Science packet 2

In the mid-1930s, the British Air Ministry offered a thousand pounds to the first man who could ________________. The generals were half-convinced that Hitler had already obtained a "death ray," and they didn't want to fall behind this latest arms race.

• kill a sheep from 100 yards away using nothing but electromagnetic energy

• kill a rabbit from 100 yards away using nothing but electromagnetic energy

• kill a sheep from 100 yards away using nothing but nuclear energy

• none of the above

Which invention made it possible to detect aircraft by radio energy bouncing back?

• RADAR

• Nuclear energy

• MRI

• X-Ray

• Death Ray

In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt's WPA (Works Progress Administration) was largely focused on:

• health care

• public art and literature

• infrastructure construction projects, and funding works of public art and literature

• health care, and funding infrastructure construction projects

The "P" in WPA (Works Progress Administration) was later changed from Progress to _______________________.

• Projects

• Propositions

• People

• Progression

All of the following characters had been created in previous years but made an indelible cultural imprint in the 1930s except:

• Dracula

• Buck Rogers

• Frankenstein's monster

• Barbie

In 1932, what became the first sci-fi radio show?

• The Twilight Zone

• Fireside Chat

• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

• The Jetsons

Ratification of which Amendment to the US Constitution, repealed Prohibition in 1933?

• 20th

• 21st

• 22nd

• 15th

• 13th

Although "nylons" were not first introduced as an upgrade from silk stockings for women until 1939, in what year did DuPont apply for the patent?

• 1935

• 1936

• 1937

• 1938

• 1931

Who designed and built the Z1?

• Konrad Zuse

• John Loud

• Steve McCurry

• Grantland Rice

What became known as the world's first programmable computer?

• the Z1

• the Z2

• The Turing Machine

• the V2