Bomb Chapter 1

When does the story in Bomb! start?

• 1950

• 1945

• 1942

• 1925

Who is the character the FBI want to talk to, and why?

• Paul Blue, he is Russian

• John Green, he's a terrorist

• Harry Gold, he's a soviet spuy

• Philip Silver, he makes bombs

What's the 'liquid drop theory' about?

• How spies steal secrets

• How unranium can create a chain reaction

• how radiation is spread by rain

• How ideas spread in the modern world

Chapter 1 tells the story of a young genius, called...

• Marie Curie

• Albert Einstein

• Issac Newton

• Robert Oppenheimer

Once he went on a date and

• walked off lost in thought...

• forgot the girl's name

• talked about maths with her all night

• Drew equations on the car

Nuclear fission (splitting the atom) was discovered in 1938 in

• Berlin

• London

• Washington USA

• Moscow

How was Einstein involved in this story?

• He designed the bomb

• He helped American scientists warn the president

• He warned about the danger of this bomb

• He wasn't involved

When President Roosevelt recieved the warning about Germany's ability to build a new type of bomb he

• did nothing

• wanted more information before acting

• disagreed that they should try to make the A-bomb

• decided that the US should make the A-bomb first

How did the project to make an American A-bomb go at first?

• Brilliantly- they had everything they needed

• Badly- They could not find any scientists to do the work

• Badly - the president did not agree they should do this

• Badly - it was disorganised and underfunded

Two major parts of the war are mentioned in June 1941 and December 1941. What were they?

• The invasion of Poland & Operation Barbarossa

• Operation Barbarossa and the defeat of Nazi germany

• Operation Barbarossa and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

• the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and the Battle of Britian