It's not only Farnsworth or Baird that could be credited with "inventing television." There are several people that could arguably hold the title depending on how exactly you define television. It would be more accurate to ask something like "what technology did John Logie Baird make valuable contributions toward developing"
I checked to see what the quiz had as and answer if it wasnt flapper girls, cause thought huh is there another (totally different) term?. I dont think I have ever hear it used as flappers (somehow that sounds a bot derogatory) always as flapper girls.
I really enjoyed this quiz, thank you for writing it. Picking a decade some time past made it a bit different from the regular types that often appear on this site and you calibrated the questions to be varied, interesting, tricky enough to be a bit of a challenge but not off-puttingly difficult
Ok so I just took the 90's quiz before taking this one, and I missed somewhere around six or seven questions from the 90's one and only two from this one. So I know more about the 20's than I do about the 90's, even though I was born in the 90's. Wow.
I feel slightly sad that I can get 20/20 for a quiz about the 1920s and yet quizzes about more recent decades I struggle with. Maybe I'm living in the wrong era?
Exactly, current quizzes can have questions that arent exactly noteworthy in the long run, but are rather omnipresent currently. I doubt in 100 years people will remember angrybirds, or gaga's meatdress. Then again... tetris and monroe's blowing dress have become iconic.
I think your memory works in a different way for things that happen during your lifetime. I can tell you the year of the Peace of Westphalia without hesitation but I'd have to guess at the year of 9/11.
Not sure if it's limited to the US, but a very common saying here is to suggest that "[Insert object] is the greatest thing since sliced bread." It's just an expression. People don't really tout it as the greatest invention ever.
I know the expression, but I don't understand the answer given in the quiz. Bread was invented many millenia ago. So were knives. Using knives to cut bread into slices does not seem that far-fetched... Should have happened millenia ago as well.
Besides, I can find a reference to slices of bread in the Household Encyclopedia from 1858. So surely sliced bread cannot have been invented in 1928?
Chris19 the invention of sliced bread is more accurately *pre-sliced* bread. Of course people cut up bread into slices before that. But you didn't buy it sliced
While it's true that Fleming discovered a mould that seemed to have an effect on bacteria in a petri dish, and it was largely developed by others such as Howard Florey, it still fits the definition of a drug: "a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body".
Mr Peanut?
Besides, I can find a reference to slices of bread in the Household Encyclopedia from 1858. So surely sliced bread cannot have been invented in 1928?
Thought the question on Mrs. Fitzgerald was oddly worded however. Did she morph into a video game princess, or was always of royal blood? ;)
Love these "Decade" quizzes.