This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Technology > Inventions > Inventions – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Inventions Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Radioactivity was discovered by A) Henry Bacquerel. B) Karl Landsteiner. C) Edward O. Wilson. D) Konrad Lorenz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Henry Bacquerel. 2. It is an ..... car, so it doesn't use petrol. A) Electric. B) Rechargeable. C) Wireless. D) Miniature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electric. 3. Who filed and received a patent for the harmonic telegraph A) Alexander Graham Bell. B) Elisha Gray. C) Henry Ford. D) Karl Benz. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elisha Gray. 4. What unique human invention helps us read the stories of who early humans were? A) Fire. B) Spears. C) Clothes. D) Works of art on cave walls. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Works of art on cave walls. 5. Who named their company "Kodak" ? A) Cornelius Vanderbilt. B) Henry Bessemer. C) George Eastman. D) Thomas Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Eastman. 6. What now-ubiquitous device was invented by Zenith engineer Eugene Polley in 1955? A) VCR. B) Microwave oven. C) Calculator. D) Remote control. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Remote control. 7. World's first mechanical air conditioner was invented and manufacture by A) William's Carrier. B) Charles Goodyear. C) Charles Perkins. D) Christopher Shole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William's Carrier. 8. The author writes about the telephone before the computer to show that A) Computers were invented after the telephone. B) Computers are better. C) Telephones are no longer used. D) Telephones are more important. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Computers were invented after the telephone. 9. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? A) France. B) The US. C) Britain. D) The Netherlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Britain. 10. Where is the village of Branston, after which the famous pickle is named? A) Lancashire. B) Norfolk. C) Staffordshire. D) Yorkshire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Staffordshire. 11. How do inventions change our lives? A) Inventions make our lives easier. B) Inventions are useful. C) Some inventions can save life. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 12. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct response "Do you know that many inventions were inspired by the natural world? ''- " ..... " A) Of course. You're right. B) Well, that sounds interesting. C) There is no hope about it. D) Yes, I couldn't agree more. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Well, that sounds interesting. 13. She seems to have spent all her life studying in ..... establishments. A) Education. B) Educational. C) Educated. D) Educate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Education. 14. Who invented Snapchat? A) Jethro Tull. B) Samuel morse. C) Evan Spiegel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evan Spiegel. 15. Telegrahic code was introduced by A) Lipman. B) Cockrell. C) Thomas Moore. D) Macmillan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Moore. 16. First lock-stitch sewing machine was invented in 1833 by A) Walter Hunt. B) Elias Howe. C) Isaac Singer. D) Hiram Moore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walter Hunt. 17. He invented the Flash Drive A) Douglas Carl Engelbart. B) Dov Moran. C) Martin Cooper. D) William Higinbotham. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dov Moran. 18. Microscope was invented by A) William Oughtred. B) Aaton Van Leewen Hock. C) Hermann Fottinger. D) Robert Recorde. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aaton Van Leewen Hock. 19. Why is Liquiglide useful? A) It makes ketchup look cool. B) It stops people from wasting food. C) It makes food taste better. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It stops people from wasting food. 20. Who invented the telegraph? A) Wright Brothers. B) Eli Whitney. C) Samuel Morse. D) Alexander Graham Bell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samuel Morse. 21. What charge card, developed in 1950, was the first to be accepted nationally in the US? A) Visa. B) Diner's Club. C) MasterCharge. D) Discover. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diner's Club. 22. Edwin Herbert Land invented what? A) Ball point pen. B) Polaroid Camera. C) Typewriter. D) Liquid paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polaroid Camera. 23. Where were most of the nation's early factories built? A) New England. B) The Midwest. C) The West. D) The South. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New England. 24. Who was the inventor to first patent a telescope? He called his invention the 'looker' and was able to magnify things to three times their normal size. A) Hans Brown. B) Hans Shoe. C) Hans Bread. D) Hans Lippershey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hans Lippershey. 25. What is a patent? A) It gives me the right to make what ever I want to make. B) It gives me the right to work on other peoples inventions. C) A document that alllows me to sell/make an invention. D) It's a document that allows me to sell different products. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A document that alllows me to sell/make an invention. 26. Match the person to the invention:Samuel Morse A) Steam-powered locomotive. B) Steel plow. C) Steamboat. D) Telegraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Telegraph. 27. Olympic sport Volleyball invented sport in 1895 by A) George Fritts. B) William G. Morgan. C) Jefferson Fritts. D) Charles G. Morgan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William G. Morgan. 28. Why did he move to Canada? A) He was ill. B) His mother was ill. C) His father wanted to teach there. D) They wanted to travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was ill. 29. What particles flow for electricity to be transmitted? A) Electrons. B) Protons. C) Neutrons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electrons. 30. This invention impacted life by allowing homes and cities to have electricity. A) Electrical Power Station. B) Airpods. C) Telephone. D) Bessemer Process. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electrical Power Station. 31. What Karl Benz invented? A) Steam turbine. B) Streetcar. C) Glider. D) Gasoline powered automobile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gasoline powered automobile. 32. Benjamin Franklin invented ..... which are eyeglasses that help people see. A) Light bulb. B) Bifocals. C) Paper bags. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bifocals. 33. In which decade was the telegraph invented? A) 1810s. B) 1840s. C) 1890s. D) 1870s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1840s. 34. If something is compact, it is A) Big. B) Small. C) Hard to see. D) Hard to hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Small. 35. First freely programmable computer in world was build by A) George Stephenson. B) Karl Benz. C) ConardZeus. D) Percy Spencer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ConardZeus. 36. What skills do inventors need to have? A) Listening and speaking. B) Creativity and imagination. C) Writing and speaking. D) Drawingf pictures and painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Creativity and imagination. 37. Who invented the first airplane? A) Alexander Graham Bell. B) Wright brothers. C) Thomas Edison. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wright brothers. 38. When was Milk Tray first introduced? A) 1901. B) 1925. C) 1915. D) 1940. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1915. 39. Thin wire found inside of a light bulb is called? A) Blocks. B) Legos. C) Filament. D) Wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Filament. 40. James Chadwick discovered A) Atom. B) Neutron. C) Electron. D) Proton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neutron. 41. What device for new parents did Ann Moore invent in 1969? A) Infant carrier. B) Disposable diaper. C) Bottle warmer. D) Baby monitor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infant carrier. 42. Which person worked with the hearing impaired? A) Thomas Edison. B) George Washington-Carver. C) George Eastman. D) Alexander Graham Bell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexander Graham Bell. 43. Where did Thutmoses III win a great victory in 1457 B.C.E.? A) Kanesh. B) Damascus. C) Megiddo. D) Ashur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Megiddo. 44. The ELECTRIC BATTERY, who's charged with inventing this one? A) Hertz. B) Volta. C) Amper. D) Galvani. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volta. 45. Which American inventor invented the commercial telegraph, based on Joseph Henry's work? A) Alexander Graham Bell. B) Samuel Morse. C) Sir James DeWar. D) William Wright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alexander Graham Bell. 46. What 'game' was first produced by the Southern Novelty Company in Baltimore, Maryland in 1892? A) Monopoly. B) Ouija board. C) Frisbee. D) Ping Pong. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ouija board. 47. The average price of a wingsuit is ..... A) 600-1000 dollars. B) 600-2000 dollars. C) 500-1000 dollars. D) 500-2000 dollars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 600-2000 dollars. 48. Landstrom invented A) Gas Engine. B) Metallurgy. C) Safety Match. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Safety Match. 49. Mark the letter A, B, C, or to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each question A) Technological. B) Popularity. C) Manufacturer. D) Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagination. 50. Who invented Bifocal Lens? A) Benjamin Franklin. B) Thomas Alva Edison. C) Rudolf Diesel. D) Alfred B. Nobel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benjamin Franklin. 51. Used to make steel quickly and cheaply by injecting air into iron to remove impurities. A) Bessemer Process. B) Rockefeller Process. C) Carnegie Process. D) Drake Process. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bessemer Process. 52. The Thermometer and telescope were invented around the year ..... A) 1500. B) 1700. C) 1800. D) 1600. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1600. 53. How was food preserved before the invention of the fridge? A) Salting, spicing, drying. B) Iceboxes for Cold storage. C) All of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 54. Who invented the first mobile vacuum cleaner? A) Thomas Edison. B) Graham Bell. C) Huber Cecil Boott. D) Ives Mchulley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Huber Cecil Boott. 55. What Igor Sikorsky invented? A) Hydroplane. B) Helicopter. C) Jet engine airplane. D) Glider. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helicopter. 56. Inert gases were discovered by A) Dalton. B) Ramsay. C) Newton. D) Roentgen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ramsay. 57. Helpful for doing or achieving something A) Useful. B) Good. C) Winning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Useful. 58. What is a prototype? A) A working model. B) An idea for a design that never gets built. C) Brainstorming ideas. D) Sketches of ideas to use for building. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A working model. 59. Wich Invention allowed farmers to harvest as much wheat in one day as they could in two weeks? A) Mechanical Reaper. B) Cotton Mills. C) Steam Engine. D) Interchangrable parts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mechanical Reaper. 60. The author describes three of Edison's inventions as popular. What does the word popular mean as it is used in the passage? A) Out-of-date. B) Well-liked. C) Smart. D) New. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Well-liked. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTechnology QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesInventions Quiz 1Inventions Quiz 2Inventions Quiz 4Inventions Quiz 5Inventions Quiz 6Inventions Quiz 7Inventions Quiz 8Inventions Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books