The Science Channel has posted three more of my quizzes! Woohoo! Tell all your friends!
You may do better on the Science of Alcohol quiz if you know your Elizabethan poets.
I got certified for Scuba in 1995. I haven’t been on a dive since 1996. It was on the Great Barrier Reef. It may have spoiled me.
If you went scuba diving, you might see Coral, which, ohmygosh, is the subject of the last quiz.
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Some more of my quizzes are up at the Science Channel website!
I thoroughly entertained myself with the Science Jargon quiz.
Telescopes make the world smaller.
I don’t like Computer Viruses.
It’s the electric companyyyyyy! Electricity! Yeah!
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One of my funnier recent efforts, if I do say so myself: The Nose Quiz.
All about Cloning.
Neptune is now the farthest planet from the sun.
The Yeti quiz includes a reference to an article by a friend of mine. Here’s her story, about hunting for Bigfoot in the mountains of Oregon.
Black holes are really dense. Perhaps you knew.
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UPDATE, late at night: Now that I’ve retaken these quizzes, I can report that, really, most of them are pretty funny. You should take them all. And tell your friends.
Yay! The Science Channel has posted more of my quizzes!
Manhattan Project: Oh yes I DID quote the [name of composer redacted] opera Doctor Atomic.
Magnets: This one includes a historic polar exploration photo. Nice work, art person!
Engineering: This one has a reference to the Arctic, too. I am relentless.
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I got into a little frenzy of quiz-writing right before I left for the Bering Sea, and here are the fruits of my labors.
Music – Knowing how bagpipes work will help you here.
Human Genome – I applaud the art person for finding pictures for this quiz.
Actually, I think I wrote some others, too…I’ll let you know when I figure out where they are.
You didn’t think I’d stop posting quizzes just because I’m in the Arctic, did you? Oh, you’re so silly.
Click here to take my quiz on the Apollo program!
Astronauts and polar bears? In one place?!?!? Well, no, two places: New quizzes!
Project Gemini. Did you know what NASA project came between Mercury and Apollo? Yeah, neither did I. I wasn’t born yet, you see. But now I want to take a field trip down to the Air & Space Museum to check out the capsule they’ve got on display.
Polar Science. Ah, this one was fun. I like the poles. You will do better on this quiz if you have seen Encounters at the End of the World, the Werner Herzog documentary about Antarctica. It’s a great movie, so you should see it even if you don’t organize your life around doing better on my quizzes.
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Hey! The pop culture blog at USA Today linked to my pi quiz! Woo!! Pi day is Saturday. Don’t forget to eat pie! And tell all your friends to take the quiz, of course. You haven’t lived until I’ve told you that you don’t know the formula for the volume of a sphere. (I had to look it up, personally. And my guess was way off.)
These first two quizzes for the Science Channel aren’t new, but they came out before I started blogging.
Giant Squid – This quiz will tell you how to say “giant squid” in Spanish. Yes, that *is* totally awesome. Tell all your friends.
Botany – Everything about botany in eight kinda difficult (oops) questions. But they’re funny!
But wait!! There’s a NEW quiz!
Test your knowledge about pi. You know, the number. Ok, eventually I ran out of questions about pi and asked about pie instead. You know why? Because I love pie, and it’s my quiz. This is part of a mini-site on the Science Channel website in honor of Pi Day, which is this Friday – 3/14. Eat more pie! Be sure to vote in the poll – which do you like better, pi or pie?
To find others in this very amusing series (if I do say so myself), click on “quizzes” in the tag cloud.
I’m writing a whole batch o’ quizzes for the Science Channel (it’s part of the Discovery empire, which is based just up the road in Silver Spring). Three more went up today! You can test your knowledge on:
Dinosaurs! This one is probably the funniest. And the one with the most questions about Jurassic Park.
Taste! I quoted a They Might Be Giants song in this quiz. An obscure They Might Be Giants song.
Bugs! A month or so ago I heard a talk about insect diversity. The guy said, “To a nearest approximation, all species on earth are insects.” I didn’t get to use that quote in the quiz, so I’m happy to be using it now. Bugs are awesome.
