1. Dmitri Mendeleev is best known for organising all the known chemical elements into what?
2. The theorem relating the three sides of a right angled triangle is usually named after which ancient Greek thinker?
3. Marie Curie became famous for studying elements that give off energy, a phenomenon she named what?
4. The Wright brothers achieved the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight in which year?
5. Isaac Newton described mathematically which force, explaining why planets orbit the sun and why objects fall to the ground?
6. Isaac Newton's three laws of motion describe the relationship between a force and what?
7. Louis Pasteur showed that many diseases were caused by tiny living things, too small to see with the naked eye. What are they usually called?
8. Alan Turing's codebreaking work during the Second World War focused on decoding messages sent using which German machine?
9. Ada Lovelace worked closely with which inventor on his design for an early mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine?
10. Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics correctly argued that we see objects because of what?
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