ANSWERS
GEEK POINT AVERAGE
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0–1 1 CORRECT: SUNNYDALE HIGH DROPOUT
There is something wrong here, you’ve managed to score below the average
for random guesses. Look, even your cat could do better
12– 13 CORRECT: MOS EISLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
This is the statistical average for blind guesses, so either you did just that or you have absolutely no clue at all
14 – 25 CORRECT: UNSEEN UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE
So you do know a thing or two, keep reading Maximum PC, you have real potential
26 – 37 CORRECT: CAL STATE HOGWARTS
Well, you certainly have been paying attention! Our hearty congratulations, you are a geek
38 – 48 CORRECT: VULCAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
If you did this without help then we salute you; you’ve proved yourself worthy.
Permission to feel very smug about yourself
49 CORRECT: YOU CHEATED, DIDN’T YOU?
We are pretty sure you did, although we have no proof
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43 To test the theory that
tardigrades could survive space
travel, scientists did what?
A] Glued some on the outside of one
of Musk’s SpaceX rockets to see
what would happen
B] Built a miniature satellite to
take them into orbit, currently
awaiting a launch opportunity
C] Dropped millions from weather
balloons to see if they could
survive the fall
D] Fired them from a gun to test
impact resistance
44 Google’s quantum computer
has been used to demonstrate the
possibility of what phenomenon?
A] Time crystals
B] Time travel
C] Quantum wormholes
D] Invisible crystals
45 This year Google ended project
Loon, what was it trying to do?
A] Build an AI-powered robot drummer
B] Map the surface of the moon
C] Track common loon duck migration
D] Use balloons for internet access
46 How much was paid for
an NFT of the Nyan cat
(basically, an animated gif)?
A] $56, 100
B] $561,0 00
C] $888,8 88
D] It wasn’t more than that, was it?
47 Captain Kirk made it into space,
how many people have managed
this, as defined by the FIA?
A] 392
B] 556
C] 675
D] 1,2 43
48 One of these
isn’t a real thing,
but which is it?
A] The Microsoft Teletubbies
plush toy
B] The Intel Ottoman, a PC built
into a footstool
C] The iSmell, does what you
think it does
D] The Samsung Goyang, a phone
inside a plush kitten toy
49 How big is the world’s
smallest ‘submarine’?
A] It has 244 atoms, so it’s
absolutely minuscule
B] It’s made from between 2, 000
and 2,2 00 atoms, so it’s very small
C] Less than a millimeter, so it’s
about the size of a grain of salt
D] A few millimeters, so it’s about the
same size as a grain of rice
Weird Science
JAN 2022 MAXIMUMPC 31
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