What's your nano-IQ?

The prefix "nano" comes from a ...

• French word meaning billion

• Greek word meaning dwarf

• Spanish word meaning particle

• Latin word meaning invisible

Who first used the term nanotechnology and when?

• Richard Feynman, 1959

• Norio Taniguchi, 1974

• Eric Drexler, 1986

• Sumio Iijima, 1991

What is a buckyball?

• A carbon molecule (C60)

• Nickname for Mercedes-Benz's futuristic concept car (C111)

• Plastic explosives nanoparticle (C4)

• Concrete nanoparticle with a compressive strength of 20 nanonewtons (C20)

Which of these historical works of art contain nanotechnology?

• Lycurgus cup

• Medieval stained glass windows in churches

• Damascus steel swords

• All of the above

What is depicted in this famous image?

• Artist's nanoscale illustration of the Circus Maximus in Rome

• Scanning Tunneling Microscope image of electrons surrounded by iron atoms

• Simulation of underwater volcanoes near the Hawaiian Islands

• Nanoscale version of a bear trap to capture nanoparticles

Richard Feynman is often credited with predicting the potential of nanotechnology. What was the title of his famous speech given on December 29, 1959?

• There is a tiny room at the bottom

• Things get nanoscopic at the bottom

• Bottom? What bottom?

• There is plenty of room at the bottom

How many oxygen atoms lined up in a row would fit in a one nanometer space?

• None; an oxygen atom is bigger than 1 nm

• One

• Seven

• Seventy

Which one of these statements is NOT true?

• Gold at the nanoscale is red

• Copper at the nanoscale is transparent

• Silicon at the nanoscale is an insulator

• Aluminum at the nanoscale is highly combustible

Which of these consumer products is already being made using nanotechnology methods?

• Fishing lure

• Golf ball

• Sunscreen lotion

• All of the above

If you were to shrink yourself down until you were only a nanometer tall, how thick would a sheet of paper appear to you?

• 170 meters

• 1.7 kilometers (a bit more than a mile)

• 17 kilometers

• 170 kilometers