Eras, Inventions & Milestones Trivia
A trivia pack on the technological and cultural milestones that move history forward — the great inventions and their inventors, the major historical eras and what made them tick, and the firsts and breakthroughs that get asked about every pub quiz.
Start an Inventions quiz →Eras and ages
The famous historical labels — Bronze Age, Iron Age, Classical Antiquity, Dark Ages / Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, Belle Époque, Interwar, Atomic Age, Space Age, Information Age. The dates and the major changes that mark each transition.
Inventions and firsts
The wheel, writing, the printing press (Gutenberg), the steam engine (Watt), the cotton gin, the telegraph (Morse), the telephone (Bell), the lightbulb and electric grid (Edison, Tesla), the radio (Marconi), the airplane (Wright Brothers), the television (Baird, Farnsworth), antibiotics (Fleming), the computer (Turing, von Neumann, the ENIAC team), the internet (the early ARPANET, Berners-Lee's web).
First moons, first ascents, first crossings, first transmissions — the milestone questions every history quiz leans on.
Frequently asked questions
How recent?
Through the major modern milestones (smartphone, social media, mRNA vaccines).
Contested attributions?
The pack uses the most-widely-credited attribution; contested cases (telephone, lightbulb) are flagged.
How many players?
Up to six per room.
Match length?
Ten questions, three to five minutes.