Pierre Curie Quiz
1. When did Pierre Curie win Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) 1903
b) 1905
c) 1901
d) 1907
2. When was Pierre Curie born?
a) 7 November 1857
b) 5 July 1854
c) 15 May 1859
d) 9 January 1852
3. Where was Pierre Curie born?
a) Nantes
b) La Rochelle
c) Paris
d) Amiens
4. What did Pierre Curie and Paul Jacques Curie discover in 1880?
a) Pyroelectricity
b) Piezoelectricity
c) Aluminium
d) Copper
5. Where was Pierre Curie appointed supervisor in 1882?
a) Louvre Museum
b) Versailles Palace
c) Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
d) School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry, Paris
6. When did Pierre Curie obtain a doctorate of science?
a) 1893
b) 1892
c) 1895
d) 1896
7. Which university’s chair did Pierre Curie refuse?
a) Cambridge
b) Geneva
c) Oxford
d) Zurich
8. When was Pierre Curie appointed a professor at Sorbonne?
a) 1900
b) 1902
c) 1904
d) 1908
9. When did Pierre Curie die?
a) 4 July 1908
b) 19 April 1906
c) 22 March 1912
d) 29 December 1910
10. How did Pierre Curie die?
a) Boat capsize
b) Plane crash
c) Run over by a dray
d) Pneumonia
Pierre Curie Quiz Answers
1. When did Pierre Curie win Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) 1903
2. When was Pierre Curie born?
c) 15 May 1859
3. Where was Pierre Curie born?
c) Paris
4. What did Pierre Curie and Paul Jacques Curie discover in 1880?
b) Piezoelectricity
5. Where was Pierre Curie appointed supervisor in 1882?
d) School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry, Paris
6. When did Pierre Curie obtain a doctorate of science?
c) 1895
7. Which university’s chair did Pierre Curie refuse?
b) Geneva
8. When was Pierre Curie appointed a professor at Sorbonne?
c) 1904
9. When did Pierre Curie die?
b) 19 April 1906
10. How did Pierre Curie die?
c) Run over by a dray