* Karoo. net-' A Nation of Morons ' ( critique of the Army Alpha Intelligence Test ), Stephen Jay Gould

Barbauld's most significant political texts are: An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts ( 1790 ), Epistle to William Wilberforce on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade ( 1791 ), Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation ( 1793 ), and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven ( 1812 ).

She also co-hosts Test the Nation with Brent Bambury.

Wallace has written for and presented television shows such as Danny Wallace's Hoax Files ( Sky One ), Conspiracies ( Sky One ), School's Out ( BBC1 ), and in 2006 he took over from Phillip Schofield as co-presenter of BBC1's Test the Nation.

Nadia has appeared as a guest on Test the Nation and contributed to Comic Relief by taking part in Celebrity Driving School.

Test the Nation is a television programme, first broadcast in 2001 by BNN in the Netherlands where the concept is owned by Eyeworks Holding who license it to TV production companies around the world.

Miriam O ' Callaghan presents Test the Nation: The National IQ Test 2007.

Test the Nation is an RTÉ programme, based on the successful BBC concept, Test the Nation.

This version of Test the Nation covers the whole island of Ireland as opposed to just the Republic ; thus there is overlap between the content of the RTÉ and BBC versions of the show.

Test the Nation debuted in Canada 18 March 2007 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with the episode Test the Nation: IQ.

A second episode called Test the Nation: Watch Your Language was broadcast on September 9, 2007, a third episode aired on January 20, 2008, called Test the Nation: Trivia, and a fourth episode Test the Nation: Sports aired on Sunday May 25 at 8 pm ( 8: 30 NT ) on CBC Television.

In 1986, when The Smiths performed on the British music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, Morrissey wore a fake hearing-aid to support a hearing-impaired fan who was ashamed of using one, and also frequently wore thick-rimmed National Health Service-style glasses.

* Test Match Special, a United Kingdom radio programme providing live commentary on cricket matches

When a Japanese group called The Sadistic Mika Band appeared, a stagehand arranged for the name of the programme title ( usually hung on the back wall ) to be spelled as The Old Gley Whistle Test.

Following the Apollo – Soyuz Test Project, there were even talks between NASA and Intercosmos in the 1970s about a " Shuttle-Salyut " program to fly Space Shuttle missions to a Salyut space station, with later talks in the 1980s even considering flights of the future Soviet shuttles from the Buran programme to a future US space station.

Snow was particularly annoyed as a television firm had arranged to film him at Lord's to make a fifteen minute programme with John Betjeman about his poem Lords ' Test, which was now cancelled.

After an opening ceremony led by The Duchess of Kent, the station's first programme was live coverage of a Test cricket match between England and Australia at Headingey.

He also presented the Radio 4 film programme, Talking Pictures and chaired the radio panel games Break A Leg and Screen Test.

Kershaw's big break came in 1984, when he was asked to present BBC TV's flagship rock programme, The Old Grey Whistle Test, by its producer Trevor Dann, who Kershaw had met when filming with Bragg the previous week.

Thorpe made his debut as a summariser for BBC Radio's Test Match Special programme during the first Test of India's 2007 tour of England.

* Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding of BBC Three's cult comedy programme The Mighty Boosh posed for a parody of Test Card F for Guardian Unlimited in 2006.

Thanks to over twenty years ' worth of nightly instalments of Countdown as well as his work on the Yorkshire magazine programme Calendar and various other television projects, at the time of his death Whiteley was believed to have clocked more hours on British television screens — and more than 10, 000 appearances — than anyone else alive, apart from Carole Hersee, the young girl who appeared on the BBC's iconic Test Card F.

Test pilot Hanna Reitsch carried out a test programme on the two prototypes of the glider version, releasing from tow aircraft at altitudes of 3, 000-6, 000 m ( 9, 800-19, 700 ft ).

Test Match Special ( also known as TMS ) is a British radio programme covering professional cricket, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 ( long wave ), Five Live Sports Extra ( digital ) and the internet to the United Kingdom and ( where broadcasting rights permit ) the rest of the world.

The ICC later committed the Test cricket playing nations to play each other in a programme of matches over a period of 10 years known as the Future Tours Programme ( FTP ).

The ICC has expanded its development programme with the goal of producing more national teams capable of competing at Test level.

The uranium programme was started immediately after India's surprise nuclear test conducted at Indian Army base, the Pokhran Test Range, in 1974, under codename Smiling Buddha.

Admission to the former programme is through the Common Law Admission Test, a highly competitive, nationwide common entrance examination, held jointly by the fourteen national law schools.

He was familiar to cricket followers from his appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme Test Match Special, nicknamed the Bearded Wonder ( often shortened to Bearders ) by Brian Johnston for his ability to research the most obscure cricketing facts in moments, at the same time as keeping perfect scorecards, and because he had a beard.

This debut appearance was followed by The Old Grey Whistle Test and then the Today programme.

He said on 18 July 2008 on Five Live's Test Match Special programme that he believed he would not play for England again after being left out of the Test squads against both New Zealand and South Africa.

For example Test 3, E 1 refers to a specimen which has been washed by procedure `` 3 ( '' ( at 160-degrees-F ) for a total of 60 minutes in the machine, has been dried in a tumble dryer by procedure `` E '' and has been subjected to restorative forces on the Tension Presser by procedure `` 1 ''.

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

England went on to win the series 3 – 2 after it had been all square before the Final Test, which England won by 6 wickets.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.

After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.

The West Indies would go on to record resounding Test series wins over Australia and England and dominated world cricket until the 1990s.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

England went on to win the series 3 – 1, beating Australia by an innings and 83 runs at Sydney in the Fifth Test.

In the next series on English soil in 2013, Durham's Chester-le-Street ground will host its first Ashes Test match.

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

1945 ), San Diego State College ( M. A., 1952 ) and Columbia University ( Ph. D., 1956 ), and did his doctoral thesis on the Thematic Apperception Test.

* Graeme Fowler, cricketer, former England batsman, cricket coach and occasional pundit on BBC Radio's Test Match Special

In the first Test on 20 June, they lost 26 – 21, and lost the series in the second 28 – 25 in a tightly-fought game at Loftus Versfeld on 27 June.

He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

This would be later broken by Sachin Tendulkar of India on 17 October 2008 whilst playing against Australia at Mohali in the 2nd Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2008.

* He was the all-time leading run scorer in Test cricket, a record he attained on 26 November 2005 until surpassed by Sachin Tendulkar on 17 October 2008.