History
The “Inventions that changed the world” quiz — History. It has 25 questions in five categories: Print & Paper, Wires & Waves, Rails & Wings, Through the Lens, Medical Breakthroughs. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which writing material, invented in ancient China, eventually replaced expensive parchment across Europe?
Which German craftsman revolutionized bookmaking in the 1440s by introducing movable metal type printing to Europe?
Which standard keyboard layout…
In the gameWhich French educator adapted…
In the gameWhich 1886 machine casting…
In the gameWhich device for transmitting the human voice over electric wires was patented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876?
Which system of dots and dashes was developed in the 1830s to transmit text messages over electric telegraph wires?
Which Italian physicist created…
In the gameWhich semiconductor device, created…
In the gameWhich 18th-century glass vessel…
In the gameWhich brothers from Ohio achieved the first sustained, controlled flight of a powered airplane at Kitty Hawk in 1903?
Which aircraft did the Montgolfier brothers invent in 1783 by filling a large fabric envelope with hot air?
Which invention did John…
In the gameWhich precision instrument did…
In the gameWhich deep-sea vessel, designed…
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Which Italian astronomer first aimed a telescope at the night sky in 1609 and discovered four large moons of Jupiter the next year?
Which Dutch pioneer first observed bacteria through handcrafted microscopic lenses, calling them animalcules?
Which early photographic process…
In the gameWhich penetrating radiation was…
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Which first natural antibiotic was accidentally discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 in a mouldy petri dish?
Which English physician pioneered vaccination in 1796 by inoculating a boy with mild cowpox to prevent smallpox?
Which hollow wooden cylinder…
In the gameWhich volatile chemical did…
In the gameWhich substance did Joseph…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.
