Question 1

What plaything was invented by Joe McVicker in 1956?

Accepted Answer

The stuff was originally intended to be wallpaper cleaner! (I used to eat this as a child)

Question 2

What Benjamin Franklin invented?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

What Sir Isaac Newton invented?

Accepted Answer

Invented in 1668.

Question 4

What James Watt invented?

Accepted Answer

Invented in 1765.

Question 5

FROZEN FOOD - Who discovered the first practical method of freezing food?

Accepted Answer

In the 1920s Clarence Birdseye discovered that if food was flash-frozen under pressure, it would freeze without the formation of ice crystals.

Question 6

Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

Accepted Answer

Viscount Charles 'Turnip' Townsend developed this revolutionary concept.

Question 7

What invention caused many deaths while testing it?

Accepted Answer

Many people who tried to test the first parachutes died by jumping from high places. One attempt was a parachute hat, but the inventor broke his neck while testing it. The first successful parachute was tested from a hot air balloon in 1797, in France, by Jacques Garnerin.

Question 8

The initials JCB on earth-moving equipment are those of the founder of the company that makes it. What is his name?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Cyril Bamford founded the company that makes these iconic machines in 1945, in a 12ft X 15ft garage in Staffordshire.

Question 9

Who invented the BALLPOINT PEN?

Accepted Answer

The Hungarian brothers, Laszlo and George Biro, made the first ball point pen in 1894. It followed the first workable fountain pen which was invented by L.E. Waterman in 1884.

Question 10

What Thomas Davenport invented?

Accepted Answer

Invented in 1834.

Question 11

This English inventor is known as the 'Father of Computing.'

Accepted Answer

Mauchly and Eckert invented the ENIAC computer. Farnsworth was a pioneer of early television.

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 13

What is the name of the CalTech seismologist who invented the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

Richter was born on an Ohio farm in 1900. He died in 1985.

Question 14

When was Monopoly created?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 15

For what is Charles Babbage (1792-1871) remembered?

Accepted Answer

Know as the Father of Computing. He began his 'Analytical Engine' in 1833. The first computer, although he never completed it.

Question 16

Where was the yo-yo invented?

Accepted Answer

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.

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