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

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

Q: When was Monopoly created?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Q: For whom high heeled shoes were invented?

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

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

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

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

Q: When was the game Frisbee invented?

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

Q: Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

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

Q: Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

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

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. Mae Jamison
3. Marjorie Joyner
4. Bessie Blount