Inventors

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6th - 8th Grade
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Mark Schettler
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This ancient Greek inventor invented very important inventions like the screw, pulleys, and the fulcrum. As a matter of fact he claimed that if he had a big enough lever, he could move the earth.
Archimededes
Gutenberg
Da Vinci
Huygens
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS2-1
NGSS.MS-PS2-4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This American revolutionary was a printer, leader, and self-taught inventor. He invented items like the bifocals, lightning rod and Franklin stove. He moved our understanding of how electricity significantly.
Galileo
Pascal
Leeuwenhoek
Franklin
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What invention did the Lumiere brothers invent?
steam power
telescopes
motion pictures
bikes
Tags
NGSS.HS-PS4-1
NGSS.HS-PS4-5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This English inventor developed, after much trial and error, the first jet powered engine.
Whittle
Newton
Marconi
Biro
Tags
NGSS.MS-ETS1-2
NGSS.MS-PS2-1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This German inventor revolutionized thinking all over the world with his invention, the printing press. Without this invention, you'd be unable to play this Quizizz game.
Gutenberg
Da Vinci
Huygens
Galileo
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This inventor found, through his experiments, that mixing nitroglycerine with a fine sand called kieselguhr would turn the liquid into a paste which could be shaped into rods. These rods could create massive, earth-moving explosions. This inventor is also famous because of the peace prize he created.
Lister
Nobel
Whittle
Biro
Tags
NGSS.HS-ETS1-3
NGSS.HS-PS1-4
NGSS.HS-PS1-5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This inventor was an Italian electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and radio telegraph system.
Wright Bros
Whittle
Newton
Marconi
Tags
NGSS.HS-PS4-5
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