Old Time Footballers
He was a striker from Brazil who is generally considered the greatest player ever.
Who is Pele?
Her father invented the automobile in 1886 and named his company after her.
Who is Mercedes Benz?
It was a sea mammal considered a delicacy in medieval times, and could feed a lot of people.
What is a whale?
Most people did it sitting up in the 16th and 17th centuries.
What is sleep?
Before WWI, this word wasn't American slang for a film, but was a slang name for the people working in the film business.
What is movie?
He married a Spice Girl and was famous for the way he bent it.
Who is David Beckham?
This company was formed when Adolf Hitler asked Ferdinand Porsche to design a "people's car".
What is Volkswagen?
It's the world's most common food that in the dark ages sometimes contained a mold that produced LSD, causing people to hallucinate and believe they were having a religious experience.
What is bread?
It's a household appliance that became popular in the 1920s, and so fascinated Karel Capek that he would empty its bag to see what was there.
What is a vacuum?
After WWI it became American slang for a moving picture.
What is movie?
He is the best player ever from Northern Ireland, and when asked what he did with all the money he made said "I spent most of it on women, cars and alcohol; the rest I just wasted."
Who is George Best?
It's what powered the Stanley company's car that did not run on gas, but sometimes built up too much pressure and exploded.
What is steam?
It was a very expensive product grown in the New World and rich people put it on everything, including their meat, in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
What is sugar?
The first one found in the kitchen, invented in 1909, featured exposed metal coils that were heated red hot and was just as likely to burn your house down as to do its job.
What is a toaster?
What is sound?
His Hand of God goal gave Argentina the win against England in the 1986 World Cup.
Who is Diego Maradona?
It's the first of its kind, held on July 22, 1894, from Paris to Rouen. The average speed was 20km an hour.
What is car race?
It was by far the most dangerous thing to drink from the beginning of civilization until the late 19th century.
What is water?
He invented motion pictures but lost interest in them when he was not able to successfully connect them to another of his inventions. the phonograph.
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
The technic of his winning penalty kick against GK Sepp Maier of West Germany in the 1976 European Championship final was so original that today it bears this Czech player's name.
Who is Antonin Panenka?
What is an electric car?
It's a warm drink introduced to England in 1583 and became so wildly popular that by the 1660s King Charles II tried (unsuccessfully) to outlaw it.
What is coffee?
It's what houses in Europe were taxed by from the late 17th to mid 19th century.
What are windows?
It's what the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science first awarded in 1929.
What is the Oscar (Academy Award)?