Q 01/05

Which Paris research institute co-founded Curie's Radium Institute?

A) Pasteur Institute

B) Paris Observatory

C) Collège de France

D) Institut de France

Answer · why

A) Pasteur Institute

Pasteur Institute: its director Émile Roux launched the project, and a Pasteur lab studying radiation's effects on living things worked beside Curie's...

Q 02/05

What was Curie's maiden name?

A) Wiśniewska

B) Nowakowska

C) Skłodowska

D) Kowalska

Answer · why

C) Skłodowska

Skłodowska: she used both surnames, taught her daughters Polish and took them on visits to Poland.

Q 03/05

Besides Marie Curie, who is the only person awarded Nobel Prizes in two different fields?

A) Linus Pauling

B) Albert Einstein

C) Niels Bohr

D) Frederick Sanger

Answer · why

A) Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling: after his Chemistry prize, he won the Peace Prize for campaigning to stop nuclear weapons testing.

Q 04/05

Marie Curie's son-in-law Henry Labouisse led which organisation when it won the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize?

A) UNICEF

B) The Red Cross

C) Amnesty International

D) Médecins Sans Frontières

Answer · why

A) UNICEF

UNICEF: the United Nations created it in 1946 to bring food and medicine to children and mothers hit by the Second World War.

Q 05/05

Polonium was named in honour of what?

A) The Greek word for 'many'

B) The Pole Star

C) The Paris polytechnic

D) Curie's native Poland

Answer · why

D) Curie's native Poland

Poland would remain partitioned among Russia, Austria and Prussia for another twenty years.