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Teleportation Quiz

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1. Which of the following statements is true?




2. In TV history, what was Dr Who's Tardis before it became the world's most famous time-travelling vehicle?



3. Which of the following is or was NOT a quantum physicist?



4. In which year did HG Wells write his classic book The Time Machine?



5. What is the name for a single particle of light?



6. Which of the following is NOT a sub-atomic particle?



7. In which film did Jeff Goldblum star as a person who was able to teleport across a room?



8. Which animal did physicist Erwin Schrödinger famously use to illustrate the conflict between the predictions of quantum theory and what we observe at a macroscopic level?



9. What is the speed of light?



10. Quantum teleportation may, in the future, revolutionise which industry?





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