Inventions Quiz 18 (20 MCQs)

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1. What furniture item was invented by California furniture designer Charles Prior Hall in 1968?

Correct Answer: C) Waterbed.

2. What invention improved long distance communication?

Correct Answer: A) Telegraph.

3. What item, originally called the 'Whirlwind', was invented by Ives McGaffey in 1869?

Correct Answer: D) Vacuum cleaner.

4. Who invented Bicycle?

Correct Answer: A) Kirkpatrick Macmillan.

5. Which vehicle was invented about 3000 BCE?

Correct Answer: D) The chariot.

6. Insulin was discovered by

Correct Answer: C) Fredrick Banting.

7. Playing cards was invented in 9th century in

Correct Answer: A) JuanDynasty China.

8. Neutron was discovered by

Correct Answer: A) Chadwick.

9. Who discovered oxygen?

Correct Answer: B) Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley.

10. Government helps inventors and innovators of technology protect and control the use of their ideas for a limited time, by giving them a

Correct Answer: A) Patent.

11. What is a profit?

Correct Answer: D) The amount of money you make.

12. He is the Inventor of the WWW (World Wide Web)

Correct Answer: A) Tim Berners-Lee.

13. Who invented Gunpowder?

Correct Answer: C) Roger Bacon.

14. Which invention helped coordinate railroad travel?

Correct Answer: A) Telegraph.

15. This helped sailors navigate.

Correct Answer: B) Compass.

16. The idea for Velcro came from

Correct Answer: B) Plants.

17. Who ruled China during the Yuan Dynasty?

Correct Answer: B) Kublai Khan.

18. Which one of the inventions from your chart changed the way cotton was processed?

Correct Answer: A) Cotton Gin.

19. Who among the following invented the small pox vaccine?

Correct Answer: B) Edward Jenner.

20. The cotton gin .....

Correct Answer: A) Helped speed up cotton production.