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All matter is made up of these 3 subatomic particles.

A. What are electrons, protons and neutrons?

B. What are alpha, beta and gamma?

C. What are earth, wind and fire?

D. What are paper, rock and scissors?

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This particle is made up of 2 protons and 2 neutrons and can be very damaging to internal organs of the human body.

A. What is a beta particle?

B. What is cosmic radiation?

C. What is an alpha particle?

D. What is a neutrino?


These two types of photons (or rays) are essentially the same except for their place of origin within the atom.

A. What are cathode rays and x-rays?

B. What are beta rays and alpha rays?

C. What are devil rays and cosmic rays?

D. What are gamma rays and x-rays?

It’s also known as anti-matter.

A. What is an electron?

B. What is a positron?

C. What is a neutron?

D. What is a wonton?


These type of x-rays are emitted at discrete energies from the excited atom as a result of electron capture decay.

A. What are superficial x-rays?

B. What are characteristic x-rays?

C. What are phantom rays?

D. What are emission rays?



Radiation Safety technicians do this 4 times a year to verify that Radiation labs are clean.

A. What are contamination surveys?

B. What are asbestos surveys?

C. What are fire extinguisher surveys?

D. What is appearing on ‘Dancing With the Stars?


These are the only UK employees licensed to handle Radioactive Waste.

A. Who are Senior Engineers?

B. What are Phlebotomists? (Phle-WHO?)

C. Who are Radiation Safety Technicians?

D. Who are ‘Montgomery Gentry?

This is the best way to keep from getting radioactive contamination on yourself.


A. What is spraying for bedbugs?

B. What is ‘Calling in Sick’?

C. What are wearing gloves and hand washing?

D. What is a lead suit?


Radiation symbols on tape indicate that the area contains

A. What are bedbugs?

B. What is radioactive contamination?

C. What is expensive equipment?

D. What are a gamma-photo-pulserators?


Exposure to radiation may increase your chance of getting

A.What are bedbugs?

B.What is Cancer?

C.What is Syndromatic Hepatic Ductular Hypoplasia?

D.What is a bad hair day?


I theorized, E=mc2, assigning a mass to the electromagnetic wave.

A. Who is Jose Guadix?

B. Who is Charles Barkley?

C. Who is Jethro Bodine?

D. Who is Albert Einstein?


My theory of the atom allowed the electron to maintain a stable orbit around the nucleus.

A.Who is Thomas Edison?

B.Who is Neils Bohr?

C.Who is Alfred Hitchcock?

D.Who is Pierre Curie?


I proposed that the atom had a positively charged nucleus and negatively charged electrons surrounding the nucleus.

A.Who is Kevin Costner?

B.Who is Conrad Roentgen?

C.Who is Cliff Clavin?

D.Who is Lord Rutherford?


Along with my student, Herbert Becker, I discovered a very penetrating uncharged type of radiation. James Chadwick later called this type of particle a neutron.

A.Who is Walther Bothe?

B.Who is Robert Duvall?

C.Who is Delwood Snyder?

D.Who is Hans Schtickel?


In 1897, I stated that cathode rays were really particles. I called them “corpuscles” at first, but they later became known as electrons.

A.Who is Sam Drucker?

B.Who is Kelsey Grammer?

C.Who is J. J. Thomson?

D.Who is Sir Edmund Hillary?

It’s the period of time required for any given radioisotope to decrease to one-half of its original quantity.


A.What is half-life?

B.What is half-value layer?

C.What is decay time?

D.What is half and half?

It’s the SI unit that is the amount of radioactive material which disintegrates at the rate of 1 atom per second.


A.What is a Sievert?

B.What is a Roentgen?

C.What is a Gray?

D.What is a Becquerel?

It’s the disintegration mode that involves the ejection of a helium nucleus.


A.What is electron capture?

B.What is alpha decay?

C.What is beta-plus decay?

D.What is beta-minus decay?

It’s approximately equal to the radioactivity of one gram of Radium 226.


A.What is a Fermi?

B.What is a Curie?

C.What is a Becker?

D.What is a Bohr?

For any atom, it’s the number of protons plus the number of neutrons.


A.What is the atomic volume?

B.What is the atomic activity?

C.What is the atomic mass number?

D.What is the atomic force value?

It’s the symbol that represents the Transformation (or Decay) Constant.


A.What is gamma (Γ)?

B.What is sigma (Σ)?

C.What is lambda (λ)?

D.What is iota (Ϊ)?

In the equation, A=A0e-λt, it’s what A0 represents.


A.What is the amount of time passed?

B.What is the alpha energy after time, t?

C.What is the activity after time, t?

D.What is the initial activity?

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In the equation, N = N0e-λt, it’s what N represents.

(Be careful…We’re looking for “N”, not “A”)


A.What is the number of radioactive atoms after time, t?

B.What is the initial number of radioactive atoms?

C.What is the neutron number of the atom?

D.What is the name of the atom?


If Polkium has a half-life of 5 days, and you initially had 150 Ci, this is the activity which would be present after 3 days.

Remember: A=A0e-.693t/halflife

A.What is 122 Ci?

B.What is 99 Ci?

C.What is 82 Ci?

D.What is 77 Ci?


No, I can’t make flap-jacks, but I can hunt down pesky betas. It’s my common name.

A.What is a lunar probe?

B.What is a griddle-cake probe?

C.What is a circular probe?

D.What is a pancake probe?

I’m one of those also!


Because of my thin Mylar membrane, I’m best suited for detecting this type of radiation.

A.What is alpha radiation?

B.What is neutron radiation?

C.What is proton radiation?

D.What is microwave radiation?


You close your windows to keep out flies. We close ours to keep out these.

A.What are x-rays?

B.What are beta particles?

C.What are gamma rays?

D.What are neutrons?


It’s the reason why my internal GM detector responds more accurately than many other GMs at low energies.

A.What are photon forensics?

B.What is gamma gumption?

C.What is energy compensation?

D.What is x-ray excitement?


Of GM, ion chamber, scintillation detector or semi-conductor, the one that I detect x-rays with.

A.What is GM?

B.What is ion chamber?

C.What is scintillation detector?

D.What is semi-conductor?

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It’s the activity remaining after 20 years of a radioactive source that has an initial activity of 200 mCi and a half-life of 10 years.


A.What is 25 mCi?

B.What is 50 mCi?

C.What is 100 mCi?

D.What is 150 mCi?

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