1. The theorem relating the three sides of a right angled triangle is usually named after which ancient Greek thinker?
2. Marie Curie became famous for studying elements that give off energy, a phenomenon she named what?
3. Alan Turing's codebreaking work during the Second World War focused on decoding messages sent using which German machine?
4. Gregor Mendel's careful experiments breeding pea plants in a monastery garden laid the foundation for which science?
5. Nikola Tesla is best known for developing which kind of electrical power system, still used to send electricity over long distances today?
6. Marie Curie named one of the two new elements she discovered after her home country. Which country was that?
7. Rosalind Franklin's X-ray images of DNA, especially one known as Photo 51, were crucial evidence for working out what?
8. Cai Lun, working around 105 AD, is credited with improving the process for making what material?
9. Gunpowder, one of China's Four Great Inventions, was first stumbled upon by chemists who were searching for what?
10. The mathematical relationship behind the Pythagorean theorem was actually known and used long before Pythagoras was born, by which earlier civilisation?
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