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Chapter 3 : Test 13
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Question 1 of 24 ★★★★★

Which crop's failure caused the Great Famine in Ireland during the 19th century?

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Question 2 of 24 ★★

What proportion of Ireland's population depended on farming, often on small plots of land, in the 19th century?

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Question 3 of 24 ★★★★★

Watson-Watt was the inventor of what?

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Question 4 of 24 ☆☆☆☆☆

Which technology did Sir Robert Watson-Watt develop to detect enemy aircraft using radio waves?

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Who built the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, once the world’s largest?

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What invention by Alan Turing laid the foundation for modern computer science?

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Which Scottish physician co-discovered insulin, a key treatment for diabetes?

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Question 8 of 24 ★★★★★

Who discovered the structure of DNA molecule and won the Nobel Prize?

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Question 9 of 24 ★★★★★

Francis Crick is best known for co-discovering what?

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Question 10 of 24 ★★★★★

Who designed the hovercraft, a vehicle capable of traveling over land and water, in the 1950s?

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Question 11 of 24 ☆☆☆☆☆

In which year did the Concorde, the supersonic passenger aircraft developed by Britain and France, first fly?

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Question 12 of 24 ☆☆☆☆☆

Who invented the cash-dispensing ATM, installed by Barclays Bank in Enfield, London, in 1967?

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Question 13 of 24 ★★★★

Which two British scientists pioneered IVF therapy, leading to the birth of the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’ in 1978?

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Question 14 of 24 ★★★

Which British scientist co-developed the MRI scanner?

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Question 15 of 24 ★★★★★

Who invented the World Wide Web?

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Question 16 of 24 ★★★★★

What was the name of the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult in 1996?

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Question 17 of 24 ★★★★★

Which two scientists cloned the first mammal in Britain known as Dolly the sheep?

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Question 18 of 24 ★★★★★

Who invented jet engine?

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Question 19 of 24 ★★★★★

What did Sir Frank Whittle develop in the 1930s?

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Question 20 of 24 ★★★★★

What is the scientific contribution of Isaac Newton in the field of science?

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Question 21 of 24 ★★★★★

Which British scientist led experiments that resulted in the first splitting of the atom?

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Question 22 of 24 ☆☆☆☆☆

True or False: The mobile phone was invented in the United Kingdom in the 20th century.

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Question 23 of 24 ☆☆☆☆☆

Which aircraft, developed in the UK, is capable of vertical takeoff and landing and used by various air forces?

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Question 24 of 24 ★★★★★

Which TWO countries jointly developed the Concorde, the supersonic passenger aircraft, which first flew in 1969?

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