Famous Inventors
Medical Technology
The Internet
Transportation Technology
100
True or false: Henry Ford invented the automobile.
False; Ford improved automobile manufacturing through his assembly line process.
100
What is this?
X-Ray
100
What does WWW stand for?
World Wide Web
100
What is a powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces?
Airplane
200
What Declaration of Independence writer also invented the swivel chair?
Thomas Jefferson
200
What is one example of a mobility device?
Wheelchair, scooter, walker, cane, crutches, prosthetics, etc.
200
Librarian Jean Armour Polly coined a phrase in 1992 to describe going from page to page on the internet, looking for topics of interest. What is that phrase?
Surfing the Internet
200
What company's product models include the A300, A320, and A380?
Airbus
300
Who invented the first steel plow? His name is still seen on agricultural machinery today.
John Deere
300
A pacemaker is a device implanted in a person's chest to regulate what organ?
Heart
300
What is currently the most popular web browser?
Chrome
300
What is this?
Continuous track / tank tread / caterpillar track
400
While Charles Babbage is credited as the inventor of the mechanical computer, Ada Lovelace created the first computer _____. Fill in the blank.
Program
400
CRISPR is a technology that finds specific bits of DNA that can be used to edit what?
Genes
400
What is the significance of the video, "Me at the zoo," and featuring Jawed Karim?
It was the first video ever uploaded to YouTube.
400
What is a UAV?
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (drone)
500
Stephanie Kwolek invented what strong, heat-resistant fiber used in items such as bulletproof vests, firefighters' clothing, and bicycle tires?
Kevlar
500
Vaccines for what disease use mRNA technology?
Covid-19
500
What is the most Googled question (not just single word), both in the US and worldwide?
What time is it?
500
What word describes a system of train transportation that uses two sets of electromagnets to move trains?
Maglev (magnetic levitation)