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What was the surname of hot air balloon pioneers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne?
Montgolfier
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An EMP bomb. What do the letters E M P stand for?
Electro Magnetic Pulse
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What flowed through aincient Egyptian clepsydra to tell the time?
Water
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What word used in connection with radio and television originally came from an agricultural term referring to the scattering of seeds?
Broadcast(ing)
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Who discovered penicillin?
Alexander Fleming (1928)
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What are the additive primary colours (as opposed to the subtractive primaries)?
Red, blue, green
Green is a subtractive secondary, yellow is an additive secondary
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What did Stephen Poplawski first add a spinning blade to in 1922?
Blender
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What is the very common trypanophobia a fear of?
Injections
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Which exhibition made a profit that helped fund the Science, Natural History and Victoria and Albert Museums?
The Great Exhibition
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Which plastic often has its name shortened to PS?
Polystyrene