This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Technology > Inventions > Inventions – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Inventions Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Safety matches was invented by A) Levi Strauss. B) J.E. Lundstrom. C) Peter Goldmark. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) J.E. Lundstrom. 2. What year was the popsicle invented A) 1908. B) 1928. C) 1905. D) 1952. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1905. 3. Luca's house looked like a A) Palace. B) A huge warehouse for machines. C) Hotel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A huge warehouse for machines. 4. The Steam engine was invented by ..... A) Henry Ford. B) John Logie Baird. C) Thomas Savery. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Savery. 5. Computer (personal) A) J.H. VanTassel. B) Tim Berners Lee. C) Ted Hoff. D) Steve Wozniak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Steve Wozniak. 6. What was likely the first invention to help move people and things? A) Trains. B) Engines. C) Carts. D) Steamboats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carts. 7. Inventions helped industry because they A) Helped workers earn more. B) Made it more efficient. C) Ended competition. D) D. encouraged railroads to offer rebates,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Made it more efficient. 8. What James Watt invented? A) Diving bell. B) Steam boat. C) Hot air balloon. D) Rotary steam engine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rotary steam engine. 9. Who is credited with the invention of the light bulb? A) James Hargreaves. B) Eli Whitney. C) James Watt. D) Thomas Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Edison. 10. Printing press was invented by A) JohannesGutengerg. B) Mary Anderson. C) Victor Adler. D) George Antheil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) JohannesGutengerg. 11. What event from the early 1900s had the most significant impact on the development of technology? The development of ..... A) Electricity. B) The assembly line. C) Mechanical labor. D) Steam power. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The assembly line. 12. Inventor of the pasteurization process that removes bacteria from beverages like milk and beer. A) Louis Pasteur. B) Charles McCormick. C) Eli Whitney. D) James Watt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Louis Pasteur. 13. ..... invented the air brake for use on railroads that greatly helped trains to become safer, faster and added more cars to their length. A) George Pullman. B) George A. Custer. C) George Westinghouse. D) Cornelius Vanderbilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Westinghouse. 14. Who invented the steel plow? A) Mrs. Schultz (obviously). B) John Deere. C) James McCormick. D) Eli Whitney. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Deere. 15. Philo Farnsworth invented the Television but it was a simple black image with no ..... Chose one correct answer. A) Youtube. B) Sound. C) Netflix. D) Disney. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound. 16. E-mail and Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) were invented in A) 1965. B) 1982. C) 1971. D) 1989. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1971. 17. Sixteenth century sailors navigated using A) Two bits of wood. B) Compass. C) String and maps. D) Ocean currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two bits of wood. 18. Who was the inventor of Video games? A) Karl Benz. B) Ralph Baer. C) Henry Moseley. D) Eli Whitney. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Baer. 19. When were bar code scanners invented? A) 1960s. B) 1950s. C) 1970s. D) 1940s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1970s. 20. Who was the first American female to patent her invention, a method of weaving straw with silk? A) Marjorie Joyner. B) Margaret Knight. C) Amanda Jones. D) Mary Kies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mary Kies. 21. Which of the following were inventions or achievements of the Chinese EXCEPT? A) Woodblock Printing. B) Sewer systems. C) Compass. D) Gunpowder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sewer systems. 22. How did the telegraph impact business? A) It allowed businesses to send message and communicate easier. B) It allowed business to use voice to voice communication. C) It allowed businesses to contact other countries more easily. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It allowed businesses to send message and communicate easier. 23. Radium was discovered by A) Ernst Haeckel. B) Willard Libby. C) Marie and Pierrie Curie. D) Edward Teller. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marie and Pierrie Curie. 24. What do the items on this list have in common? harrowfertilizerchain pumpterraces A) They came from Mongolia. B) They increased crop yield. C) They were the cause of migration. D) They were the result of cultural change. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They increased crop yield. 25. What things did Albert Einstein Invent? A) Telescope. B) Light bulb. C) Alkaline battery. D) Dictionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alkaline battery. 26. The first hand glider was designed by.....? A) Leonardo DaVinci. B) The Wright brothers. C) Francis Rogallo. D) Galileo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leonardo DaVinci. 27. The field of activity of J.C. Bose was A) Botany. B) Chemistry. C) Biology. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Botany. 28. In which country Chess was invented? A) Russia. B) Indonesia. C) India. D) United States of America. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) India. 29. Who invented the first light bulb? A) Aristotle. B) Thomas Edison. C) Wright brothers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Edison. 30. Who invented Integrated Circuit (IC)? A) Bill Gates. B) Jack Kilby. C) Semen Korsakov. D) Herman Hollerith. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jack Kilby. 31. What does it take to be creative and innovative in the classroom? A) Time and Money. B) Only the best students. C) Being a risk-taker. D) Too much effort. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Being a risk-taker. 32. What drink was invented by Charles Leiper Grigg in 1929? A) Pepsi. B) Yoo-Hoo. C) 7-Up. D) Hawaiian Punch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7-Up. 33. Carver invented over 300 uses for which plant? A) The tomato plant. B) The peanut plant. C) The cabbage plant. D) The pepper plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The peanut plant. 34. Who invented Fountain Pen? A) Kirkpatrick Macmillan. B) Sir Frank Whittle. C) John J. Loud. D) Lewis E. Waterman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lewis E. Waterman. 35. Who is the inventor of the light bulb? A) B-Leonardo da Vinci. B) C-Benjamin Franklin. C) D-Samuel Morse. D) A-Thomas Alva Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A-Thomas Alva Edison. 36. He invented the telephone in 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts A) Thomas Edison. B) Alexander Graham Bell. C) George Washington Carver. D) The Wright Brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alexander Graham Bell. 37. When were the first rockets launched? A) 13th century. B) 14th century. C) 15th century. D) 12th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 13th century. 38. Who invented Internal Combustion Engine? A) Dr. Alan M. Turing. B) Otto. C) Roger Bacon. D) Karl Benz. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Otto. 39. Printing that uses individual pieces for each character. A) Compass printing. B) Piece printing. C) Woodblock printing. D) Movable type printing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Movable type printing. 40. What was Thomas Edison most well known invention? A) Light bulb. B) Hospital. C) Electricity. D) Car. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Light bulb. 41. Which state launched Weavers' Sammaan Yojana? A) Maharashtra. B) Telangana. C) Madhya Pradesh. D) Karnataka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Karnataka. 42. A person who sets up a new business for profit is known as? A) Journalist. B) Anarchist. C) Entreprenuer. D) Inventor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Entreprenuer. 43. Name the scientist who had discovered that some molecules have mirror images? A) Henry Moseley. B) Lord Kelvin. C) Louis Pasteur. D) Robert Hooke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louis Pasteur. 44. What did Samuel Morse invent? A) Telegraph and Morse Code. B) Telephone. C) Electricity. D) Radio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telegraph and Morse Code. 45. The change from hand tools to machines and from farming to manufacturing. A) Era of Progress. B) Manufacturing boom. C) American Economic Revolution. D) Industrial Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrial Revolution. 46. Rayon was invented by A) Christopher Cockerell. B) David Brewster. C) Sir Joseph Swann. D) Adolph Rickenbacker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sir Joseph Swann. 47. The first telegraph linked Washington D.C to ..... A) Philadelphia. B) Baltimore. C) Boston. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baltimore. 48. The refrigerator was invented by Jacob Perkins in A) 1804. B) 1894. C) 1864. D) 1834. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1834. 49. The invention of the jet engine led to the invention of ..... A) The steamboat. B) The gasoline engine. C) The rocket engine. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rocket engine. 50. Who is widely credited with inventing the first modern automobile? A) Alexander Graham Bell. B) Elisha Gray. C) Henry Ford. D) Karl Benz. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Karl Benz. 51. What's the name of the inventor of the fridge? A) Albert T. Marshall. B) Albert Marsh. C) Christof Marshal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Albert T. Marshall. 52. Who is considered as the inventor of Video games? A) Ralph Baer in 1967. B) William A Burt in 1829. C) Ladislo Biro in 1938. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Baer in 1967. 53. The rate of technological development is ..... A) Rapidly increasing. B) Slowly increasing. C) Slowly decreasing. D) Rapidly decreasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rapidly increasing. 54. Which thing is Li Gang connected with? A) A machine gun with one barrel. B) A machine gun with ten barrels. C) Cannon. D) Gunpowder in Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cannon. 55. First fully programmable computer. A) ENIAC. B) UNIVAC. C) APPLE II. D) Z4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Z4. 56. What is the name of the innovation of the electronic iron? A) The special electronic iron. B) The ironing cabin. C) The wireless iron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ironing cabin. 57. The system for writing by blind people was invented by A) Henry Bacquerel. B) Sir J.A. Fleming. C) Louis Braille. D) Dr. Charles H. Townes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louis Braille. 58. What did Swift and Armour invent? A) Refrigerated Railroad Car. B) Lunchable. C) X-Ray Machines. D) Hairdryer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refrigerated Railroad Car. 59. What 3 things made Edison famous? A) Telephone, vacuum, and computer. B) Light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera. C) Light bulb, camera, and telephone. D) Phonograph, peanut butter, and cars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera. 60. This games represent your life(discovered by Indians). A) Snake and Ladders. B) Ludo. C) Game of Life. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Snake and Ladders. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTechnology QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesInventions Quiz 1Inventions Quiz 2Inventions Quiz 3Inventions Quiz 4Inventions Quiz 5Inventions Quiz 6Inventions Quiz 7Inventions Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books