Marie Curie

Where was Marie Curie born?

• Warsaw, Poland

• The Swiss Alps

• Paris, France

• Copenhagen, Denmark

True or False: Marie Curie attended the University of Warsaw

• True

• False

How many Nobel Prizes did Marie Curie won?

• 1

• 2

• 5

• 0

What element(s) did Marie Curie discover?

• Radium

• Polonium

• Radium and Polodium

• Radium and Polonium

What was Marie Curie's cause of death?

• Prolonged radiation exposure

• Lung Cancer

• Heart Disease

• Poisonous gases caused by a failed experiment

True of False: Marie Curie was born on November 18, 1868

• True

• False

What was the cause of Pierre Curie's death?

• Seizure

• Prolonged exposure to radiation

• A horse-drawn carriage accident

• Leukemia

What college did Marie Curie attend?

• Oxford

• Harvard

• She did not attend college, only Warsaw's "floating university"

• Sorbonne

True or False: Marie Curie was the first female professor at the Sorbonne

• True

• False

Bonus Question: Did either of Marie Curie's daughters win a Nobel Prize and if so which daughter?

• Neither of her daughters

• Yes: Her daughter Irene

• Yes: Her daughter Eve

• Yes: Both of her daughters