Q 01/05
A) Physics and medicine
B) Chemistry and medicine
C) Physics and economics
D) Physics and chemistry
Answer · why
She won physics in 1903 with Pierre and Becquerel, and chemistry alone in 1911.
Q 02/05
A) Radon and uranium
B) Thorium and actinium
C) Radium and polonium
D) Radium and cobalt
Answer · why
Polonium was named for her native Poland.
Q 03/05
A) Fission
B) Radioactivity
C) Isotope
D) Half-life
Answer · why
She and Pierre worked in a converted shed that had been a dissecting room.
Q 04/05
A) They were still radioactive
B) French law required it
C) To deter grave robbers
D) The Pantheon's crypt was damp
Answer · why
Her notebooks are also still radioactive and kept in lead-lined boxes.
Q 05/05
A) Percy Shelley
B) Lord Byron
C) John Keats
D) William Wordsworth
Answer · why
He left a month after she was born; her mother pushed her into mathematics to ward off his 'insanity'.
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