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What optical instrument did Leonardo da Vinci study using a dark room and a small opening?
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Camera obscura
What kind of cart did Leonardo da Vinci design to move without being pushed or pulled by an animal?
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Self-propelled cart
What type of military vehicle did Leonardo da Vinci sketch as a covered, armored machine driven by cranks?
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Armored tank
What rotating-wing aircraft concept did Leonardo da Vinci draw?
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Aerial screw
What was the name of Leonardo da Vinci’s pyramid-shaped emergency descent device?
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Parachute
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What kind of cart did Leonardo da Vinci design to move without being pushed or pulled by an animal?
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Self-propelled cart
What rotating-wing aircraft concept did Leonardo da Vinci draw?
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Aerial screw
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship beginning in 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What is the name of the mountain where Tolkien’s Dwarves reclaim their kingdom in The Hobbit?
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The Lonely Mountain
What is the name of the fictional innkeeper who hosts Frodo in Bree in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Barliman Butterbur