What waterway mechanism did Leonardo da Vinci improve using a screw to raise water?
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Archimedes’ screw
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What waterway mechanism did Leonardo da Vinci improve using a screw to raise water?
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Archimedes’ screw
What humanoid machine did Leonardo da Vinci design for a 1495 Milan celebration?
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Mechanical knight
What mechanical bearing principle did Leonardo da Vinci sketch using rolling balls?
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Ball bearing
What rotating weapon did Leonardo da Vinci design with multiple small guns?
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Organ gun
What bowed-string keyboard instrument did Leonardo da Vinci invent?
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Viola organista
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What humanoid machine did Leonardo da Vinci design for a 1495 Milan celebration?
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Mechanical knight
What bowed-string keyboard instrument did Leonardo da Vinci invent?
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Viola organista
What self-moving vehicle did Leonardo da Vinci design without pedals or horses?
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Self-propelled cart
Which Tolkien book was published posthumously in 1980 from unfinished Middle-earth writings?
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Unfinished Tales
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship from 1945 to 1959?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which fictional city does J.R.R. Tolkien describe as the capital of Gondor?
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Minas Tirith