Can you name the scientific terms used to describe the following clues? by michaelyh

term	answer
Scientist responsible for creating the general theory of reletivity
Greek letter represtnting wavelength
Order of magnitude of the diameter of a proton
A theory developed in early 20th century, according to which nuclear and radiation phenomena can be explained by assuming that energy only occurs in discrete amounts
Explosive event known as the begining of the universe
Name of the particle which is believed to carry gravity
The chemical formula of glucose
The viscous component of human blood

term	answer
Element on which all life on Earth is based
Unit used to express resistance
Inventor of the lightbulb
Inventor of calculus
Sadi Carnot's famous laws
Father of evolutionary theory
Mass at which a star will compress into a black hole

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Are You Good At Science? Quiz

by michaelyh

Created Nov 4, 2009 in Science
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	kposs12:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 21:54 GMT	16 points
	Cool quiz.. Please allow last names only, though.

	JasonJP:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 22:08 GMT	7 points
	Yes and also allow quantum without the theory part, thermodynamics with the rest, 10^-14 without the 'm' and chandrasekhar without the limit. Its annoying. But its a good quiz.

	pmrk:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 12:07 GMT	4 points
	Shouldn't it be 10^-15 ?

	alpha:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 20:09 GMT	4 points
	To be pedantic: 1. Relativity is spelled wrong. 2. The big bang theory is "believed" or "thought" to be the beginning of the universe, not "known". 3. The unit of resistance is "ohm" not "ohms"

	wronggggggg:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 21:23 GMT	16 points
	also, Gottfried Leibniz should also be accepted for inventing calculus. There is far from a consensus on whether Leibniz or Newton deserves the credit. Newton probably came up with it first, but Leibniz came up with it independently. Newton didn't tell anyone about it and didn't publish his findings until several years after Leibniz published his calculus. Also, what Leibniz came up with is far more similar to what we use today than what Newton came up with.

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	smeg4brains:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 00:39 GMT	2 points
	@catcher: einstein was the first to publish the special theory, but was by no means the first to have the ideas. if he had hesitated on publishing it, someone like poincare would have produced it. the general theory was very nearly just einstein. hilbert came very close to describing it before einstein published his work. the effective diameter of the proton is indeed 1.5*10^-15 m (a femtometre). edison was not the inventor of the light bulb, he just made a better filament than was being used at the time.

	pedrobrady:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 03:58 GMT	3 points
	the graviton is under a lot of debate as well...nice quiz though. id love to see more general knowledge grab-bag ones like this. complaints are inevitable, and id rather have a flawed one than no quiz at all. keep em coming.

	TimeAndTide:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 04:57 GMT	5 points
	Sadi Carnot had nothing whatever to do with articulating the laws of thermodynamics. His work on heat engines was one of the pieces that later scientists used to state the 2nd law of thermodynamics. You should say, "The order of magnitude of the diameter of a proton in meters." Otherwise I could give it correctly in furlongs or lightyears or cubits, but wouldn't get credit. And yes, it should be 10^-15, not 10^-14, meters. Your description of quantum theory needs work. Finally, I have to take issue with alpha. The Big Bang Theory is on very solid scientific ground, with a huge amount of precise observational data supporting it. No serious cosmologist denies that the universe began with a "big bang" event. Any disputes in the scientific community are in the details, not the overall picture. The question of whether anything is actually "known" and what precisely constitutes knowledge, I'll leave to the epistemologists.

	pianoforte:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 02:18 GMT	4 points
	Last names should be allowed. Also, "thermodynamics", "ohm", "-14" should also count. Fun quiz, though!

	Psycho:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 12:59 GMT	9 points
	The unit of resistance is "ohm", not "ohms".

	ehaber01:	Nov 9th, 2009 at 05:02 GMT	2 points
	buuulllll crap

	the_ever_lasting:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 21:51 GMT	2 points
	the chemical formula for glucose is definitely something they teach you school. It is also something we use all the time.

	poloplaya14:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 04:01 GMT	4 points
	I like it, but can it please not be titled "are you good at science." Being a good scientist has nothing to do with memorizing trivia.

	Zmaz:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 04:59 GMT	4 points
	Last names should definitely be accepted, and "ohm" should be counted for "ohms." And Leibniz should be featured somewhere in there, as a bonus or alternate answer for inventor of calculus.

	kwijiborjt:	May 2nd, 2010 at 15:57 GMT	3 points
	You should accept more variations of answers. Given that you ask for the order of magnitude, you should simply accept -15 (at least as an alternate answer). You should include a couple of right answers because there are other versions of your answers that are still correct. E.g. 'quantum mechanics', 'thermodynamics', 'sir isaac newton', 'ohm'

	kwijiborjt:	May 2nd, 2010 at 15:58 GMT	2 points
	*i even tried 'quantized energy'

	D0m:	Jun 20th, 2010 at 17:31 GMT	6 points
	bad, bad quiz

	PhysicsCrabbe:	Jun 20th, 2010 at 19:00 GMT	-1 points
	Ohm!!!!! And shouldn't Liebnitz be allowed! And how about 2.7 solar masses for the chandrasekhar limit!!! All in all I now feel bad at science.....which is worrying for the people I teach science to!

	chasingamy99:	Jun 20th, 2010 at 20:52 GMT	3 points
	What they said.

	wilsonhubbell:	Jun 21st, 2010 at 15:26 GMT	2 points
	http://www.sporcle.com/games/actwentysix/Bad_Quiz

	ppirilla:	Jun 25th, 2010 at 23:13 GMT	1 point
	The diameter of a proton is probably somewhere around 10^-14m. It's order of magnitude (in meters) is thus -14. Its order of magnitude in Angstroms, which is probably more useful when talking about atomic scale, is -4. Its order of magnitude in pru's is 1, where I just created the unit 'pru' and defined it to be the radius of a free proton. Who knows, maybe someone else uses this unit as well.

	randomhandle:	Jun 26th, 2010 at 03:45 GMT	1 point
	Last names. Accept them.

	stl100:	Jun 30th, 2010 at 06:15 GMT	1 point
	Edison didn't invent the light bulb in any meaningful sense. Also I believe his name is conventionally spelt with capital letters.

	elcrops2:	Jul 3rd, 2010 at 19:59 GMT	1 point
	this quiz is awful. Can you spell?