Final Questions

Question 1

name the computer first used during the second world war

Answer 1

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Question 2

when was the first audio radio broadcast made

Answer 2

1906

Question 3

name the cellphone which could send faxes

Answer 3

IBM Simon

Question 4

where was the last spike in the first transcontinental railway driven

Answer 4

promontory point

Question 5

when did london’s great stink occur

Answer 5

1858

Question 6

henry ford introduced the moving assembly lin in what year

Answer 6

1913

Question 7

name the 19th century engineer who designed London’s sewage system

Answer 7

Joseph Bazalgetter

Question 8

Who was the key programmer behind COBOl

Answer 8

Grace Hopper

Question 9

When was the first battery constructed?

Answer 9

1800

Question 10

Altair 8800

Answer 10

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Question 11

When did the first widely available computer with a graphic interface go on sale?

Answer 11

1984

Question 12

What piece of legislation did Edwin Chadwick help to pass in 1848?

Answer 12

Public Health Act

Question 13

When did Thomas Edison turn the lights on in Manhattan

Answer 13

1882

Question 14

The Grand Canal was completed in what year?

Answer 14

609

Question 15

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Answer 15

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Question 16

Who built ‘the brick’

Answer 16

Martin Cooper

Question 17

_____ made variation against spallpox popular

Answer 17

Mary Wortley Mantagh

Question 18

When did the ‘fat burg’ nearly block a sewer in London?

Answer 18

August 2013

Question 19

Who created the world wide web?

Answer 19

Tim Berners Lee

Question 20

The US station first broadcast television in colour

Answer 20

NBC

Question 21

When did the first Polio vaccination campaign begin

Answer 21

1955

Question 22

_____ developed the oral vaccine for polio

Answer 22

Albert Sabin

Question 23

____ developed a vaccine derived from cowpox

Answer 23

Edward Jenner

Question 24

Which president began developing the highway system in the United States

Answer 24

Eisenhower

Question 25

Who showed that electricity could travel rapidly through a metal wire held by people?

Answer 25

Stephen Gray

Question 26

Name the Nobel Prize winning scientist who identified the bacteria that causes cholera

Answer 26

Robert Koch

Question 27

What happened on 9 November 1965 at 5:16pm?

Answer 27

Northeast Blackout

Question 28

_____ first successfully demonstrated an incandescent light bulb

Answer 28

Joseph Swan

Question 29

Paul Baran suggested what important technological innovation in communication be adopted

Answer 29

Packet Switching

Question 30

Benz Patent Motorcar

Answer 30

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Question 31

When were the first transistors made?

Answer 31

1947

Question 32

When did Martin Luther write his 95 Theses

Answer 32

1517

Question 33

Who designed the first integrated circuit

Answer 33

Jack Kilby

Question 34

When was the handle removed from the broad street pump

Answer 34

1854

Question 35

Who sent the first email

Answer 35

Ray Tomlinson

Question 36

The list of books banned by the Roman Catholic Church was called

Answer 36

Index Librorum Prohibtitorum

Question 37

The ‘Intergalactic Computer Network’ was the brainchild of what person?

Answer 37

J.C.R. Licklider

Question 38

When was the first cellphone call made

Answer 38

1973

Question 39

______ proved Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetic radiation by studying the transmission o f electromagnetic pulses

Answer 39

Heinrich Hertz

Question 40

The US governement helped to create this company in order to make radio broadcasting possible

Answer 40

RCA