This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Technology > Inventions > Inventions – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Inventions Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Explain the impact electricity had on factories. A) People began moving back to the countryside. B) People could only go to the factories in the morning. C) Factories had to close down early. D) Factories could remain open 24 hours a day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Factories could remain open 24 hours a day. 2. What is the purpose of the lightening rod? A) It protect homes and buildings from lightning. B) It helps cars stay safe on the road. C) It helps people read words better. D) It makes it easier to talk to people far away. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It protect homes and buildings from lightning. 3. Who invented Electric Generator? A) Sir Alexander Graham Bell. B) Michael Faraday. C) Alfred B. Nobel. D) Thomas Alva Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Michael Faraday. 4. What treat was invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson in 1905? A) Popsicle. B) Cracker Jacks. C) Cotton candy. D) Banana split. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Popsicle. 5. Workers and machines came together under one roof, usually near a source of water to power the machines. A) Era of Good Feelings. B) Factory system. C) Industrial Engineering. D) Industrial Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Factory system. 6. This made it easier to produce MORE goods CHEAPER and FASTER A) Mass production. B) Bessemer Process. C) Electric Pencil sharpener. D) Airplane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mass production. 7. George Washington Carver was born ..... A) In 1836. B) A slave. C) A free man. D) In Kansas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A slave. 8. The velocity of light was first measured by A) Romer. B) Einstein. C) Newton. D) Galileo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romer. 9. What was the first message sent by his telegraph machine? A) Vote Whip. B) Save our Souls. C) What has God Wrought. D) Mr Watson! Come Here. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Save our Souls. 10. The first step in the engineering design process is? A) Build a prototype. B) Define the problem. C) Test and modify your design. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Define the problem. 11. Laser was invented by A) Dr. Charles H. Townes. B) S. Chandrasekhar. C) Edwin Hubble. D) Edwin Hubble. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dr. Charles H. Townes. 12. Telegraph lines crossed the country by ..... A) 1844. B) 1865. C) 1861. D) 1879. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1861. 13. Who created the light bulb? A) Henry Ford. B) Alexander Graham Bell. C) Thomas Edison. D) Wendy Porter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Edison. 14. What was gunpowder originally invented for? A) Making people immortal. B) For ships. C) For fuel. D) For cannons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Making people immortal. 15. George Washington Carver invented ways to make more than 300 things from ..... A) Rocks. B) Soil. C) Peanuts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peanuts. 16. Which person made a fortune in steamline ships? A) George Eastman. B) Henry Bessemer. C) Cornelius Vanderbilt. D) George Washington Carver. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cornelius Vanderbilt. 17. Bicycle was invented by A) Eijkman. B) Macmillan. C) Alexanderson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macmillan. 18. People who are born hearing impaired have a hard time learning to ..... because they cannot hear sounds. A) Speak. B) Walk. C) Run. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speak. 19. Who invented rugby? A) John Harrison. B) William Webb Ellis. C) Frank Whittle. D) James Clerk Maxwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Webb Ellis. 20. When was the first vacuum cleaner invented? A) 1862. B) 1864. C) 1869. D) 1867. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1869. 21. A candle needs ..... to burn? A) A flame. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Oxygen. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxygen. 22. The United States has listed which Indian telecommunications company among 'Clean Telcos'? A) BSNL. B) Vodafone Idea. C) Bharti Airtel. D) Reliance Jio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reliance Jio. 23. Who invented wireless communication A) Jagdish Chandra Bose. B) Albert Einstein. C) Nikola Tesla. D) Abraham Lincon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jagdish Chandra Bose. 24. The technology can be used for other purposes such as ..... A) Changing the flavour of ketchup. B) Keeping water safely away from aeroplanes. C) Keeping liquids in boxes instead of bottles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Keeping water safely away from aeroplanes. 25. Who invented the traffic light? A) Garrett Morgan. B) Thomas Edison. C) Alexander Graham Bell. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Garrett Morgan. 26. Pick a theme flag for Edison's Best Inventions A) Courage. B) Kindness. C) Compassion. D) Perseverance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perseverance. 27. Who invented Rabies Vaccine? A) Rutherford. B) Robert Koch. C) Ferdinand Cohn. D) Louis Pasteur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Louis Pasteur. 28. The majority of people are ..... to the internet these days. A) Disconnected. B) Connection. C) Connect. D) Connected. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connected. 29. Thomas Edison was an A) Electrician and farmer. B) President and lawyer. C) Inventor and engineer. D) Printer and Librarian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inventor and engineer. 30. Which innovation allowed factories to be built anywhere? A) Spinning jenny. B) Steam engine. C) Flying shuttle. D) Cotton gin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steam engine. 31. ..... his physical handicap, he has become a successful businessman. A) Because of. B) Because. C) Despite. D) Though. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Despite. 32. What is the role of the electronic iron? A) To fond clothes. B) To iron clothes. C) To mend clothes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To iron clothes. 33. What famous invention of the 15th century made reading possible for the general public? A) Typewriter. B) Spectacles. C) Public Library. D) Printing Press. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Printing Press. 34. Who created the motion picture camera? A) Alexander Graham Bell. B) Henry Bessemer. C) Thomas Edison. D) Henry Ford. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Edison. 35. Nikola Tesla created what? A) Coil, AC, induction motor. B) Telephone. C) Phonograph and light bulb. D) Cotton gin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coil, AC, induction motor. 36. What George Westinghouse invented? A) Refrigerator. B) Electric razor. C) Light bulb. D) Railway air brakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Railway air brakes. 37. When was the first robotic vacuum cleaner invented? A) 1996. B) 2005. C) 2000. D) 2010. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1996. 38. George directed this subject when he worked at the Tuskegee Institute. A) Music. B) Science. C) Literature (reading). D) Agriculture (farming). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agriculture (farming). 39. What name have scientists given to the hypothetical woman who first planted seeds? A) Mother Earth. B) Planting Lady. C) Ceres. D) Farming Mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Farming Mother. 40. According to the table and the passage, TV and movie cameras were inspired by A) Phonographs. B) Jukeboxes. C) Lightbulbs. D) Kinetographs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kinetographs. 41. The process of invention has to do not only with the necessity of creating something to survive, but also with our exploratory playful state of mind. A) True. B) False. C) Not mentioned. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. The computer mouse was first introduced in A) 1975. B) 1971. C) 1963. D) 1955. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1963. 43. In 1875, this person created a machine that could transmit the human voice over wire. A) Theodore Roosevelt. B) Alexander Grahm Bell. C) Thomas Edison. D) George Washington Carver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alexander Grahm Bell. 44. Who is the inventor of the first modern computer? A) Howard Aiken. B) Alexander Graham Bell. C) Karl Benz. D) Henry Ford. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Howard Aiken. 45. What is the best definition for innovation? A) The improvement of something that already exists. B) The creation of something new. C) Changing something that does not yet exist. D) The creation of something old. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The improvement of something that already exists. 46. Simpson and Harrison are associated with the invention of A) Perfume. B) Boson. C) Balloon. D) Chloroform. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chloroform. 47. Why did the invention of the cotton gin lead to an increase in the number of slaves in the South? A) It needed to be repaired a lot. B) More slaves were needed to clean the cotton. C) Lots of slaves were needed to produce and harvest more cotton. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lots of slaves were needed to produce and harvest more cotton. 48. Vulcanized rubber was invented by A) Charles Perkins. B) Charles Goodyear. C) Charles Grafton Page. D) Charles Gorrie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Goodyear. 49. Which inventions did Thomas Edison invent? A) Light bulb. B) Telegraph. C) Movie camera. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 50. What office item was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham in 1951? A) Liquid Paper. B) Stapler. C) Fax machine. D) Copy machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Liquid Paper. 51. What device did Alexander Graham Bell create that changed communications forever? A) Telegraph. B) Telephone. C) Electrical services. D) Internet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Telephone. 52. The telegraph was invented by ..... A) Samuel Slater. B) Samuel Sneed. C) Samuel L Jackson. D) Samuel Morse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Samuel Morse. 53. The criteria and constraints of a product or system and the determination of how they affect the final design and development are called A) Recommendations. B) Resources. C) Risks. D) Requirements. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Requirements. 54. Who invented Bakelite? A) Leo Hendrik Baekeland. B) Charles Goodyear. C) Henry Ford. D) Roy Plunkett. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leo Hendrik Baekeland. 55. Which one of the inventions from your chart changed the way goods and people were transported? A) Cotton Gin. B) Telephone. C) Light Bulb. D) Steam Engine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Steam Engine. 56. Mercury Thermometer A) Benjamin Franklin. B) Samuel Morse. C) Fahrenheit. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fahrenheit. 57. Electronic Computer was invented by A) J.G. Brainerd. B) J.P. Eckert. C) J.W. Mauchly. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 58. Why is Madagascar special? A) It is the 4th largest island in the world. B) It is home to many plants and animals that are found nowhere else on Earth. C) It is endangered and at risk of becoming extinct. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 59. Who was the first person to patent the JET ENGINE? A) F. Whittle. B) Lindbergh. C) W. Histell. D) Owings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F. Whittle. 60. Robert Fulton's steamboat was called the ..... A) Catamount. B) Claireridge. C) Clermont. D) Santa Clara. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clermont. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTechnology QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesInventions Quiz 1Inventions Quiz 2Inventions Quiz 3Inventions Quiz 4Inventions Quiz 5Inventions Quiz 6Inventions Quiz 7Inventions Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books