Atoms & Innovations – 50 Chemistry & Physics Questions from North America
This 50 Chemistry And Physics Quiz covers chemistry and physics topics including famous scientists, discoveries, laws, formulas, elements, reactions, motion, energy, electricity, magnetism, atomic structure, thermodynamics, optics, and modern physics. Each question includes four answer choices with the correct answer provided for self-checking.Â
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#1. Which American chemist is known for the Pauling scale of electronegativity?
#2. Which American chemist won two Nobel Prizes (Chemistry and Peace)?
#3. Which American physicist is known as the “father of the atomic bomb”?
#4. What is the SI unit of energy?
#5. Which Canadian chemist invented the first process to extract nickel from ore?
#6. Which American physicist is known for the “photoelectric effect” explanation?
#7. Which Canadian scientist won the Nobel Prize for his work on neutron scattering?
#8. Which Canadian invention is a type of portable communication device?
#9. What is the atomic number of carbon?
#10. Which American chemist discovered the first synthetic rubber (neoprene)?
#11. Which American scientist is known as the “father of modern rocket propulsion”?
#12. Which American inventor patented the first practical automobile (Benz – German). Let’s ask: Which American company mass-produced the first affordable automobile?
#13. Which American physicist developed the Manhattan Project atomic bomb?
#14. Which American inventor built the first fully functional steamboat (Clermont) in 1807?
#15. Which Canadian chemist won a Nobel Prize for work on chemical kinetics?
#16. Which American inventor created the first practical electric motor?
#17. Which American physicist created the first working laser?
#18. What is the chemical symbol for iron?
#19. Which American scientist developed the polio vaccine?
#20. What is the pH of pure water at 25°C?
#21. What is the chemical symbol for sodium?
#22. What is the chemical symbol for lead?
#23. Which Canadian inventor patented the first electric cooking range?
#24. What is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust?
#25. Which Canadian scientist co-discovered insulin?
#26. What is the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit?
#27. What is the atomic number of oxygen?
#28. What is the chemical formula for methane?
#29. Which American chemist discovered the element plutonium along with Glenn Seaborg?
#30. Which American physicist is known for the famous “Feynman diagrams”?
#31. What is the chemical symbol for silver?
#32. Which American chemist discovered the element plutonium?
#33. Which Canadian-born inventor is credited with inventing the telephone?
#34. What is the chemical formula for water?
#35. Which Canadian-American physicist co-invented the electron microscope?
#36. What is the chemical symbol for potassium?
#37. Which American physicist invented the cyclotron?
#38. Which American physicist formulated the theory of relativity?
#39. Which Canadian physicist was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for laser physics?
#40. What is the speed of light in a vacuum (approximately in miles per second)?
#41. What is the chemical formula for table salt?
#42. Which American inventor created the first practical light bulb?
#43. Which Canadian physicist is known for his work on quantum optics and won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics?
#44. What is the SI unit of force?
#45. Which Canadian physicist won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering neutrino oscillations?
#46. Which Canadian medical scientist co-discovered the gene for cystic fibrosis?
#47. Which Canadian scientist invented the “cobalt-60 cancer treatment” machine?
#48. Which American physicist is known for the “Pilot Wave” interpretation of quantum mechanics?
#49. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
#50. Which Canadian inventor patented the first electric streetcar (tram) in 1887?
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