The Ultimate Brady Bunch Question! (Re: The Power of The Press.)

[Jack1000]

Guys,

If anyone has Season 3 on DVD and has a really clear high-res TV, you should pause it right on the part that shows Peter's "D" on Mr. Price's science test. I have never taped it and don't have the DVD, but I often wondered what some of the other questions were. All I can make out is that the first question is:

"The center part of a cell or anything?"

Jack

[-TRANCE-]

Just checked that out for you.

Here it goes..

Final Examination : The Language Of Science

1. The central part - In an atom or in a cell - or anything.
2. Soil, Water, Forests, Minerals and Wildlife
3. Anything that can take up space and has weight- solids, liquids, gages, elements, compounds, mixtures.
4. The distance a ray of light travells in 365 days at 186,000 miles per second-about 6,000,000, 000, 000 miles.
5. An animal having no backbone-insects, worms, clams.
6. The tendency of an object to remain at rest, or if to notice to remain in motion.
7. A plant eating animal.
8. Animals that eat both plants and animals....

This was all that was to be made out, the rest was not shown.

[Jack1000]

Cool!!!!

Jack

[SKay]

Now, who can answer all the questions? I know all except #2 and #6 (don't even understand that one).

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by SKay

Now, who can answer all the questions? I know all except #2 and #6 (don't even understand that one).

hard to see what he was looking for in #2 (maybe "ecology" or just "nature").
#6 answer is intertia.


we all know # 5 is invertebrate... thanks to Marcia's rhyme, "a vertebrate has a back that's straight".

[SKay]

Originally Posted by Tweety

we all know # 5 is invertebrate... thanks to Marcia's rhyme, "a vertebrate has a back that's straight".

Yes, and that's one that Peter missed!

The odd thing about the test is that it looked like the answers were all letters, as if the questions were multiple choice or matching, but we don't see any choices.

[Jack1000]

Originally Posted by SKay

Yes, and that's one that Peter missed!

The odd thing about the test is that it looked like the answers were all letters, as if the questions were multiple choice or matching, but we don't see any choices.

Maybe the actual answers were on one of those computer scan-tron sheets that they usually used in schools, and especially college for multiple choice tests, so when Mr. Price graded the exams the incorrect responses indicated by the red checks corresponded to the questions that Peter missed on the Scan-Tron sheet.

Kudos to the writers and producers for actually using REAL test questions on the sheet and not just some printed scribbles that they figured, "Well, know one would see anyway." Maybe since Robert Reed was such a stickler for realism he insisted on the writers looking up and using realistic middle-school science test questions.

Didn't Milton Parsons play Mr. Price incredibly well? He just LOOKED like one of those school science teachers! I can also tell you that my science teachers gave hard exams most of the time!

I can't believe how so many people don't care for this episode. Some didn't like the fade-in on Mr. Price the puppet to Mr. Price the teacher! hahaha. I thought it was neato!

Jack

[Nightfall]

Ok,I am going to embarrass myself here by saying that that little puppet of Mr. Price gave me the creeps when I saw it as a kid. And now, as an adult, the actor playing Mr. Price gives me the creeps!

[Jack1000]

Originally Posted by Nightfall

Ok,I am going to embarrass myself here by saying that that little puppet of Mr. Price gave me the creeps when I saw it as a kid. And now, as an adult, the actor playing Mr. Price gives me the creeps!

Hahahaha!!!! That is funny!!! (No, I mean I am sorry that the scene frightened you!) but the situation you described is funny!

Jack

[sixfingers]

Originally Posted by -TRANCE-

Just checked that out for you.

Here it goes..

Final Examination : The Language Of Science

1. The central part - In an atom or in a cell - or anything.
2. Soil, Water, Forests, Minerals and Wildlife
3. Anything that can take up space and has weight- solids, liquids, gages, elements, compounds, mixtures.
4. The distance a ray of light travells in 365 days at 186,000 miles per second-about 6,000,000, 000, 000 miles.
5. An animal having no backbone-insects, worms, clams.
6. The tendency of an object to remain at rest, or if to notice to remain in motion.
7. A plant eating animal.
8. Animals that eat both plants and animals....

This was all that was to be made out, the rest was not shown.

Originally Posted by SKay

Now, who can answer all the questions? I know all except #2 and #6 (don't even understand that one).

I'll give it a shot:

1. The central part - In an atom or in a cell - or anything.

nucleus

2. Soil, Water, Forests, Minerals and Wildlife

I would say "environment" but you Could also say "ecology" or even "nature"
This one is somewhat esoteric because several answers would be correct but you'd have to have taken the course to know which one was "right"


3. Anything that can take up space and has weight- solids, liquids, gages, elements, compounds, mixtures.

matter

4. The distance a ray of light travells in 365 days at 186,000 miles per second-about 6,000,000, 000, 000 miles.

Light year (how could a Star Trek fan miss that one?)

5. An animal having no backbone-insects, worms, clams.

Invertebrate

6. The tendency of an object to remain at rest, or if to notice to remain in motion.

Inertia

7. A plant eating animal.

Herbivore (some "herbivores" aren't strictly "vegetarian" but that's off topic)

8. Animals that eat both plants and animals....

Omnivores (since the queston is plural, so is the answer)

[Ireneparalegal]

Question number 5:

An animal having no backbone...

The obvious answer is CLIFF HUXTABLE on The Cosby Show