In which decade was the ARRL founded?
Answer: D
The ARRL was founded in the 1910s.
Hiram Percy Maxim founded the American Radio Relay League in 1914 to relay amateur messages beyond the range of a single station. It remains the largest organisation of radio amateurs in the world.
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What invention by Garnet Carter made its debut at the Fairyland Inn Resort in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, in 1927?
Answer: A
It was miniature golf.
Garnet Carter built the Tom Thumb course at his Lookout Mountain resort in 1927 as a diversion for guests waiting for the full-size course. It proved more popular than the hotel, and he franchised the idea across America.
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This African-American physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in the Second World War and invented a device that fed a patient through a tube to a mouthpiece. Who was she?
Answer: A
She was Bessie Blount.
A physical therapist working with amputees after the Second World War, she invented a feeding device that delivered a mouthful of food through a tube at a bite. Unable to interest American authorities, she gave the patent to the French government in 1952.
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Which item, originally called the Whirlwind, was invented by Ives McGaffey in 1869?
Answer: D
It was the vacuum cleaner.
Ives McGaffey patented his hand-cranked Whirlwind in 1869. It was hard to work - one hand turned the crank while the other pushed - and few were sold; the powered version came from Hubert Booth in 1901.
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Who invented the electric battery?
Answer: D
Alessandro Volta invented it.
His voltaic pile of 1800 stacked discs of zinc and silver separated by brine-soaked cloth, giving the first steady electric current. Galvani's twitching frog's legs had prompted the work, but Volta showed the electricity came from the metals, not the animal.
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When was Monopoly created?
Answer: B
After the Stock Market crash, a buying and selling game created by Charles Darrow came to be. The first games were hand drawn on linoleum with streets from Atlantic City, N.J. as the property. He took the game to the Parker Brothers company, and Monopply was brought out for Christmas 1934. Everyone wanted to buy the games after Christmas, and Monopoly became a big success.
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In the 1700s, who paid the postage on a letter, before the stamp was invented?
Answer: C
The receiver paid.
Postage was charged on delivery and by distance, so letters were often refused. Rowland Hill's reform of 1840 introduced the uniform Penny Post prepaid by the sender, with the Penny Black as evidence of payment.
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What toy did George Lerner create for Hasbro company in 1952?
Answer: C
It was Mr Potato Head.
George Lerner sold the idea to Hasbro in 1952 as a set of plastic features to be pushed into a real potato. It was the first toy advertised on television, and the plastic body came only in 1964, when parents complained of rotting vegetables.
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In which decade did the first transatlantic radio broadcast take place?
Answer: D
It occurred in the 1900s.
Marconi transmitted the letter S in Morse across the Atlantic in December 1901, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland. Reginald Fessenden made the first transatlantic voice broadcast in 1906.
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For whom were high-heeled shoes invented?
Answer: C
They were made for Louis XIV.
The king, who was short, had heels made for himself and decreed that only nobles might wear red ones. Heels had earlier been worn by Persian cavalry to hold the foot in the stirrup.
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