Gell-Mann discovers quark - Quiz
  • 1. Who discovered quarks?
A) Murray Gell-Mann
B) Richard Feynman
C) Erwin Schrödinger
D) Niels Bohr
  • 2. Which group of particles did Gell-Mann propose were made up of quarks?
A) Leptons
B) Bosons
C) Hadrons
D) Fermions
  • 3. What are the three types of quarks identified by Gell-Mann initially?
A) Electron, Proton, Neutron
B) Photon, W, Z
C) Red, Blue, Green
D) Up, Down, Strange
  • 4. Protons and neutrons are composed of which quarks?
A) Strange and charm quarks
B) Top and bottom quarks
C) Up and down quarks
D) Red and blue quarks
  • 5. Quarks are never observed in isolation due to what phenomenon?
A) Decay
B) Annihilation
C) Confinement
D) Disintegration
  • 6. What is the color charge of a quark?
A) Black
B) Red, Blue, or Green
C) Positive
D) Yellow
  • 7. Which experiment provided the evidence for the existence of quarks?
A) Double-slit experiment
B) Photoelectric effect
C) Deep inelastic scattering
D) Davisson-Germer experiment
  • 8. What is the third 'strangeness' quantum number in particle physics used to classify quarks?
A) Isospin
B) Spin
C) Flavor
D) Charm
  • 9. The down quark has what kind of electric charge?
A) -1/3
B) +1/3
C) +2/3
D) -2/3
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