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Founders and Firsts: Multiple Choice
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- 01Who invented the game of basketball in 1891?
- 02Who invented the Bessemer process, the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel?
- 03Who was the first person to reach the South Pole in 1911?
- 04Who was the founder of the Ottoman Empire in the late 13th century?
- 05Who wrote 'The Second Sex,' a foundational text of second-wave feminism?
- 06Who founded the Jesuit order, officially recognized by the Pope in 1540?
- 07Who is credited with pioneering the 'wall of sound' production technique in the 1960s?
- 08Who created the constructed international auxiliary language Esperanto?
- 09Who developed the first polio vaccine, an inactivated version, declared safe in 1955?
- 10Who founded the modern Olympic Games in 1894?
- 11Who founded the Maurya Empire in ancient India around 322 BCE?
- 12Who is considered the primary inventor of the cinematic language of montage in films like 'Battleship Potemkin'?
- 13Who directed 'Bicycle Thieves,' a foundational film of the Italian Neorealist movement?
- 14Who is credited with inventing the first practical system of mechanical television?
- 15Who founded the Achaemenid Empire, also known as the first Persian Empire?
- 16Who is generally credited with founding the field of molecular gastronomy?
- 17Who was the first Holy Roman Emperor, crowned by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day in 800 AD?
- 18Who was the first European explorer to command a successful expedition to circumnavigate the Earth?
- 19Which physicist first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930 to explain beta decay?
- 20Who is credited with creating the hangul alphabet for the Korean language?