The clue for TV is "device that replaces human interaction"... This is really just an opinion, and sort of factually misleading. A better clue would be something more fact-based.
Don't understand why curling is considered a stereotypical Canadian sport. I tried hockey, lacrosse, soccer, hunting, fishing - even baseball before I started going through every winter Olympic sport I could think of, and finally got curling. I always thought that was Scottish anyway, so again, don't understand the Canadian stereotype thing.
Philo T. Farnsworth invented television. He was from Idaho and Utah. Unless this is referring to "television signals", or to the people who stole Farnsworth's ideas and claimed them for their own.
I like to think Philipp Reis invented the telephone because he was born where I was born and the telephone is devinitely a great device. Obviously it's hard to say who actually came up with the idea first since many worked on such a device. But of course Alexander Graham Bell got the first patent for it.
Ivan Vučetić, a Croatian born Argentinian created the first method of recording the fingerprints of individuals on file, associating these fingerprints to the anthropometric system of Alphonse Bertillon, who had created, in 1879, a system to identify individuals by anthropometric photographs and associated quantitative descriptions. In 1892, after studying Galton's pattern types, Vucetich set up the world's first fingerprint bureau. So basically, he was the first to practicali use it.
Henry Faulds made great contributions to the field, but he never used the method in practice, and there were others who contributed before him, such as William James Herschel. In my opinion, you should remove fingerprinting from the list.
Well the television wasn't invented by John Baird his design was never actually used, the real inventor of the television was the American Philio Farnsworth who 1927 demonstrated the worlds first electronic television. Alexander Graham bell stole the idea for the telephone from Antonio Meucci. Although tbf to the Scottish they did invent thadhesive stamps, the Australian national anthem, the Bank of England, bicycle pedals, the breach-loading rifle, Bovril, the cell nucleus, the cloud chamber, cornflour, a cure for malaria, the decimal point, the Encyclopædia Britannica, fountain pens, genetic fingerprinting, insulin, the lawnmower, lime cordial, logarithms, lorries, marmalade, matches, motor insurance, paraffin, piano pedals, radar, the reflecting telescope, savings banks, the screw propeller, the speedometer, the steam hammer, raincoats, tarmac, teleprinters, tubular steel, typhoid vaccines, ultrasound scanners, the United. So not bad really.
The clue for television should be changed to something more specific to the actual answer. It isn't factually accurate and it could refer to any number of things.
I agree. It's currently the second-least guessed answer at 24%. It's a pretty poor clue if over three-quarters of people can't guess a prominent object that almost everyone has owned.
As if a Scot invented hypnotism! Maybe the stereotypical “look into my eyes” swinging a silver watch in front of them, but humans have moved between states of consciousness for tens of thousands of years. Are you 100% certain that no shaman, druid or witch doctor achieved similar results long before Scotland ever existed?
Some quirky clues there. Not one for those without a sense of humour. It's like you have to decipher the clue to get the question, and then get the answer to the question. I enjoyed it but missed 2.
Henry Faulds made great contributions to the field, but he never used the method in practice, and there were others who contributed before him, such as William James Herschel. In my opinion, you should remove fingerprinting from the list.
Could the answer to "way to inject medicine" be simply "hypodermic"? It seems odd to accept "needle" by itself but not this.