Funny Science Olympiad Test Answers

[2win]

There was a question that asked what dihydrogen monoxide was and my partner almost put H2O2.

[croman74]

lol, wow. I remember sweetcoop once tried to trick us with that question.

[Sheogorath]

At NY States for Remote, there was a question that asked what caused a global cooling in temps between like 1940 and 1970, and I remembered reading about it but my mind went blank and there was only a minute to go so I wrote that it was the hippies trying to cut down on CO2 emissions. We still got 8th.

Hehe, i remember that question. My partner made up something about the oscillation of the earth's axis, but I really wanted to put that it was because of the Cold War. When we walked out, i heard a couple of other teams say that they actually did put the Cold War =)

It did cross my mind to write that but I didn't see how it would work and we were strapped for time.

[gneissisnice]

Well, i figured Cold War = cooling. Just a bad play on words. I still dont know what the answer was.

[Sheogorath]

I looked it up, I guess it was because of all the aerosols being used then. Aerosols, for those who haven't had any meteorology experience, are just minute particles suspended in the air. Because there was so much of them it affected the albedo of the planet, which caused more sunlight to be reflected back into space, thus cooling the planet. Which makes sense when you think of it. Just wish I had thought of it during the test, but oh well.

[gneissisnice]

Yeah, but CFCs also have a major warming capacity as a greenhouse gas.

[sewforlife]

lol for my states. we had an abbreviation for Amphbians and Reptiles..
it was T.E.D.
we put.
turtle
Electronic
Device...

[Phenylethylamine]

Yeah, but CFCs also have a major warming capacity as a greenhouse gas.

Only if the sunlight can get through in the first place- which some of it can't if the concentration is too high to begin with.

[Sheogorath]

CFC's aren't the only aerosols, if I through up a bunch of sand into the air it would be an aerosol

[Uranium235]

I was doing the 2008 National Reach for the Stars event for practice.
The question was "Which star, Vega or Arcturus, has a higher surface temperature?"
My partner, who did that question, put "Yes"