Inventors and Inventions

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1. What variation to one of our staple foods did Otto Rohwedder invent in 1912?
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2. What product was accidentally invented in 1908 by tea importer Thomas Sullivan?
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3. What Nobel Prize winners last words were never recorded because his American nurse could not understand German?
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4. Who is credited with the famous quote Time is money?
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5. What is the first name of the founder of the Ford Motor Company?
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6. Who invented the parachute in 1515?
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7. What popular candy was ironically invented the same year the Titanic sank?
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8. What amusement park ride was classified as a scenic railway by the US Patent Office in 1886?
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9. What food product did chemist C.P Callister create in 1923?
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10. What company invented instant, freeze dried coffee in 1938?
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11. What did Maria Ann Smith, a farmers wife from Eastwood NSW, grow for the first time in history?
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12. What did Mervyn Victor Richardson invent in his backyard shed in 1953?
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13. Which character invented the time-travelling DeLorean in the Back to the Future movies?
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14. Which supposed inventor of the modern bra does Bette Midler sing about in a Broadway musical?
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15. Who invented Corn Flakes in 1906?
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16. Found in backyards and gardens all over the world, what item was invented by Australian Lance Hill in 1945?
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17. What did Dr David Warren of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne Australia invent in 1953 to assist crash investigators?
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18. What did Dr John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia invent in May 1886, in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard?
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19. What did Scottish doctor, Alexander Fleming discover in 1928?
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20. What Hungarian patented his invention in January 1975 never thinking it would become the most popular puzzle in history?
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21. What invention, known as Old Sparky, came about as a result of a feud between George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison?
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22. What street drug was originally called MDMA and patented in 1913 by the German chemical company Merck, supposedly to be sold as a diet pill?
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23. Which metal was invented by British metallurgist Harold Brearly in 1912?
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24. Which performer and member of the group The Monkeys inherited millions because his mother invented Liquid Paper?
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25. Who invented the first manned and gas powered airplane in 1903?
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26. Who published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
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27. What did Adolphe Sax invent?
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28. What fundamental part of computer technology was patented in the US in 1961?
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29. Which device was invented to execute aristocrats during the French Revolution?
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30. Who, in 1885, invented the first petrol engine automobile?
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31. Nicknamed four triangles of nothing, what did fashion designer Louis Reard create in 1946?
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32. What company invented blue jeans?
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33. Which time-keeping device has the most moving parts?
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34. What Beatles movie was dedicated to Elias Howe the inventor of the sewing machine?
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35. In 1890, what entertainment device made its first appearance in San Franciscos Palais Royal Saloon?
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36. The invention of the flexible wine cask bladder, or cardboard cask, came from which Australian wine growing region?
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37. What 1868 invention by English railway engineer J.P Knight made its world debut outside Londons Houses of Parliament?
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38. What company did Art Fry, inventor of the Post-it note enlist to help develop his idea?
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39. What do you call an old-fashioned bicycle with a large wheel in front and a much smaller wheel in the rear?
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40. Which nations people invented the kite?
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41. Who invented the light bulb?
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42. Who invented the telegraph code?
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43. Who is credited with inventing antibiotics?
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44. Who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics with her husband?
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45. What two centuries did the Industrial Revolution span in Britain?
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46. In which century did the Wright Brothers achieve their first flight?
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47. What hi-tech accessory did more than 1 million Australians own by 1995, and now over 1/2 the population has one?
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48. What type of vessel was originally powered by a hand-cranked propeller when it was first used in combat in 1776?
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49. What unit of electrical power bears the name of a Scottish scientist and inventor?
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50. Who was the only US president to be awarded a patent?
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51. The Hugh Jackman movie ‘Kate and Leopold’ was based on the inventor of the world’s first safety elevator in 1852. What was his name?
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52. Who was the first person in history to add conveyor belts into the assembly line and revolutionize production?
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53. What dance was invented in Paris around the 1890s and caused quite a stir in music halls?
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54. What was the first supersonic commercial plane ever built?
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55. What technological advancement began in 1969 with four nodes installed at UCLA, UCSB, the Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah?
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56. What did Percy L. Spencer invent by accident while researching radar technology?
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57. Built and designed by Lemarcus Thompson, which amusement park featured the worlds first roller coaster?
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