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This board game uses an automobile as the game piece to which you add small pegs at different times during play.
What is the Game of Life? The pegs are used to represent you, a spouse, and children.
This form of small, freestanding, and portable energy production was invented by Alessandro Volta.
What is a battery? The device not only produced electrical power but it was able to store the power when it was not in use.
This doctor came to court dressed as Thomas Jefferson, who was also thought to favor helping the terminally ill commit suicide.
Who is Jack Kevorkian?
This man was the president of the United States at the beginning of the 1950s.
Who is Harry S. Truman? Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.
This is the name of the tallest grass on earth.
What is Bambusoideae by sciencific name or Bamboo?
In the 1950 film All About Eve, this woman played Eve.
Who is Anne Baxter? Baxter and three other females were nominated for Oscars that year for their roles in the movie.
Johannes Gutenberg invented this.
The printing press. The first Gutenberg Bible was printed in 1455, and it included colored illustrations.
This leader said in 1942: "Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much".
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This man was president of the United States was in office from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower? Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, and achieved the five-star rank of General of the Army
This oath of ethics taken by doctors is named after an Ancient Greek physician.
What is the Hippocratic Oath? This is one of the oldest and most widely known codes of ethics. The original text is attributed to Hippocrates, a Greek physician commonly credited with beginning the practice of medicine as a rational science. Hippocrates differed from some of his contemporaries with his holistic view of medicine.
This product had help being sold by comedienne/actress Martha Raye by saying, “Take it from a big mouth”.
What is Polident denture cleaner? Raye’s nickname was “The Big Mouth,” and she was Polident’s spokesperson in the 1970s and ’80s.
This Serbian rival of Edison invented alternating current and is the man after whom Elon Musk’s car company is named.
Who is Nikola Tesla? His inventions are based on electricity, and he created neon lights. Musk named his electric car Tesla as a tribute to the inventor.
These awards, founded in 1901, are funded with the help of the Bank of Sweden.
What are the Nobel Prizes?
The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind
This person wrote the classic novel The Catcher in the Rye in 1951.
Who is J.D. Salinger? Around 250,000 copies are still sold each year.
This is the largest desert in the world.
This is one of the two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons.
What is Mercury or Venus? The absence of moons is believed to be due to the planets’ proximity to the sun.
Eli Whitney most famous for inventing this.
What is the Cotton gin? Although the cotton gin is important, some believe his most important achievement is the manufacture of interchangeable parts. On the micro level, look at some of the men’s tools available at the big box stores. You can change what the tool does by changing parts of the tools.
This Amendment guarantees women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This famous explorer first climbed Mount Everest in 1953?
Who is Sir Edmund Hillary?
This is the name of a material that will not carry an electrical charge.
What is an insulator? A material (as rubber or glass) that is a poor conductor of electricity, heat, or sound.
This word refers to a sweet liqueur as well as being warm-hearted or amiable?
What is Cordial? It comes from the Latin word cor, which means “heart.” The liqueur was initially believed to stimulate the heart, hence the name
In addition to inventions such as the original flying machine, the parachute, diving equipment, and the revolving bridge, This Renaissance inventor’s sketches served as models for later inventions.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci? He was a true Renaissance man, since he was equally adept at science and art. He painted Mona Lisa, one of the greatest portraits of all time.
Canada sold this to the United States in 1885.
What is Niagara Falls?
Senator Joseph McCarthy, who conducted a nationally televised hearing in 1954 to root out Communists in the government, represented this state.
What is Wisconsin?
This is the temperature in which Celsius and Fahrenheit are equal.
What is -40? The Fahrenheit and Celsius scales have one point at which they intersect. They are equal at -40 °C and -40 °F. The simple method to find when two temperature scales are equal to each other is to set the conversion factors for the two scales equal to each other and solve for temperature.