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CSG Session 6 quiz: Canadian Discoveries and Inv ...

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  • A Canadian invented the airplane.
    False! A Brazilian inventor named Santos Dumont built the world's first motor-driven flying machine. In France!
  • Sam Boni was the Canadian inventor of the Zamboni.
    Double false! Frank Zamboni invented the Zamboni...and he was American.
  • Insulin, used to treat diabetes, was discovered by a Canadian.
    True! Toronto's Sir Frederick Banting (along with Charles Best) discovered the life-saving hormone in 1921-22.
  • Canadian Standford Fleming created the worldwide systems of time zones.
    True! But why is it a half hour later in Newfoundland than Quebec?!
  • Alexander Graham Bell thought of the telephone at his summer house in Canada
    True! He actually produced the first telephone in the USA. And he was born in Scotland. But he died as a Canadian!
  • Canadians invented the electric light bulb.
    True! Canadians Mathew Evans & Henry Woodward sold the patent for the light bulb to American Thomas Edison
  • Marie Curie-Sklodowska, discoverer of radium and the only woman to win two Nobel prizes for science, was half-Canadian.
    False! She was Polish (her husband was French).
  • Superman is half-Canadian.
    True! Superman was created by two teenagers, writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. Joe was from Toronto.
  • A Canadian invented basketball.
    True! Canadian physical educator James Naismith invented the game in 1891. But! He did this in...the USA.
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