This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Technology > Inventions > Inventions – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Inventions Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who discovered gravity? A) Jesse Virchow. B) Indira Gandhi. C) Amit Shah. D) Sir Isaac Newton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Isaac Newton. 2. What George Pullman invented? A) Air brakes. B) Sleeping (railway) car. C) Box car (railway). D) Airship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sleeping (railway) car. 3. Stethoscope was invented by A) Henry Becquarrel. B) Colt. C) Bessemer. D) Rane Laennec. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rane Laennec. 4. The laws of floating bodies was discovered by A) Archimedes. B) Edwin Hubble. C) Pierre Simon de Laplace. D) Joseph J. Thomson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archimedes. 5. Which famous inventor ranks second in the number of patents registered? A) Edwin Land. B) Thomas Alva Edison. C) James Watt. D) Albert Einstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edwin Land. 6. It's convenient to use correction pen for correcting errors. A) Correction pen is convenient for correcting errors. B) To use correction pen is correcting. C) It's correction pen to use for correcting errors. D) Correcting errors is convenient to use correction pen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correction pen is convenient for correcting errors. 7. What natural events led the Chinese to invent the seismograph? A) Tornadoes. B) Earthquakes. C) Blizzards. D) Hurricanes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earthquakes. 8. This computer has a ..... screen, so you don't need to use a mouse. A) Miniature. B) Recyclable. C) Electric. D) Touch-sensitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Touch-sensitive. 9. Who can go to the island of inventions? A) A teacher. B) A businessman. C) A person had created an amazing inventions that made the life better for the world. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A person had created an amazing inventions that made the life better for the world. 10. Who created the lightening rod? A) Garrett Morgan. B) Thomas Edison. C) Alexander Graham Bell. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benjamin Franklin. 11. Who discovered the iridium layer and won Nobel Prize also? A) Santiago Ramon. B) Pierre Curie. C) Henry Moseley. D) Luis Alvarez. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Luis Alvarez. 12. Who invented the ipod? A) A-Bill Gates. B) B-Steve Jobs. C) C-Allan Sugar. D) D-Theresa May. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B-Steve Jobs. 13. Which organisation has acknowledged that there is evidence of airborne transmission of coronavirus? A) UN. B) UNHRC. C) WHO. D) ICMR. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) WHO. 14. In the future, all of our homes will be ....., so we can use the sun to get our electricity. A) Electric. B) Solar-powered. C) Voice-activated. D) Rechargeable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solar-powered. 15. What invention allowed farmers to move heavier loads more easily? A) The wagon. B) The wheelbarrow. C) The bicycle. D) The car. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The wheelbarrow. 16. When was the wheel invented? A) 2022 A.F. B) 4500 B.F. C) 1999 A.F. D) 3500 B.F. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4500 B.F. 17. Trains were one of the most important modes of Transportation during the Industrial Revolution. A) True. B) False. C) Maybe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. In which decade were the first successful diode and triode vacuum tubes invented? A) 1880s. B) 1890s. C) 1900s. D) 1800s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1900s. 19. Where are the first traces of humans on earth? A) Egypt. B) East Africa (Rift Valley). C) Mesopotamia. D) Yellow River. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) East Africa (Rift Valley). 20. Which entrepreneur helped to popularize photography and make it more mainstream (everybody can use cameras and take pictures)? A) Henry Bessemer. B) Thomas Edison. C) Corenelius Vanderbilt. D) George Eastman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George Eastman. 21. Railroad locomotive was invented in A) 1825. B) 1835. C) 1815. D) 1805. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1825. 22. Each of these two circuits has a light bulb, connected to the same battery A) Parallel circuit. B) Series circuit. C) Simple circuit. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallel circuit. 23. Which item was mostly used in cars? A) VHS cassette. B) Music Cassette. C) Vinyl record. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Music Cassette. 24. Who invited the electric bulb? A) Thomas More. B) Thomas Alva Edison. C) James Watt. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Alva Edison. 25. Things that are made for the first time A) Inventions. B) Wheel. C) Imagination. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inventions. 26. This statesman, politican, scholar, inventor, and one of early presidents of USA invented the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the moldboard plow, and the cipher wheel. A) George Washington. B) Alexander Hamilton. C) John Adams. D) Thomas Jefferson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Jefferson. 27. People usually throw one quarter of hand lotion away without using it. A) True. B) False. C) Does not say. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 28. He is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook A) Bill Gates. B) Paul Allen. C) Steve Jobs. D) Mark Zuckerberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mark Zuckerberg. 29. Inventor who invented first liquid fueled rocketry and is known as "father of modern rocketry" is A) George Fritts. B) Malcolm Loughead. C) Charles Fritts. D) Dr.Robbert H. Goddard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr.Robbert H. Goddard. 30. Which of the following inventions were done by Thomas Alva Edison? A) Incandescent lamp. B) Phonograph C (Gramophone) and microphone. C) Carbon telephone transmitters. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 31. What advantage do humans have over animals? A) Night vision. B) Inventions. C) Speed. D) Claws. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inventions. 32. Who invented safety fuses and on/off switches? A) Henry Ford. B) George Washington Carver. C) Alexander Graham Bell. D) Thomas Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Edison. 33. Old TVs weren't ..... You had to stand up to change channels. A) Miniature. B) Hand-held. C) Remote-controlled. D) Electric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Remote-controlled. 34. What is absolute zero. A) 0 degrees. B) The lowest temperature possible. C) Nothing. D) -2 degrees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The lowest temperature possible. 35. Who is often called the 'first African-American' inventor? A) George Washington Carver. B) Bessie Blount. C) Benjamin Banneker. D) Elijah McCoy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Benjamin Banneker. 36. Who is the English physicist responsible for the 'Big Bang Theory'? A) Michael Skube. B) Roger Penrose. C) Albert Einstein. D) George Gamow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George Gamow. 37. What groovy item was invented by Englishman Edward Craven Walker in 1963? A) Lava lamp. B) Hot comb. C) Eight-track tape deck. D) Leisure suit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lava lamp. 38. They've invented a ..... car. It responds when you speak to it. A) Voice-activated. B) Solar-powered. C) Waterproof. D) Remote-controlled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voice-activated. 39. I can wear my watch in the swimming pool because it's ..... A) Waterproof. B) Miniature. C) Recyclable. D) Remote-controlled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waterproof. 40. Henry Miller Shreve created ..... A) A more powerful steam engine. B) The first steam locomotive. C) Wire. D) The Pony Express. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A more powerful steam engine. 41. Eli Whitney's invention that made mass production possible for numerous goods to be sold was known as.. A) Interchangeable parts. B) Steam Engine. C) Mechanical reaper. D) Cotton Mill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interchangeable parts. 42. Who invented the 3D printer? A) James Clark. B) Charles Hull. C) Jonathan Miller. D) Nathan Adams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Hull. 43. What did woodblock printing allow the Chinese to do? A) Invent a written language. B) Communicate with foreign travelers. C) Develop a new form of artistic expression. D) Copy and print very quickly and in large quantities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Copy and print very quickly and in large quantities. 44. Samuel Morse created what? A) Phonograph. B) Lightbulb. C) Morse code. D) Cotton gin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morse code. 45. The theory of inheritance of acquired character was propounded by A) Gregor Mendel. B) Charles Darwin. C) J.B. Lamarck. D) Weismann. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) J.B. Lamarck. 46. When was the telephone invented? A) 1847. B) 1876. C) 1870. D) 1960. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1876. 47. FROZEN FOOD - Who discovered the first practical method of freezing food? A) G. Findus. B) F. Rozenosh. C) C. Birdseye. D) R. Scott. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. Birdseye. 48. Analytical Engine was invented by A) Charles Babbage. B) Daimler. C) Dewar. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Babbage. 49. What had to occur before the Industrial Revolution could take place? A) The Economic Revolution. B) The French Revolution. C) The Glorious Revolution. D) The Agricultural Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Agricultural Revolution. 50. Where was the yo-yo invented? A) France. B) United States. C) Philippines. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Philippines. 51. The Chinese first put rockets on? A) Their arrows. B) On fireworks. C) Their soldiers. D) Their ships. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their arrows. 52. What is a person called that creates something? A) A master. B) An inventor. C) A scientist. D) A mastermind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An inventor. 53. The Liquiglide technology could help reduce plastic waste. A) True. B) False. C) Does not say. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 54. Elmer's is the name of the company that will produce the coating. A) True. B) False. C) Does not say. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 55. In which decade was the transistor invented? A) 1960s. B) 1980s. C) 1940s. D) 1950s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1940s. 56. A full size working model used to test a design A) Engineering. B) Technology. C) Prototype. D) Design. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prototype. 57. How did Thomas Edison change the world? A) He made it easier to work at night and increased the amount of work that a person could do in a day. B) He made it a lot easier for people to communicate. C) He made it a lot easier for people to travel. D) He helped farmers live a better life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He made it easier to work at night and increased the amount of work that a person could do in a day. 58. Who is known as the father of plastic surgery? A) Charaka. B) G.D. Naid. C) Sushruta. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sushruta. 59. Who said "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" ? A) Cornelius Vanderbilt. B) Henry Ford. C) Thomas Edison. D) Alexander Graham Bell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexander Graham Bell. 60. ..... is a machine with sharp blades used to cut grain. A) The sewing machine. B) The reaper. C) The sower. D) The cotton gin. 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