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The Making of the Atomic Bomb Quiz

Richard Rhodes
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb Quiz

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1)

Where is particle acceleration developed? (from Chapter 6 "Machines")

Budapest.
Cambridge.
Manchester.
Berkeley.
2)

What is the name of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb? (from Chapter 19 "Tongues of Fire")

Mike.
Enola Gay.
Little Boy.
Silverplate.
3)

When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun? (from Chapter 7 "Exodus")

1919.
1901.
1910.
1925.
4)

In the 1920's/1930's, what is the world's largest source of radioactive polonium? (from Chapter 6 "Machines")

Cavendish Laboratory.
Berkeley.
University of Manchester.
Marie Curie's Radium Institute.
5)

About how many refugee physicists go the United States between 1933 and 1941? (from Chapter 7 "Exodus")

75.
50.
100.
25.
6)

Where does Lise Meitner go when she flees Germany? (from Chapter 9 "An Extensive Burst")

Cambridge.
Copenhagen.
Berkeley.
Princeton.
7)

Who is the pilot of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb? (from Chapter 19 "Tongues of Fire")

Grove.
LeMay.
Marshall.
Tibbets.
8)

After the dropping of the bombs, Leo Szilard leaves nuclear physics and goes into what field of study? (from Epilogue)

Chemistry.
Experimental physics.
Biology.
Medicine.
9)

Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes? (from Chapter 8 "Stirring and Digging")

Lisa Meitner.
Ernest Lawrence.
Patrick Blacket.
T.A. Chalmers.
10)

What is Einstein's second wife's name? (from Chapter 7 "Exodus")

Miriam.
Hannah.
Elsa.
Greta.
11)

Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur? (from Chapter 13 "The New World")

Berkeley.
Los Alamos.
Manhattan.
Chicago.
12)

What instrument does Frisch use to prove the nucleus splits? (from Chapter 9 "An Extensive Burst")

Cloud chamber.
X-ray.
Accelerator tube.
Bubble chamber.
13)

Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen? (from Chapter 7 "Exodus")

Cambridge.
Cornell.
Manchester.
Princeton.
14)

Where does Operation Forager take place? (from Chapter 16 "Revelations")

The Pacific.
Russia.
United States.
Europe.
15)

Who designs the first working cyclotron? (from Chapter 6 "Machines")

Lawrence.
Rutherford.
Chadwick.
Oppenheimer.
16)

Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara? (from Chapter 12 "A Communication from Britain")

A Japanese physicist.
A British physicist.
A Japanese diplomat.
An American nuclear physicist.
17)

When does the Oak Ridge pilot reactor reach critical mass? (from Chapter 16 "Revelations")

November 1943.
January 1944.
January 1943.
June 1943.
18)

When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet? (from Chapter 10 "Neutrons")

1940.
1933.
1939.
1930.
19)

Who says,"The mission of this Allied force is fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7, 1945"? (from Chapter 18 "Trinity")

President Truman.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Douglas MacArthur.
George Marshall.
20)

The day after Nagasaki is bombed, where does Ernest Lawrence go? (from Epilogue)

Washington, DC.
New Mexico.
Japan.
Berkeley.
21)

When does Marie Curie die? (from Chapter 8 "Stirring and Digging")

1940.
1930.
1925.
1934.
22)

What is the NDRC? (from Chapter 11 "Cross Sections")

The National Defense Research Council.
The National Defense Review Committee.
The Nuclear Department of Research and Concern.
The Nordic Data Review Committee.
23)

Hahn and Strassman (without Meitner) continue experiments with neutron bombardment of what element? (from Chapter 9 "An Extensive Burst")

Actinium.
Thorium.
Uranium.
Radon.
24)

When does the U.S. Uranium Committee meet to reorganize work on the atomic bomb? (from Chapter 12 "A Communication from Britain")

November 6, 1941.
December 7, 1941.
December 6, 1941.
November 30, 1941.
25)

How long does Lawrence calculate the size of the tube he needs? (from Chapter 6 "Machines")

2 miles.
100 yards.
100 feet.
1 mile.
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