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Saturday, April 15, 2006
10:15:00 AM EDT
Hearing High -- The Cure
They asked Nobel prize winners and other top scientists: What questions about science should people absolutely know the answers to? The questions are here. The answers are also there, a little further down in the article, but see how many answers you can get on your own first.

I got 10 for 10 (plus the extra credit), but then again, I written an astronomy book and numerous science articles over time, so I'm kind of a ringer. How did you do?


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• #8 Comment from schnauffoo 
  4/17/06 9:47 AM | Permalink

  9/10, plus the extra credit.  It's interesting what you take for granted - for me they were 'duh' questions, so it was curious to me that most people find the answers to those questions difficult.
• #7 Comment from fisherkristina 
  4/17/06 6:52 AM | Permalink

  I got 5, lol.
  
  Krissy
  http://journals.aol.com/fisherkristina/SometimesIThink/
• #6 Comment from iiradned 
  4/17/06 2:58 AM | Permalink

  The only question I missed was the one asking how old the oldest fosssils are.
• #5 Comment from lurkynat 
  4/15/06 10:31 PM | Permalink

  I'm about 80 but that's when extra credit is added in
  natalie
• #4 Comment from plittle 
  4/15/06 1:44 PM | Permalink

  I gave myself 8-1/2 out of ten plus I got the extra credit. I couldn't remember how much of the earth was covered with water, so I guessed 80%. I knew it was "a lot." I got the electrical, but missed the chemical (duh, the obvious one) signals in the brain.
  
  It was interesting that many of those questions were asked specifically in support of the theory of evolution, even the non-obvious ones, like why bacteria and viruses are difficult to treat.
  -Paul
  http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
  

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