Adult Science Quiz

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly.

This quiz is a joint effort between the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine.

See below how your results compare with the 1,006 randomly sampled adults that took part in our national survey and review how you responded to each question. For more findings from the survey, read "Public's Knowledge of Science and Technology."

You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%.

I'll be damned.

Interesting !!
2 wrong !! Damn !!
http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/results/

13/13 too.
Had some hesitations due to some translation problem ^^

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Originally posted by Tarquin

I chose hydrogen as the most common element on Earth, even though I knew it was nitrogen. I just brain-farted.

I'm not trying to nitpick but the question was not about the most common element but the most common gas in the atmosphere.

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Originally posted by unknown1002001

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I'm not trying to nitpick but the question was not about the most common element but the most common gas in the atmosphere.

True enough. Cheers.

12 out of 13, went wrong on Which gas makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere?

bit dumb how I answered that one. Fun quiz though, not very difficult. Got any more?

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Originally posted by unknown1002001

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I'm not trying to nitpick but the question was not about the most common element but the most common gas in the atmosphere.

The funny thing is that what I assume most people who got it wrong picked (Oxygen?) is the answer to that question.

I'm sorry, I couldn't find the correct answer for ANY of these questions.... where was "Google It" ???

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/results/

Yup. 13/13

I wouldn't say it was particularly tough. I didn't guess on any of the questions, I dropped out of college and the last science class I took was Biology in 1998. I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express though.