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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. Einstein's famous equation, showing that mass and energy are related, is usually written as what?

E = mc²a² + b² = c²F = maV = IR

2. Marie Curie became famous for studying elements that give off energy, a phenomenon she named what?

ElectricityRadioactivityCombustionMagnetism

3. Johannes Gutenberg's mid-1400s invention, which transformed how books were made and shared in Europe, was what?

The movable type printing pressThe telescopeThe steam engineThe electric motor

4. 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?

EnzymesMoleculesCellsGerms, or micro-organisms

5. Alan Turing's codebreaking work during the Second World War focused on decoding messages sent using which German machine?

The telegraphThe radar systemThe Analytical EngineThe Enigma machine

6. Ada Lovelace worked closely with which inventor on his design for an early mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine?

Alan TuringCharles BabbageJames Clerk MaxwellIsaac Newton

7. Marie Curie named one of the two new elements she discovered after her home country. Which country was that?

FrancePolandGermanyRussia

8. Rosalind Franklin's X-ray images of DNA, especially one known as Photo 51, were crucial evidence for working out what?

The theory of evolutionThe periodic tableThe structure of the atomThe double helix structure of DNA

9. Ibn al-Haytham is often credited as an early pioneer of which general approach to studying the world, based on testing ideas with careful experiments?

The theory of relativityNatural selectionThe periodic tableThe scientific method

10. An ancient Chinese mathematics text called "The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art" included early methods for solving what?

Systems of linear equationsCalculus problemsProbability puzzlesPrime number tests

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