Daily Brain Teaser
Thursday's challenge: Five questions on American ingenuity — no cheating till you've tried!
Grab your coffee and put your thinking cap on. Today's teaser celebrates great American inventions and firsts. Answer all five, then scroll down to check your score.
Telephone Pioneer — This Scottish-born American inventor was awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876. Who was he?
First Flight — The Wright brothers achieved the first sustained, powered, controlled flight in 1903 at a windy spot on the Outer Banks. Name the town.
Let There Be Light — In 1879, this prolific inventor developed a commercially practical incandescent light bulb, and his company eventually became part of General Electric. Who was he?
Breakfast Breakthrough — Two brothers in Battle Creek, Michigan, accidentally invented a flaked breakfast cereal in the 1890s while experimenting with wheat dough. What is their famous surname (and the cereal that shares it)?
Moving the Line — This American industrialist didn't invent the automobile, but he revolutionized how they were built by perfecting the moving assembly line in 1913, making cars affordable for millions. Who was he?
Bonus tiebreaker: All five answers share something in common besides being American innovators — can you guess what era of history (roughly which decades) their major breakthroughs all fall within?
Answers
Alexander Graham Bell
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Thomas Edison
Kellogg (Kellogg's Corn Flakes, invented by brothers John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg)
Henry Ford
Bonus: All five breakthroughs happened within about a 40-year span, roughly the 1870s to the 1910s — a golden age of American industrial invention.
How many did you get right? Come back tomorrow for a new brain teaser!