Marie Curie Quiz - 25 Trivia Questions!

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Who was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences?

Marguerite Perey
Marie Curie
Antoine Lavoisier
Louise de la Tour

Which French physicist had an affair with Marie Curie in 1911?

Louis Pasteur
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Paul Langevin

Which radioactive element was discovered by Marie Curie in 1898?

Thorium
Plutonium
Nitrogen
Carbon monoxide

Marie Curie named which chemical element after her native country?

Plutonium
Carbon
Radium
Polonium

Who was the first woman to become a professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1900?

Marie-Louise Calvaire
Curie
Marie Curie
Marie Curie's mother

In which city did Pierre and Marie Curie receive their Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905?

New York
Stockholm
Rome
Paris

What is the title of the 2013 play by Lawrence Aronovitch about Marie Curie?

The Cure
A Woman in Need of Help
False Assumption
A Woman of Great Wisdom

What was the name of Marie Curie's second daughter?

emilie
anne
Marie Curie's granddaughter
ve

Which radioactive element caused the air around a sample to conduct electricity?

Carbon-14
Uranium
Nitrogen
Radium

Which scientist discovered that radium destroys tumour-forming cells faster than normal cells?

Marie Sklodowska Curie and Alfred Nobel
Albert Einstein
Hermann Goering
Marie Sklodowska Curie

In which city was Maria Skodowska-Curie born in 1867?

Warsaw and London
Warsaw and Vienna
Paris
Warsaw

Who played Marie Curie in the 1997 film Les Palmes de M. Schutz?

Isabelle Huppert
Anna Friel
Emma Stone
Anneliese van der Pol

At which university did Marie Curie receive her doctorate in 1903?

University of London
University of Paris-Saclay
University of Lyon
University of Paris

Where are the remains of Marie Curie and Pierre Berthelot interred in Paris?

Panthéon
Place de la Bastille
Montmartre
Bibliothèque Nationale

Who was the first recipient of the Marie Curie stipend, for his work on radium?

Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Marie Curie
Louis Pasteur

Who was the spiritualist medium whose séances were attended by Pierre and Marie Curie?

Eusapia Palladino
Helen Keller
Marie Curie's sister
Marie Curie

What did Marie Curie study at the University of Paris?

Chemistry
Medical science
Physics

Which physicist was married to Maria Skodowska?

Pierre Curie
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Marie Skodowska

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics?

Marie-Thérèse
Marie Curie's husband
Marie Curie
Alicia Keys

At which conference in 1911 did Henri Poincaré, Paul Langevin and Marie Curie meet?

Paris
Ariane
The 19th World Science Conference
Solvay

What was the first name of Marie Curie's husband?

Marie
Pierre
Marie's husband was called Pierre
Claude

What was the name of Marie Curie's daughter?

Irène
Marie Curie and her daughter
Marie Curie's daughter
Marie

Marie Curie won a Nobel Prize in 1911 for her work in what field?

Radiology
Radiochemistry
Radiation
Chemistry

What did Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel discover in 1898?

The power of radium
Xrays
The atoms in the nucleus
Radioactivity

Marie Curie was appointed director of the Radium Institute in which European city in 1914?

Vienna
Amsterdam
Rome
Paris
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