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InventorsQuiz.ID = "InventorsQuiz";
InventorsQuiz.navsectionID = ""
InventorsQuiz.sPubDate = "4/14/2004 11:09:30 PM GMT";
InventorsQuiz.quiztype = 1;
InventorsQuiz.appFmt = 0;
InventorsQuiz.bDispQNums = 1;
InventorsQuiz.appWidth = 460;
InventorsQuiz.appDeck = new Array("How much do you know about inventors and their inventions? Take MSNBC.com's quiz and test your smarts. <br><br><br>","How did you do? Scroll down to see.<br><br>");
InventorsQuiz.copyBorder = 0;
InventorsQuiz[1] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[1][0] = new Array("The world may be getting smaller thanks to globalization, but it is still divided into 24 time zones. Who first proposed dividing the Earth into 24 time zones?");
InventorsQuiz[1].answer = "Canadian railway engineer Sandford Fleming";
InventorsQuiz[1][1] = new Array("Scientist, artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[1][2] = new Array("The U.S. Navy",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[1][3] = new Array("Canadian railway engineer Sandford Fleming",'',1);
InventorsQuiz[1][4] = new Array("Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei",'',0);

InventorsQuiz[2] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[2][0] = new Array("Isaac Singer is best known as the flamboyant inventor of the sewing machine. Prior to developing a practical sewing machine in the 1850s, what profession did Singer practice?");
InventorsQuiz[2].answer = "Actor";
InventorsQuiz[2][1] = new Array("Tailor",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[2][2] = new Array("Blacksmith",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[2][3] = new Array("Actor",'',1);
InventorsQuiz[2][4] = new Array("Lawyer",'',0);

InventorsQuiz[3] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[3][0] = new Array("Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891. When was basketball first played at the Olympics?");
InventorsQuiz[3].answer = "1936";
InventorsQuiz[3][1] = new Array("1908",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[3][2] = new Array("1936",'',1);
InventorsQuiz[3][3] = new Array("1948",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[3][4] = new Array("1956",'',0);

InventorsQuiz[4] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[4][0] = new Array("American inventor Thomas Edison died in October 1931. How did a grateful nation mourn his passing a few days after his death?");
InventorsQuiz[4].answer = "Electric lights across the U.S. were dimmed for one minute";
InventorsQuiz[4][1] = new Array("A New Jersey town was immediately renamed",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[4][2] = new Array("The president laid a wreath at Edison&#146;s laboratory",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[4][3] = new Array("Electric lights across the U.S. were dimmed for one minute",'',1);
InventorsQuiz[4][4] = new Array("Light bulbs were free to the public for one week",'',0);

InventorsQuiz[5] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[5][0] = new Array("The first practical ballpoint pen was invented in 1935 by the Biro brothers, Lazlo and Georg. Lazlo was a chemist, but what was Georg&#146;s profession?");
InventorsQuiz[5].answer = "Newspaper editor";
InventorsQuiz[5][1] = new Array("Newspaper editor",'',1);
InventorsQuiz[5][2] = new Array("Poet",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[5][3] = new Array("Lawyer",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[5][4] = new Array("Doctor",'',0);

InventorsQuiz[6] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[6][0] = new Array("The disposable diaper was invented by American Marion Donovan in 1950. Apart from being an inventor and a mother, what other profession did Donovan practice?");
InventorsQuiz[6].answer = "Architecture";
InventorsQuiz[6][1] = new Array("Interior design",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[6][2] = new Array("Architecture",'',1);
InventorsQuiz[6][3] = new Array("Tennis instructor",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[6][4] = new Array("Chef",'',0);

InventorsQuiz[7] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[7][0] = new Array("Carl Magee holds the patent for a &#147;coin-controlled parking meter&#148; issued in 1938. Where was the first parking meter installed?");
InventorsQuiz[7].answer = "Oklahoma City";
InventorsQuiz[7][1] = new Array("Manchester, England",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[7][2] = new Array("New York",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[7][3] = new Array("Moscow",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[7][4] = new Array("Oklahoma City",'',1);

InventorsQuiz[8] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[8][0] = new Array("The Q-tip was invented by Leo Gerstenzang in the 1920s. What does the &#147;Q&#148; stand for?");
InventorsQuiz[8].answer = "Quality";
InventorsQuiz[8][1] = new Array("Quick",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[8][2] = new Array("Queen",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[8][3] = new Array("Quality",'',1);
InventorsQuiz[8][4] = new Array("Quiet",'',0);

InventorsQuiz[9] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[9][0] = new Array("Josephine Cochran is credited with inventing the first practical dishwasher. When Cochran&#146;s machine caught on with the public in the 1950s, she founded a company that eventually became known by what name?");
InventorsQuiz[9].answer = "KitchenAid";
InventorsQuiz[9][1] = new Array("Maytag",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[9][2] = new Array("KitchenAid",'',1);
InventorsQuiz[9][3] = new Array("Amana",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[9][4] = new Array("Viking",'',0);

InventorsQuiz[10] = new Array();
InventorsQuiz[10][0] = new Array("In 1998, Douglas Engelbart was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Engelbart has dozens of patents to his name, but what is probably his best-known invention?");
InventorsQuiz[10].answer = "The computer mouse";
InventorsQuiz[10][1] = new Array("The DVD",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[10][2] = new Array("The computer modem",'',0);
InventorsQuiz[10][3] = new Array("The computer mouse",'',1);
InventorsQuiz[10][4] = new Array("Computer encryption",'',0);

InventorsQuiz.profiles = new Array();var i=0;
InventorsQuiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(0,9,"Oh dear. Do you even know who invented the light bulb?");
InventorsQuiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(10,50,"Not so good. You should pay more attention to where things come from.");
InventorsQuiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(60,90,"Impressive. You know your inventors.");
InventorsQuiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(91,100,"Excellent. 10 out of 10!");

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