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1. Who invented the telephone?
2. What is the name of Newton's landmark publication from 1687?
3. Hedy Lamarr's invention of frequency-hopping is a foundation for which modern technology?
4. What was the name of the German encryption machine that Turing helped crack?
5. What was the name of the famous X-ray image taken by Rosalind Franklin?
6. Which planet's moons did Galileo first discover with his telescope?
7. What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on during his five-year expedition?
8. In which city is Michelangelo's famous statue of David located?
9. For which machine did Ada Lovelace write the first computer algorithm?
10. What is the name of the method of inquiry through questioning developed by Socrates?
11. What type of software did Grace Hopper invent to translate English-like code into machine language?
12. In which cultural movement was Zora Neale Hurston a leading figure?
13. Which celestial event did Wang Zhenyi famously simulate with a table, lamp, and mirror?
14. Which scientific process did Lise Meitner theoretically explain in 1939?
15. What was the name of the machine Turing developed to crack the Enigma code?
16. What is the common name for the transposable genetic elements McClintock discovered?
17. Which planet's four largest moons are known as the 'Galilean Moons'?
18. What modern technology relies on Hedy Lamarr's frequency-hopping invention?
19. With which Cambridge mathematician did Ramanujan famously collaborate?
20. Which of these revolutionary devices was launched by Steve Jobs in 2007?