What is Alfred Nobel known for inventing?
- A) Telescope
- B) Light bulb
- C) Bullets
- D) Dynamite
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Answer:
Dynamite
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Who created the Model T automobile?
- A) Henry Ford
- B) Alexander Graham Bell
- C) Eli Whitney Jr.
- D) Andrew Carnegie
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Answer:
Henry Ford
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Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s Founding Fathers, invented what?
- A) Light bulb
- B) Electricity
- C) Lightning rod
- D) Power grid
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Answer:
Lightning rod
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John Spilsbury was once a royal cartographer for Great Britain’s George III. Today, he is best known for inventing what?
- A) Maps
- B) Bookbinding methods
- C) Jigsaw puzzles
- D) Typewriter
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Answer:
Jigsaw puzzles
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What did Wilbur and Orville Wright, also commonly known as the Wright brothers, invent?
- A) Bicycles
- B) The airplane
- C) Trains
- D) Hot air balloons
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Answer:
The airplane
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Who was the first person to invent the electric battery?
- A) Alessandro Volta
- B) Michael Faraday
- C) Luigi Galvani
- D) Thomas Edison
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Answer:
Alessandro Volta
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Who invented the motion picture camera?
- A) Alexander Graham Bell
- B) Nikola Tesla
- C) Thomas Edison and his assistant William Dickson
- D) Eli Whitney
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Answer:
Thomas Edison and his assistant William Dickson
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What did the American inventor Eli Whitney create in 1793?
- A) Cotton gin
- B) Typewriter
- C) Telephone
- D) Water well
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Answer:
Cotton gin
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Who developed frequency hopping technology, which eventually became Wi-Fi?
- A) Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn
- B) Hedy Lamarr
- C) Thomas Edison
- D) Nikola Tesla
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Answer:
Hedy Lamarr
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What did Thomas Edison invent and successfully patent?
- A) Light bulb
- B) Printer
- C) Telescope
- D) Super-powered telescope
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Answer:
Light bulb
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Who created and patented the first practical telephone?
- A) Thomas Edison
- B) Andrew Carnegie
- C) Alexander Graham Bell
- D) Samuel Morse
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Answer:
Alexander Graham Bell
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Who invented and developed more than 300 different products — all from peanuts?
- A) George Washington
- B) George Washington Carver
- C) Garrett Morgan
- D) Ruth Wakefield
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Answer:
George Washington Carver
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What did Isaac Newton invent in 1668?
- A) AC electricity
- B) Fire extinguisher
- C) Printing press
- D) Reflecting telescope
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Answer:
Reflecting telescope
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Who invented printing by movable type?
- A) Alexander Graham Bell
- B) Leonardo da Vinci
- C) Johannes Gutenberg
- D) Nicolaus Copernicus
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Answer:
Johannes Gutenberg
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Earle Dickson, once the vice president of Johnson & Johnson, created this product for his accident-prone wife…?
- A) Band-aids
- B) Penicillin
- C) The polio vaccine
- D) Insulin
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Answer:
Band-aids
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