This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Technology > Inventions > Inventions – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Inventions Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Fountain Pen Invented by? A) John La Farge. B) Lewis E. Waterman. C) Tokuji Hayakawa. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lewis E. Waterman. 2. Who were the Chinese fighting when hey first used a rocket in war? A) The Japanese. B) The Russians. C) The Mongols. D) The Vietnamese. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Mongols. 3. Many of Thomas Edison's early inventions changed life for Americans in the area of A) Communications. B) Manufacturing. C) Farming. D) Transportation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manufacturing. 4. What did the Romans use to wipe their bums before toilet was invented? ( Ethan Brown's question ). A) Leaves. B) Nothing. C) Sponge on a stick. D) Paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sponge on a stick. 5. First regenerative circuit was invented and patented in 1914 by A) Johnson Armstrong. B) Dr. Fredinand Magellan. C) Dr. Horace day. D) Edwin Armstrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edwin Armstrong. 6. Electric motor was invented by A) Michael Faraday. B) Oliver Evans. C) Thomas Edison. D) Horace Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Michael Faraday. 7. In the 1700s, who would pay the postage fee for letters before the stamp was invented? A) The post office. B) The sender. C) The receiver of the letter. D) There was no fee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The receiver of the letter. 8. The Bessemer process, invented by Henry Bessemer, was created to produce ..... A) Peanuts. B) Electricity. C) Steel. D) Cotton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Steel. 9. Paragraph ..... tells us that the inventors were very creative and they did not give up easily. A) 6. B) 7. C) 8. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 10. ..... invented the mobile phone. A) Martin Cooper. B) Anthony Blatner. C) Thomas Edison. D) Roger Bacon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Martin Cooper. 11. What are the characteristics of a simple iron? A) Light and brown. B) Heavy and hard with a pointed end. C) Triangular shape and hot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heavy and hard with a pointed end. 12. Because people wanted to explore space, they invented ..... A) Spacesuits. B) New materials to protect humans. C) Ways to breathe when there is no air. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. What is a visonary? A) A person who has new or unusual ideas about the future. B) A person who is able to assist the inventor. C) The name that Thomas Edison first gave to the phonograph. D) An inventor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A person who has new or unusual ideas about the future. 14. Lift was invented by A) Domagk. B) Lee De Forest. C) Otis. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Otis. 15. The study of the natural world through observation, identification, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations A) Mathematics. B) Technology. C) Science. D) Engineering. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Science. 16. * Lived from 1847 to 1922* Scientist and engineer * His mother and wife were both deaf* Credited with inventing the telephone Who is being described by the above statements? A) George Washington Carver. B) Thomas Edison. C) Alexander Graham Bell. D) Wright Brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alexander Graham Bell. 17. The motorcycle was invented by Daimler & Maybach in A) 1885. B) 1905. C) 1925. D) 1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1885. 18. Air conditioner was discovered by A) Edison. B) Wilson. C) Carrier. D) Roentgen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carrier. 19. When was the air conditionner created? A) 1902. B) 1802. C) 1912. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1902. 20. Who created the telephone? A) Thomas Edison. B) Henry Ford. C) Alexander Graham Bell. D) George Eastman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alexander Graham Bell. 21. Roentgen discovered A) X-Rays. B) Electrocardiograph. C) Anti polio vaccine. D) Encephalograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) X-Rays. 22. Who invented the Seed Drill? A) Thomas Hines. B) Woodie Guthrie. C) Arlo Guthrie. D) Jethro Tull. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jethro Tull. 23. This African-American woman physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in World War II. She invented a device that helped the disabled to eat by delivering food through a tube to a mouthpiece. A) Marjorie Joyner. B) Beulah Henry. C) Mae Jamison. D) Bessie Blount. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bessie Blount. 24. What item of apparel was invented by Ellery Chun, a Hawaiian clothing merchant, in 1931? A) Aloha shirt. B) String bikini. C) Capri pants. D) Muumuu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aloha shirt. 25. Which one of these is not a caracteristic for future vacuum cleaners? A) Scheduling. B) Multifunctioning. C) A lot of noise. D) Size in half. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A lot of noise. 26. Teenagers think it is important to have the most ..... technology. A) Machine. B) Up-to-date. C) Access. D) Out-of-date. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Up-to-date. 27. For over 500 years, paper was only available and sold as single sheets. In 1902, an inventive Australian used half size sheets of paper, a bit of glue and cardboard to create the what? A) Notepad. B) Calendar. C) Telephone Book. D) Notice Board. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Notepad. 28. What did George Washington Carver really love doing? A) Writing books. B) Studying plants. C) Eating. D) Playing an instrument. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Studying plants. 29. This invention allowed people to connect instantly over long distances A) Airplane. B) Telephone. C) That ice maker that makes the good ice ya know the nugget shaped kind? Like at Sonic. D) Electrical Power Station. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Telephone. 30. ..... was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. A) Jane Goodall. B) Marie Curie. C) Albert Einstein. D) George Washington Carver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marie Curie. 31. Eli Whitney created what? A) Phonograph. B) Cotton gin. C) Lightbulb. D) Morse code. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cotton gin. 32. What year was the transistor invented? A) 1858. B) 1525. C) 1947. D) 1929. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1947. 33. Streptomycin was invented by A) Marie Curie. B) Fleming. C) Walksman. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walksman. 34. For what is Charles Babbage (1792-1871) remembered? A) Radio-Telegraphy. B) Computers. C) Telescopes. D) Steam Boating. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Computers. 35. These inventions were made by people of different nationalities from all over the world. Which nationality isn't named? A) Ukranian. B) Dutch. C) Japanese. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Japanese. 36. In which decade with the first transatlantic radio broadcast occur? A) 1850s. B) 1870s. C) 1900s. D) 1860s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1900s. 37. Atomic bomb was successfully developed by A) India. B) United States. C) Russia. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) United States. 38. Device used to determine aircraft direction by using magnetic field is called A) Magnetic compass. B) Mechanical compass. C) Thermal compass. D) Earth inductor compass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thermal compass. 39. Who gave Professor Varanasi the idea to adopt the technology for bottles? A) His wife. B) His colleague. C) His friend. D) His daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His wife. 40. Facebook was made in A) 2010. B) 2006. C) 2008. D) 2004. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2004. 41. Known as "one of the fathers of iPOD" A) Seymour Papert. B) Tony Fadell. C) James Rusell. D) Steve Mann. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tony Fadell. 42. Revolver discovered by A) Bushwell. B) Daimler. C) Mercafter. D) Colt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colt. 43. First affordable personal computer A) ENIAC. B) APPLE II. C) UNIVAC. D) Z4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) APPLE II. 44. Who invented the first controllable flying AEROPLANE (AIRPLANE)? A) West Brothers. B) South Brothers. C) Wright Brothers. D) Lidenbergh Brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wright Brothers. 45. When was the first elevator built? A) 1739. B) 1743. C) 1760. D) 1785. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1743. 46. My computer mouse has no cables, it's ..... A) Paper-thin. B) Touch-sensitive. C) Wireless. D) Miniature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wireless. 47. This English inventor is known as the 'Father of Computing.' A) J. Presper Eckert. B) John Mauchly. C) Charles Babbage. D) Philo Farnsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Babbage. 48. The refrigerator was invented to help keep food from spoiling in the heat. Who was the German who invented it? A) Benjamin Franklin. B) George Washington. C) Isaac Newton. D) Carl Von Linde. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carl Von Linde. 49. Mail order cataloging, flexible urinary catherater, first pair of bifocals, wooden swim fins, lighting attractor and musical instrument 'Armonica' are inventions of A) BenjaminFranklin. B) Thomas Jefferson. C) George Whatley. D) Oliver Evans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BenjaminFranklin. 50. W. Harvey discovered by A) Circulation of blood. B) Laws of heredity. C) Dynamite. D) Laws of heredity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circulation of blood. 51. What invention was discovered by accident? A) Heavy Metal. B) Powder. C) Safety Glass. D) Shoe cleaner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Safety Glass. 52. The four blood groups were discovered by A) Trofim Lysenko. B) Francis Galton. C) Emil Kraepelin. D) Frederick Soddy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frederick Soddy. 53. He started the Ford Motor Company. He helped create the assembly line, and made the first car that a lot of people could afford to buy. A) Harry Ford. B) John Ford. C) Henry Ford. D) James Ford. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henry Ford. 54. The three inventions below all contributed most to what outcome? 1) paper2) woodblock printing3) movable type A) A new dynasty in power. B) The spread of learning. C) An increase in trade. D) The rise of social classes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The spread of learning. 55. Who came up with the idea for INSTANT MASHED POTATO? A) K. Edwards. B) S. Tuberosum. C) E. Asselbergs. D) W. Raleigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) E. Asselbergs. 56. What did Luca do to find out about the island of inventions? A) Ask other people. B) Search for it in internet. C) Searched for clues and read hundreds of book. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Searched for clues and read hundreds of book. 57. Two or more light bulbs are connected to one battery A) Parallel circuit. B) Series circuit. C) Simple circuit. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Series circuit. 58. Which inventor was the first to project motion pictures for viewing? A) William Lincoln. B) Louis Lemere. C) Benjamin Franklin. D) Thomas Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Louis Lemere. 59. Invented electric lightbulb A) Coach Drummond. B) Ben Franklin. C) Coach Webb. D) Thomas Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Edison. 60. What is the Industrial Revolution? A) A change from making things by machines to making them by hand. B) A change from making things by hand to making them by machines in factories. C) A shift from a monarchy to a democracy. D) A shift from old order to new order. 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