Statistics for American Inventions #1

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Wright Brothers' contribution to the world	Airplane	96%
Edison's most famous invention	Lightbulb	96%
Faster way to heat your food	Microwave	89%
The deadliest weapon ever used	Atomic Bomb	81%
Shoots a concentrated beam of light	Laser	77%
Way to avoid walking up stairs	Escalator	71%
A hard plastic way to ruin yourself financially	Credit Card	68%
Synthetic fabric beloved by cyclists	Spandex	59%
Combines reading glasses and regular glasses	Bifocals	57%
Protects a building from lightning strikes	Lightning Rod	53%
Doctors using it yell "CLEAR!"	Defibrillator	52%
Made rock & roll possible	Electric Guitar	48%
Super-efficient light source	Light-emitting Diode	47%
Non-stick substance	Teflon	47%
Keeps you warm in cold water	Wetsuit	46%
Flying saucer found at parks?	Frisbee	43%
Cheap way to fence your ranch	Barbed Wire	42%
What makes Miami inhabitable	Air Conditioning	38%
Standing conveyance used by police and tourists	Segway	32%
Tuba for marching bands	Sousaphone	27%
Modern computer chips have more than a billion of these	Transistor	23%
When someone builds a better one the world will beat a path to their door	Mousetrap	20%