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1. Where was William Henry Bragg born? Cumberland, England Edinburgh, Scotland Surrey, England County Cork, Ireland

2. How are William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg related? Brothers Uncle and nephew Father and son Grandfather and grandson

3. Where was William Henry Bragg's first academic posting? Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA University of Queensland, Australia University of Adelaide, Australia Harvard, USA

4. What was so important about William Lawrence's broken arm in 1895? It was the first broken arm treated with a coloured plaster cast. Its treatment involved the first reported surgical use of x-rays. It broke in a specific way no-one had ever seen before. It healed instantaneously.

5. In which branch of science did the Braggs jointly win the Nobel Prize? Physics Medicine Chemistry Mathematics

6. William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg were both knighted. True False

7. Which of the following is named after one or both of the Braggs? An equation enabling the measurement of the distance between atoms in a crystal. University laboratories and lecture theatres. All of these. An electoral division in South Australia.

8. William Henry Bragg worked on research in what area during World War I? The structure of haemoglobin. The location of submarines using underwater sounds. The circulation of blood. The behaviour of thixotropic liquids.

9. In what major scientific discovery did William Lawrence Bragg play a part? The development of penicillin as a drug. The determination of the structure of DNA. The discovery of buckminsterfullerenes. The discovery of dark matter.

10. The Australian Institute of Physics awards the Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics every year. For what achievement is this honour awarded? The best published research paper written by an Australian scientist under the age of 35. The best oral presentation by an undergraduate at a physics conference. The best scientific discovery of the year, as judged by the Institute’s panel. The best PhD thesis (dissertation) by a student at an Australian University.