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- 1. Multiple Choice
Where can you find the richest deposits of Uranium on Earth?
Japan
Germany
Australia
London
- 2. Multiple Choice
What instrument is used to measure radioactivity?
Google counter
Radiation meter
Activity Counter
Geiger counter
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is the normal level of background radiation?
1.00 microsieverts
0.20 microsieverts
0.50 microsieverts
20 microsieverts
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the element uranium named after?
Uranus
Urope
Uranica
Uropia
- 5. Multiple Choice
What was one of the first uses of uranium?
to make radium
to make glass
to make nuclear reactors
to make nuclear baths
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following rocks is also in the rock uranium?
sediment
hydrogen
oxygen
radium
- 7. Multiple Choice
How was radium first used?
to make glass
to make coins
to cure tumors
to make bombs
- 8. Multiple Choice
What particle of the atom determines the identity of an element?
electron
neutron
proton
valence shell
- 9. Multiple Choice
Uranium has an atomic number of 92. By looking at the periodic table, how many protons are in a uranium atom?
92
238
235
7
- 10. Multiple Choice
What element does uranium transform into when it releases radiation?
Na
H
Np
Th
- 11. Multiple Choice
How many generations of change are in the line of uranium?
2
14
5
10
- 12. Multiple Choice
Who first introduced the term "atomic bomb"?
F. Soddy
E. Rutherford
HG Wells
A. Einstein
- 13. Multiple Choice
Who wrote President Roosevelt about the possibility of a uranium bomb?
Soddy
Einstein
Hahn
Wells
- 14. Multiple Choice
What type of radiation does uranium go through?
fission
fusion
transmalgrimation
issuation
- 15. Multiple Choice
Where were the first atomic bombs dropped?
Australia
Japan
Germany
London
- 16. Multiple Choice
What country became the second to test an atomic bomb?
Germany
Japan
Russia
US
- 17. Multiple Choice
What was kept in an underground silo visited by the host of the video?
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Titan missile
Nuclear reactor
- 18. Multiple Choice
What city had a nuclear meltdown in 1986?
Nagasaki
Odessa
Chernobyl
Moscow
- 19. Multiple Choice
Half-life is the rate at which radioactive atoms ______.
split
double
radiate
decay
- 20. Multiple Choice
What is an advantages of nuclear power plants?
releases more radiation than coal
cheaper than coal
steam is the major greenhouse pollutant
no explosion dangers
- 21. Multiple Choice
What is the radiation that exists all around us called?
harmless radiation
ubiquitous radiation
background radiation
free radiation
- 22. Multiple Choice
How much "pitch blend" is needed to make 1 gram of uranium and how much is 1 gram of Uranium worth?
10 tons :: $1,000,000
5 tons :: $50,000
1 ton :: $88,000
7 tons :: $88,000
- 23. Multiple Choice
What idea did Leo Szilard come up with on a street corner that would lead to the atomic bomb?
the formula E=MC2
The constant for alchemy formulations.
How to cause a chain reaction.
an explanation of proton bombardment and enrichment
- 24. Multiple Choice
After the first atom bomb test, a new mineral was formed. What was the new mineral called?
Einsteinium
Oppenheimerium
Trinitite
Fissionite
- 25. Multiple Choice
When the host talks about "unleashing the dragon", what is the reference about?
He watched the Game of Thrones series the night before.
the use of radiation to start fires.
the ability for uranium to be harnessed for fusion to occur.
releasing the uranium in the nuclear bomb.
- 26. Multiple Choice
When Russia tested its first atomic bomb, what came out of this?
the end of the Russian - German war
the end of World War II
the beginning of the Cold War
the beginning of the Vietnam war
- 27. Multiple Choice
How much money were the locals in Australia offered (which they refused) to mine their land?
$5 Million
$50 Million
$500 Million
$5 Billion
- 28. Multiple Choice
What happened to the firefighters after they heroically put out the fires at Chernobyl?
They were given the Russian medal of peace and live on today.
They were flown to the U.S. for a holiday and visited the U.S. President
They got radiation poisoning, went to the hospital, got sicker and began dying.
They died a few years later from cancer.
- 29. Multiple Choice
How long is the half-life of Cesium-137? (One of the radioactive isotopes released during the accident)
20 years
30 years
40 years
60 years
- 30. Multiple Choice
Australia has only one nuclear reactor. What is it used for?
making weapons
recycling spent fuel
nuclear bombs
making medical isotopes
- 31. Multiple Choice
How many people were evacuated around the Fukushima Japan disaster?
1 million
500,000
150,000
10,000
- 32. Multiple Choice
In a nuclear reactor, what percentage of nuclear fuel is used to create energy and what percentage is waste?
15% energy :: 85% waste
30% energy :: 70% waste
5% energy :: 95% waste
95% energy :: 5% waste
- 33. Multiple Choice
What did Becquerel find about uranium and the photographic plate?
Uranium makes things glow in the dark
There is a secret energy source coming from inside uranium
Uranium can make water boil
Uranium is harmless, but can be a powerful tool for science
- 34. Multiple Choice
What does uranium do under ultraviolet light ?
It decomposes to lead.
It gives off an awful odor.
It vibrates at a certain pitch.
It fluoresces (glows).
- 35. Multiple Choice
In nuclear energy, what does "enriched" mean?
Separated and concentrated
Falling apart
The critical amount
A smaller amount.
- 36. Multiple Choice
What phrase did Oppenheimer say as he saw the blast of the first atomic bomb?
"It's time for us all to get on the peace train"
"We are the champions my friend..."
"It's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
"now I have become death , the destroyer of worlds"
- 37. Multiple Choice
What German scientist figured out how to split the atom?
Alfred Nobel
Herman Hesse
Otto Han
Albert Einstein
- 38. Multiple Choice
What is the natural ratio between uranium-238 and uranium-235 atoms?
2/2
1/4
3/1
5/1
- 39. Multiple Choice
What was the horrible illness that affected many of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors?
death
the flu
projectile vomiting of blood
acute radiation poisoning
- 40. Multiple Choice
Why were people taking radium baths?
They wanted to see what happened.
They thought it would cure inflammation
They wanted to glow in the dark
They heard it cured warts.
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