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Inventors From Around The World Quiz

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James Watt was an inventor who, in 1776, formulated a massive improvement to what technology that allowed it to become a much more feasible product?
The loom
The coal furnace
The steam engine
The light bulb

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Herman Hollerith helped revolutionize the world of analytical engines by making machines that could read data stored on which of the following?
Punch cards
U.S.B. drives
Compact discs
Engraved keys

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Alexander Fleming invented/discovered what antibiotic substance that was made from certain molds?
Cordite
Penicillin
Ibuprofen
Carusoll

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Elisha Otis invented what device?
The automobile
The dumbwaiter
The escalator
The elevator

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These large rigid airships of Germany that were used during the 20th Century are named which of the following which is a reference to their inventor?
Zepplins
Hauers
Bilholms
Cartiers

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What famous philosopher is also known for inventing some of the first mechanical calculators ever?
Blaise Pascal
Aristotle
Immanuel Kant
Soren Kierkegaard

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Cai Lun was a pioneer who helped invent the process for making modern paper. What nation did Cai Lun hail from?
The U.S.A.
Indonesia
Vietnam
China

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Samuel Morse is known for inventing his namesake code that was used to communicate through what device?
The telegraph
The telephone
The signal flare
Signal flags

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Edward Jenner is credited as the inventor of the first successful vaccine. He created this vaccine to protect people from what disease?
Cholera
Smallpox
Diphtheria
Measles

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What famous Greek mathematician and inventor created both the pulley system and the screw pump?
Homer
Archimedes
Socrates
Sophocles

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What is the name of the man who first invented dynamite?
James Hargreaves
Wesley Dunm
James Joyce
Alfred Nobel

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Anders Celsius invented the Celsius scale which measures what property of matter?
Angle
Acceleration
Temperature
Density

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John Walker invented which of the following devices?
Candles
Matches
Lighters
Chimneys

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James Hargreaves helped spark the Industrial Revolution with what device that he created?
The Spinning Jenny
The Sewing Louise
The Stitching Charlotte
The Fabricating Frances

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Phonographs and the first practical lightbulbs were produced by what famous inventor called "The Wizard of Menlo Park"?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Thomas Edison
Howard Dailey
Alvin Gross

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Wilhelm Rontgen's last name is sometimes attached to the product that he invented. What is this device?
The solar panel
The x-ray
The handgun
The automobile engine

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George de Mestral invented what product that uses prickly and soft materials to fasten to objects together?
Alshear
Safety pins
Velcro
Dunwich screws

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Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of what software platform that hosts the vast majority of content on the internet?
The Cloud
The Server
The World Wide Web
The Dark Web

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Carl Benz invented the first cars with gas combustion engines. What brand of modern German luxury cars bears his name?
Chrysler-Benz
Acura-Benz
Volkswagen-Benz
Mercedes-Benz

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Louis Daguerre is recognized as the inventor of the camera because the photos that he took avoided what problem that prior cameras would cause?
His photos would not spontaneously combust.
His photos were permanent.
His photos did not produce dangerous radiation.
His photos did not come out backward.

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What genius mathematician is known for inventing some of the first mechanical computers with assistance from Ada Lovelace?
Matthew Cronkite
Charles Babbage
Douglas Macallister
Philip Oxenford

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What is the name of the famous inventor of the printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
Carl Offenbarcher
Zdislav Izuldahss
Berkut Manislav

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What pair of brothers changed history by making the first airplane which they flew successfully at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?
Inventors From Around The World Quiz
The Skorzeny Brothers
The Wright Brothers
The Hart Brothers
The Michaels Brothers

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John Logie-Baird invented what modern commodity?
The washing machine
The television
The cell phone
The laptop computer

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Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Italian inventor, is responsible for the creation of what instrument?
The guitar
The trumpet
The piano
The violin

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Karl Drais is the inventor of the original bicycles. What country did Drais hail from?
Russia
Slovenia
Germany
France

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Some of the first plastics, called parkesines, were invented by what man whose name they borrowed from?
Parker Lloyd
Park Weber
Anthony Packard
Alexander Parkes

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Nikola Tesla is known for inventing, among other things, the first power generators that used what type of electricity that is in opposition to direct current electricity?
Alternating current
Split current
Detouring current
Staggered current

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The tactile alphabet of bumps used to convey information to the blind was invented by what individual for whom the alphabet is named?
Gregory Saint-Cloud
Astonza Montalban
Alvin Sachs
Louis Braille

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Alexander Graham Bell is known for inventing which of the following?
The telephone
The seed drill
The handgun
The wheelchair

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