These trivia questions can be used for a public outreach event. You can use the questions as is or use a trivia website like the Kahoot to present and track scores. The questions are broken up into four categories: Current Events, History, Pop Culture, and Fission vs. Fusion.

This is the questions and answer key for a recent nuclear themed trivia night conducted by the DC chapter of U.S. WIN. Hosted May 2024 at MPR Associates, our group formed teams and we used Kahoot to track scores. To use Kahoot, each team needs a laptop or cell phone that was logged into Kahoot, and that is how the teams entered their answers. These questions can easily be spoken out loud by someone, or put into some other presentation form.   For future event prep, we suggest someone review the questions and make sure they are still current/correct as stated.

Depending upon how this is being used the prep time could be 1-3 hours. We allocated 2 hours for the game and with discussions it ended up being almost 3 hours total for the evening.

We had a small group, approximately 15 people, but they were young engineers and engineering students, so the small size allowed for deeper discussions about the questions. We also had senior engineers acting as MCs and they were able to give history, insights, and context to the conversation.

Nuclear Trivia Night Questions and Answer Key