, I think you're doomed.
I pay attention to waaay to much stellar news.
40%...apparently I iz no astronomer.
visiting APOD once a day makes ya more gooder.
So what did you get Star?
Yup, I am familiar with the APOD website, just haven't visited it recently. Actually I love astronomy...it was a very easy A for me in college many years ago...just don't remember exoplanets being part of the curriculum back then :P
90% helped by Through the Wormhole and Neil DeGrasse Tyson and lots of Science Channel tv.
50% for me. Mostly lucky guesses.
30%. Crap.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 14, 2014, 09:57:50 PM
90% helped by Through the Wormhole and Neil DeGrasse Tyson and lots of Science Channel tv.
Did you see Tyson was doing an update of Cosmos? On Fox no less.
I'm in.
sounds good.
40% for me but two of those were guesses.
60% :-[ i am disappointed (well, there are real nailbitters ...like 1992 or 1995 or 2300 or 2800 i was able to single out the true wrong or joking answers, but had to guess to pinpoint on the exact digits... and failed)
80% score here. I've been a fairly big astronomy nut since I was a little kid.
50%, and I guessed on most of the ones I got right.
60%.
Admittedly, I knew the answers to 50% of those; the other half were guesses.
Bah! Only got 20%.... need to do some more star gazing rather than looking at/for the smallest particles in the universe....
I still maintain that Pluto got punked. >:(
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Quote from: Martok on January 15, 2014, 04:26:40 AM
80% score here. I've been a fairly big astronomy nut since I was a little kid.
Me, too. That's why I am ashamed of my 30% score...... :-[