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The 50/50 Challenge

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Question sheet

1. Who painted The Arnolfini Portrait, with its famous convex mirror?
- A. Jan van Eyck
- B. Hans Holbein the Younger
2. The Rosetta Stone displays three scripts. How many languages do they represent?
- A. Three
- B. Two
3. Hokusai's The Great Wave was originally produced using which technique?
- A. Woodblock printing
- B. Copperplate engraving
4. English borrowed the word robot from which language?
- A. Polish
- B. Czech
5. Who received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature?
- A. Wisława Szymborska
- B. Zbigniew Herbert
6. Which phenomenon was singled out in Einstein's 1921 Nobel citation?
- A. General relativity
- B. The photoelectric effect
7. In which subject did Marie Curie receive her second Nobel Prize in 1911?
- A. Chemistry
- B. Physics
8. How old was Lawrence Bragg in the year of his 1915 Physics Nobel Prize?
- A. 35
- B. 25
9. Which moon orbits opposite to its planet's rotation?
- A. Titan
- B. Triton
10. Which moon has surface lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane?
- A. Titan
- B. Europa
11. Where did Galileo discover an internally generated magnetic field?
- A. Callisto
- B. Ganymede
12. Which moon orbits the asteroid Ida?
- A. Dactyl
- B. Phobos

1. A - Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck painted it in 1434. His signature appears above the convex mirror on the back wall.
2. B - Two
The languages are Egyptian and Greek. Egyptian appears in hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts; Greek supplies the third script.
3. A - Woodblock printing
It is a woodblock print from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, first published around 1830-31.
4. B - Czech
Robot comes from Czech, popularised by Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., written in 1920.
5. A - Wisława Szymborska
The 1996 literature prize went to Polish poet Wisława Szymborska.
6. B - The photoelectric effect
The citation especially recognised his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, not general relativity.
7. A - Chemistry
Her first prize was Physics in 1903. Her second was Chemistry in 1911.
8. B - 25
Bragg was 25 in the award year and shared the prize with his father William Henry Bragg.
9. B - Triton
Neptune's Triton has a retrograde orbit. Saturn's Titan does not.
10. A - Titan
Titan has liquid hydrocarbon lakes and seas. Europa's proposed ocean lies beneath ice.
11. B - Ganymede
Galileo discovered Ganymede's intrinsic magnetic field, distinct from a response induced by Jupiter.
12. A - Dactyl
Galileo discovered Dactyl orbiting Ida. Phobos orbits Mars.