Free Quiz Questions on technology. Topics include: inventions, transport, pioneers, inventors, breakthroughs, devices.
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What colour code of fire-extinguisher dispenses Carbon Dioxide and is recommended for putting out electrical fires: green, blue or black?
black
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What word, beginning with the letter p is the scientific name for a lie-detector?
polygraph
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Roughly how many people have died climbing Everest since Hillary conquered it in 1953?
About 200
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What did humans discover first: electricity or gravity?
Gravity
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What form of transport was invented by Englishman Christopher Cockerel in the 1950s?
Hovercraft
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What of these was invented first: the manual Typewriter, the electric toaster or Doctor Marten Boots?
Typewriter (1868)
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What was discovered first: DNA or the planet Pluto?
DNA (*although only by one year
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What was invented first: teabags, the electric toaster or the nuclear bomb?
Teabags
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What was invented first: The Atomic Bomb, The Electric guitar or Pepsi Cola?
Pepsi cola (1898)
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What was invented first: the electric iron, the electric toaster or toothpaste?
Toothpaste (by a mere 7000 years)
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What was invented first: the manual typewriter or the safety pin or electric toaster?
Safety pin
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What was invented first: the telephone or the light bulb?
Phone
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What was invented first: the word processor or the television?
Television
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What was invented first: the zip fastener, the jet aircraft or the electric toaster?
Zip
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What was the name of the South African doctor who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant?
Christian Barnard
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What weather-measuring device did Evangalista Torricelli invent in 1643?
Barometer
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When the Breitling balloon went round the world in 1999 – how many full days did it take?
19 days
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Which ancient Greek ran through the streets naked crying 'Eureka'?
Archimedes
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Which continental European country introduced the worlds first diesel loco in 1912?
Germany
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Which English physician from Kent was the first to correctly work out how blood circulated round the human body?
William Harvey
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Which Greek physician is known as the 'Father of Medicine'?
Hippocrates
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Which of these things was invented first: ballpoint pens, bicycles or barbed wire?
Bicycles
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Who discovered radium?
The Curies
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Who piloted the first flight across the English channel?
Louis Bleriot
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What colour wire is live in a normal UK electrical plug?
Brown or Red
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According to jewelry experts, what material should be used to string real pearls on a pearl necklace: cotton thread, silk thread or horse hair?
Silk thread
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Approximately how many sheets are there in a ream of paper: one hundred, five hundred, or a thousand?
Five hundred
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Back in 1902, what was the world land speed record for a car?
74mph
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Dolly the cloned sheep had a lamb in 1998. Did the lamb have bald patches on the rear legs, did it have a problem with its eyes or was the lamb perfectly normal?
It was reported as being 'perfectly normal'
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How can you revive worn-out batteries: leave them under a hot water bottle overnight, leave them in the fridge overnight or leave them in a container of horses' urine overnight?
hot water bottle
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How far does the QEII travel on one gallon of diesel? 50 feet, 50 yards or 50 furlongs?
50 feet
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How fast (top speed in mph) was George Stephenson’s famous locomotive "The Rocket”, which he made in 1829? [get within 10 mph to earn the points]?
36 mph [accept answers between 26 - 46mph]
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How long did it take Concorde to cover a mile?
3 seconds
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How long is the fuse on most grenades: round about 5 seconds or round about 10 seconds?
5 seconds
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In 1928 The Flying Scotsman steam train had a race from London to Edinburgh with an aeroplane. Who won?
Train
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In 1961 who circled the world in 1hr 29mins
Yuri Gagarin
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Is the Kalashnikov machine gun named after a person, named after a place or is it the Russian word for “fast death”?
Named after person (the gun's inventor - Mikhail Kalashnikov)
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Is there any bone in bone China?
Yes
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Linus Torwalds invented what thing that computer geeks love?
Linux computer operating system
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Rene Laennac invented which aid for doctors in 1810?
Stethoscope
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Steam train world record speed?
126 mph
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The Drunkometer was the original name for which measuring divice?
the breathalyser
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The world’s first hot air balloon went up in 1783? What was it made out of? Silk, nylon or paper?
Paper
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What did mathematician John Napier invent in 1614?
Logarithms
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What do the letters in the acronym LED stand for?
Light-emitting diode
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What is the maximum passenger capacity of the new double-decker Airbus A380 aeroplane?
853 passengers
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What is the more common name for Ethylene Glycol? Clue: you'd keep some in the car.
Antifreeze
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What kind of fuel mostly powers a "gas" cigarette lighter
Butane
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What substance can be found in most lipsticks: cow liver, fish scales or octopus testicles?
Fish scales
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What type of acid is used in car batteries
Sulphuric
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What type of camera was invented by Dr Edward Land in 1947?
Polaroid
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What was the average speed of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage across the Atlantic?
2.8 mph
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What was the first metal used by man to make tools and weapons?
Copper
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What was the name of the World’s largest liner [until May 06]: The Queen Mary2, The Majestic or the Tuxedo Princess
Queen Mary 2
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What was the world’s first high level computer programming language 1957?
IBM FORTRAN
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What way do you turn most jar lids to open them? Clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Anti clockwise
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What’s is the longer measurement on a Boeing 747: the wingspan or the length of the fuselage?
Length
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Which household appliance uses the most electricity: dishwasher or TV
Dishwasher
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Which household appliance uses the most electricity: hair dryer or an iron?
Hairdryer
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Which household appliance uses the most electricity: hair dryer or dishwasher?
Hair dryer
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Which household appliance uses the most electricity: iron or oven?
Oven
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Which household appliance uses the most electricity: microwave or a vacuum cleaner?
Microwave
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Which household appliance uses the most electricity: TV or 100W lightbulb?
TV
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Which is the most common airplane in the world's skies: Boing 737, Boeing 747 or Boeing 757?
737
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Which machine creates the loudest noise: motorcycle, chainsaw or shotgun?
Shotgun
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Which Scotsman is credited with inventing television?
John Logie Baird
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Who designed the first Iron ship, the 'Great Britain' in 1845?
Isimbard Kingdom Brunel
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Who has the most developed space program: China or Japan? (2004)
China
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Who invented the pneumatic tyre, which was first used on bicycles?
John Dunlop
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Who invented toothpaste: Ancient Egyptians, Brits in the Middle Ages or Americans in the 20th century?
Ancient Egyptians
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Who was the inventor of the steam engine: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Thomas Edison, Ainsley Harriot?
James Watt
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Who were the first in the world to use toilet paper: the Chinese, the Americans or the British?
Chinese
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Within twenty miles per hour, how fast is the world’s fastest rollercoaster?
128 mph (the Kingda Ka rollercoaster in New Jersey, USA) [accept answers 108-148 mph]
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in 1656 Christian Huygens invented what type of timekeeper?
Pendulum clock
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In 1899 the Eastman company in the USA produced first what?
Kodak 1 - hand held
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In 1901 which brand of car was seen for the first time?
Mercedes
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in 1951 which (of two) car companies introduced power steering?
Buick - Chrysler
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The invention of what in 1867, made Alfred Nobel famous?
Dynamite
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What did Jacques Perier of Paris Invent in 1775: the Guillotine, the world's first steamboat or the world’s first coffee machine
world's first steamboat
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