Miscellaneous
Steamboats
Odd & Interesting
Transportation
Important Inventions
100

Something you get to protect your invention

What is a patent?

100

Mark Twain is his "pen name" - but his real name is?

Who is Samuel Clemens?

100

This invention is only American and comes in the form of an exaggerated story

What is a Tall Tale?

100

This invention put an end to moving west in covered wagons

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

100

Before this invention people had to use a this under their bed at night or go outside

What is indoor plumbing, a chamber pot, and an outhouse?

200

Sometimes people invent things they didn't mean to invent

What is a mistake that worked?

200

He was born when this happened and died when it happened again

What is Haley's Comet?

200

This invention involves using 3 animals

What is a hot air balloon, a sheep, a rooster, and a duck?

200

These two companies competed to lay 10 miles of track in one day

What are the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads?

200

This invention brings water up from a river

What is the Archimedes Screw?

300

The section we have just finished studying about many important inventions that move people around is titled....

What is Trekking Through Transportation?

300

This man invented the steamboat and called it what?

Who is Robert Fulton and what is the Clermont?

300

Two things we've study that involve frogs

What is croaking frogs using in Roman baths to cover bathroom sounds and why did Mark Twain write The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?

300

This invention blew up a ship but lost her crew of 8

What is the Hunley submarine?

300

Two yummy inventions that were mistakes. One is hot and one is cold - and how did they get "invented"

What are the Chocolate Chip Cookies and the Ice Cream Cones?

400

This is what happens when someone steals your invention

What is suing someone in court?

400

Steamboats were important to America (especially states along this river) and helped people make money ...how?

What is moving goods and people up and down the Mississippi much faster allowing them to their goods to market?

400

This man could vibrate his dogs vocal chords to make this sound

Who is Alexander Graham Bell and how did he get his dog to say "Are you Ok, Grandma?"

400

This invention put this material on a wooden ships by these names

What are ironclads named the Monitor and the Merrimack?

400

The name of this flying machine (now in the Smithsonian) the brothers names, and the place where they tested it

What is The Flyer, who were Orville & Wilbur Wright, and Where is Kittyhawk North Carolina?

500

Four categories we study that are on your inventions worksheet (no looking!)

What are Big inventions, Ancient inventions, Mistakes that Worked, and Tiny Inventions?

500

Where did Mark Twain get his name and what is the measurement?

What is measuring the river depth by fathoms?
500

An Old Mule named ______that pulled a boat on a manmade river

Who is Sal and the Erie Canal? (Now sing a few lines in order to get your 500 points!)

500

These men invented this flying machine which was later used for what in the Civil War?

Who are the Montgolfier Brothers and what is spying on the enemy?

500

Men: 1 is 7 ft tall and has a blue ox, one died with a hammer in his hand, one lassoed a tornado with a snake. What do they have in common and what are their names?

Who are Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Pecos Bill and what is a Tall Tale?