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Geniuses
1. Who invented the telephone?
2. Who is credited with inventing the light bulb?
3. Who was the African American scientist and inventor known for work with peanuts?
4. Who was the Italian explorer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic?
5. Which invention of Pascal's was an early predecessor to the modern computer?
6. Hedy Lamarr's invention of frequency-hopping is a foundation for which modern technology?
7. In which city is Michelangelo's famous statue of David located?
8. Cajal's 'Neuron Doctrine' stated that the nervous system is made of what?
9. What is the name of the method of inquiry through questioning developed by Socrates?
10. What fundamental unit of digital information was popularized by Claude Shannon?
11. What is the name of the famous military treatise written by Sun Tzu?
12. What was the name of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, built by Fermi's team?
13. How many sonnets is William Shakespeare credited with writing?
14. Which city did Mansa Musa transform into a major center for Islamic scholarship and trade?
15. Which visualization tool did Humboldt invent to show areas of equal temperature on a map?
16. Which plant tissue, responsible for transporting sugars, did Katherine Esau study extensively?
17. Which of Beethoven's symphonies was the first to feature a choir?
18. What does the Greek word 'Eureka', shouted by Archimedes, mean?
19. What was the name of the estate Thomas Jefferson designed and lived in?
20. What concept did Du Bois coin to describe the internal conflict of African Americans?