Q: What invention was first installed at a Hartford, Connecticut bank in 1889?

1. Time-lock safe
2. Pay telephone
3. Automatic teller machine
4. Burglar alarm

Q: When was Monopoly created?

1. 1950s
2. 1930s
3. 1920s
4. 1940s

Q: Who is the English physicist responsible for the 'Big Bang Theory'?

1. Michael Skube
2. Roger Penrose
3. Albert Einstein
4. George Gamow

Q: 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?

1. Leslie R. Groves
2. Vannevar Bush
3. Robert Oppenheimer
4. James B. Conant

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

1. Joshua Rumble
2. Hiram Walker
3. Charles Richter
4. Giuseppe Mercalli

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

1. Mary Kies
2. Marjorie Joyner
3. Margaret Knight
4. Amanda Jones

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

1. J. Presper Eckert
2. Charles Babbage
3. Philo Farnsworth
4. John Mauchly

Q: For whom high heeled shoes were invented?

1. Queen Elizabeth I
2. King Charles II
3. King Louis the XIV
4. Cleopatra

Q: 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 ________?

1. Student at Yale
2. Pie maker
3. Ceramic plate designer
4. Owner of a pizza parlor

Q: For what does the world owe Almon Strowger a debt of gratitude?

1. Vending Machines
2. Automatic Telephone Exchanges
3. Traffic Lights
4. Parking Meters

Q: When was the game Frisbee invented?

1. 1870s
2. 1900s
3. 1920s
4. 1890s

Q: Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

1. Simon Hargreaves
2. Thornton Hargreaves
3. Peter Hargreaves
4. James Hargreaves

Q: Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

1. Swede Svenson
2. Turnip Townsend
3. Cabbage Carlson
4. Potato Peterson

Q: 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.

1. Beulah Henry
2. Marjorie Joyner
3. Bessie Blount
4. Mae Jamison