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The Ultimate Marie Curie Quiz - Statistics

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Question Answer % Correct
When was she born? 7 November 1867
78%
Where was she born? Warsaw
78%
Where did she live in 1880-1889? Paris
56%
Who did she marry? Pierre Curie
56%
What element did Curie and her husband discover in their joint paper in July 1898, named after her home country? polonium
56%
What other element did Curie and her husband discover in the same year, December 1898? radium
56%
What empire was above in? Russian Empire
56%
When did she graduate from her gymnasium (secondary school)? 1883
44%
What degree was she awarded in 1893? physics
44%
What word did they coin on their research of the two elements above? radioactivity
44%
What element did Curie experiment on, with her husband's electrometer? uranium
44%
Who was her first daughter, born in 1897, she later won a noble prize in Chemistry with her husband in 1935? Irène
33%
How many women won the Nobel prize before Curie? zero
33%
When did they marry? 26 July 1895
22%
What was her maiden name? Skłodowska
22%
What university did she enrol, after returning back to above, in 1891? University of Paris
22%
When did did she isolate the element, they discovered in December 1898, into pure metal? 1910
11%
When did Marie Curie die? 4 July 1934
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In 1911, she was awarded a Nobel prize in what field, which made her the first person to win or share two Nobel prizes and one of two people that have one a Nobel prize in two fields? chemistry
11%
Who was her second daughter, born in 1904, the only one of her family to not win the Nobel prize but her husband won the Nobel peace prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF? Ève Denise Curie Labouisse
11%
Who was the man she wanted to marry but couldn't because they were relatives of her father, he became a eminent mathematician? Kazimierz Żorawski
11%
What did she die of - believed to be contracted from her long-term exposure to radiation? aplastic anaemia
0%
In 1900, what institution did she become first faculty member of? École Normale Supérieure
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What man did Curie supervise in 1903, who won a Nobel prize in physics in 1908? Gabriel Lippmann
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What did Curie's husband die of, on 19 April 1906? he got runover by a a horse-drawn vehicle
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Who also won the joint Nobel prize with Curie and her husband for discovering radioactivity? Henri Becquerel
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What university declined her a place because of sexism in academia, when she returned to her home country? Kraków University
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What did the French government try to award Curie for her contribution to WW1, but she refused it? Legion of Honour award
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What Swedish mathematician, who was an advocate for woman scientists, made a complaint to the Nobel committee, that enabled Curie to receive a Nobel prize in physics with her husband, in 1903? Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
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Who was curie romantically involved with, in 1511, that resulted in a press scandal as he was married? Paul Langevin
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What book did she write the year of her death, which was posthumously published a year after? Radioactivity
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What institute was created for Curie and headed by her, in 1809? Radium Institute (now Curie Institute)
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What element did Curie use to sterilise infected tissue, which is estimated to have treated over a million wounded soldiers? radon
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What position did she become director of at the start of WW1? Red Cross Radiology Service
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What institution was she and her husband invited to make a speech in, but she wasn't allowed to speak because she was a woman? Royal Institution
0%
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