Hey Yinz Guys... How 'bout a Science Quiz??

[Lasher]

Check it out here:

http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20000628gene.asp

Feel free to post your scores below. Being a Pixburgher, I didn't think it was fair for me to post mine. Didn't want to make yinz all feel bad. (Btw, low score don't get nothin' from no Giant Eagle..)

 

[April]

140

That's not bad considering I was never taught the periodic table, or anything else remotely scientific! LOL

 

[Laurel]

Thunder isn't clouds bumping together?

Prokaryotes and eukaryotes aren't professional karaoke leagues?

Shit, I guess that's why I'll never be a scientist...

 

[Lovely Latina]

Archimedes' principle was A) A body immersed in fluid loses an amount of weight equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.

Tell me this Archimedes dude didn't get laid alot using THAT line!

 

[CreamyLady]

170. I feel really stupid.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

"A good name for a pony." That cracked me up.

 

[Flagg]

1+1=3

I really wish I hadn't taken that test. I had been under the illusion that I was OK at science.

 

[funny_guy]

185, not too bad. I wasn't sure about that pony one though.... all right, we got some science, now how'bout some history. Sorry, for those of you who aren't members at nytimes, but its free...

http://www.nytimes.com/diversions/trivia/quiz413.html

 

[funny_guy]

ps, if anyone beats 7/8 (my score), I'll buy you a drink.

 

[funny_guy]

I'm still waiting... You're not going to let a young buck like me beat all of you guys? ;-)

 

[RonG]

Trepanning or amygdalotomy, decisions, decisions?

I have bad news and worse news on the science front

Bad news: I actually know all this junk (yes 200 big ones, even the truly facetious questions).
Worse news: I have to fight the urge to add detailed explanations to several of them. Bill Nye sucks, give me Beakman any day.
Best news: I think I can hit the submit reply button before falling into pedagoguery. Must . . . be . . . strong . . .

 

[Flagg]

(again)

2/8 - This thread is beginning to depress me.

 

[funny_guy]

Had enough yet, or want another?

 

[CreamyLady]

ps, if anyone beats 7/8 (my score), I'll buy you a drink.

I got 7/8 myself . . . never read that poem.

Can we buy each other a beer?

 

[funny_guy]

I sort of guessed on that one, but got it. I screwed up on the first one. If you car to step into "Celebrity Adventures," I'll be happy to buy you a beer.

 

[CreamyLady]

Funny Guy:

Thank you, but that sort of roleplaying is beyond me. Maybe at the next party . . .

 

[Havocman]

7/8 on the History quiz for me also...I, too, had never read the poem...

On Lasher's quiz I scored a 170...though I must admit I'm disputing that, and hoping for an upgrade to 185, as I feel that my answer about Ralph Nader's presidential chances was correct on the Absolute Zero question...

Havoc

 

[funny_guy]

Well, we'll just have to have ourselves our own little geek party serving drinks and quizing each other.

 

[funny_guy]

All right, here's one. Who knows where my quote is from?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I think everyone knows...2001...I enjoy working with humans...

 

[Thumper]

Ummm actually...

Thunder is not air rushing int the vacuum created by lightning....lightning is produced when the electrical field produced in the turbulent atmosphere becomes strong enough to overcome the resistance air has to the flow of electricity...the air molecules become ionized and as the electricity flows the temperature of the air goes from ambient to several million degrees in an instant....this causes the air to expand violently producing a shock wave that we hear as thunder....

...or it COULD be a good name for a pony

Can I change my name to Thunder????

Hal musta been a Compaq computer...

[Edited by Thumper on 06-29-2000 at 07:17 PM]

 

[CreamyLady]

Trivia is good . . . however, no sports questions. Please, please, pul-LEEZE no sports questions!!!

 

[funny_guy]

Yeah! Someone who likes a movie I like!
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a-fraid."
Daisy...

 

[CreamyLady]

I liked 2010, too. "Will I dream?"

 

[Lasher]

Read his lips...

DCL didn't say he likes "2001" (even though he might)... he just made the point that everyone knows where that quote comes from.

Oh, and about #5, Havoc, you'd have to see Cyril Wecht's now infamous "Asshole" letter to understand where that's coming from... Fortunately I just discovered that Sunday's newspaper is still floating around here (my wife buys it because they haven't put the coupons online line yet.)

Anyway, basically a gentleman wrote this letter to the editor that was published in June 14th's Pittsburgh Post Gazette:


"Three cheers for Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht, his towering ego and vitriolic attacks, fierce rages and general pomposity provide a welcome relief from the real news of the day. I don't believe that any comic writer could fashion such a completely absurd figure."

To which Cyril Wecht, a many times elected official (former County Commissioner, current County Coroner, and recent 3 point loser in the race for Allegheny County Chief Executive) responded with the following personal letter:


"When I am testifying as an expert witness in major cases around the country; appearing on national television and radio shows; lecturing at major universities; writing books; accepting honors and accolades from various organizations; and making a hell of a lot of money, I have found that I am able to enhance and sustain the substantial pleasures and great joy that accompany such endeavors and accomplishments by thinking of insignificant assholes like you.

Sincerely,

Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D."


Without a doubt this is one of the finest crafted sentences in all of written English language - you'll notice the masterful use of semi-colons and the economy of language this makes possible.

Anyways, I went to take the History quiz and all I got was some damn registration page... Sorry to disappoint everyone on that.

[Edited by Lasher99 on 06-29-2000 at 09:06 PM]