Who painted the Mona Lisa?
AnswerLeonardo da Vinci
The artist worked on the portrait in the early 1500s, and it hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
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Genius facts & stats
7 fact-checked facts about genius and the great minds of history, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.
The basics
Which famous equation did Albert Einstein introduce in 1905?
AnswerE = mc²
It shows that mass and energy are equivalent, linked by the speed of light squared.
Going deeper
The word 'genius' comes from Latin, where it originally meant what?
AnswerA guardian spirit
Romans spoke of each person having a genius, a guiding spirit; the meaning shifted to exceptional talent much later.
Marie Curie was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Which two?
AnswerPhysics and chemistry
She shared the 1903 prize for research on radioactivity and won the 1911 prize for discovering polonium and radium.
Ada Lovelace is often called the first computer programmer for her work on whose proposed machine?
AnswerCharles Babbage
In 1843 she published notes on the Analytical Engine, including a step-by-step method to calculate Bernoulli numbers.
Expert level
Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded mainly for what work?
AnswerExplaining the photoelectric effect
The Nobel committee cited his law of the photoelectric effect, which helped show that light comes in packets.
Self-taught mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan came from which country?
AnswerIndia
Ramanujan grew up in southern India and later worked with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge, producing thousands of results.
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