| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| E | German physicist known for E=mc2 | Einstein | 95%
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| A | Was first 'split' in 1917 | Atom | 94%
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| J | Largest planet in our solar system | Jupiter | 92%
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| K | Absolute unit of temperature | Kelvin | 90%
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| V | Earth sized planet in our solar system | Venus | 86%
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| N | Neutral sub-atomic particle found in the nucleus | Neutron | 84%
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| H | Space telescope launched in 1990 | Hubble | 80%
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| P | One of the four fundamental states of matter | Plasma | 76%
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| X | Type of electromagnetic radiation | X-Ray | 76%
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| Q | Fundamental particle with six 'flavours' | Quark | 72%
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| I | Variant of the same element with a different number of nucleons | Isotope | 71%
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| T | Rotational force | Torque | 61%
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| O | Branch of physics describing the interaction of light | Optics | 58%
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| B | Particles with integer spin | Boson | 50%
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| L | Elementary particles such as electrons and muons | Lepton | 43%
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| M | Scottish scientist known for his equations of electromagnetism | Maxwell | 42%
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| U | Principle asserting a limit to the precision a certain pair of properties can be known | Uncertainty Principle | 41%
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| D | Phenomena when a wave encounters a slit | Diffraction | 39%
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| S | Austrian Physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1933 for the formulation of the equation that governs the wave function of a quantum mechanical system | Schrödinger | 38%
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| G | Law defining the electric flux, named after a German mathematician and physicist | Gauss's Law | 37%
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| C | Ability of a system to store charge | Capacitance | 34%
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| Y | Scientist known for his double slit experiment | Young | 34%
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| F | Method to represent a function as a sum of sine waves | Fourier Series | 32%
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| R | When electromagnetic radiation is increased in wavelength | Redshift | 25%
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| W | Minimum energy needed to 'free' an electron from a surface | Work Function | 16%
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| Z | Effect of splitting spectral lines with the presence of a magnetic field, named after a dutch physicist | Zeeman Effect | 14%
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