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100

This invention allows us to search and find information, communicate long distances, and play games.

What is the Internet?

100

This device once used obelisks but now uses hands to tell us the time of day.

What is the clock?

100

The name of this device is abbreviated as PC.

What is personal computer?

100

This is a two-wheel mode of transportation driven by an engine.

What is a motorcycle?

100

Everyone with a phone has one of these and often there are multiple in their house.

What is a charger?

200
This device made in 1913 enabled ice cream and other food to be easily stored.

What is a refrigerator?

200

This device uses magnetized iron ore to point us in the right direction.

What is a compass?

200

This small device made by a fruit debuted in 2004 and changed the lives of everyone in the world.

What is the iPhone?

200

This form of transportation is the most popular in Japan.

What is bullet train?
200

This ”makes the world go round.”

What is money?

300

This powerful invention can be used as a deadly weapon and also to power entire cities.

What is nuclear power?

300

This simple invention is from China and is made of trees.

What is paper?
300

Before television, families gathered around this device for entertainment.

What is the radio?

300

People enjoy using this invention as a hotel to float on the water.

What is a cruise ship?

300

This originates from Spain and has six strings.

What is a guitar?

400

This invention was accidentally discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen and allows us to look inside ourselves.

What is the X-ray?

400

This machine enabled the quick and efficient processing of cotton.

What is the cotton gin?

400

Before this machine people had to copy books by hand.

What is the printing press?

400

This ancient and basic invention spawned the phrase, “You don’t need to reinvent the _____.”

What is wheel?

400

This chargeable invention is banned from being in your checked bag on an airplane.

What is a lithium-ion battery?

500

Because of this invention we can shoot for the stars.

What is the space shuttle (or rocket)?

500

The Egyptians pioneered this in order to bring distant water to their fields to grow crops.

What is irrigation?

500

This is a series of dots and lines used to communicate often secretly.

What is Morse Code?

500

This American carmaker made possible the mass-production of affordable cars.

Who is Henry Ford?

500

This person invented what we use to see in the dark.

Who is Thomas Edison?