Engineering News Blog

Engineering News

Latest news of interest to engineers. Sourced from GlobalSpec's Engineering News
Previous in Blog: Space Archaeologists Call for Preserving Off-Earth Artifacts   Next in Blog: Tetris Video Game 'Fixes Lazy Eye'
Close

Comments Format:






Change Mode
Close

Subscribe to Discussion:

CR4 allows you to "subscribe" to a discussion
so that you can be notified of new comments to
the discussion via email.

Close

Rating Vote:







Add Vote
18 comments
Rate Comments: Nested

Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

Posted April 22, 2013 8:36 AM

From SPACE.com:

You live here, so we figure you ought to be well grounded in Earth facts. But you might find these questions a little tough and tricky. Good luck!

Read the whole article

Reply

Interested in this topic? By joining CR4 you can "subscribe" to
this discussion and receive notification when new comments are added.
Kris
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Etherville
Posts: 12362
Good Answers: 115
#1

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 8:52 AM

Got the question about the hottest place wrong

__________________
 For sale - Signature space. Apply on self addressed postcard..
Reply
SolarEagle
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: by the beach in Florida
Posts: 33392
Good Answers: 1817
#2
In reply to #1

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 9:12 AM

I got the lowest point on dry land wrong.... A gaping hole in my education, well I guess that's why we have Google.....

__________________
 All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
Reply
Kris
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Etherville
Posts: 12362
Good Answers: 115
#9
In reply to #2

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 4:01 PM

You deserve an extra half point for considering land under glaciers.

__________________
 For sale - Signature space. Apply on self addressed postcard..
Reply
SavvyExacta
Guru
United States - Member - Lifelong New Yorker Popular Science - Biology - Animal Science Technical Fields - Technical Writing - Technical Writer

Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: NY
Posts: 2313
Good Answers: 59
#3
In reply to #1

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 9:23 AM

I managed to get them all right. Multiple choice tests are all about the process of elimination.

Reply
lyn
Guru

Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 42355
Good Answers: 1693
#4
In reply to #1

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 9:55 AM

Me too, and I've been there.
Reply
Kris
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Etherville
Posts: 12362
Good Answers: 115
#8
In reply to #4

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 3:58 PM

Hey, you might have been there at night

__________________
 For sale - Signature space. Apply on self addressed postcard..
Reply
lyn
Guru

Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 42355
Good Answers: 1693
#13
In reply to #8

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 7:43 PM

Indeed I was. 1955 and no air conditioning. We had a 1950 GMC pickup. Family of 5. Poor white trash. We left LA 2:00 AM and drove through there at night. It was June, I think. Plenty hot.

Headed back to rural Arkansas and the farm, at about 35 MPH.
Reply
Kris
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Etherville
Posts: 12362
Good Answers: 115
#15
In reply to #13

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/23/2013 3:06 AM

Sounds like hard times, but it conjurs up a really interesting image - almost like something from a Steinbeck novel. Cheers for sharing that - that whole concept of a family packing up and moving such a big distance in their car is very strange compared to Brit (1950's) lifestyle/culture.

__________________
 For sale - Signature space. Apply on self addressed postcard..
Reply Off Topic (Score 5)
JohnDG
Guru
United Kingdom - Member - Not a New Member Hobbies - Musician - New Member Hobbies - Fishing - New Member

Join Date: May 2006
Location: Reading, Berkshire, UK. Going under cover.
Posts: 9684
Good Answers: 468
#5
In reply to #1

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 11:30 AM

I got it correct at 2nd attempt .

Reckon it's a trick question, 'cause everyone thinks "Death Valley - oh, wait - a place I've never heard of - that must be it!"

__________________
 "Love justice, you who rule the world" - Dante Alighieri
Reply
Kris
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Etherville
Posts: 12362
Good Answers: 115
#7
In reply to #5

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 3:57 PM

rofl !

I think the three of us can feel fairly at ease over the issue of hottest place. Can't remember the exact wording, but did it stipulate that it had to be someplace just heated by the sun ?

__________________
 For sale - Signature space. Apply on self addressed postcard..
Reply
JohnDG
Guru
United Kingdom - Member - Not a New Member Hobbies - Musician - New Member Hobbies - Fishing - New Member

Join Date: May 2006
Location: Reading, Berkshire, UK. Going under cover.
Posts: 9684
Good Answers: 468
#12
In reply to #7

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 7:36 PM

How does 2 billion degrees Kelvin grab ya? The lab is on Earth, right?

__________________
 "Love justice, you who rule the world" - Dante Alighieri
Reply
Kris
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Etherville
Posts: 12362
Good Answers: 115
#14
In reply to #12

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/23/2013 2:50 AM

Z-Machine sounds like something out of Flash Gordon !

__________________
 For sale - Signature space. Apply on self addressed postcard..
Reply Off Topic (Score 5)
SolarEagle
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: by the beach in Florida
Posts: 33392
Good Answers: 1817
#18
In reply to #12

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/23/2013 8:41 AM

I don't see how this is possible....If this is accurate they have created some sort of rather significant fusion event....

__________________
 All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
Reply
JNB
Guru

Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 1071
Good Answers: 92
#6

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 11:40 AM

Here I thought it was about Mars!
Reply
LakeGrl
Power-User
Hobbies - Musician - New Member Technical Fields - Technical Writing - New Member

Join Date: May 2010
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 278
Good Answers: 5
#10

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 4:43 PM

Got the one about the lowest point on land wrong the first time, guess I looked at the term sea too quickly - oh well - very tricky. I passed my drivers test the first time though so that evens it out!

__________________
 LakeGrl
Reply
Tornado
Guru
Technical Fields - Technical Writing - New Member Engineering Fields - Piping Design Engineering - New Member

Join Date: May 2009
Location: Richland, WA, USA
Posts: 21017
Good Answers: 795
#11

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/22/2013 4:44 PM

Given my one wrong answer, I'll probably get struck by lightning. I hope not that often!

__________________
 In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
Reply
PWSlack
Guru
United Kingdom - Member - Indeterminate Engineering Fields - Control Engineering - New Member

Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on.
Posts: 32175
Good Answers: 839
#16
In reply to #11

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/23/2013 3:44 AM

100 times a second sounds painful. Dig the avatar, though!

__________________
 "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
Reply Off Topic (Score 5)
Kris
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Etherville
Posts: 12362
Good Answers: 115
#17
In reply to #16

Re: Earth Quiz: Do You Really Know Your Planet?

04/23/2013 4:46 AM

I'm told that eating plenty of carrots will reduce the rate of lightning strikes

__________________
 For sale - Signature space. Apply on self addressed postcard..
Reply Off Topic (Score 5)
Reply to Blog Entry
Have a Different Question?
18 comments
Copy to Clipboard

Users who posted comments:

JNB (1); JohnDG (2); Kris (7); LakeGrl (1); lyn (2); PWSlack (1); SavvyExacta (1); SolarEagle (2); Tornado (1)

Previous in Blog: Space Archaeologists Call for Preserving Off-Earth Artifacts   Next in Blog: Tetris Video Game 'Fixes Lazy Eye'

Advertisement

Got Something to Say?
Ask a Question
Start a Discussion

Search this Section
General Discussion:
Go

Search this Blog
Engineering News:
Go

Recent Blog Entries

CR4 Sections
Aerospace
BioMech & BioMed
Chemical & Material Science
Civil Engineering
Communications & Electronics
Education and Engineering Careers
Electrical Engineering
General Discussion
Instrumentation
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
New Technologies & Research
Software & Programming
Sustainable Engineering
Transportation

Site Directories
Forum Directory
Blog Directory
User Group Directory
RSS Feeds

CR4 Rules of Conduct
CR4 FAQ
Site Glossary

Who's Online (61 right now)
Show Members
Advertisement