From the Perimeter Institute: https://insidetheperimeter.ca/a-quiz-with-questions-from-quantum-to-cosmos/

I got a very disappointing score (10/15). Let us know how you get on!

Woohoo! 11

10 also, but disappointed in that I believe I should have answered at least two more correctly if I had given more thought to the subject at hand.

30 minutes ago, beecee said:

10 also, but disappointed in that I believe I should have answered at least two more correctly if I had given more thought to the subject at hand.

Yep. That's my excuse too!

Edited October 14, 20187 yr by Strange

    14/15

8 minutes ago, et pet said:

    14/15

Well done!

12

I was wrong on Q15: The 'M' of 'M87' brought me on the wrong track. Charles Messier himself could never have seen a black hole, so it must be a nebula or a galaxy. So in a certain sense the question is wrong: M87 is a galaxy, not a black hole.

On Q9 I did not expect so many planets especially in the Goldilocks zone

And Q6, I expected that it had to be farther away, the Lagrange points of the earth orbiting the sun, but obviously they are closer than I thought.

1 hour ago, Eise said:

12

I was wrong on Q15: The 'M' of 'M87' brought me on the wrong track. Charles Messier himself could never have seen a black hole, so it must be a nebula or a galaxy. So in a certain sense the question is wrong: M87 is a galaxy, not a black hole.

On Q9 I did not expect so many planets especially in the Goldilocks zone

And Q6, I expected that it had to be farther away, the Lagrange points of the earth orbiting the sun, but obviously they are closer than I thought.

I got those wrong too, for similar reasons. So I don't feel so bad now!

Thanks Strange. That was fun. I missed 6, 7, 9 and 11. I just guessed on the plank length question and got lucky. So I probably don't deserve my 11 score but will take it.

https://insidetheperimeter.ca/physics-quiz/

12/15 on this one.

2 hours ago, Outrider said:

https://insidetheperimeter.ca/physics-quiz/

12/15 on this one.

Only one miss, and I can really not care: "The Large Hadron Collider at CERN uses 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity annually. That’s equivalent to:"

11/15

In all sincerity, thanks to everyone here for getting me to the point where I could score that well!

12 minutes ago, zapatos said:

11/15

In all sincerity, thanks to everyone here for getting me to the point where I could score that well!

This is true. A few years ago I probably would have got less than half right.

I got 12/15 and this is outrageous, I should have gotten all of them. I'm not talking to anyone ever again.