History Fact Finder

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]