3. 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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4. 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?
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5. 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?
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6. 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?
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7. 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?
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8. 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?
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9. 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?
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10. 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?
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11. 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?
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12. 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?
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13. 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?
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14. 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?
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15. 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?
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16. 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?
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17. 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?
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18. 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?
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19. 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?
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20. 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?
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21. 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?
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22. 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?
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23. 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)?
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24. 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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26. 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?
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27. 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?
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28. 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? I’m one of
those
B.What is a griddle-cake probe? also!
C.What is a circular probe?
D.What is a pancake probe?
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29. 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?
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30. 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?
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31. 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?
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32. 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?
FINAL
JEOPARDY
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33. 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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