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1. Major General Ernest Swinton had a major influence on the development of what during World War One?
 
The artillery barrage
Barbed wire
The machine gun
The tank

He suggested the idea of an armoured tracked vehicle in 1914
 
 
2. First produced in 1955, the Pluto Platter was an early version of which modern plastic toy?
 
The frisbee
The hula hoop
The space hopper
The water pistol
 
 
3. Which innovation helped Stephenson's famous locomotive the Rocket win the Rainhill Trials in 1829?
 
Blastpipe
Bleedpipe
Blockpipe
Blowpipe

The blastpipe helps pull air through the fire, improving combustion
 
 
4. In which US state is Kitty Hawk, where the Wright Brothers made their historic flight in 1903?
 
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
 
 
5. What was the first name of Mr Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule?
 
Samuel
Septimus
Silas
Solomon

He built the machine in 1779 but was too poor to apply for a patent
 
 
6. The Bren gun, adopted by the British army in 1935, takes the first part of its name from the city of Brno, which is now in which country?
 
The Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland
Switzerland
 
 
7. Which ancient mathematician has lent his name to a device for raising water into irrigation channels?
 
Archimedes
Euclid
Omar Khayyam
Pythagoras
 
 
8. In 1901 the British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth patented the world's first powered what?
 
Lawnmower
Pram
Vacuum cleaner
Wheelchair
 
 
9. In 1867 Samuel B Fay of the United States was awarded the first patent for which piece of office equipment?
 
The elastic band
The filing cabinet
The paper clip
The pencil sharpener
 
 
10. What is Volapuk, created by Johann Martin Schleyer in Germany in 1879-80?
 
An artificial language
A hangover cure
A monorail system
A vegetarian sausage
 
 
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