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Questions updated: October 30, 2026

1. Which physicist launched quantum theory in 1900 by proposing that energy is emitted in tiny packets called quanta?Clue: A fundamental constant written with the letter h carries his name.
2. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says you cannot know which pair of properties of a particle with perfect precision at the same time?Clue: One property says where the particle is; the other combines its mass and velocity.
3. Erwin Schrödinger's 1935 cat-in-a-box thought experiment was meant to criticize which interpretation of quantum mechanics?Clue: It is named after the city where Niels Bohr's institute was based.
4. Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics mainly for explaining which effect?Clue: It explains why shining light on certain metals knocks electrons loose.
5. What is the name of a single quantum, or packet, of light?Clue: Its name comes from the Greek word for light.
6. Which rule states that two electrons in the same atom cannot have the same set of four quantum numbers?Clue: It is named after an Austrian physicist who won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics.
7. Which classic experiment, first performed with light by Thomas Young around 1801, shows particles producing an interference pattern?Clue: The experiment's name counts the openings in the barrier the particles pass through.
8. Albert Einstein famously called which quantum phenomenon "spooky action at a distance"?Clue: Experiments testing it won Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
9. Which quantum effect lets particles pass through energy barriers they could not cross in classical physics?Clue: It is the working principle of a microscope invented at IBM's Zurich lab in 1981.
10. What is the basic unit of information in a quantum computer?Clue: Unlike an ordinary bit, it can hold a blend of 0 and 1 at once.