Science Fact Finder

Motor Vehicles

1. Who invented the automobile? [answer]
2. Who started the first American automobile company? [answer]
3. How many motor vehicles are registered in the United States? [answer]
4. How did Ralph Nader's book Unsafe at Any Speed contribute to the demise of the Corvair automobile? [answer]
5. When did seat belts become mandatory equipment on United States motor vehicles? [answer]
6. How does the automobile safety device, the air bag, work and how well does it prevent injuries? [answer]
7. Where was the first automobile license plate issued? [answer]
8. Is the electric automobile an idea of the last twenty years or so? [answer]
9. Has there ever been a nuclear-powered automobile? [answer]
10. When was the Michelin tire introduced? [answer]
11. How did the term "horsepower" originate? [answer]
12. When was the parking meter introduced? [answer]
13. How does police radar work? [answer]
14. What is the origin of the term "taxicab"? [answer]

Aircraft

1. What was the name of the Wright brothers' plane? [answer]
2. Who made the first nonstop transatlantic flight? [answer]
3. When was the first nonstop, unrefueled airplane flight around the world? [answer]
4. What is the difference between an amphibian plane and a seaplane? [answer]
5. Who made the first supersonic flight? [answer]
6. Where is the black box carried on an airplane? [answer]
7. What is avionics? [answer]
8. When was the first full-scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes used? [answer]
9. Who designed the Spruce Goose? [answer]

Boats And Ships

1. Why is the right side of a ship called starboard? [answer]
2. What is the world's largest ship? [answer]
3. When was the first hospital ship built? [answer]
4. What is the nautical meaning of the phrase "by and large"? [answer]
5. When were the first nuclear-powered vessels launched? [answer]
6. Why did the Titanic sink? [answer]
7. Which type of wood was used to build Noah's ark? [answer]

Trains And Trolleys

1. What was the route of the Orient Express? [answer]
2. When was the first railroad in the United States chartered? [answer]
3. What is the fastest train? [answer]
4. What was the railroad velocipede? [answer]
5. What is the world's longest railway? [answer]
6. How does a cable car, like those in San Francisco, move? [answer]

Military Vehicles

1. Where did the military tank get its name? [answer]
2. What is a hummve? [answer]
3. What is the name of the airplane which carried the first atomic bomb? [answer]
4. Who was the "Red Baron"? [answer]