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Rock, paper…plastic? A quiz about pop songs and bands linked to materials

27 Nov 2020 Matin Durrani

With the 2020 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society now under way, what better way to kick things off than a quiz about songs and bands with materials in their titles or lyrics? (Warning: we’re not saying we necessarily like all the music mentioned!) And to see how IOP Publishing’s very own materials-science publisher Tom Miller gets on with the quiz, check out the Physics World Weekly podcast.

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Rock hard: how well do you know your pop trivia with a materials theme? (Courtesy: istock/Talaj)
1. Which of these artists has never had a song with the word “diamonds” in the title? A. The Bea

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