1. What now-ubiquitous device was invented by Zenith engineer Eugene Polley in 1955?
A. Microwave oven
B. Remote control
C. VCR
D. Calculator
2. What Benjamin Franklin invented?
A. Bifocal spectacles
B. Radio
C. Barometer
D. Hygrometer
3. This part-time race car driver invented the bucket seat in 1969. Who was he?
A. Steve McQueen
B. Harrison Frazier
C. Paul Newman
D. John Wayne
4. What plaything was invented by Joe McVicker in 1956?
A. Silly Putty
B. Etch-A-Sketch
C. Lite-Brite
D. Play-Doh
5. Who was the first American female to patent her invention, a method of weaving straw with silk?
A. Marjorie Joyner
B. Margaret Knight
C. Amanda Jones
D. Mary Kies
6. Who invented Gramophone?
A. Michael Faraday
B. Fahrenheit
C. Sir Alexander Graham Bell
D. Thomas Alva Edison
7. Who invented Internal Combustion Engine?
A. Roger Bacon
B. Karl Benz
C. Dr. Alan M. Turing
D. Otto
8. When was Monopoly created?
A. 1940s
B. 1930s
C. 1920s
D. 1950s
9. What furniture item was invented by California furniture designer Charles Prior Hall in 1968?
A. Sofa bed
B. Captain's chair
C. Waterbed
D. Hammock
10. The Manhattan Project was started by President Roosevelt in 1942 to ensure that the U.S. beat the Germans in developing a nuclear bomb. Whom did Roosevelt appoint as scientific head the Manhattan Project?
A. Robert Oppenheimer
B. James B. Conant
C. Leslie R. Groves
D. Vannevar Bush
11. When was the first lawn mower invented?
A. 1830
B. 1854
C. 1835
D. 1849
12. In which decade were the first successful diode and triode vacuum tubes invented?
A. 1800s
B. 1880s
C. 1890s
D. 1900s
13. Who is the English physicist responsible for the 'Big Bang Theory'?
A. Albert Einstein
B. Michael Skube
C. George Gamow
D. Roger Penrose
14. What 'game' was first produced by the Southern Novelty Company in Baltimore, Maryland in 1892?
A. Frisbee
B. Monopoly
C. Ouija board
D. Ping Pong
15. Who had an explosive idea and first patented DYNAMITE?
A. J. R. Gluber
B. A. Nobel
C. G. Fawks
D. W. Bickford
16. Who invented the Spinning Jenny?
A. Thornton Hargreaves
B. Peter Hargreaves
C. James Hargreaves
D. Simon Hargreaves
ANSWERS :
1. Answer: Option B
Explanation: The first wireless remote control for television was called Flashmatic. (Remember when you had to get up to change the channel?)
2. Answer: Option A
Explanation: Invented in 1760.
A list of Benjamin Franklin's inventions reveals a man of many talents and interests. It was the scientist in Ben that brought out the inventor. His natural curiosity about things and the way they work made him try to find ways to make them work better. Ben had poor vision and needed glasses to read. He got tired of constantly taking them off and putting them back on, so he decided to figure out a way to make his glasses let him see both near and far. He had two pairs of spectacles cut in half and put half of each lens in a single frame. Today, we call them bifocals.
3. Answer: Option A
Explanation: McQueen died in 1980 from a rare form of lung cancer.
4 .Answer: Option D
Explanation: The stuff was originally intended to be wallpaper cleaner! (I used to eat this as a child)
5. Answer: Option D
Explanation: Mary was not the first American woman inventor to be sure, there were many female inventors before her, but they never bothered to get a patent.
6. Answer: Option D
Explanation: No answer description available for this question.
7. Answer: Option D
Explanation: No answer description available for this question.
8. Answer: Option B
Explanation: After the Stock Market crash, a buying and selling game created by Charles Darrow came to be. The first games were hand drawn on linoleum with streets from Atlantic City, N.J. as the property. He took the game to the Parker Brothers company, and Monopply was brought out for Christmas 1934. Everyone wanted to buy the games after Christmas, and Monopoly became a big success.
9. Answer: Option C
Explanation: No answer description available for this question.
10. Answer: Option A
Explanation: Leslie R. Groves, however, was the military head of the project and the overall supremo, while Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director. The world's first atomic bomb was exploded in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945.
11. Answer: Option A
Explanation: The first lawn mowers were not engine powered. Invented in 1830 by Edwin Budding of England, the mowers were turning blades on wooden sticks used to cut grass. Engine powered mowers were not invented until 1919 by an American Army colonel, who used the motor from a washing machine.
12. Answer: Option D
Explanation: In 1904, John Ambrose Fleming invented the first practical electron tube called the 'Fleming Valve', which is a diode rectifier. In 1906, Lee de Forest invented the audion later called the triode, which provided signal amplification.
13. Answer: Option C
Explanation: George Gamow. Gamow, who died in 1968, was a physicist, who published "Thirty Years that Shook Physics".
14. Answer: Option C
Explanation: The board was invented by Isaac and William Fuld. The word 'Ouija' comes from the French and German words for 'yes', 'oui' and 'ja'.
15. Answer: Option B
Explanation: Alfred Noble patented dynamite in 1876. Nobel left $9 million in his will to be used as awards for people whose work benefit humanity - The Nobel Peace Prize etc.
16. Answer: Option C
Explanation: Awarded a Patent in 1770. It used 8 bobbins at once.
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