<div> </div> <div><span style='font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;'><em> Nature Reviews Chemistry</em> quiz</span></div>

When asked by British PM William Gladstone whether his publicly funded research on electricity would ever be of any use, Michael Faraday coolly replied:

�One day, Sir, you may tax it.”

"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

�There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behaviour of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.”

�Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.”

Which of the following polymers is NOT one of the top six polymers that make up 76% of plastics?

High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)

Teflon

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)

Polystyrene (PS)

Which Dutch artist drew the famously impossible image titled ‘Ascending and Descending’?

Vincent van Gogh

Johannes Vermeer

Maurits Cornelis Escher

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

In his lecture entitled ‘There’s plenty of room at the bottom’, who predicted that the direct manipulation of individual atoms could be a more powerful form of synthetic chemistry?

Gerd Binnig

Richard Feynman

Albert Einstein

Leo Gross

A 215 g bag of fruit gums contains 1452 kJ of energy. How many equivalent bags of fruit gums does the sun radiate the earth with every second?

820 million (1.2x10¹² kJ) every second (0.1 bags per person per second).

8.2 billion (1.2x10¹³ kJ) every second (1.1 bags per person per second).

82 billion (1.2x10¹⁴ kJ) every second, (11 bags per person per second).

820 billion (1.2x10¹⁵ kJ) every second (110 bags per person per second).

�All matter displays attraction” was a favourite dictum of which scientist?

Philip Power

Johannes Diederik van der Waals

Fritz London

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

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