Mathematics And Astronomy

  1. Who was Pythagoras? [answer]
  2. Who was Euclid? [answer]
  3. What was Nicholas Copernicus's contribution to knowledge of the universe? [answer]
  4. What were Galileo's contributions to science and mathematics? [answer]
  5. Why was Johannes Kepler important to modern astronomy? [answer]
  6. When did Halley's Comet first appear? [answer]
  7. Did Isaac Newton really discover the law of gravitation when an apple fell from a tree and hit him on the head? [answer]
  8. Who invented calculus? [answer]
  9. What is the Hubble Space Telescope? [answer]

Biology

  1. What were George Washington Carver's agricultural discoveries? [answer]
  2. How did Charles Darwin develop the theory of evolution? [answer]
  3. Who are Louis and Mary Leakey and what did they discover? [answer]
  4. When was the structure of DNA discovered? [answer]
  5. What is cloning? [answer]

Physics

  1. Why was the development of quantum theory important? [answer]
  2. Why is the equation E=mc2 significant? [answer]
  3. Why did Albert Einstein want the United States to develop the atomic bomb? [answer]
  4. What was Enrico Fermi's contribution to the understanding of nuclear power? [answer]
  5. Why was J. Robert Oppenheimer accused of being disloyal to the United States? [answer]
  6. What is the doomsday clock? [answer]
  7. What is the big bang theory? [answer]

Technology

  1. When was the compass first used? [answer]
  2. When was the calendar invented? [answer]
  3. When was the clock introduced? [answer]
  4. What did Alfred Nobel invent? [answer]
  5. Who invented the thermometer? [answer]
  6. Why is Thomas Edison considered one of the greatest inventors in history? [answer]
  7. Who invented the steam engine? [answer]
  8. How long have trains been in use? [answer]
  9. When did rail service in the United States reach from coast to coast? [answer]
  10. When was the bicycle invented? [answer]
  11. Did Henry Ford invent the automobile? [answer]
  12. Who invented the hot-air balloon? [answer]
  13. Did the Wright brothers invent the airplane, or were they just the first to fly one? [answer]
  14. When did the first jet airplane take off? [answer]
  15. Who invented the telegraph? [answer]
  16. Who invented the telephone? [answer]
  17. When was photography invented? [answer]
  18. Who invented the television? [answer]
  19. When was the fax machine invented? [answer]
  20. Who invented the computer? [answer]
  21. When was e-mail invented? [answer]
  22. Who wrote the first computer program? [answer]
  23. When was the first computer chip developed? [answer]
  24. Who invented the first personal computer? [answer]
  25. Why was the Internet created? [answer]