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Inventors

This week's Trivia: Inventors

This quiz tests your knowledge of some smart dudes who made some cool stuff. Okay, maybe they weren't that smart, and the stuff they made wasn't that cool, but some guys at some time made some stuff.

Earn 50 J!NX EXP if you correctly answer at least 4 questions on the quiz!

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Q1	Nikola Tesla is considered by some to be the most influential and (at the time) underappreciated inventor of all time. What was his ethnic background? Swedish Polish Serbian German New Mexican
Q2	By which of these nicknames was Thomas Alva Edison known? The Magician of Manhattan The Wizard of Menlo Park The Mage of Massachusetts The Sorcerer of New York The Wonder of Albany
Q3	George Washington Carver is credited with developing over 300 uses for which of the following items? Steel Cotton Wheat Peanuts Keytar
Q4	Alexander Graham Bell is credited with the invention of the telephone. On the same day that he filed his patent application, February 14, 1876, which inventor filed a patent caveat for a telephone with a liquid-based transmitter? Elisha Gray Henry Ford Noonien Soong Wedge Antilles Hoban Washburn
Q5	Former US presidential candidate Al Gore is often misquoted as claiming to have invented what? Mobile phone technology Satellite radio Laptop computers The Internet Modems
Q6	Who is the inventor of the wildly popular Showtime Rotisserie, 5-Tray Electric, Food Dehydrator, Inside-The-Egg Scrambler, and spray-on hair for bald guys? Guthy Renker Ron Popeil Christie Lee Hudson Billy Blanks Richard Simmons
Q7	Who built the Large Hadron Collider? Geneva Conglomerate of European Nations (GERM) Multi-Platform Acquisitional Agreggate (MPAA) European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) North-American Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans(NOWHERE)
Q8	Steve Wozniak, having built the first Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, has recently been seen on a Bravo TV show dating which self-proclaimed D-List celebrity? Kathy Griffin Margaret Cho Lisa Lampanelli Amy Poehler Chelsea Handler
Q9	Which of these did Benjamin Franklin NOT invent? Lightning Rod Glass Harmonica Bifocal Glasses Steam Engine Flexible Urinary Catheter
Q10	Which 15th- and 16th- Century inventor drew the Vitruvian Man? Isaac Newton Giuseppe Bossi Stephano Kubrike Leonardo Da Vinci Vitruvius

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This week's Trivia: Inventors

Nikola Tesla is considered by some to be the most influential and (at the time) underappreciated inventor of all time. What was his ethnic background?

By which of these nicknames was Thomas Alva Edison known?

George Washington Carver is credited with developing over 300 uses for which of the following items?

Alexander Graham Bell is credited with the invention of the telephone. On the same day that he filed his patent application, February 14, 1876, which inventor filed a patent caveat for a telephone with a liquid-based transmitter?

Former US presidential candidate Al Gore is often misquoted as claiming to have invented what?

Who is the inventor of the wildly popular Showtime Rotisserie, 5-Tray Electric, Food Dehydrator, Inside-The-Egg Scrambler, and spray-on hair for bald guys?

Who built the Large Hadron Collider?

Steve Wozniak, having built the first Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, has recently been seen on a Bravo TV show dating which self-proclaimed D-List celebrity?

Which of these did Benjamin Franklin NOT invent?

Which 15th- and 16th- Century inventor drew the Vitruvian Man?