General Knowledge

Inventions - Section 1

51.  Ralph Samuelson was only 18 when he invented this sporting item in 1922. What was that?

A. Golf tee
B. Motorboat
C. Water skis
D. Hang glider
52.  What Karl Benz invented?

A. Gasoline powered automobile
B. Streetcar
C. Glider
D. Steam turbine
53.  What invention was first installed at a Hartford, Connecticut bank in 1889?
A. Automatic teller machine
B. Time-lock safe
C. Burglar alarm
D. Pay telephone
54.  Who invented Bifocal Lens?
A. Alfred B. Nobel
B. Thomas Alva Edison
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Rudolf Diesel
55.  When were bar code scanners invented?
A. 1940s
B. 1950s
C. 1970s
D. 1960s
56.  When was the game Frisbee invented?
A. 1920s
B. 1900s
C. 1870s
D. 1890s
57.  This English inventor is known as the 'Father of Computing.
A. Philo Farnsworth
B. J. Presper Eckert
C. John Mauchly
D. Charles Babbage
58.  Who invented Airship (rigid)?
A. Dr. Alan M. Turing
B. Roger Bacon
C. G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
D. Otto
59.  For over 500 years, paper was only available and sold as single sheets. In 1902, an inventive Australian used half size sheets of paper, a bit of glue and cardboard to create the what?
A. Notepad
B. Calendar
C. Notice Board
D. Telephone Book
60.  Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?
A. Potato Peterson
B. Turnip Townsend
C. Cabbage Carlson
D. Swede Svenson

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