With all the recent references in this blog to scientists, here's a chance to prove you are one. How many of these do you know?
1] How many noble gases are there?
2] Which planet has an orbital period of 687 days?
3] What is inflamed if you suffer from Nephritis?
4] Aquaculture is a term for what?
5] What kind of animal is a basilisk?
6] What is Borborygmus?
7] Evaporation is changing from a liquid to gas and gas to a liquid is called condensation. What is changing from a solid to a gas called?
8] If 8 bits make a byte, what do 4 bits constitute?
9] What did Einstein get the Nobel prize for?
10] Name anything that happened in Britain on September 3rd, 1752.
1] How many noble gases are there?
2] Which planet has an orbital period of 687 days?
3] What is inflamed if you suffer from Nephritis?
4] Aquaculture is a term for what?
5] What kind of animal is a basilisk?
6] What is Borborygmus?
7] Evaporation is changing from a liquid to gas and gas to a liquid is called condensation. What is changing from a solid to a gas called?
8] If 8 bits make a byte, what do 4 bits constitute?
9] What did Einstein get the Nobel prize for?
10] Name anything that happened in Britain on September 3rd, 1752.
I could guess at 3 but I don't KNOW any of them. I am sadly lacking. In something. You wouldn't think I had a science degree.
ReplyDeleteNumber 2 has got to be Mars!
ReplyDeleteLike Liz, I can guess 3 and am sure of only one, the last one. So that proves what I always knew - the scientific bit of my brain is missing! [Does that excuse my technophobia?]
ReplyDeleteSorry,sorry, sorry - in my haste to get my blog reconstruction done, I forgot to link to the answers page. Oversight now corrected, people.
ReplyDelete8] If 8 bits make a byte, what do 4 bits constitute?
ReplyDeleteA nybble?
Got 5. I think the nibble one showsmy age.
ReplyDeleteMost impressive, ladies and gentlemen. Ross, you do realize the answers are at the end of the link, don't you?
ReplyDeleteI didn't think to check the actual answers before posting because I thought the chances of my joke actually being the correct answer was pretty remote.
ReplyDelete1) 6 or so - Helium, Neon, Argon, Xenon, Krypton, that lot aren't they?
ReplyDelete2) Mars?
3) I don't know, but it probably smarts a bit.
4) Growing in water.
5) A (mythical) snake
6) ? no idea
7) sublimation as per dry ice.
8) Nibble - no "y" I think. I always thought that was a laugh. (which definitely makes me a scientist).
9) Neither special nor general relativity.
10) nothing. at all.
6/10. Not bad. possibly 6.5 for my answer to 4.
Oh, 6.5 indeed! Ross - good luck with the next one.
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