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The basic unit of living matter.
What is a cell?
100
This American inventor created the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Pasteurization was named in this man's honor.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
100
An artistic movement against the age of reason and science.
What is romanticism?
100
The movement from one's native land to a foreign one.
What is emigration?
200
When the strong survive and past down characteristics.
What is survival of the fittest?
200
Henry Ford's first commercially successful automobile.
What is Model T?
200
The scientist discovered penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
200
This person was a main inspiration to the transition into romanticism.
Who is Ludwig von Beethoven?
200
The man who created American football.
Who is Walter Camp?
300
She won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911.
Who is Marie Curie?
300
This scientific principle governs the movement of air around objects.
What is aerodynamics?
300
This disease was transmitted by fleas on rats.
What is the Bubonic plague?
300
He was the best known composer of operas in Germany.
Who is Richard Wagner?
300
He was the leader of the house of commons in 1829.
Who is Sir Robert Peel?
400
This scientist disproved the commonly held ideas about energy.
Who is Max Planck?
400
The builders of the first successful gasoline driven automobile driven in the United States.
Who were Frank and Charles Doryea?
400
These chemical helped to reduce infections surgery, childbirth, and the treatment of battle wounds.
What are antisepsis?
400
This person's operas were often built around stories.
Who is Pyotr Ilich Tchaikousks?
400
Urged her government to prepare women to attend universities.
Who is Emily Davis?
500
Einstein's theory of relativity declared fourth dimensions are a part of this.
What is the space-time continuum?
500
This man developed a way to send messages through space without wires.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
500
This disease led to the invention of the vaccine of one of the deadliest diseases of the time.
What is cowpox?
500
This artist painted The Washerwoman.
Who is Honore Daumier?
500
London's permanent police force.
What are the "bobbies"?