The Pop Test – A comedy science quiz
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Plastics - A comedy science quiz
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things, which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturin...
Reproduction - A comedy science quiz
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Time - A comedy science quiz
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Marie Curie - A comedy science quiz
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Plastics - A comedy science quiz
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things. Which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturin...
Dinosaurs - A comedy science quiz
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 rev...
Electricity - A comedy science quiz
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Origin of Life - A comedy science quiz
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, Jude...
The Elements - A comedy science quiz
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Like nachos, burritos and tacos, the elements are unique in themselves, but are all made of the building blocks of Tex-Mex cuisine,just rearranged in...
Heating - A comedy science quiz
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 grillin...
Flight - A comedy science quiz
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Earth's Core
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Al...
The Human Brain
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Jenny Ma...
Light
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 and ...
Death
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Death comes to us all…so this episode should be very relatable!Join our grim reapers/comedians Nazeem Hussain, Vidya Rajan & cancer researcher ...
Evolution
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 they are up...
Space travel
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Kate Mc...
Germ Theory
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 properties o...
Agriculture
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sh...
Computers
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does science + comedy equal? The correct answer is The Pop Test, a new comedy science quiz show hosted by Andy Matthews & Alasdair Tremblay ...