1. The theorem relating the three sides of a right angled triangle is usually named after which ancient Greek thinker?
2. Isaac Newton described mathematically which force, explaining why planets orbit the sun and why objects fall to the ground?
3. Alan Turing's codebreaking work during the Second World War focused on decoding messages sent using which German machine?
4. Johannes Gutenberg's mid-1400s invention, which transformed how books were made and shared in Europe, was what?
5. Antoine Lavoisier, who helped identify oxygen and hydrogen as elements, is often called the father of modern what?
6. Charles Darwin's most famous book, published in 1859, laying out his theory of evolution, was called what?
7. Mathematicians in which country developed the concept of zero as a number in its own right, along with a place value number system?
8. Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics correctly argued that we see objects because of what?
9. Ada Lovelace is often regarded as an early computer programmer because she wrote what?
10. Movable type printing, using individual pieces for each character, was invented in China by Bi Sheng roughly how many centuries before Johannes Gutenberg's printing press appeared in Europe?
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