Science Knowledge Quiz

Watch a lot of Star Trek? Big Star Wars fan? Think you're a science nerd? Take the Pew Center's Science Knowledge Quiz and see how you stack up. The questions range from easy to damnably tricky, so good luck.

I got 'em all right, beating 90 percent of those who took it. Sheer dumb luck on a couple of them, but right now I need all the ego boost I can get, even if from a survey.

News Quiz

There's a Facebook app designed specifically for the New York Times to quiz your knowledge of current events. It's typically five questions. I only got a 60, three out of five. Sad. Only works if you have a Facebook account (and who doesn't?). I'm not sure why it's important to know how many full-blown press conferences President Obama has had, but that's one of those I missed. Seems trivial in the extreme. I put answered it was his fourth and the correct answer was the fifth. Sheesh.

Also ... away from a consistent Internet connection for a few days.