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Primary Plus 5 Great Inventions

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    Primary Plus Quiz on Inventions and Vocabulary from the magazine Great Inventions. British Council Hanoi Vietnam
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  • When something is made from things made from people not from nature.
    Artificial / Synthetic
  •  15
  • Who invented the lightbulb?
    Thomas Edison
  •  20
  • What miracle drug from Cinchona, helps stop one of the deadliest diseases known to mankind. Helped the British Empire spread throughout the world and is the reason we are studying English today?
    quinine
  •  25
  • When something comes from the earth and is not made by humans in a lab?
    Natural
  •  15
  • When something is poisonous or harmful? (Hint Britney Spears Song. )
    Toxic
  •  15
  • The first smart phone created in 1995 by IBM. What was it called?
    SImon
  •  15
  • Who invented the telephone in 1876?
    Alexander Graham Bell
  •  15
  • The Printing Press, invented in 1440, was as groundbreaking of an invention as the internet was in the 1990s, who invented it?
    Johannes Gutenberg
  •  25
  • The reason something is done, or why something is invented.
    purpose
  •  15
  • Very old, older than your teacher, your parents or even your grandparents.
    Ancient
  •  15
  • Something that makes you angry or upset, like a mosquito buzzing or your younger brother or sister.
    annoying
  •  5
  • What something looks like.
    appearance
  •  15
  • What something eats.
    Diet
  •  15
  • When you take someone attention away from something, " Hey look over there!"
    Distract
  •  20
  • A sheet of paper that tells you how to make or build something.
    instructions
  •  15
  • When a machine doesn't work the way it is supposed to or breaks.
    malfunction
  •  25