Daily Quiz | On Robert Oppenheimer
These are replicas of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
August 1945. They were they nicknamed – Little Boy and Fat Man.
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Name the literary work on which the Nolan’s opus ‘Oppenheimer’ based.
Answer : ‘ American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer’ by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’
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In which famous institution of learning’s physics department was Oppenheimer working when he was recruited to head the Manhattan Project?
Answer : UnIversity of California, Berkeley.
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Though it was informally called the ‘Manhattan Project’, what was the official name of the American research and development undertaking that produced the first nuclear weapons?
Answer : Development of Substitute Materials.
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Name the future Nobel Laureate, who was part of the project, who created a flutter (with no major consquences) by cracking the combinations to locked filing cabinets all over the high-security site in New Mexico.
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On what date did ‘nuclear age’ begin with the detonation of an atomic device and what was the test codenamed?
Answer : June 16, 1945 and ‘Trinity’.
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Oppenheimer was one of the first to predict what enigmatic celestial entity in a paper “On Continued Gravitational Contraction” that he co-wrote in 1939?
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In which chapter of the Gita is the phrase that Oppenheimer alluded to when he saw the first atomic device being detonated?
