If you’re like me, growing up you were fascinated by magnets. I remember seeing older kids in science class doing units on magnets and getting this tingly sensation thinking about next year, when it would be my turn to do all those cool experiments.
How well do you remember which materials are magnetic and which aren’t? How well do you recall the history of magnets and other fun magnet facts?
Take the Magnetic Attraction quiz and find out.
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Finally I scored 100% on a quiz!
posted by JMB on 1-23-2009 at 12:17 pm
8/10. I mixed up the magnetized Penny questions. D’oh!
posted by Michael on 1-23-2009 at 12:30 pm
The legend about the naming of magnetism has to be wrong. The Iron Age began about 3200 years ago and I’m expected to believe that some shepherd in Crete was 800 years ahead of his time not to mention having his own iron producing forge? I think not! The question ought to be disqualified and the answer taken out and shot.
posted by Alice on 1-23-2009 at 12:47 pm
@Alice – it does seem rather dubious, esp given his name and the region’s name. however, all i’m asking is if the bishop discovered the magnet. true or false.
posted by David K. Israel on 1-23-2009 at 12:57 pm
the grill was a trick question. Jerkstore.
9 out of 10 :-(
posted by tommy on 1-23-2009 at 1:01 pm
9 out of 10. Silver colored penny not silver coated.
posted by toddes on 1-23-2009 at 4:11 pm
has anyone here ever tried to drill a hole into a magnet? i have with various types of bits ,but no sucess,
why is that?
oldbear.
posted by oldbear on 1-23-2009 at 7:56 pm
9/10 – didn’t know about the grill. Good to know, though!
posted by Dawn on 1-23-2009 at 10:10 pm
The end of a compass that points north, is the north pole of the magnet, bbut opposites attract. So the northpole of magnets are atttracted to south poles and repelled by north poles.
Thus the earths north pole is really a south pole.
posted by Jem on 1-24-2009 at 5:47 am