The Pop Test – A comedy science quiz ABC listen
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What is love? Who invented dinosaurs? How did life begin? What's the best lighting system for a football game played by snakes? Science asks big questions but only The Pop Test answers them in a comedy quiz format. Andy and Al ask some frankly impossible questions. It's up to a panel of scientists and comedians to give their funniest or most enlightening answer for Team Science.
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Plastics - A comedy science quiz
The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things, which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturing double edged swords.
Comedians Claire Hooper, Kirsty Webeck and science journalist Jacinta Bowler help us smother the ocean of ignorance with the plastic flotsam of knowledge. -
Reproduction - A comedy science quiz
To make sex unsexy, reproduction is just copying. That’s why it’s not allowed during exams. To understand how life has continued since the first single celled organism got a bit frisky we talk to comedian Lloyd Langford, broadcaster Beverly Wang and Dr Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist at Zoos Victoria.
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Time - A comedy science quiz
How can you stop time?
What machine can’t move and only works half the time?
Where on earth does time travel the slowest?
Find out the answers in the 25 so-called ‘minutes’ of this mind-bending episode of the best science comedy podcast of all time
Featuring Shaun Micallef, Claire Hooper and Astrophysics lecturer Katie Auchettl -
Marie Curie - A comedy science quiz
What convinced the Nobel judges to give her the first Nobel Prize? What's a little curie? What did she hoard in her youthful life of crime?
It's time to laboriously stir our mix of pitchblende to find the uranium of truth.
Featuring comedians Vidya Rajan, Alanta Colley and writer Laura Elvery -
Dinosaurs - A comedy science quiz
Who invented dinosaurs? What would a T Rex have tasted like? Who sells sea shells by the sea shore?
It's time to dig through some rocks, carefully reveal the fossils and then extract the DNA inside to create an exciting but lethal theme park.
Featuring comedians Cal Wilson, Matt Stewart and science communicator Jacinta Bowler. -
Electricity - A comedy science quiz
History, like electricity, illuminates the darkness and it's expensive to get a specialist in it to come to your house on a public holiday.
Find out more about the science and the history behind you turning on a light switch.
Featuring comedians Kirsty Webeck, broadcaster Beverly Wang and Jamie Evans, Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne.
Customer Reviews
So much fun!
Kind of like if QI was Australian, and better, and lacked the visual component, and Sandi/Stephen was two men instead of one man and then one woman, and there was no klaxon
Uplifting on a down day
If you're feeling low, take a Pop Test.. you'll feel a lot better.
Hilarious and so, so clever
If you have some scientific background or interest you will get more of their very clever jokes. So much fun!