Every day in "Historically yours", the presenter Stéphane Bern and the historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach compete in a historical and unusual quiz.
Would you be able to face them?
To find out, we have concocted thematic quizzes based on the questions asked every day to our two specialists.
Inventions in history in ten questions.
Leonardo da Vinci, but also toddy and capsule coffee… Answer the questions that made our presenter grow and laugh our presenter Stéphane Bern and our historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach in the sequence "Bern to be alive", every day in
Historically yours
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Can you do as well as them?
At the end of the 19th century, a German invented the gramophone, a device large enough to listen to a phonographic record.
There were also very small portable gramophones, such as a walk-man.
True or false ?
Toilets have been around for a long time.
During Ancient Rome, they even had a god.
True or false ?
The first "fake asses" were invented under Louis 16. True or false?
Marvin Stone lives in the 19th century in the USA, he produces cigarette paper.
What will he end up inventing?
In 1912, a manuscript was discovered by a Polish antiquarian Wilfrid Voynich.
This document will be called the Voynich manuscript hereinafter.
What is its particularity?
What invention is not Belgian?
Leonardo da Vinci is sometimes considered a bit quickly as a talented inventor.
A bit quickly, because if we had built some objects from his sketches, they wouldn't all have worked.
How was Leonard really a genius?
Harry Houdini, famous American illusionist has filed numerous patents for inventions.
Did he live long enough to know the parking meter?
Could Napoleon Bonaparte have drunk a toddy?
Clearly, was this hot rum-based drink invented early enough for the emperor to taste it?
Did Joe Dassin live long enough to make capsule coffee?
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