Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Daily Trivia Quiz #22 - Technology Trivia - Questions with Answers

Trivia Quiz of the day #22 - Questions; Technology - Answers at bottom of page.

Technology Trivia, atomic bomb, invention, vaccine, Edward Salk,
Polaroid, Nobel prize, super glue, sound barrier and more.

  1. Alan Roberts' special super glue was used to join what?
     
  2. What was the name of the first home computer to be manufactured?
     
  3. What was France's online telecom service called?
     
  4. Which play by Capek introduced the word robot?
     
  5. How was Trevor Baylis's revolutionary radio powered?
     
  6. Who developed the Gaia Theory?
     
  7. What does O stand for in the equipment NOSE which imitates the human nose?
     
  8. Which company sold the first hand-held hair dryers?
     
  9. Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose's invention the crescograph measures what?
     
  10. In which islands is Bikini Atoll where the first atomic bombs were tested?
     
  11. What was the codename of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
     
  12. Edward Salk developed a vaccine against what?
     
  13. Which hospital performed the first heart surgery on a baby in its mother's womb?
     
  14. Adolf Loos was a designer of what?
     
  15. Who was the first Nobel Prize winner to come from Pakistan?
     
  16. What was the first shopping mall o the Internet called?
     
  17. What type of camera did Edwin Land develop?
     
  18. Leslie Rogge was the first person to be arrested due to what?
     
  19. Who led the team which invented transistors in the 1940s?
     
  20. In 1908 Wilbur Wright traveled what record-breaking number of miles in 2 hours
    20 minutes?
     
  21. Which company manufactured the first electric razor?
     
  22. How long did Bleriot's first flight across the English Channel last?
     
  23. What nationality of plane first broke the 100mph sound barrier?
     
  24. The first air collision took place over which country?
     
  25. William Henry Hoover started making vacuum cleaners because his original trade
    was dying out; what was it?
     

Daily Trivia Quiz #22 -  Technology - Answers

  1. Wounds.
  2. Altair.
  3. Minitel.
  4. R.U.R.
  5. Clockwork.
  6. Sanford.
  7. Olfactory.
  8. Racine Universal Motor Company.
  9. Plant movements.
  10. Marshall Islands.
  11. Little Boy.
  12. Polio.
  13. Guy's London.
  14. Buildings.
  15. Abdus Salam.
  16. The Branch Mall.
  17. Polaroid.
  18. The Internet.
  19. Shockley.
  20. 77.
  21. Schick.
  22. 43 minutes.
  23. French.
  24. Austria.
  25. Harness maker.
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