The Royal Quiz

When you peer through a microscope, you are not looking directly at a specimen underneath but rather at an image of the specimen that is being projected up by the lenses to a place below the eyepiece!

When he was 8, Andy Warhol was bedridden due to a nerve disease. He stayed home and listened to the radio, learning all about celebrities. Many believe this incident influenced his art. He later created his iconic ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’ series, allegedly having eaten the soup for lunch every day for 20 years!

Dmitri Mendeleyev presented his periodic table of elements at the Russian Chemical society on March 6, 1869. His table was based on increasing atomic weight. It was not, however, the first attempt at organizing the elements. In 1864, Lothar Meyer published a table with the placement of 28 elements.