Deck 1: History

Question 1

What is the largest corporation in the world at the start of the twenty-first century?

A) Ford
B) Wal-Mart
C) General Electric
D) Nokia

Answer 1

B
Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in the world at the start of the twenty-first century,both by annual sales and employee numbers.

Question 2

When did the American population triple?

A) Between 1840 and 1860
B) Between 1850 and 1880
C) Between 1860 and 1920
D) Between 1880 and 1940

Answer 2

C
The American population tripled between 1860 and 1920.

Question 3

Who established America's time zones?

A) Congress
B) The President
C) Railroad companies
D) Banks

Answer 3

C
At noon on 1883 railroad signalmen coordinated their watches across the country by agreement among the managers of the nation's railroads.

Question 4

What was the dominant form of lighting by 1920?

A) Gas
B) Kerosene
C) Electricity
D) Oil

Question 5

What piece of infrastructure was built in London in response to three outbreaks of cholera?

A) Telegraph lines to report outbreaks
B) Ports to quarantine the sick
C) Sewers to get rid of waste water
D) Ports to bring in more shipments of medicine

Question 6

James P.Epsy deduced that storms were what shape thanks to his research along the Atlantic Coast?

A) Round or oblong
B) Square or rectangular
C) Triangular and obtuse
D) Round and obtuse

Question 7

What was the key machine in Mahatma Ghandi's ideal world?

A) The clock
B) The sewing machine
C) The spindle machine
D) The spinning wheel

Question 8

Who patented the telephone?

A) Bell
B) Morse
C) Rockefeller
D) Morgan

Question 9

Otto von Guericke was the mayor of what German city in what year when he designed an air pump?

A) Magdeburg in 1698
B) Munich in 1698
C) Magdeburg in 1654
D) Munich in 1654

Question 10

How many motors were in factories by 1901?

A) Almost 200, 000
B) Almost 400,000
C) Almost 500, 000
D) Over 700, 000

Question 11

What did congestion bring in its wake?

A) Health
B) Disease
C) Automobiles
D) The powergrid

Question 12

When did America transition from a pre-industrial society into the industrial age?

A) In 1776
B) In 1812
C) Before the Revolution
D) After the Civil War

Question 13

James P.Epsy was a researcher affiliated with what institute?

A) The Weizmann Institute
B) The Franklin Institute
C) MIT
D) English Royal Society

Question 14

When were the Immigration Restriction Acts passed?

A) 1886
B) 1924
C) 1928
D) 1931

Question 15

What religion's leadership did Torricelli and Berti irk with their findings on vacuums?

A) Protestant Christianity
B) Islam
C) Catholicism
D) Orthodox Judaism

Question 16

Which 19ᵗʰ century personality is credited with building technology that used an alternating current?

A) Nikola Tesla
B) Alexander Graham Bell
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Thomas Edison

Question 17

When was the first telegraph line built?

A) 1786
B) 1820
C) 1843
D) 1876

Question 18

The Meteorological Office set up how many stations in the British Isles?

A) 12
B) 15
C) 16
D) 27

Question 19

Torricelli tried repeating Berti's experiment with what substance?

A) Gold
B) Oxygen
C) Lead
D) Mercury

Question 20

Evangelista Torricelli was the pupil of which famous scientist and astronomer?

A) Galileo Galilei
B) Nicolas Copernicus
C) Michaelangelo
D) Johannes Kepler