Q 01/05

Marie Curie is the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in which two different sciences?

A) Physics and medicine

B) Chemistry and medicine

C) Physics and economics

D) Physics and chemistry

Answer · why

D) Physics and chemistry

Physics and chemistry: she shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, then won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry al...

Q 02/05

Which two elements did Marie Curie discover?

A) Radon and uranium

B) Thorium and actinium

C) Radium and polonium

D) Radium and cobalt

Answer · why

C) Radium and polonium

Radium and polonium: she and Pierre Curie announced polonium in July 1898, naming it for her native Poland, and radium in December 1898.

Q 03/05

What word did Marie Curie coin for the phenomenon she studied?

A) Fission

B) Radioactivity

C) Isotope

D) Half-life

Answer · why

B) Radioactivity

Radioactivity: Marie Curie coined the term in 1898 while studying the rays uranium emits, proposing that the emission was a property of the atom itsel...

Q 04/05

What did Marie Curie organise for French field hospitals during World War I?

A) Mobile X-ray units

B) Blood transfusion stations

C) Gas-mask production

D) Radio relay posts

Answer · why

A) Mobile X-ray units

Mobile X-ray units: Curie fitted vans with radiography equipment, nicknamed 'petites Curies', and drove them to the front so surgeons could locate bul...

Q 05/05

Ada Lovelace was the daughter of which famous poet?

A) Percy Shelley

B) Lord Byron

C) John Keats

D) William Wordsworth

Answer · why

B) Lord Byron

Lord Byron: the poet separated from Ada's mother Annabella weeks after her birth in December 1815 and left England for good; Annabella steered Ada tow...