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Science, Inventions and Sport

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Which Scottish scientist discovered penicillin in 1928?
Which scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation in the Principia, first published in 1687?
Which British scientist wrote On the Origin of Species, published in 1859?
Which British computer scientist invented the World Wide Web in 1989?
George Stephenson's locomotive Rocket won a famous trial in 1829. At which place was it held?
Alan Turing developed the bombe used against the German Enigma machine at which place, home of the Government Code and Cypher School in the Second World War?
Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, was born in 1996 at which research institute?
Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, is best known for inventing which device?
Which Scottish engineer gave the first public demonstration of television in 1926?
Under whose supervision was Photo 51, the 1952 X-ray image of DNA that was critical evidence for the structure of DNA, taken?
Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine in 1796 to protect people against which disease?
Which scientist discovered electromagnetic induction in 1831?
Which line of longitude, 0 degrees, passes through Greenwich in London?
On what type of surface is the Wimbledon tennis championship played?
England won the FIFA World Cup in 1966 on home soil. Against which team did they win the final?
The Ashes is a famous series of cricket matches between England and which other country?
Which nation takes part in the Six Nations rugby union tournament?
In which years has London hosted the Summer Olympic Games?
Who ran the first mile in under four minutes in 1954, on a track in Oxford?
What is the distance of the London Marathon, and of all full marathons?
In which year was the Premier League founded in England?
Which woman is often called the first computer programmer after writing an algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine?
Mary Anning, who found important fossils of ichthyosaurs, collected them along the coast near which town?
John Harrison built a clock that solved the problem of finding which measurement at sea?
Stephen Hawking, who wrote A Brief History of Time, held a professorship at which university?

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