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Allison Parshall
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Mind and brain news editor at Scientific American. Follow for weekly science quizzes! Views are my own.
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On today's @sciam.bsky.social science quiz, we've got space shuttles and cryptography puzzles. Share your score below! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/game/scienti...
Multiple choice question reading "A famous sculpture containing a cryptography puzzle called Kryptos has fascinated the public since 1990, when it was installed in what notable location?" Answer options are "The Statue of Liberty's torch, Area 51, the CIA's headquarters, the North Pole."
October 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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On this week's @sciam.bsky.social science quiz, we've got earth wind and fire. (Kinda.) Can you get 6/6? www.scientificamerican.com/game/science... 🧪
Quiz question reading "'Earth wind' can blow particles of oxygen to the moon, where they can do what?" Answer options are "Erupt lunar volcanoes, feed lunar microbes, rust lunar minerals, and create lunar auroras"
September 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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On this week's @sciam.bsky.social Science Quiz, we've got wild drinking and treasure hunting. Can you get 6/6? www.scientificamerican.com/game/science... 🧪
Quiz question reading "What global treasure-hunting game uses GPS to lead players to spots that are hidden in plain sight?"; Answer options are MapQuest, Grandlining, Geocaching, and Skytagging
September 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Take my weekly science quiz for @sciam.bsky.social ! This week: psychedelics and sexual parasites www.scientificamerican.com/game/science... 🧪
Multiple choice question reading "What is the hallucinogenic compound found in 'magic mushrooms'?" Answer options are psilocybin, mescaline, dimethyltryptamine, and omeprazole.
September 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Take Scientific American's weekly science quiz! www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...
Screenshot of a quiz question, "In grapheme-color synesthesia, people see letters or numbers as having particular colors. What color do English-speaking people with this form of synesthesia most often associate with the letter “A”?" Answer options are blue, red, chartreuse, and sad beige.
June 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Happy Pi Day! Come take the SciAm weekly science quiz, full of questions about math and round things www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...
A quiz question that reads "The mathematical constant pi is an irrational number, so it can’t be represented as a fraction of two integers. But what fraction is often used to get close?"
March 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Time for SciAm's weekly science quiz! www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...
Multiple choice quiz question. Question reads, "What exoplanet-hunting telescope in Chile goes by an acronym that is also the name of a recent Grammy Award–winning song?" Answer possibilities are: ESPRESSO (Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations)", "BRAT (Barometric Radiation Astronomical Telescope)", "APT (Aerial Prism Telescope)" and "NOTLIKEUS (National Observatory for Transiting-like Exoplanets in the Ultraviolet Spectrum)"
February 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Come take this week's SciAm Science Quiz! First up, what sci-fi actor is one of the oldest people to fly in space? www.scientificamerican.com/game/science...
Quiz question reading "The oldest two people to fly in space are astronaut Ed Dwight and what famous science-fiction actor?" Answer options are: Mark Hamill, William Shatner, Dick van Dyke and Christopher Lloyd
January 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM