Innovators

Who created Microsoft?

• Cyrus McCormick

• Bill Gates

• Jonas Salk

• Louis Pasteur

The mechanical reaper did which of the following?

• creates mechanical pencils

• helped with vaccines

• helped harvest crops

• helped discover a comet

Who was the first female astronomer in the United States?

• Mary Kay Ash

• Marie Laurent

• Melinda Gates

• Maria Mitchell

Who invented the polio vaccine?

• Bill Gates

• Louis Pasteur

• Jonas Salk

• Cyrus McCormick

Louis Pasteur was important because he

• taught science

• invented the polio vaccine

• discovered a comet

• helped change the world's understanding of germs and disease

Which family member of Cyrus McCormick failed at building a reaper machine?

• brother

• uncle

• grandfather

• father

Who is currently one of the richest men in the world?

• Sam Walton

• Bill Gates

• Mr. Kemp

• Cyrus McCormick

What was the name of the comet Maria Mitchell discovered?

• Hailey's Comet

• Maria Mitchell's Comet

• M&M Comet

• Miss Mitchell's Comet

The process in which heat kills germs is called

• pasteurization

• perish

• microwave

• polio

True or False: Cyrus McCormick was an inventor and an entrepreneur.

• True

• False