1. Which scientist is famous for describing gravity, supposedly after watching an apple fall?
2. How many continents are there, most commonly taught?
3. Which invention, made practical by Thomas Edison and others in the late 1800s, gave people electric light in their homes?
4. Which ancient civilisation, based around the city of Rome, built a huge empire across Europe and controlled the Mediterranean?
5. Who is usually credited with patenting a practical telephone in the 1870s?
6. Roughly when was the World Wide Web invented, making the internet easy for ordinary people to use?
7. Which country's official capital is Dodoma, even though its largest and best known city is Dar es Salaam?
8. Which river valley civilisation, in what is now Iraq, is often called one of the earliest, and developed an early writing system called cuneiform?
9. Which two continents are joined on one continuous landmass, sometimes called Eurasia?
10. Which ancient civilisation in Central America is known for accurate calendar systems and step pyramids, and had a writing system only fully deciphered in recent times?
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