The Pop Test – A comedy science quiz
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The Pop Test – A comedy science quiz
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 a...
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22 EpisodenPlastics - 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 d...
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 singl...
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 t...
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...
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, careful...
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 d...
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...
Origin of Life - A comedy science quiz
How did life start? Was it a warm pond of foul smelling water, deep sea underwater vents or the divine work of the Lord God?
Comedians Sami Shah...
The Elements - A comedy science quiz
Like nachos, burritos and tacos, the elements are unique in themselves, but are all made of the building blocks of Tex-Mex cuisine,
just rearran...
Heating - A comedy science quiz
Are you too cold or too hot right now? There’s a very high chance that both are to do with heating.
The Pop Test returns to give heating the gri...
Flight - A comedy science quiz
What role did old boots and horse manure play in the history of flight? What should you do if your helicopter fails 12,000 metres up? How should you p...
The Earth's Core
When the moon hits your eye like a regular pie that’s a metaphoré from the liquid
hot core of our series finale with comedians Greg Larsen and...
The Human Brain
Brains! Like a zombie neurologist we can't get enough of the stuff.
Join us as comedians Laura Davis, Josh Earl and science communicator Dr Jen...
Light
We catch up with the fastest thing in the universe, light, and ask it why it’s in such a hurry.
Featuring comedians Danielle Walker, Jack Druce...
Death
Death comes to us all…so this episode should be very relatable!
Join our grim reapers/comedians Nazeem Hussain, Vidya Rajan &
cancer rese...
Evolution
Who gives a monkey’s about evolution?
Well, comedians Ross Noble, Alex Lee and Dr Jenny Martin of University of Melbourne do!
Let's hope...
Space travel
Are we alone? Will we ever travel to the stars? What is a rocket?
These and many other questions will be asked but not necessarily answered by K...
Germ Theory
Germs account for millions of death each year and frankly have had it too good for too long.
But how will they react to the antimicrobial proper...
Agriculture
What links food, bush poetry and millions of litres of raw sewage?
No it’s not the world’s fastest-cancelled country fair - they’re all part of...
The Atom
Taking science seriously is vital right now and that’s why on The Pop Test we ask Shaun Micallef, molecular Biologist Upulie Divisekera and Sami Shah...
Computers
Who knows more about computers? Comedians Dilruk Jayasinha and Naomi Higgins or computational expert Dr Maria del Mar Quiroga? We reckon the pressure’...
INTRODUCING — The Pop Test
What does science + comedy equal? The correct answer is The Pop Test, a new comedy science quiz show hosted by Andy Matthews & Alasdair Tremblay Birch...