Q 01/05
A) Stockholm
B) Gothenburg
C) Oslo
D) Copenhagen
Answer · why
The family was so poor at the time that only Alfred and three of his brothers survived childhood.
Q 02/05
A) 96
B) 178
C) 240
D) 355
Answer · why
His first, filed in England in 1857 when he was 24, was for a gas meter rather than anything that exploded.
Q 03/05
A) Three
B) Four
C) Six
D) Nine
Answer · why
Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian; he was good enough in English to write poetry in it.
Q 04/05
A) Sandvik
B) Husqvarna
C) Saab
D) Bofors
Answer · why
He bought it in 1894, and the Björkborn Manor that came with it is now a museum.
Q 05/05
A) Nihonium
B) Neptunium
C) Niobium
D) Nobelium
Answer · why
Element 102 sits among the actinides, next to mendelevium and lawrencium, both also named for scientists.
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