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This Will Be The Most Bizarre Science Quiz You Ever Take

Carbon has atomic number 6 and all insects, including butterflies, have 6 legs.

Beautiful butterfly!

The atomic number of carbon is also the number of legs on which of these animals?

Both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the _same_ day of the _same_ year: February 12, 1809!

It's Honest Abe!

The theory of evolution was proposed in "On the Origin of Species" by a naturalist with the same birthday as which U.S. president?

In all actuality, any cat capable of gaining that much momentum would be a threat to public safety.

500,000 (kg m)/s!

If your 5-kilogram cat got startled and ran away at 100 km/second, how much momentum would it have? (Pay attention to units!)

_Viscum album_ is just one of many species of mistletoe throughout the world and may be the most romantic parasite ever.

Time for a smooch!

Viscum album is a parasite of many trees. Many people also see it as a good reason to do what?

The six types of quarks are up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charm.

They're all real!

Protons and neutrons are made of smaller particles called quarks. Which of these is a real type of quark?

Alas, _Dracorex hogwartsii_ turned out to simply be a juvenile _Pachycephalosaurus._

Harry Potter is popular with paleontologists!

A bone-headed dinosaur believed to be a new species was named in honor of which franchise?

Tennessine, toward the bottom right, was first synthesized in 2010 and has atomic number 117. Its name ends with the same _-ine_ suffix as its fellow halogens like chlorine and iodine.

You're the only Ten I See!

California has an element on the periodic table, californium, named after it. What other state shares this distinction?

Henry Cavendish also discovered hydrogen and calculated the composition of different gases in Earth's atmosphere.

Everyone loves a cavendish banana!

The last name of the scientist who calculated Earth's gravitational constant is also a popular variety of what fruit?

Not just a slimy critter slithering through your garden, a slug is the imperial unit of mass. Its metric counterparts, the gram and the kilogram, are used more commonly.

Mass!

Which of these might you measure in units called slugs?

The four biggest moons from largest to smallest are Ganymede, Titan, Calisto, and Io. All of these moons orbit Jupiter except for Titan, which orbits Saturn.

We have the fifth largest moon in the solar system!

Finally, how many moons in our solar system are larger by diameter than Earth's moon?

Lemme guess...history is more your strong suit? The wild world of science is not for everyone, but if you want to score better, it's time to hit the books! (By books, of course I mean Google.)

Hypothesis Rejected

You paid attention in science class but forgot some of what you learned while you were watching sci-fi movie reruns on the weekend. It may not get you a PhD, but your score is pretty darn good!

You Passed!

Are you a chemist? Because you had a perfect reaction for each of those questions! To you, science just makes sense. Now go become the next Einstein!

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