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1.Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was (in 1967) the first person to observe which type of astronomical object?
A supernova
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A pulsar
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A binary star
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A black hole
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2.Who in 1836 invented a cage (now named after him) which can be used to shield sensitive electronic equipment from electromagnetic fields?
Isaac Newton
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Michael Faraday
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Joseph Priestley
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James Clerk Maxwell
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3.Rosalind Franklin used X-ray diffraction imaging in the 1950s to help to reveal the structure of which substance?
DNA
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Water
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Uranium
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Benzene
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4.Stephen Hawking theorised in 1974 that which astronomical bodies should emit radiation (Hawking radiation)?
Neutron stars
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Protogalaxies
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Black holes
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Red giant stars
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5.Ada Lovelace (working with Charles Babbage in the first half of the 19th century) can be considered one of the first... ?
Organic chemists
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Particle physicists
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Ecologists
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Computer programmers
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6.Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) is best known as the inventor of what?
The Large Hadron Collider
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The World Wide Web
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The pocket calculator
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The internet
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7.We have Harriet Chick to blame for discovering the nutritional cause of rickets (1919), ensuring children were plied with which allegedly ghastly-tasting foodstuff?
Malt extract
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Cod liver oil
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Garlic capsules
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Rose hips
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8.Sir Humphry Davy is famous for his safety 'Davy lamp' and for isolating many elements for the first time, using electrochemistry. But where was he from?
Nottingham
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South Wales
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Edinburgh
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Cornwall
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9.In the 1820s, following her experiments into magnetism, Mary Somerville was only the second woman to have a paper published by the Royal Society. Which British-German astronomer had beaten her to it?
Christine Kirch
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Agnes Pockels
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Caroline Herschel
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Maria Clara Eimmart
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10.John Dalton (born 1766) established his 'law of partial pressures' relating to mixtures of gases, and is also famous for his work on atomic theory. But his work on another subject has led to it becoming known as 'Daltonism':