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HistoryWho Did It?
History is remembered through pairs: a voyage and a captain, a disease and a cure, a theory and the person who argued for it. Below: the pairs worth knowing.
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Read the discovery, then tap who made it.
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HistoryWhat you are actually practicing
History is remembered through pairs: a voyage and a captain, a disease and its cure, a theory and the person who argued for it. Learning these pairs is far more durable than learning dates, because the dates tend to fade while the names stay attached to the thing they did.
The set mixes exploration with science on purpose, because the same instinct applies to both: name the achievement, then name the achiever.
How the game works
You are shown a discovery, a voyage or a theory, and four possible names. Tap the right one. A wrong pick shows the answer immediately.
Easy uses the seven most famous pairs. Medium widens the pool. Hard uses the full list.
The links worth knowing
Voyages: the first European crossing to the Americas in 1492 was Christopher Columbus. The first sea route from Europe to India was Vasco da Gama. Rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 was Bartolomeu Dias. The first voyage to sail across the Pacific was Ferdinand Magellan, whose expedition completed the first circumnavigation. The charting of the Australian coast in 1770 was James Cook, and the first expedition to reach the South Pole was Roald Amundsen.
Medicine and biology: the discovery of penicillin in 1928 was Alexander Fleming. Germ theory belongs to Louis Pasteur. The laws of heredity are Gregor Mendel's. The isolation of polonium and radium was Marie Curie's, after Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896.
Physics and chemistry: the periodic table, published in 1869, is Dmitri Mendeleev's. The theory of relativity is Albert Einstein's. The laws of motion and universal gravitation are Newton's. The double helix structure of DNA was worked out by Watson and Crick.
Invention: the telephone in 1876 was Alexander Graham Bell's. The invention of dynamite in 1867 was Alfred Nobel's. The kite experiment on electricity in 1752 was Benjamin Franklin's. The first practical wireless telegraphy was Guglielmo Marconi's.
How to get faster
Attach a year to each pair. "Fleming, penicillin, 1928" holds together better than either fact alone, and the year is often what disambiguates the two Curie-like cases from each other.
A note on shared names
Two pairs here involve people who worked together, and two involve families. Marie Curie shares the surname with her daughter Irene, who also worked on radioactivity. The telephone and the radio both came out of the same late nineteenth-century push to move information without wires, which is why those two names sit close together in any history of the subject.