Invention Trivia Quiz PP presentation 10 класс
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INVENTION TRIVIA QUIZ English language teacher Sorokina Galina Alexandrovna MBU Lyceum 51 Togliatti 2013

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INVENTION TRIVIA QUIZ DO YOU REALLY KNOW IT?

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For thousands of years doctors told patients suffering from pain to chew on the bark ( кора ) of a willow tree (ива) . Even as far back as 400 B.C. Hippocrates recommended a tea made from yellow leaves. It wasn't until the 1800's that scientists discovered what was in the willow tree that relieved pain and reduced fever. What was the substance called?

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ASPIRIN Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, produced a stable form of acetylsalicylic acid, more commonly known as aspirin, in 1897. Hoffmann, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. He studied French chemist named Charles Gergardt's experiments and "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid--or aspirin, as we now know it.

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It may be hard to believe, but what home video game instructions began with the phrase, "Avoid Missing Ball for High Score“?

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PONG VIDEO GAME Pong was the invention of Nolan Bushnell, a young engineer who introduced video table tennis to arcades in 1972. Simple and addictive, Pong launched the craze for home video games. Introduced by Atari in 1974--long before anyone had seen a personal computer.

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It started in the U.S. and has conquered the world. In some parts of the world it sells for three times the price of liquor. It was originally sold as a brain tonic, but was poorly received. What is the name of this drink product?

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COCA-COLA The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola®, and carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced "excellent" and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink.

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What flip-flops (шлёпать, шаркать, прыгать, резко поворачивать) as much as an American politician and is still popular with the public, after all these years? It flip-flops all over the place, especially down stairs.

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SLINKY® The Slinky® debuted at Gimbel's Department Store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1945. Richard James, the inventor, was skeptical about how the Slinky® would sell. All his doubts were put to rest when all 400 Slinkys® for sale were purchased in 90 minutes. Since then, over three hundred million Slinkys® have been sold worldwide.

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How did a trip to the drug store help this candy manufacture invent a new candy type that is still on the market over 80 years later, even though the idea had a hole in it. What is this candy called?

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Clarence Crane It had been basically a chocolate maker. Chocolates were hard to sell in summer, however, and so he decided to try to make a mint that would boost his summertime sales. In 1912, candy maker Clarence Crane first marketed "Crane’s Peppermint Life Savers". In 1913, Crane sold the rights to his Life Savers candy to Edward Noble for only $2,900.

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In 1904 St. Louis, Missouri hosted the 1904 World's Fair, the centennial ( столетняя годовщина) of the Louisiana land purchase from the French with a Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the 2004 Olympics. One other major event took place that may have saved an industry from being shut down due to health concerns. What was invented during those hot summer days?

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ICE CREAM CONE In its purest form an ice cream cone should be of conical shape. The first true edible conical shaped cone for serving ice cream was created at the St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi in 1904. His waffle booth was next to an ice cream vendor (продавец) who ran short of dishes. Hamwi rolled a waffle to contain ice cream and the cone was born.

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An American Indian of the Huron tribe long ago invented a snack food that became very popular with the new Americans, so popular that sales now exceed over four billion dollars a year. What is this snack food called?

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POTATO CHIPS In the summer of 1853, Native American George Crum was employed as a chef at an elegant resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. One dinner guest found Crum's French fries too thick for his liking and rejected the order. Crum decided to rile (рассердить) the guest by producing fries too thin and crisp to skewer (пронзать, прокалывать) with a fork. The plan backfired (неожиданно привёл к обратным результатам) .

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The guest was ecstatic (восторженный) over the browned, paper-thin potatoes, and other diners began requesting Crum's potato chips .

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A toy still popular today was invented at Yale University, on the East coast in the Forties, modified by a space enthusiast from the West coast in the Fifties and renamed by a California manufacturing company president in the Sixties. What is the name of this toy?

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FRISBEE A flying-saucer enthusiast named Walter Frederick Morrison designed a saucer-like disk for playing catch. It was produced by a company named Wham-O. On a promotional tour of college campuses, the president of Wham-O encountered (случайно натолкнуться) the pie-plate-tossing craze at Yale.

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And so the flying saucer from California was renamed after the pie plate from Connecticut. Of course the name was changed from Frisbie to Frisbee to avoid any legal problems.

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People all over the world made this item from grape vines and stiff grasses as both a religious adornment and as an item of amusement. It took a couple of Americans, however, to figure out how to make money out of it. What was this item called?

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HULA HOOP In 1957, an Australian company began making wood rings for sale in retail stores. The item attracted the attention of Wham-0, a fledgling California toy manufacturer. The next year Richard P. Knerr and Arthur K. Melin, of Wham-O, manufactured a plastic hoop in a variety of bright colors.

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What invention, more than 100 years old, has a product, a company, a town, an institution and a school named after it?

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HERSHEY BAR Ever since Milton Hershey introduced the Hershey milk chocolate bar to the world in 1900, he never looked back. The company, products, town and institutions that bear his name were well positioned to continue and grow. The Hershey Chocolate Corporation has evolved into Hershey Foods Corporation, a profitable company encompassing a range of products found in homes throughout the world.

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THANK YOU!

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Используемая литература: http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors