Inventions
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Inventors
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Inventors
In 1876 this Scottish-American inventor was awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This Harper Lee novel, published in 1960, is set in Depression-era Alabama.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
This Hanna-Barbera detective series first aired on Saturday mornings in 1969.
What is Scooby-Doo?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping tea into the Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This 2003 epic about the final journey to destroy a powerful ring won 11 Oscars.
What is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?
Alexander Fleming’s chance discovery of this antibiotic in 1928 changed medicine forever.
What is penicillin?
This 1949 George Orwell novel introduced Big Brother and the Thought Police.
What is 1984?
Tommy Pickles leads a group of babies on adventures in this Nickelodeon show.
What is Rugrats?
This British tax on paper goods led to the slogan “No taxation without representation.”
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1976 John Avildsen boxing film made Sylvester Stallone a star.
What is Rocky?
Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process that made this material durable
What is rubber?
This William Golding 1954 novel is about British schoolboys stranded on an island.
What is Lord of the Flies?
This duck inherited a fortune and starred in a 1987 Disney series.
Who is Scrooge McDuck?
This 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued for complete independence.
What is Common Sense?
This 1972 Marlon Brando mafia epic won Best Picture.
What is The Godfather?
Stephanie Kwolek developed this ultra-strong synthetic fiber while at DuPont.
What is Kevlar?
This British author wrote The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
This clever mouse is best friends with the dim-witted Pinky.
Who is The Brain?
This 1781 battle was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This 1942 romantic drama set in Morocco during World War II won Best Picture.
What is Casablanca?
In 1945 this British codebreaker and computer scientist helped design one of the first electronic digital computers.
Who is Alan Turing?
This 1939 John Steinbeck novel about Oklahoma migrants during the Dust Bowl won the Pulitzer.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
This futuristic family included George, Jane, Judy, Elroy, and their robot maid Rosie.
Who are the Jetsons?
This Loyalist general was a hero at Saratoga before switching sides.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
This 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu film about a fading actor won Best Picture.
What is Birdman?