My roommate and I both took it, and we both got a 13/13. I had to think for a bit about the chemical reaction question, though.
13/13. It's funny. I was just talking to my wife about fracking yesterday. I might have missed that one otherwise. What really surprises me is that I knew these straight off (aside from the one I mentioned). My students don't understand that I'm not just a good writer and reader because I'm an English teacher. Science teachers aren't the only people who know about science. I'm not a big backer of E.D. Hirsch and his Cultural Literacy books, but I do have copies, and I've shared them with my students. The amount of information my students don't know is astonishing. Wow... went in and looked at the News quiz. I didn't even have enough confidence to finish. Heh.
I got a 10/13 on the news one, but I guessed on a couple (though actually, looking at the results now, the three that I guessed on were the three that I got wrong, haha).
13/13 But I had the benefit of Wankler's spoiler here. Not saying I wouldn't have gotten it on my own, mind you, but then lots of things seem obvious when you already know the answer.
knowing that only 7% got all 13 right i hardly expected to do so, i'm no mr. science. i also thought nails rusting would have the lowest % of correct answers, it's the only one i needed to think about. or the antibiotics one, since the difference between "addiction" and "resistant bacteria", while not a fine distinction, is a concept that might not be evident to many. surprisingly nitrogen in the atmosphere was the stumper, and by far; i thought that had been driven home to everyone in grade school... turns out only 31% of college grads know it. even more surprising is that only 59% of college grads know what electrons are. the statistics are even more shocking when you take into account that these are just 3-option multiple choice: 15% of people did worse than they would have just picking at random (the 10 adults who got zero are as unlucky as they are stupid) and if you mirror that distribution it mean that roughly 30% of people just guessed at every question.