2 Moderately easy questions:

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Which poisonous gas, which ultimately leaked and caused the Bhopal tragedy?
(a) Methyl Isocyanide
(b) Ethyl Isocyanate
(c) Hydrogen Cyanide
(d) Methyl Isocyanate
Answer is (d)

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

(a) Ada Lovelace
(b) Rosalind Franklin
(c) Marie Curie
(d) Rachel Carson
Answer is (c)

B. moderately difficult questions about a scientist, disaster, event, invention etc

1. Question: Which scientist is the youngest Nobel laureate in physics
Clue 1. A famous law in physics is named after him
Clue 2. He shared the Nobel prize with his father
Answer: William Bragg Junior

2. This device was named little boy and caused a huge scientific catastrophe. What is
it commonly called?
Clue 1: the Manhattan project was the code name for the development of this device
Clue 2: It wrecked havoc in a Japanese city
The first atomic bomb at Nagasaki
Tough questions with three clues
Name the American scientist of Scottish ancestry who was the first industrial chemist to win
the noble prize in chemistry in 1932.
Clues:
1. who worked and retired from General Electric company
2. He has a journal named in his honour
3. His nobel prize was for his “investigations in surface chemistry”
Answer: Irving Langmuir
This molecule with the largest number of symmetry operations has the highest symmetry
Clues:
1. A Nobel prize was awarded for the discovery of this molecule two decades ago
2. It is made up of an element that is found in all known life forms
3. Named after a noted architect who created the geodesic dome.
4. It is hollow and spherical in shape and resembles a football
5. It is an allotrope of carbon