Physics Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Trivia quiz questions and answers about science and physics.

Physics Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

1. What method of arranging elements into related groups was invented by Dimitri Mendeleyev?
    
2. What physicist remarked: "God is subtle, but he is not malicious"?
    
3. What M-word defines anything that occupies space?
    
4. What do you call a substance containing only one kind of atom?
    
5. What teenager began studying physics after he noticed a chandelier swinging during a 1581 earthquake?
    
6. What elementary particle's antiparticle is the positron?
    
7. What element comes last alphabetically?
    
 
8. What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and pitchblende?
    
9. What American physicist pioneered the theory of "black holes" in 1939?
    
10. What's a charged atom, with unequal numbers of electrons and protons?
     
11. What theory of physics proposes that energy is not transferred continuously but in discrete amounts>
     
12. What element was converted to plutonium in the first nuclear reactors?
     
 
13. What acronyms for "Weakly Interacting Massive Particles " and "Massive Compact Halo Objects" do physicists use to explain dark matter?
     
14. What astronomical term gradually replaced the cumbersome "gravitationally completely collapsed object"?
     
15. What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"?
     
 
16. What's a single unit of quanta called?
     
17. What did scientists build in a squash court under a football stadium at the University of Chicago in 1942?
     
18. What's the atomic number of hydrogen?
     
19. What element begins with the letter "k"?
     
20. What F-word is defined in physics as a "nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei"?
     
21. What E-word was the first elementary particle to be discovered?
     


 

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 134 - Physics Trivia Answers

1. The periodic table.
2. Albert Einstein.
3. Matter.
4. An element.
5. Galileo.
 
6. The electron.
7. Zirconium.
8. Uranium.
9. J. Robert Oppenheimer.
10. An Ion.
11. The quantum theory.
12. Uranium.
13. Wimps and Machos.
14. Black Hole.
 
15. Laser.
16. A quantum.
17. A nuclear reactor.
18. One.
19. Krypton.
20. Fusion.
21. The electron.