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- Question
When was Monopoly created?
Options- A. 1940s
- B. 1930s
- C. 1920s
- D. 1950s
- Correct Answer
- 1930s
ExplanationAfter 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. - 1. Who invented Gunpowder?
Options- A. G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
- B. Sir Frank Whittle
- C. Roger Bacon
- D. Leo H Baekeland Discuss
- 2. In which year was MIDI introduced?
Options- A. 1987
- B. 1983
- C. 1973
- D. 1977 Discuss
- 3. What is the name of the CalTech seismologist who invented the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?
Options- A. Charles Richter
- B. Hiram Walker
- C. Giuseppe Mercalli
- D. Joshua Rumble Discuss
- 4. 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?
Options- A. Robert Oppenheimer
- B. James B. Conant
- C. Leslie R. Groves
- D. Vannevar Bush Discuss
- 5. This English inventor is known as the 'Father of Computing.'
Options- A. Philo Farnsworth
- B. J. Presper Eckert
- C. John Mauchly
- D. Charles Babbage Discuss
- 6. For what is Charles Babbage (1792-1871) remembered?
Options- A. Computers
- B. Telescopes
- C. Radio-Telegraphy
- D. Steam Boating Discuss
- 7. Where was the yo-yo invented?
Options- A. France
- B. United States
- C. Philippines
- D. England Discuss
- 8. What Elmer A. Sperry invented?
Options- A. Hydroplane
- B. Hydraulic turbine
- C. Magnetic compass
- D. Gyrocompass Discuss
- 9. It travels over land and water. Who invented the HOVERCRAFT?
Options- A. S. Sperrow
- B. O. Stricheg
- C. T. Henman
- D. C. Cockerell Discuss
- 10. When was the toothbrush invented?
Options- A. 1770
- B. 1765
- C. 1790
- D. 1742 Discuss
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Correct Answer: Roger Bacon
Correct Answer: 1983
Correct Answer: Charles Richter
Explanation:
Richter was born on an Ohio farm in 1900. He died in 1985.
Correct Answer: Robert Oppenheimer
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.
Correct Answer: Charles Babbage
Explanation:
Mauchly and Eckert invented the ENIAC computer. Farnsworth was a pioneer of early television.
Correct Answer: Computers
Explanation:
Know as the Father of Computing. He began his 'Analytical Engine' in 1833. The first computer, although he never completed it.
Correct Answer: Philippines
Explanation:
The yo-yo was first used by hunters as weapons. They were wooden disks on strings. In the 1920s, a man from the U.S. named Donald Duncan made the yo-yo into a toy after he visited the Philippines.
Correct Answer: Gyrocompass
Explanation:
Invented in 1911.
Correct Answer: C. Cockerell
Explanation:
Christopher Cockerell invented the hovercraft in 1956. His early experiments with the idea involved a cat food tin, a coffee tin and an industrial blower.
Correct Answer: 1770
Explanation:
The first toothbrush was made out of a bone and small brush, by jail prisoner William Addis of England.
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