{"id":2967,"date":"2013-01-08T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2013-01-08T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:53:59","slug":"failing-the-observer-science-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/01\/08\/failing-the-observer-science-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing The Observer science quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took the Guardian \/ Observer science quiz at Christmas, and scored a miserable 8 out of 20. \u00a0Mind you, the questions had a lot to do with popular culture which never seems to be my strong suit these days (if it ever was). \u00a0Here are a few of the questions I got wrong (even though they were multiple choice):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which Orange prize-winning author took ecstasy during a Channel 4 investigation into its supposed therapeutic uses?y<\/li>\n<li>Which supermodel impressed Brian Cox with her knowledge of quantum physics at a showbiz soiree?<\/li>\n<li>Which reality show judge had one of their songs played on Mars?<\/li>\n<li>Which arcade game character did Nasa scientists find on Tethys, the fifth largest of Saturn\u2019s moons?<\/li>\n<li>What did researchers from the University of Wisconsin discover drove men\u2019s friendships with women?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despair ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the Guardian \/ Observer science quiz at Christmas, and scored a miserable 8 out of 20. \u00a0Mind you, the questions had a lot to do with popular culture which never seems to be my strong suit these days...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}