Which scientist changed how we see the evolution of species with his 1859 book "On the Origin of Species"?
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Which Belgian Catholic priest first postulated the Big Bang Theory?
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Sensational!
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Which Scottish-born American inventor was the first to patent the telephone?
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What person is credited with having invented electricity in 1752 after conducting an experiment flying a kite during a storm?
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Bullseye!
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Which French virologist is credited with being the first to discover the HIV virus in 1983?
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Bullseye!
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Who was the first person to claim the world is round?
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Wonderful!
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Who is credited with having developed a vaccine for smallpox?
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Who discovered that the weight of an object does not determine how fast it will fall?
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Who was the first to market the light bulb commercially and is often credited with its invention?
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Superb!
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What physicist has argued that the theory of time travel violates the laws of physics and is therefore impossible?
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Stunning!
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Who first put forward the idea that the Sun is the center of our universe?
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Stunning!
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Who discovered gravity after famously watching an apple fall from a tree?
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Who is credited with coming up with the idea for the internet when he published a paper titled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" in 1961?
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Who is often credited with having built the world's first programmable robot when he developed Unimate in 1954?
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The Roslin Institute famously cloned a sheep in 1996. The sheep only lived 6 years, however. What was the sheep named?
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