never heard of an erlenmeyer flask outside of Jetpunk. It was just called a conical flask in my chemistry days. I think it's another US thing. on which subject what's a Graham cracker and why should anyone be aware of its existance?
yakdog is correct. A rigid dirigible has a hard metal frame, whereas a blimp is simply inflated like a balloon. If you have ever seen the footage from the Hindenburg Disaster you can see it has a large metal frame that supported it, which made it a rigid dirigible. I hope that helps answer your question (which I realize after writing this was from 4 years ago, haha).
As much as Zack Snyder gets bashed for some things, one thing I will give him credit for is that he is really good at making shots that look like they belong in a comic book. I think Watchmen might be my favorite Zack Snyder film, perhaps even his best.
There were several versions of the long knife which Bowie made famous in the Sandbar fight, and there are many legends concerning who made the knife he carried that day and later at the Alamo. Some believe blacksmith James Black made the most well-known version from a design by Jim Bowie, others say Jesse Clift's version was the one which became well-known, several Louisiana blacksmiths made knives for the Bowie family which were similar in shape, and Bowie's brother Rezin claimed he first made the knife used in the Sandbar fight and gave it to his brother to carry for protection. We'll probably never know who made the first knife which Jim carried that day which made him famous, or which one he carried with him at the Battle of the Alamo, but at the least it could be agreed that Jim Bowie is the "inventor" of the name and legend attached to that particular style of knife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_knife
Actually, that's incorrect, the Bowie knife was invented by David Bowie. He needed a large knife to intimidate producers with, and switchblades were going out of fashion. So he decided to go bigger, went into the studio and summoned up a giant knife with his powers of glam and freaky magic.
What are the chances of accepting Kilner jar for we non-Americans? Both were invented by the Kilner family in the UK, but they're known as Kilner jars over here.
Got everything but Venn, Sousa, Bowie and Gatling. Got Rorschach at the first try, to my everlasting surprise, and Kalashnikov on the second (wrote CH at first). I was very glad to be French when I saw Daguerre, Braille and Foucault, though! Nice quiz, I learned a lot with this one!
Never heard of a Sousaphone, but a Saxophone (which isn't a marching band instrument, I know) was named for someone named Sachs. (Apparently not, wikipedia says Sax!)
I still got it right but you should accept Maxim gun for 19th century machine gun. The Maxim was a true machine gun that was gas powered instead of hand crank of the Gatling.
They're American. One of the three components of a s'more, a campfire treat which consists of a square of Hershey's chocolate and a hot, roasted marshmallow smashed between two squares of graham cracker. They're probably closest to a digestive biscuit in Britain, but still not the same. My grandmother used to take them with her when traveling - the fiber in them keeps one "regular".
A smore is one of those things were you take a graham cracker, split it in two, take one half, put a marshmallow and two parts of a Hershey bar on it, then put the other half of the graham cracker and you have a smore
Wikipedia says it is popular in USA and Canada. My American camping friends tried different crackers when they moved to Australia but didn’t care for the substitutions.
Little known fact.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
And took me forever to spell Rohrshach right...think I'm back to wrong already
(Also, some things like the Bunsen burner or Geiger counter I've never heard being called like that :/ )