1. The Wright brothers achieved the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight in which year?
2. Galileo Galilei built improved versions of which instrument, using it to study the Moon, Jupiter's moons and sunspots?
3. Marie Curie became famous for studying elements that give off energy, a phenomenon she named what?
4. Dmitri Mendeleev is best known for organising all the known chemical elements into what?
5. The heat treatment process named after Louis Pasteur, used to make milk and other foods safer to drink or eat, is called what?
6. Papermaking, gunpowder, the compass and printing, four of history's most influential inventions, are all credited to which country?
7. Charles Darwin proposed that species change over long periods of time through a process he called what?
8. Alexander Fleming noticed in 1928 that mould had killed off bacteria growing in a laboratory dish, leading to the discovery of what?
9. Ada Lovelace worked closely with which inventor on his design for an early mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine?
10. Charles Darwin's most famous book, published in 1859, laying out his theory of evolution, was called what?
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