This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Technology > Inventions > Inventions – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Inventions Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which was the Wright brothers' longest flight on December 17, 1903? A) The third flight. B) The first flight. C) The second flight. D) The fourth flight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The fourth flight. 2. Who invented the french horn A) Your brother. B) French people. C) A bicycle. D) Heinrich. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heinrich. 3. Who discovered the penicillin? A) A-John Bardeen. B) B-Alessandro Volta. C) C-Konrad Zuse. D) D-Alexander Fleming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D-Alexander Fleming. 4. He is the inventor of Tetris A) Jeff Hawkins. B) Dennis Hayes. C) James Rusell. D) Alexey Pajitnov. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexey Pajitnov. 5. What Elisha Otis invented? A) Hydraulic Crane. B) The brake used in modern elevators. C) Turbine. D) Jet Engine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The brake used in modern elevators. 6. What Frank Whittle invented? A) Radar. B) Ethyl gasoline. C) Sonar. D) Jet propulsion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jet propulsion. 7. What Galileo invented? A) Microscope. B) Thermometer. C) Barometer. D) Pendulum clock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thermometer. 8. Which of the following was first patented by an Australian in 1889? A) Electric Drill. B) Electric Fence. C) Electric Heater. D) Electric Shaver. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electric Drill. 9. Who designed the first efficient steam engine? A) James Watt. B) James Hargreaves. C) Richard Arkwright. D) John Kay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Watt. 10. Who invented the first Radio? A) Guglielmo Marconi. B) Roger Bell. C) Timothy Allen. D) Ronald Wayfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guglielmo Marconi. 11. Who invented USB A) Ajay Bhatt. B) Charles Babbage. C) Elon Musk. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ajay Bhatt. 12. What did Chinese inventors discover while experimenting with saltpeter? A) Artillery. B) Gunpowder. C) Rockets. D) Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gunpowder. 13. Sodium was discovered by A) James Watson. B) Sir Humphry Davy. C) John Bardeen. D) John von Neumann. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Humphry Davy. 14. How did the process of selecting government officials change during the Sui and Tang dynasties? A) Had to pass the civil service exams. B) They ended the bureaucracy system. C) Officials became those who paid the most to join. D) More aristocrats joined the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had to pass the civil service exams. 15. India has become the second-largest source of FDI in which nation? A) UK. B) Canada. C) Japan. D) US. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) UK. 16. The nuclear reactor was invented by A) Eduard Jenner. B) Albert Einstein Torricelli. C) Enrico Ferni. D) Alexander Fleming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enrico Ferni. 17. Young girls lived in company owned boarding houses and worked at the textile factories in this "company" town. A) Lowell. B) Boston. C) New York City. D) Liverpool. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lowell. 18. Thermo Flask was invented by A) Dewar. B) Daimler. C) Urey. D) John Napier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dewar. 19. Who created the first Lego? A) Francis Crick. B) W. F. Cooke. C) Godtfred Kirk Christiansen. D) Charles Wheatstone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Godtfred Kirk Christiansen. 20. Who invented fuel cells in 1839? A) Buckminster Fuller. B) Sir William Grove. C) Sylvester Graham. D) Joyce Hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir William Grove. 21. A new product or system that has never existed before A) Science. B) Invention. C) Engineering. D) Technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invention. 22. How many types of electric Irons are there? A) One. B) Two. C) Different types. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Different types. 23. In which decade was the AEEE (now the IEEE) founded? A) 1850's. B) 1950's. C) 1930's. D) 1880's. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1880's. 24. A new and useful tool or process is called an .....? A) Cultural Shift. B) Technology Transfer. C) Invention. D) Innovation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Invention. 25. I have a ..... ! Can you help me? A) Solution. B) Problem. C) Idea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Problem. 26. What is an electrical appliance? A) Anything with a cord. B) A device that uses electricity to perform a function. C) A device that uses electricity. D) A device with a cord and a plug. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A device that uses electricity to perform a function. 27. Where is Madagascar? A) An island in the middle of the ocean. B) An island near Ecuador. C) An island that lies off the south coact of Spain. D) An island that lies off the south east coast of Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An island that lies off the south east coast of Africa. 28. What year was the first all electronic computer built? A) 1955. B) 1945. C) 1928. D) 1906. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1945. 29. Which of the following inventions brought an end to the open range on the Great Plains? A) Steel plow. B) Barbed wire. C) Windmill. D) Reaper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barbed wire. 30. What Benjamin Franklin invented? A) Bifocal spectacles. B) Barometer. C) Radio. D) Hygrometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bifocal spectacles. 31. What was the name of the washing machine inventez by Elie Ahovi? A) Forbit. B) Orbit. C) Sorbit. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Orbit. 32. Who invented the television? A) A-Alessandro Volta. B) B-George Washington. C) C-john Baird. D) D-John Bardeen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C-john Baird. 33. John Philoponos's city of birth A) Alexandria. B) Athens. C) Peloponnese. D) Macedonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alexandria. 34. What did Chinese kings and emperors believe gave them the power to rule? A) Courage. B) Nobility. C) Heaven. D) Loyalty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heaven. 35. Laszlo Biro invented ..... A) The fountain pen. B) The ballpoint pen. C) The space pen. D) The quill pen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ballpoint pen. 36. Nuclear power was used for first time to produce electricity in A) 1923. B) 1951. C) 1967. D) 1907. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1951. 37. Who had an explosive idea and first patented DYNAMITE? A) J. R. Gluber. B) G. Fawks. C) W. Bickford. D) A. Nobel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. Nobel. 38. What plaything was invented by Joe McVicker in 1956? A) Etch-A-Sketch. B) Silly Putty. C) Lite-Brite. D) Play-Doh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Play-Doh. 39. Technological ideas can be protected through a process called A) Copyright. B) Protecting. C) Umbrella law. D) Patenting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Patenting. 40. Which invention lets you fly from one country to another? A) Aeroplane. B) Bus. C) Electricity. D) Car. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aeroplane. 41. Why was the first computer invented? A) To help inventors communicate with one another. B) To solve difficult math problems. C) To keep track of new inventions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To solve difficult math problems. 42. Waterproof Rubber A) John Boyd Dunlop. B) Thomas Alva Edison. C) James Watt. D) Charles Macintosh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Macintosh. 43. How did the invention of the light bulb impact factories? A) It allowed factories to stay open longer and increased productivity. B) It increased costs of production. C) It decreased efficiency because it was expensive. D) It forced business leaders to relocate factories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It allowed factories to stay open longer and increased productivity. 44. What substance did Imdi-ilum trade? A) Wheat. B) Woven cloth. C) Iron. D) Tin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tin. 45. Which group invented and developed the early Internet? A) The U.S. government. B) The European Union. C) The Soviet Union. D) The United Nations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The U.S. government. 46. India has banned how many Chinese mobile apps to protect its sovereignty and integrity on June 30? A) 44. B) 65. C) 69. D) 59. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 59. 47. Which invention helped Han farmers move much heavier loads than they could carry? A) Iron plow. B) Horse cart. C) Wheelbarrow. D) Chain pump. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wheelbarrow. 48. When was the air conditionner introduced in houses? A) 18 years after it was created. B) 14 years after it was created. C) 10 years after it was created. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14 years after it was created. 49. Electrons were discovered by A) Roentgen. B) Edison. C) Roentgen. D) J.J.Thompson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) J.J.Thompson. 50. Because of the Industrial Revolution, the cottage industry? A) Hired more people. B) Ended. C) Had more injuries at work. D) Became more successful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ended. 51. First electric DC motor was invented by A) George Stephenson. B) FrankJulian Sprague. C) Percy Spencer. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FrankJulian Sprague. 52. A software design team is working on a new computer operating system. They analyze the market and work to develop new software using what type of problem-solving approach? A) Technological. B) Industrial design. C) Research and development. D) Total quality management. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Research and development. 53. Who invented coffee filter? A) Melitta Bentz. B) Nikola Tesla. C) Orville. D) Wilbur Wright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melitta Bentz. 54. Who is the inventor of the Telephone? A) Francis Beaufort. B) Henry Moseley. C) Alexander Graham Bell. D) Anthony Blatner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alexander Graham Bell. 55. Ernest Rutherford invented what? A) Electron. B) Newtron. C) Proton. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proton. 56. Microwave oven was invented by A) Victor Vacquier. B) George Inman. C) Percy Spencer. D) Raytheon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raytheon. 57. Fax machine was invented by A) Bain. B) Daimler. C) Dewar. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bain. 58. Which invention is the science correspondent's favorite? A) The water distiller. B) The wingsuit. C) The "enable talk gloves". D) The indoor cloud maker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The indoor cloud maker. 59. This man was a philosopher in ancient China and is the central figure of the Analects. A) Si Ma Qian. B) Lao Zi. C) Dao Zi. D) Confucius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confucius. 60. Who invented the idea of food canning? A) Robert Fulton. B) Nicolas Appert. C) Nicolas Copernacus. D) Eli Whitney. 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