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by BlastRoom
A quiz about the machines, materials and bright ideas that changed how people live.
24 questions
One question set, multiple game modes. Tap any game to see it in action. Not sure which to pick?
Answer to place stones and capture territory.
Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
Answer to earn energy, then climb.
The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
Answer, restock, and serve the rush.
More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
Answer, then tap to leap the frozen ridge.
Who introduced printing with movable metal type to Europe in the 1400s?
Movable type was invented about four centuries before Gutenberg, by Bi Sheng, in which country?
Which explosive mixture was created by Chinese alchemists who were hunting for a potion of long life?
Cai Lun of Han China is credited with perfecting the making of which material, from bark, rags and old fishing nets?
Chinese inventors used magnetic lodestone to make an early version of which navigation tool?
Who was granted the first United States patent for a practical telephone, in 1876?
Which telegraph code sends messages as short dots and long dashes?
Who devised the raised-dot system that blind people read with their fingertips?
The Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro gave his name to which everyday object?
Alfred Nobel invented which explosive, then left his fortune to fund a set of prizes?
Who patented the steam engine with a separate condenser, and has a unit of power named after him?
George de Mestral invented hook-and-loop fastening after picking what off his dog?
Percy Spencer noticed a chocolate bar melting near a radar set, which led him to which kitchen appliance?
Which system of linked pages and browsers was created at the CERN laboratory in 1989?
Benjamin Franklin invented which device to protect buildings from lightning strikes?
Zhang Heng of Han China built a bronze urn with dragons and toads to detect what?
Which building material, mixed with volcanic ash, let the Romans raise huge domes?
Which weaving machine used punched cards to control the pattern it wove?
Who designed the Analytical Engine, a mechanical machine meant to compute anything?
Alessandro Volta stacked discs of zinc and copper with soaked cloth to make the first what?
The Montgolfier brothers of France built the first successful what?
Eli Whitney patented a machine that pulled the seeds out of which crop?
Willis Carrier's 1902 machine controlled the damp air in a printing works and gave us what?
Rene Laennec rolled a tube of paper to listen to a patient's chest, inventing which instrument?
Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
Race through questions at your own speed.
Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.
Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
Dinosaurs (Easy)
24 questions
