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What's
your Nano IQ?
(get
quiz answers)
1.
The prefix “nano” comes from a Greek word meaning _______.
a. billion
b. dwarf
c. invisible
d. infinite
2.
If a nanometer were as big as the width of a pin head, about how
long would a meter be?
a. as
long as the pin shaft
b. as long as a ladder
c. as long as a blue whale
d. as long as a trip between Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Ga.
3.
How many hydrogen atoms lined up “shoulder to shoulder”
would fit in a one nanometer space?
a. less than one
b. ten
c. 1 thousand
d. 1 billion
4.
Which of the following products  contain
nanoscale manufactured parts or materials?
a. sunscreen
b. khaki pants
c. tennis balls
 d.
devices that read computer hard drives
e. all of the above
5. What is a nanonewton?
a. a new kind of cookie
b. a miniature pop singer
c. the approximate amount of force required to break a single chemical
bond between two atoms
d. a tiny lizard
6.
What is a qubit?
a. a unit of measure used in ancient Egypt.
b. a cover for the tip of the stick used in billiards
c. a unit of information that takes advantage of the laws of quantum
mechanics
d. a pair of atoms used to store digital information
7.
What is a flying qubit?
a. a prehistoric bird
b. a muon
c. a photon used to transport quantum information
d. a gluon
8.
What is a Bose-Einstein Condensate?
a. a new type of “smart” speaker that works under water
b. a collection of atoms doing exactly the same things at exactly
the same time
c. a lumpy gray substance invented by Bose and Einstein
d. a physics “Holy Grail,” achieved in 1995, leading to
a Nobel Prize in 2001.
e. b and d
9.
What is a “self-assembled monolayer”?
a. atoms or molecules that spontaneously form uniform single layers
 b.
a type of clothing that gets thicker in response to colder temperatures
c. an optical device that puts itself together
d. a fuzzy logic circuit
10. What is spintronics?
a. using the spins of electrons to carry information
b. electronics made of textiles
 c.
a rock group
d. a type of dance music
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