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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 2, Round 4 - History - Technological Advances with Historic Impact
> 1. Automobile: The year when German engine designer and automotive
> engineer Karl (or Carl) Benz patented the first gasoline-powered
> car.
1880
> 2. Phonograph: The year when American inventor and businessman
> Thomas Edison patented the cylinder phonograph.
1890
> 3. Television: The year when Scottish inventor and electrical
> engineer John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first live
> working television system.
1917
> 4. The tank: The year when designers Walter Wilson and William
> Tritton in Britain and Eug? ne Brilli? in France invented the
> first operational military tanks.
1910
> 5. World Wide Web: The year when English computer scientist Tim
> Berners-Lee invented the Web.
1991
> 6. YouTube: The year when the first popular video-streaming site
> was launched by Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur Steve
> Chen, American webmaster and businessman Chad Hurley, and
> American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur Jawed Karim.
2003
> 7. Transistor: The year when American physicists John Bardeen,
> Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented this semiconductor
> device at Bell Labs.
1948
> 8. Nylon: The year when the first fully synthetic fiber was produced
> by chemist Wallace Carothers while working at DuPont.
1927
> 9. Radio: The year when Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo
> Marconi sent the first wireless signals across the Atlantic
> Ocean.
1901
> 10. Airplane: The year when American aviation pioneers Orville
> and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled and sustained flight
> of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft.
1903
> * Game 2, Round 6 - Science - Scales and Measurements
> 1. A tachometer measures the working speed of an engine. In what
> *units* does a tachometer typically measure?
rotations per second
> 2. What is the ancient unit of measurement oft-cited in the Bible
> that was equivalent to the distance from one's elbow to the
> tip of one's middle Finger?
cubit
> 3. What is the name of the unit used to measure the height of
> horses?
hand
> 4. The strongest recorded earthquakes to hit Toronto were of
> virtually the same magnitude and occurred on 2010-06-23 and
> 2013-05-17. Within 0.1, what was the measurement of these
> earthquakes on the Richter scale?
6.2
> 5. What is the name given to the most accurate kind of clock,
> considered accurate to within one second in 20,000,000 years?
atomic clock
> 6. When we put on a sphygmomanometer, what are we measuring?
blood pressure
> 7. What does an anemometer measure?
wind speed
> 8. Many -- or most? -- members of this trivia league make use of
> an everyday item whose strength is measured in diopters. What
> do diopters measure?
eyeglass lenses
> 9. The Bristol Scale is graded from 1 -- "separate hard lumps" --
> to 7 -- "entirely liquid." What does the Bristol Scale measure?
mud consistency
> 10. What is the name of the system of weights measured in pounds
> and ounces, First used in the medieval wool trade and
> standardized by international treaty in 1959? Its name derives
> from the French term meaning "goods sold by weight."
avoirdupois
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