Inventors
Historical Figures
Scientists
Innovators
Entrepreneurs
100
Cyrus McCormick invented this machine to make harvesting crops faster and easier.
What is "the mechanical reaper"?
100
This woman was America's first professional woman astronomer. The government paid her to observe Venus and make a table of its various positions.
What is "Maria Mitchell"?
100
This disease causes children's muscles to wither away and lose all strength, and sometimes causes death.
What is "polio"?
100
This man made the automobile affordable to millions of Americans.
Who is "Henry Ford"?
100
This man introduced chocolate to America.
Who is "Milton Hershey"?
200
How did farmers respond to Cyrus's reaping machine when they first saw it?
They thought is was just entertainment. They would go home and use their old-fashioned ways of harvesting anyway.
200
When Maria Mitchell observed one of these, she was awarded a gold medal prize from the King of Denmark.
What is "a comet"?
200
This doctor came up with a "dead" vaccine to stop the spread of polio.
Who is "Dr. Jonas Salk"?
200
What innovation of Henry Ford's changed forever the way goods were manufactured in factories?
What is "the assembly line"?
200
Milton Hershey was prouder of this accomplishment than any other.
What is "creating an orphanage and school for needy children"?
300
When harvesting wheat in the old days, farmers would grab a bunch of wheat stalks in one hand, then swing this sharply curved bladed tool at the base of the stalks to chop them down.
What is "the scythe"?
300
Benjamin Banneker, a free man and not a slave, helped to survey the land for what capitol city?
What is "Washington, D.C."?
300
This time of year was when the polio virus spread the most.
What is "summer"?
300
Name one way people got around cities before the automobile was invented?
What is "riding a horse", or "walking", or "horse-drawn carriage", or "bicycle"?
300
This is the name of the town in Pennsylvania that Milton created for his factory workers that included a library, a community center, a fire department, a post office, and a streetcar line, as well as his huge chocolate factory. It now also contains an amusement park.
What is "Hershey"?
400
When another man and his reaping machine challenged Cyrus to a speed contest and it started to rain, who won the contest, and why?
Cyrus McCormick, because he had built his reaper to cut in damp weather.
400
Benjamin Banneker taught himself mathematics, created a wooden clock after seeing how a pocket watch worked, and wrote what book that farmers read faithfully?
What is "an almanac"?
400
These children volunteered to be the first field trial patients to take the new polio shot.
Who are "the Polio Pioneers"?
400
What could people do now that they could afford to own a car that they couldn't do when transportation was by walking or bicycling?
What is "travel"?
400
This woman created a billion-dollar direct-sale company that makes and distributes make-up and skin care products.
Who is "Mary Kay Ash"?
500
Cyrus McCormick's financial goal was to earn how much money?
What is "a million dollars"?
500
Benjamin Banneker wrote a letter to this famous author of the Declaration of Independence to tell him he was a hypocrite for owning slaves, yet writing words like "all men are created equal".
Who is "Thomas Jefferson"?
500
This machine breathed for a badly paralyzed person lying on his back who had caught a severe case of polio.
What is "an iron lung"?
500
Henry Ford used these benefits to attract people to want to work in his factory, even if assembly line work was boring and repetitive.
What is "the Five Dollar Work Day" and "eight hour work day instead of nine"?
500
Mary Kay Ash's charity foundatio donates money to these two specific causes.
What is "women's types of cancer" and "female victims of violence"?
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