Chapter 8

Question 1

Inventor of Uzi Machine gun in 1950s.

Answer 1

Uziel Gal

Question 2

Father of percussion ignition

Answer 2

Alexander John Forsyth

Question 3

Discovery on great heights in the form of commercial explosives including dynamite

Answer 3

Alfred Bemhard Nobel

Question 4

Italian chemist, he was studying under Theophile - Jules Pelouze

Answer 4

Ascanio Sobrero

Question 5

One of the first to state sound ballistics theories

Answer 5

Benjamin Robins

Question 6

German monk that was credited for the application of gunpowder for propelling missile

Answer 6

Berthold Schwartz

Question 7

developed a small caliber automatic pistol in 1866

Answer 7

Carl Walter

Question 8

Chicago Illinois is credited with producing first commercial bulletproof vest available to the public starting in the late 1800s

Answer 8

Casimir Zeglen

Question 9

Asked Fillippo to designed the first bulletproof vest in 1538

Answer 9

Francesco Maria della Rovere

Question 10

Formed and developed the ArmaLite

Answer 10

Charles Dorcester and George Sullivan

Question 11

German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone.

Answer 11

Christian Friedrich Schonbein

Question 12

Patented the first pump action shotgun

Answer 12

Christopher Spencer

Question 13

Created the first auto-loading shotgun

Answer 13

John Browning

Question 14

developed the first shotgun chambered to fire 3.5 inch 12-gauge cartridge

Answer 14

O.F Mossberg and Sons

Question 15

British army who designed the conical bullets in 1823

Answer 15

Capt. John Norton

Question 16

English gunsmith, invented the greener bullet in 1836

Answer 16

William Greener

Question 17

Father of modern ballistics

Answer 17

Col. Calvin H. Goddard

Question 18

Maker of carbine rifle

Answer 18

David “Carbine” Williams

Question 19

One of the first rifle makers

Answer 19

Eliphalet Remington

Question 20

designed a machinery of making colt firearms

Answer 20

Elizabeth King Root

Question 21

developed AR15/M16 rifle

Answer 21

Eugene Stoner

Question 22

designer of service pistols of Soviet Forces. Received an award - Hero of Socialist labor

Answer 22

Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev

Question 23

designer of 9mm parabellum cartridges

Answer 23

George Luger

Question 24

manufacturer of firearms which was managed by Edmond Heckler together with Mauser, Theodore Koch And Alex Siedel

Answer 24

Heckler and Koch

Question 25

discovered in 1832 that nitric acid, when combined with starch or wood fibers would produce a lightweight combustible explosive material which he named xyloidine

Answer 25

Henri Bracannot

Question 26

manufacturer of pocket pistols

Answer 26

Henry Derringer

Question 27

inventor of Maxim machine gun. He patented first commercially produced supressor

Answer 27

Hiram Stevens Maxim

Question 28

produced the best double action weapon in the world

Answer 28

Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson

Question 29

developed the weaver stance

Answer 29

Jack Weaver

Question 30

From London, he invented the puckle gun

Answer 30

James Puckle

Question 31

maker of model 1855 rifled-musket and ripley rifles

Answer 31

James Wolfe Ripley

Question 32

served as first international practical shooting confederation president

Answer 32

Jeff Cooper

Question 33

invented Hammerli weapons in Switzerland

Answer 33

Johann Ulrich Hammerli

Question 34

Invented the grand rifle in 1931, the first reloading rifle in the world

Answer 34

John Cantius Garand

Question 35

German armorer and gunsmith amd inventor-manufacturer of lever action rifles

Answer 35

John Malon Martin

Question 36

Produces single shot rifles which were adopted by Winchester

Answer 36

John Moises Browning

Question 37

invented the Thompson machine gun in 1920

Answer 37

John Thompson

Question 38

Army officer and gun designer. His first design was produced by Kayoba factory in 1904

Answer 38

Kijiro Nambu

Question 39

Australian engineer who invented the military tank in 1912

Answer 39

Lance de Mole

Question 40

Russian gun designer, later employed in the Red Army and developed tanks and rifles

Answer 40

Melvin M. Johnson

Question 41

Initiated the building of Winchester company

Answer 41

Oliver F. Winchester

Question 42

maker of high quality Cal. 22, sporting rifles and pump action shotguns

Answer 42

Oscar Mossberge

Question 43

Officer of British army who made demonstration before the king of Great Britain

Answer 43

Patrick Ferguson

Question 44

invented mauser pistols and rifles. They also produced the first metal cartridge weapon of the German Empira

Answer 44

Paul and Wilhelm Mauser

Question 45

Hand-wranked and Duver Gatling type of machine gun

Answer 45

RJ Gatling

Question 46

English Monk and scientist, credited with the invention of gunpowder. Official name is Constantine Anklitzen

Answer 46

Roger Bacon

Question 47

revolvers and later on pistols. Born July 1814.

Answer 47

Samuel Colt

Question 48

the standard service of the Swiss government

Answer 48

Schweizerische Industria Gesselschaft

Question 49

officer of Russian army who designed the russian service rifle in 1891

Answer 49

Sergei Mossin

Question 50

founder of medico legal faculty at Cairo University

Answer 50

Sydney Smith

Question 51

explosive material guncotton and other nitrosulphates. Mojor inspiration of Alfred Nobel and Ascanio Sobrero

Answer 51

Theopile-JUles Pelouze