This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Technology > Inventions > Inventions – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Inventions Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. Which innovation allowed factories to be built anywhere? A) Flying shuttle. B) Spinning jenny. C) Cotton gin. D) Steam engine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Steam engine. 3. ..... his physical handicap, he has become a successful businessman. A) Because. B) Because of. C) Despite. D) Though. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Despite. 4. 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. 5. What famous invention of the 15th century made reading possible for the general public? A) Printing Press. B) Typewriter. C) Spectacles. D) Public Library. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Printing Press. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. What George Westinghouse invented? A) Light bulb. B) Electric razor. C) Refrigerator. D) Railway air brakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Railway air brakes. 9. When was the first robotic vacuum cleaner invented? A) 1996. B) 2000. C) 2005. D) 2010. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1996. 10. George directed this subject when he worked at the Tuskegee Institute. A) Agriculture (farming). B) Science. C) Literature (reading). D) Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agriculture (farming). 11. What name have scientists given to the hypothetical woman who first planted seeds? A) Ceres. B) Farming Mother. C) Planting Lady. D) Mother Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farming Mother. 12. Who invented Jet Engine? A) Sir Frank Whittle. B) Gottlieb Daimler. C) Roger Bacon. D) Lewis E. Waterman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Frank Whittle. 13. According to the table and the passage, TV and movie cameras were inspired by A) Kinetographs. B) Phonographs. C) Jukeboxes. D) Lightbulbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kinetographs. 14. 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. 15. The computer mouse was first introduced in A) 1955. B) 1963. C) 1971. D) 1975. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1963. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. What is the best definition for innovation? A) The creation of something new. B) The improvement of something that already exists. C) The creation of something old. D) Changing something that does not yet exist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The improvement of something that already exists. 19. Simpson and Harrison are associated with the invention of A) Perfume. B) Boson. C) Balloon. D) Chloroform. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chloroform. 20. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTechnology QuizzesInventions Quiz 1Inventions Quiz 2Inventions Quiz 3Inventions Quiz 4Inventions Quiz 5Inventions Quiz 6Inventions Quiz 7Inventions Quiz 8Inventions Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books