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Giant Leaps Quiz

Fancy yourself as a bit know it all? Then why not try our Giant Leaps quiz and test your knowledge of mankind's greatest scientific advances

Instructions

8 – 10…
Congratulations! Your knowledge of mankind’s greatest achievements outweighs any historians; move over Simon Schama, there’s a new face on the history front!

4 – 7…
Your knowledge of the greatest scientific advances won’t win you the first place slot in the pub quiz yet, so expand your knowledge with The Sun’s Giant Leaps and that first place prize will soon be in reach.

0 – 3…
Well what can we say…. it appears that someone fell asleep during history class at school.

Starting at the very beginning, what was the first use of the wheel and axle combination?

The racing chariot
The potters wheel
The bicycle

An explosive discovery, gunpowder was thought to have been invented by the Chinese by accident, but what combination did they discover actually produced gunpowder?

a) Carbon, sulphur and nitrate
Carbon, sulphur and gold
Bronze, silver and gold

On a smaller scale now, much smaller. When Leeuwenhoek first discovered micro – organisms by looking through a microscope, what did he call them?

Mini animals
Animalcules
Tiny mysterious creatures

With the invention of the Morse Code came a new dawn of communication possibilities. How long was the distance that the first signal was sent by Samuel Morse himself?

35 miles
120 miles
10 feet

The birth of the movies was an exciting time and it was the Lumiere brothers that produced the first public screening in Paris, but what was it that was shown for the first time moving on screen?

Waves crashing on a beach
A man getting hit with a football
The arrival of a train at the station

Flight is something that mankind has only been able to experience for just over a century, but what were the Wright brothers' original careers before becoming two of the most famous men in history?

Train drivers
Bicycle repair men
Actors

Having covered the birth of the movies it is only appropriate to mention the birth of television as well. So what was the first picture to ever be transmitted?

Logie Baird himself
A ventriloquist's dummy
A toy car

One of the most essential components of modern life, it made this quiz possible, that’s right the computer! Where was the first computer that could fit into one room based?

Cambridge University
MI5
Buckingham Palace

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Indeed it was but what was the first animal to step foot on the moon before man did?

A monkey
A cat
A dog

Cloning, once only possible within science fiction, but now a reality. However cloning had taken place before so what made Dolly the sheep so unique?

She was the first clone from an adult mammal cell
She was the first one to survive past two weeks old
She displayed odd characteristics
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