1. When Heisenberg tried to wite an article about his epiphany in 1925, how long did Niels Bohr leave the paper unread on his desk?
(a) 11 days.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Months.

2. At what temperature does blue acid boil?
(a) 30 degrees Celsius.
(b) 15 degrees Celsius.
(c) 26 degrees Celsius.
(d) 45 degrees Celsius.

3. In 1925, when did Heisenberg's fever break?
(a) Late afternoon.
(b) Middle of the night.
(c) Noon.
(d) Early morning.

4. In what period of time did Schrodinger's wife make more as a secretary than he did in a year as a professor?
(a) A month.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 4 months.

5. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?
(a) German shepherd.
(b) Doberman Pinscher.
(c) Belgian Malinois.
(d) Rottweiler.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what issue of the Zeitschrift fur Physik did Heisenberg's article "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations" appear?

2. How did the dogs die that the narrator and his seven-year-old daughter find when they walk in the woods?

3. What family members did Schrodinger lose during the interwar period?

4. Who was the mathematician who noticed the proof Shinichi Mochizuki posted on his blog?

5. When was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?

(see the answer key)

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