Explorers Discoverers Inventors

Question 1

Invented Artificial heart

Answer 1

Robert Jarvik

Question 2

Invented Movable type

Answer 2

Johann Gutenberg

Question 3

Invented Safety razor

Answer 3

King Gillette

Question 4

Englishman who discovered Australia and Hawaii

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James Cook

Question 5

Invented Elevator

Answer 5

Elisha Otis

Question 6

Invented Aqua-lung

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Jacques Cousteau

Question 7

Invented Airplane

Answer 7

Wright brothers

Question 8

Invented Revolver

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Samuel Colt

Question 9

Invented Air conditioner

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Willis Carrier

Question 10

Invented Hamburger

Answer 10

Salisbury

Question 11

Invented Dynamite

Answer 11

Alfred Nobel

Question 12

Invented Food freezing

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Clarence Birdseye

Question 13

Explored northern Louisiana Purchase territory

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Lewis and Clark

Question 14

Invented Compression-ignition engine

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Rudolf Diesel

Question 15

Invented Thermometer (open column)

Answer 15

Galileo

Question 16

Invented Cylinder locks

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Linus Yale

Question 17

Invented Machine Gun

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Richard Gatling

Question 18

Invented Phonograph

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Thomas Edison

Question 19

Spaniard who discovered the Mississippi River

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Hernando de Soto

Question 20

Invented Submachine gun

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John Thompson

Question 21

Discovered Electrical resistance laws

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George Ohm

Question 22

Invented Thermometer (mercury)

Answer 22

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Question 23

First to set foot on U.S. mainland (Florida)

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Ponce de Leon

Question 24

Invented Motion picture machine

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Thomas Edison

Question 25

Invented Calculus

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Sir Isaac Newton

Question 26

Invented Wireless

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Guglielmo Marconi

Question 27

Invented Scissors

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Leonardo da Vinci

Question 28

Discovered Theory of Relativity

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Albert Einstein

Question 29

Invented Electric razor

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Jacob Schick

Question 30

Invented Bifocal lens

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Benjamin Franklin

Question 31

Discovered Cause of Yellow Fever

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Walter Reed

Question 32

Invented Telegraph

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Samuel Morse

Question 33

Invented Kodak camera (hand-held)

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George Eastman

Question 34

Invented Adding machine

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Blaise Pascal

Question 35

Invented Railroad sleeping car

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George Pullman

Question 36

Venetian who explored Asia

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Marco Polo

Question 37

Invented Hybrid popcorn

Answer 37

Orville Redenbacher

Question 38

Discovered Rabies vaccine

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Louis Pasteur

Question 39

Invented Transistor

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Bell Telephone Labs

Question 40

Invented Steam engine

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James Watt

Question 41

Invented Telescope (astronomical)

Answer 41

Galileo

Question 42

Invented Electric lamp

Answer 42

Thomas Edison

Question 43

First to reach North Pole - 1909

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Robert Peary and Matthew Henson

Question 44

Invented Computer concept

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Charles Babbage

Question 45

First person given credit for sailing around the world

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Ferdinand Magellan

Question 46

Explorer of American southwest; searched for 7 cities of Cibola

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Francisco de Coronado

Question 47

Invented Earthquake intensity device

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Charles Richter

Question 48

Invented Vulcanized rubber

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Charles Goodyear

Question 49

Invented AC generator

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Nicoli Tesla

Question 50

Discovered Antibodies

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Louis Pasteur

Question 51

Competitor of Amundsen - died after reaching the South Pole

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Robert Scott

Question 52

Invented Blind reading system

Answer 52

Louis Braille

Question 53

Invented Instant (Polaroid) camera

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Edwin Land

Question 54

Discoverer of the New World

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Christopher Columbus

Question 55

Invented Screw

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Archimedes

Question 56

Norse explorer who first reached Greenland

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Eric the Red

Question 57

Aztec conqueror

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Hernando Cortez

Question 58

First explorer to see the Pacific Ocean

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Question 59

Italian map maker/explorer who coined the term "New World"

Answer 59

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 60

Invented Lightning rod

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Benjamin Franklin

Question 61

Discovered Expanding Universe

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Edwin Hubble

Question 62

Invented Steel making process

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Sir Henry Bessemer

Question 63

Invented Telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

Question 64

Invented Alternator

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Chrysler Corporation