Friday, March 23, 2007

[friday quiz] are you a true scientist

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.

10 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. Like 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?]

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  3. Sorry,sorry, sorry - in my haste to get my blog reconstruction done, I forgot to link to the answers page. Oversight now corrected, people.

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  4. 8] If 8 bits make a byte, what do 4 bits constitute?

    A nybble?

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  5. Got 5. I think the nibble one showsmy age.

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  6. Most impressive, ladies and gentlemen. Ross, you do realize the answers are at the end of the link, don't you?

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  7. I 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.

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  8. 1) 6 or so - Helium, Neon, Argon, Xenon, Krypton, that lot aren't they?
    2) 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.

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  9. Oh, 6.5 indeed! Ross - good luck with the next one.

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