1. Who is known as the “father of the computer”?

2. Who invented the electric battery?

3. Which two elements did Marie Curie discover?

4. What was the most important technical breakthrough of the Wright brothers for controlling an aircraft?

5. Why did Carver encourage farmers to plant peanuts instead of just cotton?

6. What was the name of Robert Fulton's first commercially successful steamboat?

7. What did Charles Babbage call the part of his computer that performed calculations?

8. What type of organism produced the substance Fleming named Penicillin?

9. What does the 'X' in X-ray stand for, according to Wilhelm Röntgen?

10. What was the original purpose of Willis Carrier's air conditioning invention?

11. What farm activity inspired Farnsworth's idea for scanning images line-by-line?

12. What prompted Edwin Land to invent the instant camera?

13. How did Elisha Otis demonstrate his safety elevator at the World's Fair?

14. Which two metals were used by Alessandro Volta in his first battery?

15. What type of virus did Jonas Salk use in his polio vaccine?

16. What technology from the music industry did Edwin Link adapt to create the first flight simulator?

17. What was Lonnie Johnson's profession before he invented the Super Soaker?

18. How did Thomas Savery's engine create the suction needed to pump water?

19. How did Fulton's steamboat overcome the challenge of traveling against river currents?

20. What force of nature was defined by Fermi's work on beta decay?