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Andy Matthews and Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall for The Pop Test

Science is all about questions — but how many of these can you get right?

Is this a beaker full of science and comedy quiz questions? No, it's microalgae.(ABC News: Michael Clements)

Science is all about questions. What is the sun? Why is gravity? I wonder what would happen if we made this thing go super fast and then smashed it into little bits?

Quiz shows are also, in their way, about questions, although even the best ones rarely come close to science's potential to create a black hole that destroys the universe. What they do have over science, though, is a hard time limit to actually get answers.

By combining science and quiz shows together, in what we're tentatively calling a "science quiz show" named The Pop Test, we hoped to force a team of two comedians and one scientist to finally answer some of those big questions in a timely fashion.

The quiz below is the cream of the dregs — so if you hate it, that's terrific, because we can guarantee our show doesn't contain any of these questions, but does contain others that are much more interesting and funny.

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