The Biro was invented by a Mr. Ballpoint...who invented the Giro?

Question

The Biro was invented by a Mr. Ballpoint...who invented the Giro?

Answer 1

Giro is an Italian word meaning Tour, i.e. in bicycle racing there is the Giro d' Italia.  You are thinking of Gyro- the Hungarian or Greek dish, which involves flat bread, and some sort of meat, feta cheese, olives, onions, oil, garlic...YUM!

Answer 2

the chap with six children and never done a days work in his life

Answer 3

nobodys answering their too

busy spending it

Answer 4

The Battle of the Ballpoint Pens - Ladislo Biro The ballpoint pen was invented by Laszlo Biro in 1938 and a patent battle erupted - Read how Parker and Bic won the war.

http://www.inventors.about.com/library/w...

Gyroscope - Wikipedia, Gyroscope invented by Léon Foucault, and built by Dumoulin-Froment, 1852. National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts museum, Paris. ...

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrosco...

Gyroscopes - the full list. . . .

http://www.business.com/directory/indust...

Answer 5

GIRO is an acronym invented by a government committee. It stands for "Get it right occasionally"

Answer 6

Postman Pat and his black and white cat

Answer 7

Must have been Miss  Directed, I'm still waiting for mine.

Answer 8

You're joking about "Mr. Ballpoint," right?  

And by Giro, do you mean the Greek sandwich?

Answer 9

Biro/the ballpoint pen (called that still in Britain), invented by a Hungarian Lazslo Biro resident in Argentina in the 30's

Giro/ method of payment, something like direct deposit. Because it "goes around" -- that is, payment is made from bank to another, it was called giro, from the Latin gyrus, gyre, and ultimately from Greek to go around or circulate. The Italian bike race is called that because it describes a circle around the country

Cairo is the capital of Egypt

DeNiro, Robert was in the Godfather, Part II and Raging Bull

Gyro, is from Greek,turn,  from the rotation of the meat on a spit

Nero was a Roman emperor

Tyro is a novice

Zero was a Japanese warplane

Answer 10

The ballpoint pen was invented by László József Bíró (1899 - 1985) a Hungarian around 1931. I don't know about Giro, I think it was an invention of the banking system.

Answer 11

Easy!

Biro: Mr. Ballpoint,

Giro: Mr. Gallpoint!

Btw, he also invented the ballbladder,

ehm, I’m sorry: the gallgladder!