history bowl

Question 1

Name the inventor of the Cotton Gin.

Answer 1

Eli Whitney

Question 2

Name the Englishmen who perfected the steam engine.

Answer 2

James Watt

Question 3

Name the man given credit for the first successful steamboat.

Answer 3

Robert Fulton

Question 4

Name the immigrant who brought the secret of England’s textile machines to the United States

Answer 4

Samuel Slator

Question 5

Name the man who demonstrated the possibility of using interchangeable parts by assembling guns from a pile of parts.

Answer 5

Eli Whitney

Question 6

What connects Lake Erie and the Hudson River?

Answer 6

Erie Canal

Question 7

Name the maker of a six-shooter with a bullet chamber that spun into line with a fixed barrel.

Answer 7

Samuel Colt

Question 8

Name the country in which the Industrial Revolution began.

Answer 8

England

Question 9

Name the inventor of a horse-drawn reaper that cut grain faster.

Answer 9

Cyrus McCormick

Question 10

Name the sources of power along which factories were located.

Answer 10

RIvers