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Years of Inventions
100
Another name for a bathing- tub
What is bathtub
100
the word for somebody who loves work was introduced in 1968
What is a workaholic
100
The industry that introduced the five-day, forty hour week
What is the steel industry
100
The year newspapers started using advertisements
What is early 1700’s
100
The year the icebox was invented
What is 1840
200
The year toilet paper was invented
What is 1880
200
This word was first used in 1980 to describe someone who is lazy. Hint: think potato chips
What is a couch potato
200
The number of T.V. sets sold by 1952
What is 18 million
200
Cost to have a 30 second commercial on Superbowl Sunday
What is 4 million dollars
200
The year car radios were invented
What is 1928
300
America’s first grand hotel (include city name)
What is City Hotel in Baltimore
300
This famous area in New York City that has anything from Lions to Mormons and used to be known as “the Great White Way"
What is Broadway
300
The location that people got a look at the very first television set
What is New York World Fair
300
What was advertised for the first ever commercial?
What is a Bulova watch
300
The decade air conditioning was invented
What is 1920’s
400
These utensils were introduced in the late 1700’s and had two small prongs on the end for spearing meat
What is a knife
400
This word was derived from fireless cooker
What is an electric stove
400
the percentage of leisure time that has fallen since 1973.
What is 40 percent
400
16,000 new ( ) are introduced every year in America
What is products
400
The year the electric vacuum was created
What is 1901
500
Who said “Americans suffer a universal deficiency in good manners and graceful demeanor"
Who is Frances Trollope
500
The company Motorola created this invention in 1928, so you could jam out in your car
What is a car radio
500
how much production of materials has increased since 1948
What is doubled
500
the year that advertisements started bombarding different forms of media
What is the 1920’s
500
the year the electric toaster was created
What is 1910