Now, I know

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Now, I know

• Lets check out what we have learnt about Ernest
  Rutherford.
• There are 10 questions. Each question has 4
  possible answers. Your task is to match the right
  answer with the question. At the end make a note
  of your score. Your teacher will have the correct
  answers for you to check.

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Question 1

• Rutherfords picture appears on the
• New Zealand
• 10 note
• b) 20 note
• c) 50 note
• d) 100 note

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Question 2

• Rutherford was born in
• Nelson
• b) Canterbury
• c) Taranaki
• d) England

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Question 3

• In England and Canada, Rutherford used alpha
• particles to find
• a) A possible way to treat cancer
• How to detect submarines
• What an atom looks like
• Better ways of radio communication

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Question 4

• Rutherford is famous as a
• Mathematician
• Community leader
• Inventor
• d) Experimental scientist

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Question 5

• In 1908 Rutherford was awarded
• a) Nobel Prize in Physics
• b) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• Nobel Prize for Peace

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Question 6

• Rutherford is remembered as the
• Inventor of radar and sonar
• Founder of scientific research in New Zealand
• Only New Zealander to win a Nobel Prize
• Father of nuclear science

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Question 7

• Rutherford left Canterbury College with
• a) MA in Biology
• MA in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, and
  in Physical Science
• MA in Physics
• MA in Chemistry

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Question 8

• To receive the Nobel Prize Rutherford went to
• Stockholm in Sweden
• Montreal in Canada
• New York in USA
• London in England

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Question 9

• Rutherford showed his humanity by
• Promoting the Treaty of Waitangi
• Campaigning for a womens right to vote
• Supporting refugees fleeing from Hitler
• Opposing using an atomic bomb on Japan

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Question 10

• Rutherford is buried near other scientists at
• a) Christchurch Cathedral
• Nelson Cathedral
• Westminster Abbey in London
• Great St Marys in Cambridge University