Electricity

1. The first electric car was built in 1891 by ____________.

a. William Morrison
b. Thomas Edison
c. Nikola Tesla
d. Michael Faraday
2. The first power plant built by Thomas Edison in Pearl Street Station sent electricity to
how many buildings?
a. 83
b. 84
c. 85
d. 86
3. The word “electrocute” is a combination of the words electro and execute.
a. True; So, if you don’t die, you were not electrocuted, only shocked.
b. False
4. A spark of static electricity can measure up to _______ volts.
a. 2700
b. 3000
c. 3300
d. 3600
5. Electricity causes muscle cells in your heart to contract, essentially making it beat.
a. True
b. False

Magnetism
1. Magnets played a part in disproving quantum mechanics.
a. True
b. False; Magnets actually showed that quantum mechanics works, this was
proven in the Stern-Gerlach experiment in 1922.
2. There isn’t any evidence to show that magnets work for pain relief.
a. True; Even though there in iron in our blood, it’s made up of atoms that are far
apart and too diffuse for magnets to affect them
b. False
3. The ancient Greeks and Chinese noticed something was up with certain materials known
as _________. This attracted other ironlike metals, and even better, could magnetize
ordinary iron.
a. Lodgestones
b. Logestones
c. Longstones
d. Lodestones
4. A type of mollusk called chiton has a magnetite in what part of its body?
a. Mantle
b. Girdle
c. Teeth
 d. Valve
5. Why do magnets stick?
a. Magnets attract each other because they exchange protons.
b. Magnets attract each other because they exchange photons.
c. Magnets attract each other because they exchange electrons
d. Magnets attract each other because they exchange neutrons.

Electromagnetism
1. The right-hand rule says that if you hold your right thumb, first, and middle fingers at 90
° to each other, your middle finger shows the direction of the induced current. Who
invented this rule?
a. Alexander Fleming
b. John Ambrose Fleming
c. George Fleming
d. Daniel Fleming
2. An electromagnet is a strong magnet that is only magnetic when an electric current
passes through it. It is made by wrapping a coil of wire, called a _________, around a
core of iron.
a. Retinoid
b. Solenoid
c. Alkaloid
d. Teratoid
3. Electromagnetism can be switched on and off.
a. True; Unlike permanent magnets, you can switch electromagnets on and off
b. False
4. Maxwell’s screw rule says that the magnetic field runs the opposite way a screw turns if
you screw it in the direction of the electric current.
a. True
b. False; The magnetic field runs the same way
5. Hans Christian Oersted discovered that electricity can produce magnetism. Then
_____________ showed that magnetism could produce electricity.
a. Thomas Edison
b. Nikola Tesla
c. John Fleming
d. Michael Faraday

Optics
1. Because blue light has the longest wavelength of the visible light photons, some of the
blue light is absorbed by the atmosphere along with ultraviolet light.
a. True
b. False: They have the shortest wavelength
2. ____________ observed that a thin beam of sunlight hitting a glass prism on an angle
creates a band of visible colors that includes red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
and violet (ROYGBIV).
 a. Albert Einstein
b. Enrico Fermi
c. Isaac Newton
d. Michael Faraday
3. Light takes less than 2 seconds to get from the Earth to the Moon.
a. True; It only takes 1.255 seconds to be precise
b. False
4. This device was invented by Sir David Brewster in 1816. It is a tube containing several
mirrors and usually some loose brightly-colored objects which form changing patterns
when held to the while being rotated.
a. Telescope
b. Kaleidoscope
c. Microscope
d. Thermoscope
5. One of the many things Italian scientist ___________ worked on was telescopes,
producing telescopes with around 30x magnification in some of his later work. These
telescopes helped him discover the four largest moons orbiting ________.
a. Giovanni Borelli; Saturn
b. Niccolo Zucchi; Jupiter
c. Francesco Grimaldi; Saturn
d. Galileo Galilei; Jupiter