In search of giants 1 - Brian Cox series

Who arranged the elements in a periodic table?

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• JJ Thomson

• Ernest Rutherford

• Murray Gelman

What did JJ Thomson discover using his particle accelerator?

• The nature of the world around us

• The structure of the atom

• The existence of cosmic rays

• The properties of electrons

What did Ernest Rutherford's alpha particle scattering experiment reveal?

• The existence of protons and neutrons

• The structure of the nucleus

• The properties of electrons

• The behavior of cosmic rays

What did Murray Gelman propose about the fundamental particles?

• They are made up of quarks

• They are made up of protons and neutrons

• They are made up of electrons

• They are made up of cosmic rays

What did the experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center confirm?

• The existence of quarks

• The existence of protons and neutrons

• The existence of electrons

• The existence of cosmic rays

How many fundamental particles are there in total?

• 12

• 80

• 100

• 3

What is the purpose of the Large Hadron Collider?

• To recreate the conditions of the Big Bang

• To study the behavior of cosmic rays

• To accelerate protons to the speed of light

• To discover the structure of the nucleus

What is the temperature inside the superconducting magnets of the Large Hadron Collider?

• 1.9 Kelvin

• 99.999999% the speed of light

• Colder than the space between the stars

• 27 kilometers in circumference

How many times per second do the detectors in the Large Hadron Collider take pictures of the collisions?

• 600 million

• 2,000

• 4

• 99.999999%

What may the next stage in our journey reveal about the universe?

• The universe may be simpler than we imagined

• The universe may be stranger than we imagined

• The current picture of the universe may be wrong

• All of the above