Can you name the six flavors of quarks?

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Quark Flavors Quiz

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Created by: Dyanna -
Published: May 25th, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 43,320

Tags: Physics Quizzes, flavor, quark

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	pistonsnick:	May 25th, 2009 at 14:25 GMT	3 points
	uhhh...what?

	doorholder:	May 25th, 2009 at 14:33 GMT	13 points
	Three quarks for Muster Mark!

	RobH:	May 25th, 2009 at 14:38 GMT	27 points
	Sporcle's getting up 'n' atom!

	davidr:	May 25th, 2009 at 14:44 GMT	28 points
	@RobH: This quiz is particle-arly good!

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	Kicking222:	May 25th, 2009 at 14:58 GMT	4 points
	I can't believe that I knew one... and that the one I knew was charm.

	iamthedancefloor:	May 25th, 2009 at 15:03 GMT	0 points
	I feel a little ashamed that the longest lecture I have EVER been in did not sink in properly - only got four. Imperial College, you have a LOT to answer for.

	klogg:	May 25th, 2009 at 15:07 GMT	44 points
	Hellloooo new sex positions! Ahem. Anyway, I guess old physics-related jokes are appropriate here: Q: Why was Heisenberg's wife unsatisfied? A: When he had the time he didn't have the energy, and when he had the position, he didn't have the momentum.

	SlovakOne:	May 25th, 2009 at 15:08 GMT	4 points
	Six flavours in six seconds! That can't be coincidence. Anyway good nerd quiz.

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	candyman81cb:	May 25th, 2009 at 15:30 GMT	12 points
	Thanks to Jimmy Neutron, I knew these

	Ben26:	May 25th, 2009 at 15:33 GMT	0 points
	wow surprised charm and strange were the two middle most guessed....theyre the ones i missed. i knew it wasnt a direction but i forgot the words

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	GaidinBDJ:	May 25th, 2009 at 15:49 GMT	5 points
	Didn't the International Academy of Stuffy Old Scientists or somesuch decree most of these too "whimsical" and came out with a different set of names. @klogg: I am stealing that joke.

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	DerekH:	May 25th, 2009 at 15:54 GMT	4 points
	'Quark, strangeness and charm' - thank you, Hawkwind!

	kmzh:	May 25th, 2009 at 16:06 GMT	17 points
	For those wondering what quarks are, JFGI.

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	DLJessup:	May 25th, 2009 at 16:44 GMT	20 points
	Truth and beauty should be acceptable as alternate answers for top and bottom, respectively.

	deej:	May 25th, 2009 at 17:01 GMT	10 points
	TRUTH IS BEAUTY, BEAUTY TRUTH, SIR!

	martin:	May 25th, 2009 at 17:23 GMT	5 points
	DL is right. Bring on the beautiful truth quarks

	FilmJunkie:	May 25th, 2009 at 18:09 GMT	33 points
	I have no clue what quarks are so first I guessed electrons, then protons, then vanilla, and then green. I then gave up.

	mungar:	May 25th, 2009 at 18:28 GMT	3 points
	But the truth can be harsh and disturbing! How can that be considered beautiful?!

	Detective:	May 25th, 2009 at 18:33 GMT	5 points
	Grade 10 science project on quarks = 100% on this quiz!

	scootem:	May 25th, 2009 at 19:22 GMT	21 points
	@klogg: Physics jokes are as follows: Why did the cat fall off the roof? He didn't have enough mu. And: Heisenberg's tearing it down the motorway, really gunning it when a constable pulls him over. "Do you know how fast you were just going?" asks the PC. "No," replies Heisenberg, "but I know exactly where I am!" Feel free to not laugh at your leisure.

	iceman1731:	May 25th, 2009 at 19:24 GMT	4 points
	For anyone who doesn't know, quarks are what make up protons and neutrons...I learned that in highschool but they never taught us they had different names

	Ely:	May 25th, 2009 at 19:53 GMT	19 points
	@Jeter97: What aren't quarks?

	rabbit:	May 25th, 2009 at 19:54 GMT	6 points
	Haha! Quark is also a kind of yogurt/cheese... I was so confused guessing strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, plain, etc...! The baskin-robins reference up front got my mind straight to food!!

	jbear31:	May 25th, 2009 at 22:12 GMT	-1 points
	wtf is this?

	Pam_I_Am:	May 25th, 2009 at 23:24 GMT	-2 points
	Can someone please explain how a quark has a flavor? Is this some kind of joke that I'm on the outside of? . . .

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	newenglander:	May 26th, 2009 at 00:04 GMT	4 points
	they should display how many people guessed 0%. looks like im not alone in not knowing what quark is.

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	rabbit:	May 26th, 2009 at 01:04 GMT	-3 points
	Cheese should be a bonus answer!

	cmkeller:	May 26th, 2009 at 01:30 GMT	4 points
	@Pam_I_Am: It's not a joke, "flavor" is genuinely what physicists call the quality that distinguishes these types of quarks from one another. Obviously, it doesn't refer to flavor of the edible type.

	fatbeard:	May 26th, 2009 at 03:09 GMT	3 points
	Yes! Please more physics quizzes

	GeoExpert:	May 26th, 2009 at 03:32 GMT	-2 points
	I still do not understand this ice cream game. Oh well. I am more of a geography person, and astronomy, and astrophysics.

	Uhlan:	May 26th, 2009 at 08:05 GMT	3 points
	Anyone wondering what quarks are; they are sub-particles that make up all hadrons (eg protons and neutrons) and thus most of the complicated matter in the universe (other particles, leptons eg electrons, are very basic). And yet I still only got 4 :-/ top and bottom eluded me.

	davidr:	May 26th, 2009 at 09:28 GMT	3 points
	@Pan_I_Am: No joke. It's just that they're called `flavours' rather than `kinds' or `types'.