Statistics for American Inventions #2

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Popular variety of denim pants	Blue Jeans	91%
Makes your cursor move	Mouse	90%
Method of closing your fly	Zipper	88%
Uses satellites to find your location	GPS	87%
What the British call "crisps"	Potato Chips	86%
What checkout scanners read	Barcode	82%
Toy spring that can descend stairs and not much else	Slinky	81%
Styling product in an aerosol can	Hair Spray	80%
Deepfried hot dog coated in batter	Corn Dog	79%
Faster way to shoot lots of people	Machine Gun	76%
Uniquely American method of execution	Electric Chair	73%
Prophetic dessert, usually thought to be Chinese	Fortune Cookie	72%
Secures your waste paper from snoopers	Paper Shredder	71%
Tube for storing lots of grain	Silo	68%
Convenient morning food	Breakfast Cereal	65%
Originally used a peach basket - the net came later	Basketball	61%
Gambling device called a one-armed bandit	Slot Machine	60%
Pharmaceutical way to keep the population in check	Birth Control Pill	58%
Alternative to raking	Leaf Blower	58%
Separates cotton from seeds	Cotton Gin	54%
First way to record and play back music	Phonograph	43%
Speech-making politician's best friend	Teleprompter	43%