There is a Twilight Zone episode where a businessman makes a pact with the Devil, which allows him to go back in time so that he can capitalize off of his knowledge about the future. It turns out though that the businessman’s knowledge about the future is all superficial and thus he is unable to jump start any technological advancements by traveling back in time. This would likely be the plight of most contemporary humans if they were sent back in time. While we rely greatly on technology, most of us don’t know much about how it actually works and where the materials to make it come from.
If you were to travel 2000 years into the past, how useful would you be in jumpstarting technological advancements? This 10 question quiz will help you figure out your technological usefulness. If you do poorly on the quiz, as most people likely will, then just let that inspire you to study up more on how things work and where raw materials come from.
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10/10 for me – just goes to show, I watch FAR too much ‘How its made’ on Discovery.
8/10 here.
But in 0009AD, there would be no one giving out the choices — so that I can make my “educated” guesses.
8 OUT OF 10! I often wonder if ET was asked how his spaceship worked, how much he would know!
Back 2000 years? At that time, the answers to most of these questions were known by the Sumerians, Greeks, Chinese, etc, etrc……
7 out of 10 hmm I think I would rather stay in year 0 life is just to complicated now
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The lift question is bogus. Most of the lift generated by an airfoil comes from redirection of air flow–the trailing edge of a useful airfoil angles downward to some degree. The explanation we were all taught in school, that the lift comes from differential pressure due to faster movement of air on the top surface is pretty much bogus. In reality, there wouldn’t be much difference between answers A and C, especially at low air speeds.
First, there was no year 0. Second, if anyone tried to tell people 2000 years ago about these “technological” advances they would most likely have been killed for sorcery, heresy, etc.. What makes you think they’d listen? They’re not listening now!
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@BobDumberg “First, there was no year 0. ”
The christian calender has no year 0, but the astronomical one does, with 10 BC = year -9, 1BC = year 0!
Works for me.
(10/10 – just as well, as I teach this stuff in college)
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I’m not even going to take it. I’m confident that all I’d accomplish is somehow squaring-off the wheel and cooling down fire.
8 out of 10. Lucky guest!!!!!!!
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I got eight out of ten. I would guess however that most of the information would be useless if you went back over 300 years. People would think you were nuts if you brought up some of the information required for answers.
I’m 86 and have forgotten a lot but still get a kick out of doing as well as did.
Suggest that you make up a new test and ask about starting a fire with out matches, elementary first aid, finding food and how to prepare it and what to use for shelter when the temperature is below freezings.
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very easy quiz
i got 9 out of 10…awesome!!!! very easy
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I’m going to agree that this quiz does not really tell you how useful someone may be. I’ve got a fairly firm grasp on mathematics and could jump start quite a bit of it if I was not called a wizard and burned alive. Plus I’ve got fairly good grasp on putting things back together and fixing them so I guess I would do better at giving them some technology as opposed to giving them the fundamentals to build the technology. 6/10
7/10
And by the way, there never was a year 0 in our current calendar.
Thank you for your explanation. There really useful information.
m an iitian n got 9 correct
….i am useful upto 19th century….i think this quiz is judging your aptitude, quest for knowledge, and whether you know the basics or not….but i don’t understand how it has been linked with present day and age….
10/10, but I cheated by being really smart.
Great quiz. 🙂
i would ask the original jesus christ. to lay his hands on me.
now do i sit for the quiz. in person? amen
for the question ask . you wouldnt need to ask!
but if you needed help in this case. all you need is the manual. its called the bible 🙂
3 on 10 noooooooooooooooooo 🙁
asaan tha
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