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WORKSHEET 5
Passives quiz by James Greenan

A score
1 The cheeseburger was patented by Louis Ballast in 1935.
2 Euro coins and notes were introduced in 2002.
3 Air bags were first offered as a safety feature in cars in 1973.
4 The book Business @ the Speed of Thought was written
by Bill Gates.
5 Sony was founded in 1946.
6 The first Apple Macintosh computer was sold (for $2,495) in
1984.
7 The Lego brick was launched in 1958 in Denmark.
8 Rolex watches were first manufactured in Switzerland in 1906.
9 The headquarters of BMW are situated in Munich.
10 In 1971, Carolyn Davidson was paid $35 to design the Nike logo.
11 The original Mini was designed by Alec Issigonis in 1959.
12 The first McDonald’s restaurant was opened in Illinois in 1955.
13 The Sony Walkman was demonstrated to the press in Tokyo in
1979.
14 IBM is known as ‘Big Blue’.
15 Aspirin was patented by a German chemist in 1889.
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B score
1 The first plastic (‘Bakelite’) was produced by Leo Baekeland
in 1909.
2 The first iPod was sold on October 23rd, 2001 for $399.
3 The World Trade Organization’s headquarters are in Geneva.
4 The cash register was first introduced in shops in 1883.
5 The Suez Canal was opened in Egypt in 1869.
6 The first Ford motor factory was located in Detroit.
7 eBay (Internet auction company) was founded in 1995.
8 The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee.
9 Guinness (beer company) is based in Dublin, Ireland.
10 The World Bank’s headquarters are located in Washington DC.
11 Crash test dummies were first used in safety tests on cars
in 1966.
12 The first patented glue was made from fish.
13 Microsoft Windows was launched in 1983.
14 Google was founded in 1998.
15 The first shopping mall was built near Kansas City
in 1922.
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