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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Skinny Superhero" – "Enormoz".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard both born?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Norway.
(c) Hungaria.
(d) Sweden.

2. Where did Semyon Semyonov earn an engineering degree?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of California, Berkeley.
(c) The University of New York.
(d) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

3. When did the Briggs Advisory Committee on Uranium hold its first meeting?
(a) September 1, 1939.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) October 11, 1939.
(d) May 22, 1940.

4. When did Adolf Hitler launch a four-million man invasion across the Soviet border, despite his agreements not to do so?
(a) May, 1939.
(b) April, 1940.
(c) June, 1941.
(d) July, 1940.

5. Who delivered Albert Einstein's letter regarding the potential development of a German atomic bomb to the President of the United States?
(a) Alexander Sachs.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Scott Miller.
(d) Luis Alvarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?

2. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?

3. When did Adolf Hitler take over as Chancellor of Germany?

4. Prior to the development of the atomic bomb, where did the largest man-made explosion in history occur?

5. On what date did Hitler's Germany launch a massive invasion of Poland?

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