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Nubian
Jak Quiz
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| Science
and Engineering |
| 1.
What popular type of communication was patented by Henry T.
Sampson in 1971?
 WALKIE
TALKIE
 CELLULAR
PHONE
 VIDEO
PHONE
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| 2.
In 1899 the prolific inventor, Granville T. Woods, patented
this amusement apparatus which has become a popular fairground
attraction, Name it.
ROLLER
COASTER
BUMPER
CARS
BIG
DIPPER
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| 3.
The Gas Mask Inventor, Garrett Morgan, designed what popular
mechanism used to aid traffic?
BRAKES
FOG LIGHTS
TRAFFIC LIGHTS
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| 4.
England's Black electronics wizard, James Ashby, developed the
'Real Time Interactive Video', and which other technological
breakthrough?
REMOTE CONTROL TELEVISION
THREE DIMENSIONAL TELEVISION
TV WALKMAN
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| 5.
For which disease did an African Slave named Oneissimus develop
an antidote in 1706?
CHICKEN POX
MEASLES
SMALLPOX
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| 6.
Which famous English landmark was built by the 'Damnonii' or
"Black Druids" in the third millennia BC?
HADRIANS WALL
STONEHENGE
CANTERBURY RUINS
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7.
On which spacecraft was George Carruthers' Ultra-Violet Spectrograph
used, as the first camera to take a picture of Earth from
the moon?
SPUTNIK
APOLLO 1
APOLLO 16
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| 8.
Which East African country is host to the world's oldest known
astronomical observatory.
KENYA
ERITREA
SUDAN
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| 9.
Which human double organ transport was pioneered in Britain
during the 1970s by the surgeon Magdi Yacoub?
TONSILS
AND WINDPIPE
HEART
AND LUNGS
SMALL
AND LARGE INTESTINES
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| 10.
Seven years after he invented the Hand Stamp, William B. Purvis
design and patented which writing instrument in 1890?
FOUNTAIN
PEN
LEAD
PENCIL
FELT
TIP PEN
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| 11.
The Black British medical professor, Herbet Sewell, led the
team that discovered the drug '105 AD7' What is it a treatment
for?
LUNG
CANCER
BOWEL
CANCER
INFLUENZA
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| 12.
Which form of diagnostic treatment was refined by the African
American Doctor Clilian Powell?
LASER
TREATMENT
X
RAYS
ARTIFICIAL
INSEMINATION
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| 13.
In 1892 Ms Sarah Boon received a patent for her invention of
which household appliance?
IRONING
BOARD
VACCUM
CLEANER
WASHING
MACHINE
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| 14.
Which historical nurse died in London in 1881, after saving
many British soldiers during the Crimean War of 1855?
FLORENCE
NIGHTINGALE
MARY
SEACOLE
SUSIE
KING TAYLOR
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| 15.
On September 17th 1878 Mr W.A. Lavalette received a patent for
producing 2 types of what?
CARBON PAPER
TRACING PAPER
PRINTING PRESS
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