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1. Who invented the World Wide Web?
2. Who was the Greek philosopher who taught Alexander the Great?
3. Which invention of Pascal's was an early predecessor to the modern computer?
4. In which ancient city did Hypatia live and teach?
5. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
6. Hedy Lamarr's invention of frequency-hopping is a foundation for which modern technology?
7. What was the name of the famous X-ray image taken by Rosalind Franklin?
8. In which city is Michelangelo's famous statue of David located?
9. What is the name of Euclid's 13-volume treatise on mathematics?
10. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems proved that math cannot be both complete and what?
11. Which of these novels was NOT written by Jane Austen?
12. According to Kepler's First Law, what is the shape of a planet's orbit?
13. How did Mendeleev primarily arrange the elements in his first Periodic Table?
14. What fundamental unit of digital information was popularized by Claude Shannon?
15. In which New Jersey town did Edison establish his famous research laboratory?
16. Who was the father of Ada Lovelace?
17. What modern technology relies on Hedy Lamarr's frequency-hopping invention?
18. Bohr's model of the atom was the first to incorporate which revolutionary scientific theory?
19. What was Watt's most critical improvement to the steam engine?
20. For which discovery did Albert Einstein win his only Nobel Prize?