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Geniuses
1. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
2. Who was known as the “Father of Modern Physics”?
3. Who was the African American scientist and inventor known for work with peanuts?
4. Which astronaut famously asked Katherine Johnson to verify the computer's numbers?
5. For which discovery did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
6. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
7. What was the name of the German encryption machine that Turing helped crack?
8. In which city is Michelangelo's famous statue of David located?
9. Which of these novels was NOT written by Jane Austen?
10. For which machine did Ada Lovelace write the first computer algorithm?
11. Which electrical system did Tesla champion in the 'War of Currents' against Thomas Edison?
12. Which plant did Mendel use for his groundbreaking experiments in inheritance?
13. The mathematical term 'Algebra' is derived from a word in the title of a book by which scholar?
14. What is the English translation of Descartes' famous phrase 'Cogito, ergo sum'?
15. What is the SI unit of pressure named after Blaise Pascal?
16. What fundamental law of physics did Chien-Shiung Wu's experiment disprove?
17. What was the name of the famous X-ray image taken by Rosalind Franklin's team?
18. What concept did Du Bois coin to describe the internal conflict of African Americans?
19. Which part of the psyche, according to Freud, is governed by the 'pleasure principle'?
20. For which discovery did Albert Einstein win his only Nobel Prize?