The Astronomy Test

All possible test results

Unbelievably Bad

Either you're an exceptionally unlucky guesser, or you're actually very knowledgeable about astronomy and decided to see if you could carefully avoid all the right answers. Either way, I'm impressed. Read more

Really Bad Guesser

Rather than giving the "I don't know" answer when you didn't know the real one, you insisted on guessing, even though I told you not to... and look where it got you. You actually did worse than you pr... Read more

Unlucky Guesser

You decided to chance it and guess at the answers, rather than taking the 2 points for the "I don't know" answers, and it didn't work out for you. Next time, just answer D for everything and you'll g... Read more

Guesser

You decided to guess at most of the answers, and you did about average, considering. If you want to improve your score, just answer D for everything next time, and get a 50. Either that, or pick up ... Read more

Lucky Guesser

Either you know a bit, but not as much as you think you do, or you guessed at everything and got lucky. You'd still do better just by answering D for everything, though. Read more

Clueless

Maybe you just answered D for everything, or maybe you know a few things, but made some wrong guesses when you should have admitted you weren't sure. Either way, you scored about average. Read more

Space Cadet

Congratulations! You must know a thing or two about astronomy. Maybe you took an introductory course at college, or read lots of books about space as a kid. This test is meant to be extremely diffi... Read more

Backyard Astronomer

Congratulations! You clearly know quite a bit about astronomy. You've probably taken a few courses, or else maybe you take an amateur interest in the subject and read a lot of books about it. Maybe... Read more

Astrophysics Major

Wow! You're about as much of an astronomy nerd as I am, meaning you probably have a degree in physics of some sort, possibly even specialising in astrophysics. While writing this test, there were a ... Read more

Stephen Hawking

AMAZING. You did better than I would have on my own test. Either you really know everything there is to know about astronomy, or you're a dirty, rotten cheater who looked up all the answers on Googl... Read more