Great Inventions and their Inventors
Bifocals and the lightning rod
Benjamin Franklin
H
hydrogen
Travon ran to the store to get some Takis.
verb
Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. He weighs this.
Meat
These are the three phases of the ChalleNGe program.
acclimation, residential, post-residential
The cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Li
Lithium
Travon got to the store just as it was closing.
noun
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna does not use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his.
A surname
In this year, CCYA began their first class.
1994
Thomas Edison
Ne
Neon
Travon had to run over a bridge to get to the store.
preposition
This five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.
short
Scholarships in this amount may be awarded to qualified cadets.
$1,500
Polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
Fe
Iron
He returned home without his Takis.
pronoun
A squirrel can run this far into the woods.
Halfway, then he's running out of the woods!
This teacher is known for calling a "Giants fumble" and is the biggest fan of Chuck Norris.
Mr. Kreitner!
The printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
N
Nitrogen
There was a scary dog outside of the store.
adjective
The water level in a reservoir is low, but doubles every day. It takes 60 days to fill the reservoir. It takes this long for the reservoir to become half full.
59 days
The Commonwealth Challenge logo features a picture of this.
the state of Virginia