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Inventions Quiz 05

  1. When was the Raggedy Ann doll patented?

    1915

    1920

    1919

    1911

  2. When was the game Frisbee invented?

    1920s

    1900s

    1870s

    1890s

  3. For whom high heeled shoes were invented?

    Cleopatra

    Queen Elizabeth I

    King Louis the XIV

    King Charles II

  4. When was the first Lionel trains manufactured?

    1920

    1890

    1901

    1944

  5. For what does the world owe Almon Strowger a debt of gratitude?

    Parking Meters

    Vending Machines

    Automatic Telephone Exchanges

    Traffic Lights

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

    Computers

    Telescopes

    Radio-Telegraphy

    Steam Boating

  7. Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

    Potato Peterson

    Turnip Townsend

    Cabbage Carlson

    Swede Svenson

  8. Who invented the Seed Drill?

    Jethro Tull

    Arlo Guthrie

    Woodie Guthrie

    Thomas Hines

  9. Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

    Thornton Hargreaves

    Peter Hargreaves

    James Hargreaves

    Simon Hargreaves

  10. What African-American inventor received 5 patents in the field of shoemaking?

    Elijah McCoy

    Jan Ernst Matzeliger

    Ernest Just

    Lewis Latimer

  11. This part-time race car driver invented the bucket seat in 1969. Who was he??

    Steve McQueen

    Harrison Frazier

    Paul Newman

    John Wayne

  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?

    Robert Oppenheimer

    James B. Conant

    Leslie R. Groves

    Vannevar Bush

  13. Who is the English physicist responsible for the 'Big Bang Theory'?

    Albert Einstein

    Michael Skube

    George Gamow

    Roger Penrose

  14. This African-American woman physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in World War II. She invented a device that helped the disabled to eat by delivering food through a tube to a mouthpiece.

    Bessie Blount

    Marjorie Joyner

    Mae Jamison

    Beulah Henry

  15. William Frederick is credited with the invention of the modern frisbee in the mid 1950's. In 1957 the Wham-O Company bought his idea and the rest is history. They named the toy after William Frisbie who was a ________?

    Pie maker

    Owner of a pizza parlor

    Student at Yale

    Ceramic plate designer

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

    Charles Richter

    Hiram Walker

    Giuseppe Mercalli

    Joshua Rumble

  17. Who is the only U.S. President to invent and patent something?

    Abraham Lincoln

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Thomas Jefferson

    Rutherford B. Hayes

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

    Philo Farnsworth

    J. Presper Eckert

    John Mauchly

    Charles Babbage

  19. What invention is credited to the Russian born American inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin?

    Telegraph

    Radio

    Television

    Dishwasher

  20. Who was the first American female to patent her invention, a method of weaving straw with silk?

    Marjorie Joyner

    Margaret Knight

    Amanda Jones

    Mary Kies

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