DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
Who were the Mutineers of the Bounty? 1494.
What is the greatest piece of blasting the world has ever known? 226.
What is the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity? 1465.
What is the value of a piaster? 1487; 2111. Of a rap? 2111.
Who were the Picts? 1488.
What was the Gunpowder Plot? 816.
What was the Children's Crusade? 483.
What abolitionist received the name of Ossawattomie? 275.
What is international law? 933.
Who were the buccaneers? 281.
What was the Iron Age? 939.
What was the charge of the Light Brigade? 150.
Who wrote the famous line: "Westward the course of empire takes its
way"? 203. What queen married a brewer because she was so much pleased with his
dancing? 1949.
When do equinoxes occur? 622. What people flatten their children's heads? 394. What city of eighty thousand people has no hotels? 1576. Where did Punch and Judy originate? 1561. What is Pompey's pillar? 1525. What was the Gordian knot? 781. Who was known as the Red Prince? 712. What island is called Sailor's Grave, and why? 1651. What was the Salic law? 1665. What people use birds' nests for soup? 247. When and where was the first clearing house established? 169. What is the highest volcano in the world? 464. What people allow snakes to come into their home and believe they are
ancestors? 1725.
What was the Stone of Destiny? 1707. When did riddles first come into use? 1613. What was the largest merchant vessel ever built? 1743. What place is called the White Man's Grave? 1754. When did the first system of shorthand come into use? 1747. When and by whom was the guillotine introduced? 812. What is a night dial? 526.
What public woman opposed Lincoln's election? 530. What kingdom had an army of 10,000 soldiers mostly women? 496. What city is built over a vein of silver? 2128. Where were lotteries first known? 1116. What was the origin of lynch-law? 1126. How small were horses at one time? 639.
DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
What two brothers have conquered the air? 20.
Who is famous as the inventor of wireless telegraphy? 1169.
Whose experiments laid the foundation for wireless telegraphy? 1882.
What telegraph system will send 150,000 words an hour? 1885.
How may drawings and sketches be sent by electricity? 1881.
When and by whom were roller skates invented? 1763.
What did Elias Howe realize from his sewing machine? 1730.
What is the process of electrotype? 604.
What are the Elgin marbles? 605.
What famous inventor is called the "Wizard of Menlo Park," and how
did he get his start? 582.
From what fluid was India ink formerly made? 491. How are the different colors produced in fireworks? 676-7. What is the difference between an ordinary and an instantaneous fuze?
726.
What is a petard? 1459.
Who first introduced steel as a material for constructing guns? 1013. When was the first law of patents passed? 1428. Who is credited with first unwinding a silk cocoon? 1757. How long does a patent right last? 1428.
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