Famous Inventions 2

Find out if necessity was indeed the mother of invention with another trivia game featuring famous inventors and their products.

15 questions · Published September 18, 2023

Trivia questions (5 of 15)

Multiple Choice
1. In which country did the world's first CD player, the Sony CDP 101, debut in October 1982?
Electronics giant Sony debuted the CDP 101, based on technology first created by James T. Russell of General Electric decades earlier, in Japan on October 1, 1982.
Multiple Choice
2. What was the only visible light color found in the first LED display created by Nick Holonyak Jr. in 1962?
The first LED display with visible light was created by General Electric engineer Nick Holonyak Jr. and glowed red.
Multi-colored LEDs did not become commercially available until the late 1980s.
Multiple Choice
3. What U.S. city sent Baltimore, Maryland, the first ever telegraph message in 1844?
The first ever telegraph message—"What Hath God Wrought?"—traveled forty-four miles from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland.
Multiple Choice
4. Which of these banks installed the world's first ATM in 1967?
FUN FACT
The first ATM , installed at a north London, England, location of Barclay's bank in 1967, was based on contemporary chocolate vending machines.
Fill In The Blank
5. American medical researcher Jonas _______ developed the first successful polio vaccine in 1952.
Jonas Salk first developed his polio vaccine in 1952, and it became publicly available in 1955.

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