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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Schwarzschild's Singularity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Schwarzschild when he published a paper in Astronomische Nachrichten?
(a) 15.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

2. How many bison slaughtered on the plains in America, were used to produce fertilizer?
(a) 18 million.
(b) About 25 million.
(c) 35 million.
(d) More than 30 million.

3. When was Pieter van der Werff the first great painter to use Prussian Blue?
(a) 1709.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1809.
(d) 1743.

4. How old was Schwarzschild when he became the youngest university professor in Germany?
(a) 27.
(b) 29.
(c) 26.
(d) 28.

5. Where was Goring's body cremated?
(a) Nordfriedhof.
(b) Ostfriedhof.
(c) Haidhausen.
(d) Bogenhausen.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder demonstrate Schwarzschild's singularity?

2. How old was Schwarzschild when he used his father's glasses to create a device to show his brother the sky?

3. Whose arms did Clar Immerwahr die in?

4. What type of dog did Hitler have that he had killed with a cyanide capsule?

5. How much longer did Fritz Haber's discovery of how to obtain nitrogen from the air allow the First World War to drag on?

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