Are you scientifically literate?

[Coito ergo sum]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1 ... atmosphere

What score did you get (without looking anything up)?

Mine was:

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

44 correct.

[Audley Strange]

38, but I'd suggest that the clues for a lot of them made the answer too obvious to guess.

[klr]

44/50 - I was weak on the engineering/physics questions, which is not really my area. There were a lot of astronomy and basic chemistry questions, and these (along with biology and "paleo-" questions) I found easy. There was some guesswork, but I judge my score to be just about "right".

[Mallardz]

36 which with I am most content.

38, but I'd suggest that the clues for a lot of them made the answer too obvious to guess.

There were clues? Dammit!!!

[Rum]

39 here. One or two were simply outside my reading. Fun to do though!

[klr]

If you had studied the three basic sciences at second level school, and had a general interest in matters scientific, then you should ace this test - which seems only fitting when you think of it. I "only" did biology to an advanced level, but I knew enough chemistry from the family encyclopaedia set to get by. The same encyclopaedia set (especially the "So-Sz" volume) also proved it's worth for astronomy questions.

[Tero]

Atoms are little things. Stars are big things. But they are made of the same stuff.

[PsychoSerenity]

43/50 - This test is mostly a case of "Can you remember what you learned at school?" Though I don't remember ever doing Bernoulli's principle, which is surprising because I did A-level physics . - and the rest I got wrong were remembering random names of things, which I've never been good at. I do wish I still had my old GCSE revision guides. Maybe I'll spend some time on BBC Bitesize again!

[klr]

43/50 - This test is mostly a case of "Can you remember what you learned at school?" Though I don't remember ever doing Bernoulli's principle, which is surprising because I did A-level physics . - and the rest I got wrong were remembering random names of things, which I've never been good at. I do wish I still had my old GCSE revision guides. Maybe I'll spend some time on BBC Bitesize again!

That's the point I was making above - although I'm a good few years older than you, so I've had to retain those factoids for much longer.

Strange I can remember things I read 30 years or more ago, and yet can't remember what I was doing yesterday.

[Faithfree]

45/50

There were a couple I shouldn't have got wrong. Thirty years since I finished a BSc, so the memory is fading a bit.

[Animavore]

Bah! This site hates my Playstation. Each page loads up like dial-up modem. If the questions remain as easy as the first four I presume a high-score.

[PsychoSerenity]

It's been 10 years since I was studying most of this stuff, which is a rather horrible realisation. I suspect the stuff that has stuck this long will stay around for a good deal longer. But onwards and upwards! I'm revising calculus now, and getting back into slightly more advanced physics than I've done before.

[Tero]

I got 9 of 10, then I got bored. I do science all day.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

52.

[klr]

52.

Well, at least you excel in higher mathematics.