KBC Questions and Quiz, Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Question: For whom high heeled shoes were invented?

1. Cleopatra
   
2. Queen Elizabeth I
   
3. King Louis the XIV
   
4. King Charles II
   

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King Louis XIV was very short and didn't like looking up at people he spoke to, so he had a tall pair of shoes made for him.

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Question: When was the first Lionel trains manufactured?

1. 1920
   
2. 1890
   
3. 1901
   
4. 1944
   

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Joshua Lionel Cowen and Harry C. Grant started the Lionel Manufacturing Company on Sept. 5, 1900 in New York City. The first train, which was called the Electric Express, was manufactured in 1901 and was an open gondola propelled by a fan motor. As time has passed, the trains have been made in different colors and styles.

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Question: For what does the world owe Almon Strowger a debt of gratitude?

1. Parking Meters
   
2. Vending Machines
   
3. Automatic Telephone Exchanges
   
4. Traffic Lights
   

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He was an undertaker, and legend has it, he developed the automatic switch in 1889, to stop competitors from getting his work!

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Question: For what is Charles Babbage (1792-1871) remembered?

1. Computers
   
2. Telescopes
   
3. Radio-Telegraphy
   
4. Steam Boating
   

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Know as the Father of Computing. He began his 'Analytical Engine' in 1833. The first computer, although he never completed it.

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Question: Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

1. Potato Peterson
   
2. Turnip Townsend
   
3. Cabbage Carlson
   
4. Swede Svenson
   

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Viscount Charles 'Turnip' Townsend developed this revolutionary concept.

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Question: Who invented the Seed Drill?

1. Jethro Tull
   
2. Arlo Guthrie
   
3. Woodie Guthrie
   
4. Thomas Hines
   

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It was invented around the early 1700's.

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Question: Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

1. Thornton Hargreaves
   
2. Peter Hargreaves
   
3. James Hargreaves
   
4. Simon Hargreaves
   

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Awarded a Patent in 1770. It used 8 bobbins at once.

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Question: What African-American inventor received 5 patents in the field of shoemaking?

1. Elijah McCoy
   
2. Jan Ernst Matzeliger
   
3. Ernest Just
   
4. Lewis Latimer
   

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Matzeliger never benefited financially from his inventions. He died in 1889 at the age of 37 from tuberculosis.

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Question: This part-time race car driver invented the bucket seat in 1969. Who was he??

1. Steve McQueen
   
2. Harrison Frazier
   
3. Paul Newman
   
4. John Wayne
   

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McQueen died in 1980 from a rare form of lung cancer.

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Question: The Manhattan Project was started by President Roosevelt in 1942 to ensure that the U.S. beat the Germans in developing a nuclear bomb. Whom did Roosevelt appoint as scientific head the Manhattan Project?

1. Robert Oppenheimer
   
2. James B. Conant
   
3. Leslie R. Groves
   
4. Vannevar Bush
   

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Leslie R. Groves, however, was the military head of the project and the overall supremo, while Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director. The world's first atomic bomb was exploded in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945.

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