The New York Times is offering an Astronomy Quiz from Tierney Lab via this link:

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/

Its actually pretty good. Only 10 questions that are mostly oriented toward space exploration.

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The options made it pretty easy. If, for example, the choices for the first American woman in space were one year apart (instead of twenty), I might have gotten it wrong. As it was, there was only one reasonable answer.

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Yes, applying logic helps in the answers, (a bit humorous to say while looking at your avatar.) I hesitated a bit with the Mariner question but remembered. Still and all, a fun quickie quiz.

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9 out of 10. I picked the wrong Mariner for Mars pics.

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I missed the one about the radial lines on the plaque on the Pioneer probe.

What Swift said. I read Chip's comment before taking the quiz, and it made me reconsider my guess.

I wish there was feedback for your answers on that quiz, giving a short explanation.

9/10. The only stoopid answer I gave was picking the Big Dipper Constellation instead of asterism. Everybody knows it's the Big Bopper.

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Wow! I got 10/10. I can't believe I beat all the astrodudes.

Please allow this English major his moment of vacuous self-aggrandisement.

I didn't really apply logic to the women in space question. I asked, how long would it take a country as institutionally sexist as the US to put a woman in space? My gut reaction was 20 years. Logic doesn't really apply to sexism.

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It seems there are at least two tests, or changing questions. I didn't get astronauts or Marinades.

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I didn't get Dipped, so it seems that you're right.

9/10. I missed the first Mars photographs one.

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10/10 ;-)

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10/10

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Clear skies Maksutov.

There are three extra "bonus questions" under the text link to the test, further down under the picture - (linked from the words "read more...")

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/

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And that first question would make 99% of my students run away screaming.

8/10 missed the what is the amount of time needed to go mars from here, also the one about the image from the surface of mars.

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