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Question 1 of 10
What "wireless" scientist was part of the Italian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I?
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Question 2 of 10
In the 1300s, who designed flapping wing aircraft known as ornithopters, as well as a proto-helicopter that used a helical screw?
Question 3 of 10
The yearly Hanami festival in Japan celebrates this plant, known as the sakura, and in 1912, Japan gave 3,000 of them to Washington, DC, where they still line the tidal basin. What is it?
Question 4 of 10
As Homer Simpson might know, which of these is not a cow?
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Question 5 of 10
It was originally thought that organic chemistry dealt with living matter, but in 1828 Friedrich Wohler made the organic chemical urea (carbamide) from the inorganic ammonium cyanate NH4OCN. Where is carbamide found?
Question 6 of 10
Named for a TV vessel, the first space shuttle built never made it to space. What was it?
Question 7 of 10
The lady's slipper orchid is also known by what other footwear-related name in the US?
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Question 8 of 10
What was the first living thing humanity sent into space, only to die horribly up there?
Question 9 of 10
In 1901, what did Guglielmo Marconi receive from Britain while in Newfoundland?
Question 10 of 10
The female tiphiid can't fly so it climbs a plant, gets swept up by a male and mates in mid-air. But the tips of some orchids look and smell like the female. What is a tiphiid?
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