# ☢️ Marie Curie Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What two radioactive elements did Marie Curie discover?  
**Answer:** Polonium and radium  
**Taglines:**  
- Because one radioactive element wasn’t enough  
- Now glowing in two flavors  
- Periodic table power couple  
- Discovered it, touched it, glowed for it  
- Elemental excellence, radioactive regret  

### 2. What country was Marie Curie originally from?  
**Answer:** Poland  
**Taglines:**  
- Before France, she was Polish and brilliant  
- From Warsaw with radiation  
- Eastern Europe’s finest scientific export  
- Born in Poland, famous worldwide  
- Curie: bringing the power of pierogi and protons  

### 3. What was Marie Curie’s birth name?  
**Answer:** Maria Sklodowska  
**Taglines:**  
- Science started at “Sklodowska”  
- The “Curie” came later—so did immortality  
- Try spelling it, then try winning two Nobels  
- Name like a Scrabble cheat  
- Maria before the meltdown  

### 4. How many Nobel Prizes did Marie Curie win?  
**Answer:** Two  
**Taglines:**  
- One for physics, one for chemistry, zero chill  
- Double Nobel, single legend  
- Most of us can’t win one…  
- Nobel prizes: gotta catch ‘em all  
- Her résumé would break LinkedIn  

### 5. What subject did she win her second Nobel Prize in?  
**Answer:** Chemistry  
**Taglines:**  
- From particles to potions  
- Radioactive reactions, real awards  
- Science with a sparkle  
- Chem lab queen  
- She made chemistry less boring—and more dangerous  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Marie Curie was the first woman to win a ______ Prize.  
**Answer:** Nobel  
**Taglines:**  
- Broke glass ceilings with gamma rays  
- Prize? She took it.  
- “First woman” status unlocked  
- Set the bar and then irradiated it  
- Nobel? No problem  

### 2. She coined the term ______ to describe the emission of energy from atoms.  
**Answer:** Radioactivity  
**Taglines:**  
- Now with 100% more decay  
- Glowing results guaranteed  
- Radioactive before it was cool (or dangerous)  
- Better branding than “death rays”  
- She made atoms spicy  

### 3. Marie Curie conducted much of her research with her husband ______ Curie.  
**Answer:** Pierre  
**Taglines:**  
- Science power couple  
- Ride-or-die for radiation  
- Pierre & Marie: the original lab partners  
- Romance with Geiger counters  
- Marriage with mass spectrometry  

### 4. Curie was the first woman to teach at the ______.  
**Answer:** Sorbonne  
**Taglines:**  
- Sorbonne supremacy  
- Professor, pioneer, powerhouse  
- School of brilliance  
- Her lectures glowed—literally  
- Academia’s finest disruptor  

### 5. Her notebooks are still radioactive and stored in ______ containers.  
**Answer:** Lead  
**Taglines:**  
- The reading list of doom  
- Dangerously well-written  
- Do not touch unless you want to sparkle  
- Notes with half-lives  
- Paper meets plutonium vibes  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What scientific field did Marie Curie help pioneer?  
A) Biology  
B) Astronomy  
C) Radioactivity ✅  
D) Genetics  
**Taglines:**  
- She glowed so we could know  
- Radioactivity: her toxic relationship  
- Not just glowing reviews—literally glowing  
- The radioactive trailblazer  
- Made science explosive (not figuratively)  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] Which of these is named in honor of Marie Curie?  
A) A city  
B) An element ✅  
C) A star  
D) A galaxy  
**Taglines:**  
- Curium, baby  
- The periodic table bows to her  
- Elemental homage  
- Not just a name, a legacy  
- Atomic tribute: unlocked  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What year did Marie Curie win her first Nobel Prize?  
A) 1895  
B) 1903 ✅  
C) 1911  
D) 1920  
**Taglines:**  
- 1903: When physics got fierce  
- Turn-of-the-century mic drop  
- Radiation nation begins  
- Her 1903 was better than your 2023  
- Year of the Nobel glow-up  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What medical application did Curie’s research contribute to?  
A) Vaccines  
B) X-rays ✅  
C) Chemotherapy  
D) Antibiotics  
**Taglines:**  
- X-rays brought to you by Madame Glow  
- Mobile x-rays: powered by science *and* sass  
- Making war medicine a bit less medieval  
- Portable pain peeking  
- From battlefield to ER  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What family member of Marie Curie also won a Nobel Prize?  
A) Her mother  
B) Her daughter ✅  
C) Her brother  
D) Her uncle  
**Taglines:**  
- Curie legacy confirmed  
- Family dinners must’ve been smug  
- Nobel genes, confirmed  
- Mom, scientist, legend factory  
- Dynastic brilliance
