Discoveries And Inventions

Question 1

Basketball

Answer 1

invented by James Naismith in 1891

Question 2

Marathon of Hope

Answer 2

In 1980 Terry Fox from BC lost his right leg to cancer at the age of 18 and began a cross country run to raise money for cancer research, he did not finish the run and lost his battle with cancer

Question 3

Wayne Gretzky

Answer 3

Played for the Edmonton oilers from 1979 to 1988

Question 4

Telephone

Answer 4

Alexander Graham Bell - hit on the idea of the telephone at his summer house in Canada

Question 5

Snowmobile

Answer 5

Joseph-Armand Bombardier - invented the snowmobile, a light-weight winter vehicle.

Question 6

Sir Sandford Fleming

Answer 6

invented the worldwide system of standard time zones.

Question 7

Light bulb

Answer 7

Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward - together invented the first electric light bulb and later sold the patent to Thomas Edison who, more famously, commercialized the light bulb

Question 8

Reginald Fessenden

Answer 8

contributed to the invention of radio, sending the first wireless voice message in the world.

Question 9

Dr wilder penfield

Answer 9

was a pioneering brain surgeon at McGill University in Montreal, and was known as “the greatest living Canadian.”

Question 10

Cardiac pacemaker

Answer 10

Dr. John A. Hopps - invented the first cardiac pacemaker, used today to save the lives of people with heart disorders.

Question 11

SPAR Aerospace / National Research Council

Answer 11

• invented the Canadarm, a robotic arm used in outer space.

Question 12

Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie - of Research in Motion (RIM)

Answer 12

a wireless communications company known for its most famous invention: the BlackBerry.

Question 13

Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best

Answer 13

Discovered insulin a hormone to treat diabetes that has saved 16 millions of lives worldwide