Ответ:

  1. Was Archimedes having a bath when he shouted ‘Eureka!’?
  2. Mark Zuckerberg was studying at Harvard University when he created Facebook.
  3. Was Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree when he thought of his theory of gravity?
  4. Marie Curie wasn’t living in Poland when she won her first Nobel prize in 1903.
  5. Art Fry created Post-it-notes when he was working for 3M.
  6. George and Diane were visiting a school when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center.

Past Continuous обозначает действие, которое было в процессе в момент другого события в Past Simple.