Which element did Marie Curie discover first?
Answer
Polonium
77 Marie Curie Trivia Questions with Answers
77 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which U.S. President gave Marie Curie a gram of radium in 1921?
Answer
Warren G. Harding
What was the title of Marie Curie's doctoral thesis?
Answer
Recherches sur les substances radioactives
Who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie?
Answer
Antoine Henri Becquerel
What term did Marie Curie coin to describe the emission of rays by uranium?
Answer
Radioactivity
What is the atomic number of radium?
Answer
88
What was Marie Curie's original Polish first name?
Answer
Maria
What was the name of Marie Curie's second Nobel Prize?
Answer
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
What is the half-life of radium-226?
Answer
1600 years
What is the name of the uranium ore from which Marie Curie extracted radium?
Answer
Pitchblende
What name was given to the mobile X-ray units she organized in WWI?
Answer
Petites Curies
What illness caused Marie Curie's death?
Answer
Aplastic anemia
Which of Marie Curie's daughters became a Nobel laureate?
Answer
Irène Joliot-Curie
In what year did Marie Curie die?
Answer
1934
What was Marie Curie's maiden name?
Answer
Skłodowska
How many Nobel Prizes did Marie Curie win?
Answer
Two
Which city's university did Marie Curie attend?
Answer
Paris
In which field did Marie Curie win her first Nobel Prize?
Answer
Physics
Who was Marie Curie's husband and scientific partner?
Answer
Pierre Curie