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5 Quizzes That Will Tell You Whether You Should Have Been a Scientist
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5 Quizzes That Will Tell You Whether You Should Have Been a Scientist

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Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Donna Strickland—all of them proved their worth as scientists by winning a Nobel Prize. You (probably) haven’t. But maybe you should have. Do you wonder whether you really should have become a physicist? Maybe a chemist? If you ace all of these quizzes, you’ll need to face your regret.

Periodic Table Quiz

Concept artwork on the periodic table of elements.

118 Names and Symbols of the Periodic Table Quiz

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118 Questions

periodic table with atomic number, symbol, and atomic weight
periodic table with atomic number, symbol, and atomic weightPeriodic table showing each element's atomic number, symbol, and atomic weight.

There are 118 chemical elements. This quiz has 118 questions.

You make the connection.

Science Quiz

Rutherford atomic model
Rutherford atomic modelPhysicist Ernest Rutherford envisioned the atom as a miniature solar system, with electrons orbiting around a massive nucleus, and as mostly empty space, with the nucleus occupying only a very small part of the atom. The neutron had not yet been discovered when Rutherford proposed his model, which had a nucleus consisting only of protons.

Yes, that’s right: just Science Quiz. Everything in science in

only 60 questions

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Define It: Math Terms

Enrico Fermi
Enrico FermiItalian-born physicist Enrico Fermi explaining a problem in physics, c. 1950. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize for Physics.

If you’re going to do science, you need math.

Lots of it.

27 True-or-False Questions from Britannica’s Most Difficult Science Quizzes

Bunsen burner
Bunsen burnerBunsen burner in a laboratory.

Your fellow readers have already identified the toughest true and false quizzes in Britannica’s collection of quizzes.

See if you can do better.

Everything in Space in a 25-Minute Quiz

Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)
Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), as seen in an optical image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

We’ve got to specialize at some point, right? So let’s dive into space.

Really, really deep into space.

(We know you can get through it faster, though.)

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