The fact I just happened to make a quiz about Mars (among other planets) sure helped on that one—no way I would’ve gotten 10/10 if this DTC happened a couple months ago. I knew somebody said canals… luckily this was that guy.
I think knowledge about Bruno Mars is also very much helped by what's your age, what you grew up with music-wise and where you live (I'm not a USian/North American/British) whereas knowledge about Olympus Mons, although not as common, is less linked with these factors.
But I have to admit that recent/current pop music is one of my biggest flaws in trivia (and sports also, especially the ones only/mostly followed in the US like baseball or American football)
WTH is question 9? Genuinely didn’t know there were symbols for planets. Is that a specific sci-fi reference I’m missing or a scientific notation, like one of the things we carve onto spacecraft? Fair enough
They're alchemical symbols. There was an association of certain elements with planets and so by extension the alchemical symbol for the element was used also to symbolise the planet.
Most of them are pretty obscure to anyone who isn't obsessed with astrology, but the Mars and Venus ones specifically see a lot of use to mean male/female, respectively. I first saw them in the pokemon games lol
Those are the classical symbols for planets, dating from the late antiquity and used to represent the planets on charts since then. They have been associated with alchemical substances that people believed to be related to planets (and gods in the antiquity), like lead for Saturn for example. They are not really used in modern astronomy, though they can still be useful on charts. Of course, astrology still uses them, because this... discipline is the remnant of the non-scientific part of traditional astronomy...
Anyway, those symbols are shown on the wikipedia pages of planets, in the frame at the top of the page, quite hard to miss frankly.
Sorry to say that there is no pride in not knowing these, they are literally general knowledge.
Glad to know they’re not used in modern astronomy as that would’ve posed me a few problems at university. Tbh, I can’t imagine ever opening the wiki for Mars, but maybe I should have.
I didn't know it represented Mars but I know the symbol is also used to represent men. It seemed reasonable that since "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus" the symbol for "men" would also be the symbol for Mars.
I just think that maybe they wanted to challenge us and they couldn't find anything better. TBH I have no idea how some people got 10/10 I mean some of the people I know on Jetpunk cheat on these quizzes.
9/10 bc I missed the symbol, but just yesterday I told my kid I don't know a single Bruno Mars song, so that one was a lucky guess. I love Mars itself though--one of the best planets.
Lucky 10/10 today, thanks to a correct wild guess on the canal question. The last five days I’ve scored a 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Really hoping the next five days are not 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
10/10 but I was both slow and lucky today. The movie question was a blind coin toss between After Earth and Total Recall, neither of which I've seen. Iron oxide, M&Ms, and canals were all educated guesses too 😅
I must say though I'm somewhat surprised by how many got the symbol wrong, I thought that was fairly common usage.
5/10. I've seen total recall, but couldn't remember for sure, just too long ago, so chose After Earth. Had no idea on the volcanoes. Captain Kirk seemed most logical. Kicking myself on not getting canals, as I excluded castles and writing, so guessed fire, but that's ridiculous as the sun is just a ball of fire and that's hardly a sign of life, so it really only left canals. Hey ho.
Ray Bradbury
Martin's representing people who are gone or away is incredibly sad.
They're sensitive.
But I have to admit that recent/current pop music is one of my biggest flaws in trivia (and sports also, especially the ones only/mostly followed in the US like baseball or American football)
Anyway, those symbols are shown on the wikipedia pages of planets, in the frame at the top of the page, quite hard to miss frankly.
Sorry to say that there is no pride in not knowing these, they are literally general knowledge.
I must say though I'm somewhat surprised by how many got the symbol wrong, I thought that was fairly common usage.
My 5th best score.
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