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