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

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

Q: When was Monopoly created?

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

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

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

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. Robert Oppenheimer
2. Vannevar Bush
3. James B. Conant
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. Hiram Walker
2. Giuseppe Mercalli
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. Mary Kies
2. Marjorie Joyner
3. Amanda Jones
4. Margaret Knight

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

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

Q: For whom high heeled shoes were invented?

1. King Louis the XIV
2. Cleopatra
3. Queen Elizabeth I
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. Pie maker
2. Owner of a pizza parlor
3. Ceramic plate designer
4. Student at Yale

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

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

Q: When was the game Frisbee invented?

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

Q: Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

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

Q: Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

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

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