Pressie,
Perhaps you would enjoy this short article by Univ. California Museum of Paleontology on Leonardo Da Vinci.
His remarks about the flood and basic observations about geology are very close to what you we trying to get across to Faith earlier today. Maybe Leonardo would have had more luck.
I'm sure you know who discovered x-rays, radium, that F=ma, or who the volt, and ampere were named after. Is Darwin mentioned in begining biology textbooks? I mean, who cares what he said?
BTW I didn't make this test but if it was in the text it's fair game on a quiz.
Would this be better? Here are 20 minerals please outline for me the steps, simple tests, observations and descriptions you would follow to indentify them yourself. (However that is not covered in the course so, I guess all anyone knows is to ask a geologist what they are.)