Weird & wonderful
The “Absurd inventions” quiz — Weird & wonderful. It has 25 questions in five categories: Transport that failed, Household oddities, Accidental inventions, Protection mania, Tech firsts. 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 two-wheeled self-balancing vehicle that responds to the rider's leaning did Dean Kamen invent?
Which high-speed capsule train in a vacuum tube did Elon Musk propose?
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Who were the cages hung outside 1920s windows meant for?
What headwear got a radio built into it in 1949?
Which ordinary stone sold…
In the gameWhich terracotta figure grows…
In the gameWhich blanket with sleeves…
In the gameWhat came of 3M's 'failed' too-weak glue?
What melted in engineer Spencer's pocket near a radar set?
Richard James was testing…
In the gameWhat did Alexander Fleming…
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In the gameWhat do people jokingly wear on their heads to 'protect against alien mind-reading'?
What did people hold while being shot at in a 1931 demo?
Besides land, what could…
In the gameWhat was the Canadian…
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In the gameWhat material was the first computer mouse carved from?
What did the first Cambridge webcam watch around the clock?
How much did the…
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In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.