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1. Who was the African American scientist and inventor known for work with peanuts?
2. Which astronaut famously asked Katherine Johnson to verify the computer's numbers?
3. For which discovery did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
4. Which crop did Carver famously promote to restore nitrogen to the soil?
5. What is the name of Euclid's 13-volume treatise on mathematics?
6. How did Mendeleev primarily arrange the elements in his first Periodic Table?
7. What was the name of the chemical pesticide that Rachel Carson's work helped to ban?
8. Which protein structure did Linus Pauling discover in 1951?
9. What is the name of the method of inquiry through questioning developed by Socrates?
10. What cellular 'factory' did Ada Yonath map using X-ray crystallography?
11. Which visualization tool did Humboldt invent to show areas of equal temperature on a map?
12. What is the English translation of Descartes' famous phrase 'Cogito, ergo sum'?
13. Which of Beethoven's symphonies was the first to feature a choir?
14. Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism with which other phenomenon?
15. Which celestial event did Wang Zhenyi famously simulate with a table, lamp, and mirror?
16. What is the SI unit of pressure named after Blaise Pascal?
17. Which of these substances did Alfred Nobel invent to make nitroglycerin safer to use?
18. For which of these molecules did Dorothy Hodgkin determine the structure?
19. In which ancient city did Hypatia live and teach?
20. Which part of the psyche, according to Freud, is governed by the 'pleasure principle'?