KBC Questions and Quiz, Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Question: Who is the English physicist responsible for the 'Big Bang Theory'?

1. Albert Einstein
   
2. Michael Skube
   
3. George Gamow
   
4. Roger Penrose
   

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Gamow, who died in 1968, was a physicist, who published "Thirty Years that Shook Physics" and "Thirty Years that Shook Physics".

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Question: This African-American woman physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in World War II. She invented a device that helped the disabled to eat by delivering food through a tube to a mouthpiece.

1. Bessie Blount
   
2. Marjorie Joyner
   
3. Mae Jamison
   
4. Beulah Henry
   

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Unfortunately Blount could never get anyone to buy her invention. Finally, in 1952 she sold the rights to the French government.

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Question: William Frederick is credited with the invention of the modern frisbee in the mid 1950's. In 1957 the Wham-O Company bought his idea and the rest is history. They named the toy after William Frisbie who was a ________?

1. Pie maker
   
2. Owner of a pizza parlor
   
3. Student at Yale
   
4. Ceramic plate designer
   

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Frisbie made a brand of pies that were popular with Yale students in the 1870's. After eating the pies they would throw the pie tins through the air.

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Question: What is the name of the CalTech seismologist who invented the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?

1. Charles Richter
   
2. Hiram Walker
   
3. Giuseppe Mercalli
   
4. Joshua Rumble
   

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Richter was born on an Ohio farm in 1900. He died in 1985.

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Question: Who is the only U.S. President to invent and patent something?

1. Abraham Lincoln
   
2. Theodore Roosevelt
   
3. Thomas Jefferson
   
4. Rutherford B. Hayes
   

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In 1849 Honest Abe invented a method to aid ships that got stuck on sandbars. He called it A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals. It was never used.

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Question: This English inventor is known as the 'Father of Computing.'

1. Philo Farnsworth
   
2. J. Presper Eckert
   
3. John Mauchly
   
4. Charles Babbage
   

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Mauchly and Eckert invented the ENIAC computer. Farnsworth was a pioneer of early television.

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Question: What invention is credited to the Russian born American inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin?

1. Telegraph
   
2. Radio
   
3. Television
   
4. Dishwasher
   

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Zworykin invented both the tube (iconoscope) for transmission and the receiver (kinescope) in 1923 and 1924, respectively.

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Question: Who was the first American female to patent her invention, a method of weaving straw with silk?

1. Marjorie Joyner
   
2. Margaret Knight
   
3. Amanda Jones
   
4. Mary Kies
   

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Mary was not the first American woman inventor to be sure, there were many female inventors before her, but they never bothered to get a patent.

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Question: This statesman, politican, scholar, inventor, and one of our early presidents invented the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the moldboard plow, and the cipher wheel.

1. George Washington
   
2. Alexander Hamilton
   
3. John Adams
   
4. Thomas Jefferson
   

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Jefferson managed all this while being the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and our third president.

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Question: Benjamin Franklin was a prolific inventor. He invented the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, studied electricity, discovered the Gulf Stream, started the first library, and on and on. Among his many other inventions, what musical instrument did he invent?

1. Banjo
   
2. Oboe
   
3. Clarinet
   
4. Harmonium
   

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Ben also holds a lot of firsts - first U.S. ambassador, first political cartoonist, first American philosopher, organized the first fire department, and on and on.

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