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1. What former portrait painter invented telegraphy?

2. Donald Smith and his father, Frank Smith, of Orlando shared US Patent 4,022,227 for what grooming idea?

3. In the 1780s what item was called a hathaway for Jonas Hathaway, who had invented one?

4. What celebrity accordionist patented an accordion-like ashtray and an accordion-like lunch box?

5. Who said 'nature abhors a vacuum'?

6. What did the Manhattan Project develop in the 1940s?

7. What did John Harrion invent in 1757?

8. Filmed by Thomas Edison, the first movie starred Fred Ott. What was he doing?

9. Andre Geim won the Nobel Prize (in Physics) in 2010, for his work on graphene. What did he win in 2001?

10. In 1833, France's Xavier Progin invented the first modern version of something, as a way to help blind people. What?

11. In what European capital was Marie Curie born?

12. Aristarchus of Samos was the first person known to advance what crazy, crazy idea?

13. King Hassan II is believed to be the first foreign monarch to patent an invention in the US. Of what country was he king?

14. Galileo had an illegitimate son named Vincenzo of Galileo by his mistress Marina Gamba. What was their last name?

15. Shortly after winning the Nobel Prize, Pierre Curie died. What killed him?

16. In building the Doilkos in 600 BCE, an evil tyrant named Periander of Corinth is credited with what invention?

17. Out of curiosity, the director of the Oklahoma City zoo fired 297 mg of LSD into what animal, named Tusko, which died as a result?

18. Whose interest in how the eye perceives color led him to take the first color photo, of a tartan-patterned ribbon, in 1861?

19. Although best known for inventing board games, who also invented that paper cutter that threatens your fingers at the office?

20. Despite his interest in helping the deaf, who invented a telephone his own deaf wife couldn't use?

21. In the third century BC, which of these things did Eratosthenes do a surprisingly good job of measuring?

22. In 2007, Shinya Yamanaka and James Thomson reprogrammed regular skin cells to behave as what kind of cells?

23. Henry Heimlich, who created a life-saving maneuver, worked in what medical field?

24. What Swedish chemist was so spooked after reading his own 1888 obituary that he protected his legacy with some prizes?

25. Which scientist was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death?

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