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Can you name the particles in the Standard Model? Enter a particle in the box below Correctly named particles will show up below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game contributed by DeLand on 10/02/2009 Source: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory You have 3 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today TV Shows (U.S.) 35962 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 17507 Same Last Name 11640 Official Languages of Europe 5210 Cartoons II 4915 The Fewest Letters 3523 And more...
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Quarks

Leptons

Bosons/Force Carriers

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	elevatorman:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 08:13 GMT	6 points
	Good Quiz. It gave me the last boson by putting in the first letter and a space.

	other:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 01:12 GMT	4 points
	Very good quiz, surprised this hasn't gotten more plays.

	SlovakOne:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 16:30 GMT	13 points
	Perhaps you could include a bonus Higgs boson? Otherwise great quiz.

	xeju:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 22:05 GMT	4 points
	I kept trying Higgs Boson too - figured it would be a bonus.

	smeg4brains:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 00:53 GMT	1 point
	it won't accept just w+ or w-. hrm.

	bahhbara:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 01:54 GMT	3 points
	Also consider graviton for a bonus boson... Good quiz. Surprised that up and down quarks have more correct answers than electron! I guess people just don't know it's an elementary particle...

	Djibouti:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 02:16 GMT	8 points
	I'd suggest an antimatter version of this quiz, but if they got too close together, we'd have a gamma radiation quiz.

	Patteroast:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 02:33 GMT	4 points
	I like that you accept the alternates Truth and Beauty for Top and Bottom. :)

	MovieDynamic:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 03:27 GMT	-4 points
	I don't get it

	jacobf:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 04:37 GMT	1 point
	I thought I was just going to have to type in "lunch"... Get it? Because models (i. e. supermodels) eat mere particles for lunch, because they're so sickly and thin... Get it? Eh... forget it.

	confused:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT	3 points
	I'm sure this is a very good quiz, but to answer "other": when I look at a quiz and haven't the slightest clue how to take even a wild guess... well, I don't play.

	Keiyashi:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 08:13 GMT	-4 points
	The last two answers are simply the symbols for "Gauge" boson and "Higgs" boson respectively. Those words should be accepted.

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	davidr:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 12:57 GMT	2 points
	@keiyashi: No. A gauge boson isn't a single particle: it's a class of particles including all the bosons in this quiz. And the W+/- boson is not the Higgs boson.

	R:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 13:54 GMT	-1 points
	Actually, Higgs should just be in the quiz, not even as a bonus. It is an accepted part of the standard model, without it the standard model is not complete. And I'm majoring in theoretical physics.

	Pat423:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 22:14 GMT	0 points
	Can't believe I missed gluon. =(

	MorningBell411:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 01:31 GMT	1 point
	Same here. I got all but the gluon...

	Shinyhubcaps:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 09:40 GMT	1 point
	I got 3 just by typing in single letters. "e" was an accepted answer (though I was going to type "electron"), as well as "w" and "z".

	marisbest:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 21:33 GMT	-1 points
	@other so i know what quarks r and got all those but never heard of the other two and thts y noone plays this quiz

	phorwsid:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 04:11 GMT	2 points
	graviton as bonus answer?

	MJongo:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 08:54 GMT	2 points
	Yeah Higgs boson and Graviton should be bonuses

	originalduncstar:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 15:11 GMT	1 point
	i'd love a quiz with supersymmetric particles- sleptons etc

	Uhlan:	Nov 8th, 2009 at 14:39 GMT	1 point
	Damn, could only think neutrino, forgot about the branches.