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Buster Wrote:

Perhaps trick answers is more accurate.
Many of the questions included words or at least parts of words that are also in one of the answers.
Like James Watt and Horsepower. One of the answers was also Watt.
I didn't miss that one. I did miss the African caveman one though.

I get ya. I almost answered Watt on that one.

**Michael Alan Keith**

Blueacres Wrote:

Buster Wrote:
DrPostman Wrote:
Damned good score. Can you remember which ones were trick? I
didn't notice any.

Perhaps trick answers is more accurate.

Many of the questions included words or at least parts of words that are also in one of the answers.

Like James Watt and Horsepower. One of the answers was also Watt.

I didn't miss that one. I did miss the African caveman one though.

The answer was Joule, no trick ones!

IIRC the question was about 33,000 foot-pounds per minute. That is one horsepower.

**Gibbie** · **Gibbie** ^D ^D ^D whoa User ID: 49076 04-16-2012 09:03 PM **Posts: 7,187**

DrPostman Wrote:

Buster Wrote:
Perhaps trick answers is more accurate.
Many of the questions included words or at least parts of words that are also in one of the answers.
Like James Watt and Horsepower. One of the answers was also Watt.
I didn't miss that one. I did miss the African caveman one though.
I get ya. I almost answered Watt on that one.

Me too but I can't see him having the massive ego to name a standard unit in his own name chuckle

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 43481 04-16-2012 09:21 PM

DrPostman Wrote:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/12...atmosphere

I got 32 out of 50 right - 64%. I posted the exact list of what I got right and
wrong to my Facebook page. Some of them I should have gotten right!

How will YOU do?

Derp, I'm a serial debunker, derp, look at me, I don't have an original thought in my fat arse. Derp.

Jptdknpa

**Astrochik**

Jedi Knight Stevus Wrote:

43 right....still feel kinda dumb tho.

that's what I got, too.
S977

**Michael Alan Keith**

Gibbie Wrote:

DrPostman Wrote:
Buster Wrote:
Perhaps trick answers is more accurate.
Many of the questions included words or at least parts of words that are also in one of the answers.
Like James Watt and Horsepower. One of the answers was also Watt.
I didn't miss that one. I did miss the African caveman one though.
I get ya. I almost answered Watt on that one.

Me too but I can't see him having the massive ego to name a standard unit in his own name

He didn't name the unit after himself. That happened many years after his death.