Science Fact Finder

Inventions And Fairs

1. Who invented the Xerox™ machine? [answer]
2. Who invented the electron microscope? [answer]
3. What is the formula for invisible ink? [answer]
4. Who invented velcro™? [answer]
5. Who invented teflon? [answer]
6. Who invented the zipper? [answer]
7. Which scientific discoveries were made accidentally? [answer]
8. What is the origin of blue jeans? [answer]
9. Which tools were used by Neanderthal man? [answer]
10. Who invented the Slinky™? [answer]
11. Who invented Rubik's cube™? [answer]
12. What is the origin of the fire alarm box? [answer]
13. How does a breathalyzer determine the alcohol level of the breath? [answer]
14. How are scratch and sniff cards made? [answer]
15. What is the name of the chemical used in watches to make them glow in the dark? [answer]
16. When was cement first used? [answer]
17. How are compact discs (CDs) made? [answer]
18. How are colored fireworks made? [answer]
19. Why are the letters all mixed up on the typewriter keyboard? [answer]
20. When was the first world's fair? [answer]
21. What is contained in the time capsule buried at the site of the New York World's Fair in 1940? [answer]

Accomplishments

1. Who was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize? [answer]
2. Who was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize and how many women have received the prize? [answer]
3. What were the discoveries of John Bardeen, the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field? [answer]
4. For what accomplishments did Marie Curie receive a Nobel Prize? [answer]
5. What is the National Inventors Hall of Fame? [answer]

Patents And Trademarks

1. What types of patents are available? [answer]
2. What is the Guzman prize? [answer]
3. How long does a patent a trademark, or a copyright protect the holder? [answer]
4. What cannot be patented? [answer]
5. What is the difference between the symbols ™ and ® when used with a trademark? [answer]
6. Which patent was issued to a U.S. president? [answer]
7. For what is Percy Lavon Julian noted? [answer]
8. Which patents were issued to Mark Twain? [answer]

Oddities, Hoaxes, And Accidents

1. What was the world's greatest fraud? [answer]
2. What is the Bermuda Triangle? [answer]
3. What is a jackalope? [answer]
4. Which industrial accidents have become major disasters? [answer]
5. What was the Great Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919? [answer]

Technological Achievements

1. Which scientific and technological event was the most important in U.S. history? [answer]
2. What are the ten outstanding engineering achievements of the last thirty years? [answer]
3. What is "High Technology" or "High Tech"? [answer]
4. What is the new science of chaos? [answer]
5. In which industries are robots being used? [answer]
6. What does the acronym "LASER" stand for? [answer]
7. What is holography? [answer]

Weapons

1. Who invented the bowie knife? [answer]
2. When was the Colt revolver patented? [answer]
3. When and where was gunpowder invented? [answer]
4. Who invented dynamite? [answer]
5. What was the Manhattan Project? [answer]
6. What is a nuclear winter? [answer]