Moving our quizzes

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Science Buff Quiz

 

Which Indian scientist got the Nobel Prize?

• Homi Bhabha
  
• Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
  
• Dr. Abdul Kalam
  
• Dr. C.V. Raman
  

Bhabha was a doctor

Bhabha received a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge University in 1935, studying the physics of cosmic rays.

 

-Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha

 

It is now believed that dinosaurs became extinct because of:

• Viral diseases
  
• Hunting by early humans
  
• A worldwide period of climatic cooling
  
• A meteorite impact
  

This isn’t too significant; but, C and D are not mutually exclusive and D may have caused an “impact winter” helping the extinction. I would suggest changing C to “Climactic changes due to volcanism”

 

H2O is the chemical symbol for

• Any Acid
  
• Acidic Acid
  
• Salt
  
• Water
  

Needs subscript in H2O and vinegar is spelled “Acetic Acid”

 

The basic unit of power is called

• Jule
  
• Newton
  
• Electricity
  
• Watt

“Jule” should be spelled “Joule”

 

Paleontolgy is the study of

• Insects
  
• Birds
  
• Ancient Life Form
  
• Ancient Geographys

“Paleontolgy” should be spelled “Paleontology”

“Geographys” is properly pluralized “geographies”, but probably shouldn’t be plural at all.

 

If you were to take a lump of coal and squeeze for a long time at very high temperatures, you would end up with:

• Graphite
  
• Volcanic glass, also known as obsidian
  
• A smaller lump of coal
  
• A diamond

A and D are equally correct (1) (2). I would change A to “Gold”

 

The King of the Dinosaurs was

• Brachiosaurus
  
• Trannosaurus Rex
  
• Diplodocus
  
• Diplox Rex

“Trannosaurus” should be spelled “Tyrannosaurus”

 

I liked the quiz :shrug:

 

~modest

[Tormod]

I took the Singapore quiz.

 

Fixed!

 

And a more general "design" problem. A few times, on this quiz and others, I've accidentally hit the radio button below the answer I wanted to give, instead of the one above it. 'Twould be loads better if the button could be alongside the answer, or if a line space could separate the pairs.

 

You're absolutely right. I'll try to fix it (it's a third party script).

 

Edit: Fixed! ;)

 

I took the "Hubble Space Telescope Quiz "

My Score: 15 of 20 (75%)

Only Two errors found. (and a trick question or two)

 

Fixed! Embarrassing when you consider I worked for the Norwegian Space Centre for 5 years... :)

[Tormod]

Science Buff Quiz

 

All fixed! ;) Thanks a lot.

[freeztar]

I took the Time Travel quiz and found some errors.

 

Question #4 has broken code.

 

The superscript in #5 is broken.

 

Questions 6, 10, and 15 have <> instead of [].

 

Question #14 has two correct answers: a and b. It seems to me that b is the more correct answer as the question dealt with the precession of time.

[Tormod]

Question #4 has broken code.

 

I didn't see that.

 

The rest has been sorted! :) Thanks.

[freeztar]

I didn't see that.

Sorry, I got my notes mixed up. For question #4, the "correct" answer right now is:

 

"Clocks move faster on the surface of the Earth than aboard a flying airplane"

 

This should be reversed. Clocks tick slower on Earth compared to an airplane.

[Tormod]

Gotcha! Fixed.

[freeztar]

Endangered Species quiz:

 

Q2: According to this chart by the IUCN, there are over 2000 animal species listed as endangered. 2007 IUCN Red List – Summary Statistics for Globally Threatened Species

 

Q3: According to the US FWS, 138 species of fish are listed as threatened or endangered. The list of species for the US from Mongabay is 883.

Sources:

TESS : Threatened & Endangered Species System

List of Freshwater Fishes for USA (contiguous states)

 

Q6: I recommend removing "because" for every choice.

 

The rest seems good.

[Tormod]

I haven't fixed those yet, Freezy, but I have managed to tweak the quiz script so images are now being shown (took me three hours...I didn't write that script so I needed to dig deep to isolate a stray reference to a missing variable).

 

I still need help from people: Go here and take a quiz, and report bugs in this thread:

 

Science Forums - Quizzes

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Took solar system quiz.

 

question 16:

option c,

1912 by Clyde Tombaugh

should be 1930.

 

question 9:

Which is the smallest planet in the Solar system?

quiz didn't get the news about Pluto's demotion

Correct answer would be Mercury.

 

 

Once again, I liked the quiz.

 

~modest