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1. What inventor inspired Herman Hollerith to invent the punch-card system, used in the US census of 1880?
2. Annie Besant was the first woman to speak of contraception, vegetarianism, and the first President of the Indian National Congress. Which writer of left-wing politics did she date?
3. Kieselguhr, made from fossilized plankton, was the main ingredient of margarine and dynamite.
4. Who was known as the 'Pope of German Medicine', and the main inspiration for Hoffmann's Tales?
5. Who painted the 'Marilyn Diptych'?
6. Who was the father of Social-physics, or population statistics?
7. What sport was outlawed by King James 2, in 1457?
8. What plant does aspirin come from?
9. Who was the Father of Mushrooms, coining the word 'Symbiotes'?
10. Who did George Bernard Shaw model the professor from Pygmalion?
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