Find the Link, Take the Point

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1. Which city is known for its leaning bell tower and as Galileo’s birthplace?

   1. Pisa
   2. Siena
   3. Florence
   4. Lucca
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   A) Pisa

2. Which egg-laying mammal is known for its duck-like bill and beaver-like tail?

   1. Echidna
   2. Otter
   3. Capybara
   4. Platypus
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   D) Platypus

3. Who co-discovered polonium and radium and received Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields?

   1. Marie Curie
   2. Dorothy Hodgkin
   3. Lise Meitner
   4. Irène Joliot-Curie
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   A) Marie Curie

4. Which monument was a gift from France to the United States and has a copper surface that turned green?

   1. Mount Rushmore
   2. Statue of Liberty
   3. Lincoln Memorial
   4. Washington Monument
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   B) Statue of Liberty

5. Which scientist formulated the laws of motion and designed a reflecting telescope?

   1. Isaac Newton
   2. Galileo Galilei
   3. Robert Hooke
   4. Johannes Kepler
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   A) Isaac Newton

6. Who composed “The Four Seasons” concertos and was nicknamed the “Red Priest”?

   1. Arcangelo Corelli
   2. Giuseppe Tartini
   3. Antonio Vivaldi
   4. Claudio Monteverdi
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   C) Antonio Vivaldi

7. Which Ecuadorian island group is associated with Darwin’s finches?

   1. Canary Islands
   2. Azores
   3. Galápagos Islands
   4. Falkland Islands
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   C) Galápagos Islands

8. Who wrote “Frankenstein” and was born in 1797?

   1. Charlotte Brontë
   2. George Eliot
   3. Jane Austen
   4. Mary Shelley
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   D) Mary Shelley

9. Which Hollywood actor co-developed a frequency-hopping communication system with George Antheil?

   1. Ingrid Bergman
   2. Marlene Dietrich
   3. Greta Garbo
   4. Hedy Lamarr
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   D) Hedy Lamarr

10. Who helped break Enigma codes at Bletchley Park and wrote a 1950 paper exploring whether machines can think?

    1. Claude Shannon
    2. Alan Turing
    3. Norbert Wiener
    4. John von Neumann
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    B) Alan Turing