“🔧 Everyday Genius Challenge! Test Your Knowledge of Inventions: Top 50 Trivia! From light bulbs to Post-it notes, prove how much you know about the objects you use every day!”
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15 Questions
Answer:Thomas Edison
Answer:Telephone
Answer:Tim Berners-Lee
Answer:Microwave oven
Answer:Karl Benz
Answer:Printing press
Answer:Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)
Answer:Television
Answer:Alessandro Volta
Answer:Bagless vacuum cleaner (Dyson vacuum)
Answer:Walter Hunt
Answer:Ballpoint pen
Answer:Elias Howe (or Isaac Singer improved it)
Answer:Blue jeans (denim pants)
Answer:Alexander Graham Bell
20 Questions
Answer:Post-it Notes
Answer:Philippe-Guy Woog (or Broxodent – often credited to Broxodent company)
Answer:Velcro (hook-and-loop fastener)
Answer:Gideon Sundback
Answer:Chocolate chip cookie
Answer:Marion Donovan
Answer:Stephen Poplawski (1922)
Answer:Jack Kilby (Texas Instruments)
Answer:Coca-Cola
Answer:Mary Anderson
Answer:Waterproof fabric (Macintosh raincoat)
Answer:Yi Xing (Chinese Buddhist monk, 8th century)
Answer:Peanut butter (or over 300 uses for peanuts)
Answer:Ezra Warner (1858, but canned food existed earlier)
Answer:Xerography (photocopier)
Answer:Walter Frederick Morrison
Answer:Polaroid camera (instant camera)
Answer:Henry W. Seeley (1882)
Answer:Dishwasher
Answer:Johan Vaaler (or earlier: Samuel B. Fay – but Vaaler is often credited)
15 Questions
Answer:Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Answer:Trampoline
Answer:Hubert Cecil Booth (1901)
Answer:Ballpoint pen (he patented the first, but Bíró commercialized it)
Answer:Thomas Crapper (but earlier: Sir John Harington invented the first flush toilet in 1596)
Answer:Paper bag making machine (flat-bottomed paper bags)
Answer:Wilson Greatbatch
Answer:Ironing board
Answer:Edwin Beard Budding (or later Charles Moncky – but Budding is known for the adjustable wrench and lawn mower)
Answer:Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (basis for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth)
Answer:Joseph Glidden
Answer:Corn flakes (breakfast cereal)
Answer:Robert H. Goddard
Answer:Shoe lasting machine (automated shoemaking)
Answer:Miller Reese Hutchison (Acousticon, 1902)