Famous Inventions 3

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

15 questions · Published September 9, 2024

Trivia questions (5 of 15)

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1. Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, is what type of medicine?
Alexander Fleming won a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the antibiotic penicillin, which has been discussed as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease."
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2. Known as the Garden State, in which U.S. state did renowned American inventor Thomas Edison open his first laboratory in 1876?
Thomas Edison established his first laboratory in 1876 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He later established a second laboratory in Jersey, as well as a botanical laboratory in Florida.
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3. Eli Whitney jumpstarted the Industrial Revolution with the invention of the cotton ______ in 1793.
The cotton gin was one of the most important inventions of the Industrial Revolution, but it inadvertently also led to a growth in the slave trade in the American South.
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4. In what southwestern U.S. state did J. Robert Oppenheimer test the first ever atomic bomb in July 1945?
J. Robert Oppenheimer headed up the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, testing the world's first atomic weapon in July 1945.
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5. In what field did Madam C.J. Walker, America's first female self-made millionaire, make her fortune?
Madam C.J. Walker was the first entrepreneur to make and market cosmetics for Black women in the United States.

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