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European Inventors

Eureka!
Which Swede invented dynamite? Or the Scotsman who created the first inner-tubed tyre? The Swiss who dreamt up velcro after walking his dog in the mountains? These and more tough questions - get it right and go on to the next - get it wrong and you go back to the start!

Inner tubes?
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Which Scotsman, a veterinary surgeon, patented a design for the pneumatic tyre in 1888 after inventing the tyres for his son's bicycle?
  1. John Michelin
  2. Fred Firestone
  3. John Boyd Dunlop
  4. Dominic Evan Tyre
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