Marie Curie Quiz

Where did Marie Curie grow up?

• Paris

• Warsaw

• Berlin

• London

What was the name of the secret institution that provided clandestine education to Polish youth?

• Floating University

• Oxford

• Cambridge

• Sorbonne

What did Marie Curie study at the Sorbonne?

• Mathematics

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Biology

What did Henri Becquerel discover in 1896?

• X-ray machine

• Radioactive elements

• Photographic film

• Nobel Prize

What did the Curies report in 1898?

• New scientific method

• New laboratory equipment

• New theory of atoms

• Two new elements

What did Marie Curie win the Nobel Prize in 1903 for?

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Biology

• Mathematics

What did Marie Curie win the Nobel Prize in 1911 for?

• Literature

• Chemistry

• Physics

• Medicine

What did Marie Curie open during World War I?

• Biology classrooms

• Physics research centers

• Chemistry labs

• Mobile radiology units

What did Marie Curie investigate the effects of?

• Radiation on water

• Radiation on animals

• Radiation on plants

• Radiation on tumors

What did Marie Curie die of in 1934?

• Pneumonia

• Heart attack

• Bone marrow disease

• Cancer