Inventors
Are you Curie-ous about the Inventors category? You can certainly af-Ford to spend some time on these questions. Maybe some of them will even ring a Bell.
What was plastic first used for in America?
In the late 60s Owen Finlay MacLaren pioneered what useful item for parents of small children?
What’s the submachine gun invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1947 better known as?
Who uttered the famous words, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you”?
Where did Robert Fulton launch his first steamboat?
Who invented the lift/elevator in 1853?
Who invented lightning rods after flying a kite in a storm?
Whitcome Judson in 1891 invented what for fastening shoes?
Ernest Breaux a chemist created which product in 1921?
What did Albert Parkhouse invent that is one of the most stolen items from hotels?
Melvin R Bissell invented what in 1876 in the USA?
On what wardrobe item did zipper inventor Whitcomb Judson use his first “clasp locker” in the late nineteenth century?
Which toy was the brain child of Ole Kirk Christiansen of Denmark?
What was the name of Sir Clive Sinclair’s electric tricycle, launched in 1985?
For which 1990 invention was Tim Berners-Lee awarded the first Millennium technology prize in April 2004?
IN WALCO TEXAS IN 1885 A YOUNG PHARMACIST CALLED “CHARLES ALDERTON” INVENTED A WORLD FAMOUS SOFT DRINK, WHAT WAS IT’S NAME?
Dr F Lanchester invented what motor safety aid in 1902?
If you climbed up the Euromast which is in the Europort, which city would you be in?
What Hollywood movie star’s contract included a morals clause that forbade “adulterous conduct or immoral relations” with men other than her husband?
Clinophobia is the fear of what?
What common plastic product do we owe to Nathaniel “C. Wyeth – son of artist N.C. Wyeth, brother of artists Andrew, Carolyn and Henriette Wyeth, and uncle of artist Jamie Wyeth?
Who is credited with the inventions of the Wellington Bomber and the bouncing bomb?
Which designer is credited with inventing the mini-skirt?
What household appliance designed for Sears, Roebuck and Company by visionary engineer Raymond Loewy won first prize at the Paris International Exposition in 1937?
In which year did John Logie Baird invent television?
What essential piece of office equipment did Johnann Vaaler invent in 1900?
What was the name of Sir Clive Sinclair’s electric tricycle, launched in 1985?
In the late 60s Owen Finlay MacLaren pioneered what useful item for parents of small children?
How did Alfred Nobel make his money?
RC Cola were the first company to do what?
William Henry Hoover started making vacuum cleaners because his original trade was dying out; what was it?
WHAT COMPUTER COMPANY WAS NAMED AFTER A FOUNDER’S MEMORIES OF SPENDING A SUMMER IN AN OREGON ORCHARD?
Rene Laennac invented which aid for doctors in 1810?
William Le Baron Jenny is credited with inventing what tall buildings first in the US?
WHAT COMPUTER MANUFACTURER DROPPED THE PLAYSTATION 1 LINE TO CREATE AN APTIVA BRAND FOR HOME USERS?
One of the first two men to appear on a US postage stamp is also apparently the inventor of the rocking chair . Who is it ?
Reuben Tice died trying to invent a machine to do what?
Wired Digital Incorporated created which search engine?
Henry Ford is famous for using the first assembly line in 1908, but someone else did it in 1901?
Alan Ginsberg is credited with inventing what 60s phrase?
Rice-Kellogg invented what in 1924?
1804 J M JACQUARD INVENTED THE FIRST PROGRAMMABLE DEVICE – WHAT WAS IT?
WHAT COUNTRY INVENTED CASTANETS?
Anthony Pratt invented what in the 1940s?
Richard Arkwright invented the Spinning Jenny, what was his job?
A COMPANY CALLED SYMBOL OWNS PATENT TO WHAT COMMON ITEM?
WHAT COUNTRY INVENTED CHEESECAKE?
WHAT LAUNDRY DETERGENT GOT LOTS OF MILEAGE OUT OF THE AD LINE, “RING AROUND THE COLLAR”?
Richard Carlisle invented an early vending machine selling what?
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