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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prussian Blue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1809.

2. What color was Johann Jacob Diesbach trying to create when he discovered Prussian Blue?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Purple.

3. When did the German writer Heinrich Boll write his family from the front the first time and ask his family to send Pervitin?
(a) September 24, 1939.
(b) November 9, 1939.
(c) October 17, 1939.
(d) December 5, 1939.

4. How many puppies had Hitler's dog given birth to shortly before she was killed?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. How much longer did Fritz Haber's discovery of how to obtain nitrogen from the air allow the First World War to drag on?
(a) 1 1/2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 2 1/2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where was Johann Jacob Diesbach from who discovered Prussian Blue?

2. How did Goring die?

3. At what temperature does blue acid boil?

4. If Germany bombed Britain with poison gas, how many civilians did an adviser to the British government estimate an attack of that kind would kill?

5. How old was the Indian goldsmith who was able to write three lines after he took a dose of cyanide?

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