01 - The Greatest Inventors of All Time

Question 1

Where in Germany were people digging where they came across a human bone?

Answer 1

Heidelberg

Question 2

What did people find while digging in Heidelberg?

Answer 2

Human bone

Question 3

What kind of bone was discovered in Heidelberg?

Answer 3

A lower jaw

Question 4

What qualities defined the bone that people found in Heidelberg?

Answer 4

Massive, strong, powerful teeth

Question 5

Where was a human skull found in Germany?

Answer 5

In Neander Valley

Question 6

What was found in Neander Valley?

Answer 6

A human skull

Question 7

What qualities defined the skull found in Neander Valley?

Answer 7

No forehead with two thick ridges above the eyebrows instead

Question 8

What were the Neanderthals perhaps better at than us?

Answer 8

They were better at biting

Question 9

Which two countries found more bones than Germany?

Answer 9

Asia and Africa

Question 10

What were they using more than a hundred and fifty thousand years ago?

Answer 10

Stones and tools

Question 11

What did scientists find about wood, plants, and volcanic rocks?

Answer 11

They change slowly but regularly over a very long period of time

Question 12

What comes before history?

Answer 12

Prehistory

Question 13

How long have Neanderthals inhabited Earth?

Answer 13

About two hundred thousand years

Question 14

How did they create fire?

Answer 14

Rubbing two sticks together until they become so hot that they catch fire

Question 15

Why did they call it the Stone Age?

Answer 15

They created stone tools at that time

Question 16

What was longer than summers?

Answer 16

Winters

Question 17

When did the Stone Age begin?

Answer 17

Before the last Ice Age

Question 18

Why did they use caves as shelter?

Answer 18

It was very cold outside

Question 19

Why were they called Cavemen?

Answer 19

They would hide in caves

Question 20

Who invented talking and pictures?

Answer 20

Cavemen

Question 21

How long did the Ice Age last?

Answer 21

Tens of thousand of years

Question 22

What food did they create?

Answer 22

Bread

Question 23

What did they learn to build?

Answer 23

Tents

Question 24

What did they learn to tame?

Answer 24

Animals

Question 25

What was a dangerous place at the time?

Answer 25

Forests

Question 26

What did they build in the mud?

Answer 26

Pile dwellings

Question 27

What did they shape and polish?

Answer 27

Tools

Question 28

What did they use to bore holes in their axe-heads for handles?

Answer 28

Harder stone

Question 29

How long can the work take?

Answer 29

The whole winter

Question 30

What did they make pots with?

Answer 30

Clay

Question 31

What did they draw as decorations?

Answer 31

Patterns

Question 32

What did they make in ovens?

Answer 32

Fire

Question 33

When did they stop painting pictures of animals?

Answer 33

Late Stone Age

Question 34

When did they find a more convenient way of making tools?

Answer 34

Six thousand years ago (that is 4000 BCE)

Question 35

When did they discover metals?

Answer 35

4000 BCE

Question 36

What metal did they start making into arrowheads and axes?

Answer 36

Copper

Question 37

What makes copper stronger?

Answer 37

Mixing a little bit of a more rare metal with it

Question 38

What makes bronze?

Answer 38

Copper and tin

Question 39

What items did they make out of bronze?

Answer 39

Helmets, swords, axes, cauldrons, bracelets, and necklaces

Question 40

What were the people dressed in?

Answer 40

They were dressed in skins

Question 41

What were the paddle boats made of?

Answer 41

Hollowed-out tree trunks

Question 42

What did they build their huts on?

Answer 42

Stilts

Question 43

Where did they get salt from?

Answer 43

The mines in the mountains

Question 44

What did they drink from in the Bronze Age?

Answer 44

Pottery vessels

Question 45

What other metal did wives and daughters wear as jewelry?

Answer 45

Gold

Question 46

Who would sacrifice their life for their child?

Answer 46

Mother

Question 47

When did all this happen?

Answer 47

Between three and ten thousand years ago

Question 48

How did they act towards each other during the Bronze Age?

Answer 48

Cruel and deceitful

Question 49

What qualities did elephants have?

Answer 49

Long, thick coats of hair and great, curving tusks

Question 50

Why did they paint these animals in the caves?

Answer 50

They think it will make those animals appear