Do you know...? 1. ...who is responsible for AM radio? 2. ...who really invented television? 3. ...what else Fessenden did? 4. ...who invented the Jolly Jumper? (Do you remember yours?) 5. ...why Armand Bombardier invented the snow mobile? 6. ...that an electrical engineer developed the first heart pacemaker? 7. ...who invented the light bulb? 8. ...electronic sniffers came from a Canadian lab? 9. ...bridge repairs will be easier than ever with a Canadian invention? 10. ...astronomers on the ground will get as good a look at stars as from the Hubble Space Telescope, thanks to Canadian researchers? 11. ...an improved medical device sure to save a lot of lives will hit the market soon? More brain bumpers! 12. An astronaut on the moon drops a feather and a rock at the same time. Which hits the moon’s surface first? 13. What are shooting stars? 14. Venus is hotter than Mercury even though it is farther away from the Sun. Why? 15. Why do stars twinkle? 16. Do stars move? 17. How long can you stay in a space suit and how much does it weigh? 18. Does time in space go faster than time on Earth? 19. Why is it important to use the metric system? 20. Have we been visited by creatures from outer space? 21. The first computers were huge machines that took up the space of a big apartment, and whose memory was very limited. What were they like? Back

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