Sometimes computers and cash registers in a foodmart are connected to a UPS system. What does UPS mean?

What does VVVF stand for?

Which motor is NOT suitable for use as a DC machine?

What does the term PLC stand for?

The first step to getting output from a laser is to excite an active medium. What is this process called?

What frequency range is the High Frequency band?

What does AM mean?

What does EPROM stand for?

What invention was first installed at a Hartford, Connecticut bank in 1889?

What Henry Bessemer invented?

What Benjamin Franklin invented?

What George Pullman invented?

Benjamin Franklin was a prolific inventor. He invented the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, studied electricity, discovered the Gulf Stream, started the first library, and on and on. Among his many other inventions, what musical instrument did he invent?

What Elisha Otis invented?

What James Watt invented?

What Sir Isaac Newton invented?

What Galileo invented?

What J. B. Dunlop invented?

What George Westinghouse invented?

What Thomas Davenport invented?

What Elmer A. Sperry invented?

Who is often called the 'first African-American' inventor?

What Frank Whittle invented?

This statesman, politican, scholar, inventor, and one of our early presidents invented the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the moldboard plow, and the cipher wheel.

What Enrico Fermi invented?

What Igor Sikorsky invented?

What Karl Benz invented?

What African-American inventor received 5 patents in the field of shoemaking?

This part-time race car driver invented the bucket seat in 1969. Who was he?

When was the first Lionel trains manufactured?

Who invented the Seed Drill?

For what is Charles Babbage (1792-1871) remembered?

What invention is credited to the Russian born American inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin?

When was the Raggedy Ann doll patented?

Who is the only U.S. President to invent and patent something?

This African-American woman physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in World War II. She invented a device that helped the disabled to eat by delivering food through a tube to a mouthpiece.

Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

When was the game Frisbee invented?

For what does the world owe Almon Strowger a debt of gratitude?

William Frederick is credited with the invention of the modern frisbee in the mid 1950's. In 1957 the Wham-O Company bought his idea and the rest is history. They named the toy after William Frisbie who was a ________?

For whom high heeled shoes were invented?

This English inventor is known as the 'Father of Computing.'

Who was the first American female to patent her invention, a method of weaving straw with silk?

What is the name of the CalTech seismologist who invented the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?

The Manhattan Project was started by President Roosevelt in 1942 to ensure that the U.S. beat the Germans in developing a nuclear bomb. Whom did Roosevelt appoint as scientific head the Manhattan Project?

Who is the English physicist responsible for the 'Big Bang Theory'?

When was Monopoly created?

What invention was first installed at a Hartford, Connecticut bank in 1889?

For over 500 years, paper was only available and sold as single sheets. In 1902, an inventive Australian used half size sheets of paper, a bit of glue and cardboard to create the what?

What groovy item was invented by Englishman Edward Craven Walker in 1963?

What inspired reflecting road lights to be invented?

Who invented the phonograph?

When were blue jeans invented?

Where were wigs first invented?

When were bar code scanners invented?

What piece of clothing was invented by French fashion designer Louis Reard in 1946?

In the 1700s, who would pay the postage fee for letters before the stamp was invented?

When was the first elevator built?

Which of the following was first patented by an Australian in 1889?

Where was the yo-yo invented?

Ralph Samuelson was only 18 when he invented this sporting item in 1922. What was that?

Who invented the battery?

When was the first lawn mower invented?

What invention caused many deaths while testing it?

When was barb wire patented?

When was the toothbrush invented?

What office item was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham in 1951?

What charge card, developed in 1950, was the first to be accepted nationally in the US?

What now-ubiquitous device was invented by Zenith engineer Eugene Polley in 1955?

CORN FLAKES - Who made them first?

What toy was invented by Joshua Lionel Cowen around 1900?

What device for new parents did Ann Moore invent in 1969?

What 'game' was first produced by the Southern Novelty Company in Baltimore, Maryland in 1892?

Who invented the BALL POINT PEN?

What drink was invented by Charles Leiper Grigg in 1929?

What invention by Garnet Carter made its debut at the Fairyland Inn Resort in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, in 1927?

What item, originally called the 'Whirlwind', was invented by Ives McGaffey in 1869?

What furniture item was invented by California furniture designer Charles Prior Hall in 1968?

What toy did George Lerner create for Hasbro company in 1952?

What item of apparel was invented by Ellery Chun, a Hawaiian clothing merchant, in 1931?

What did cardiologist Dr. Paul Zoll invent in Massachusetts in 1952?

What plaything was invented by Joe McVicker in 1956?

What treat was invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson in 1905?

What beverage was invented by Charles Alderton in 1885 in Waco, Texas?

Who had an explosive idea and first patented DYNAMITE?

Who invented the first controllable flying AEROPLANE (AIRPLANE)?

Until Victorian times, chocolate was thought of as a drink. When did the first chocolate bar appear?

Where is the village of Branston, after which the famous pickle is named?

In which decade was the Internet first implemented?

Who was the first person to patent the JET ENGINE?

Who came up with the idea for INSTANT MASHED POTATO?

In which decade with the first transatlantic radio broadcast occur?

The initials JCB on earth-moving equipment are those of the founder of the company that makes it. What is his name?

In which decade were the first successful diode and triode vacuum tubes invented?

In which decade was the telegraph invented?

It travels over land and water. Who invented the HOVERCRAFT?

The ELECTRIC BATTERY, who's charged with inventing this one?

In which decade was the transistor invented?

In which decade was the SPICE simulator introduced?

Who perfected GENETIC ENGINEERING?

FROZEN FOOD - Who discovered the first practical method of freezing food?

In which decade was the first solid state integrated circuit demonstrated?

When was Milk Tray first introduced?

In which decade was the telephone invented?

In which decade was the AEEE (now the IEEE) founded?

In which decade was the ARRL founded?

Who invented Electric Generator?

he first hand glider was designed by...?

Which insurance salesman invented the fountain pen in 1884?

Who invented Airship (rigid)?

What type of system did Paul Nipkow, John Baird, and Charles Jenkins all invent?

Who invented Gramophone?

Who invented Bicycle?

Who invented Jet Engine?

Who invented Fountain Pen?

Who invented Internal Combustion Engine?

Who invented Ball-Point Pen?

Who invented Bakelite?

Who invented Electronic Computer?

Who invented Automobiles using gasoline?

Who invented Bifocal Lens?

Who invented fuel cells in 1839?

Who invented Dynamite?

Who invented Gunpowder?

Which of thes animals lends its name to a traditional unit of power?

A heavy and light body are dropped from the top of a tower, which will reach the ground first?

A stone is thrown horizontally and another is dropped simultaneously from the top of a tower. Which will reach the ground first?

A stone is thrown horizontally from the top of a tower. What is the nature of path followed by the stone?

What is the minimum number of unequal forces whose resultant will be zero?

Out of the following which is not a scalar quantity?

What does speedometer records?

If the distance travelled by a particle is zero, then what will be its displacement?

Which is the correct unit for measuring nuclear radii?

Which is the correct unit for measuring astronomical distances?

Which device transform mechanical energy to electric energy?

Kwh is the unit of:

Electron Volt is the unit of:

Which variety of coal contains the highest percentage of carbon?

Where was the first oil well struck in the world?

Coal is formed due to the process of...?

If you wanted to lighten your hair at home, what is the active ingredient in the dye preparation that will lighten your hair?

Once the active medium is excited, the first photons of light are produced by which physical process?

What are three types of lasers?

Aspirin can be found in many household medicine cabinets. But what is it chemically?

What was the active medium used in the first working laser ever constructed?

"Antifreeze" is used in car radiators to stop the liquid that cools the engine from, well, freezing when it gets cold outside. Water is one component of antifreeze; what is the other main component?

Heating fuels in the absence of air is called 'Destructive Distillation', as it 'destroys' it to form simpler substances. What do we get when we do the same to wood?

Some lasers are referred to as being “cw.” What does “cw” mean?

What is the process responsible for producing photons in a diode laser?

What is the main constituent of coal gas?

Breaking of a larger hydrocarbon molecule into a smaller one by heating in the presence of a catalyst is called ___.

Which of these has the highest calorific value?

After the first photons of light are produced, which process is responsible for amplification of the light?

A primary fuel is that which is used in the same form as it occurs in nature. Which of the following is not a primary fuel?