Inventions Mcqs - General Knowledge Question and Answers

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1. 1 Electric motor was invented by ______________
   

   1. Rutherford

   2. Faraday

   3. Isaac Newton

   4. Henry Cavendish

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   Answer

   : Faraday

   Explanation

   :
   Michael Faraday - his biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.

2. 2 Battery was invented by _____
   

   1. Alessandro Volta

   2. Michael Faraday

   3. Georg Ohm

   4. None

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   Answer

   : Alessandro Volta

   Explanation

   :
   Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.

3. 3 Who build the first modern motorcar which worked with Gasoline ?
   

   1. Henry Austin

   2. Henry Burmann

   3. John Volta

   4. Karl Benz

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   Answer

   : Karl Benz

   Explanation

   :
   Karl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and automobile engineer. His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 is considered the first practical automobile.

4. 4 Thermometer was the invention of _____
   

   1. Galileo

   2. Nicolaus Copernicus

   3. Johannes Kepler

   4. Aristotle

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   Answer

   : Galileo

   Explanation

   :
   A Galileo thermometer is a thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying mass.

5. 5 Telephone was a invention of _______
   

   1. Graham Bell

   2. Marconi

   3. Sikorsky

   4. None

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   Answer

   : Graham Bell

   Explanation

   :
   Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone and founding the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.

6. 6 TV was invented by _______
   

   1. Graham Bell

   2. Marconi

   3. Sikorsky

   4. John Logie Baird

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   Answer

   : John Logie Baird

   Explanation

   :
   John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926

7. 7 World wide web was discovered by ____
   

   1. Tim Berners Lee

   2. Vint Cerf

   3. Alan Turing

   4. None

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   Answer

   : Tim Berners Lee

   Explanation

   :
   Tim Berners Lee is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

8. 8 Radio was discovered by ______
   

   1. Sikorsky

   2. Marconi

   3. Newton

   4. Henry Cavendish

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   Answer

   : Marconi

   Explanation

   :
   Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system

9. 9 Who discovered the atomic nucleus ?
   

   1. Ernest Rutherford

   2. Neils Bohr

   3. John Dalton

   4. James Chadwick

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   Answer

   : Ernest Rutherford

   Explanation

   :
   Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics.

10. 10 Who developed oral polio vaccine ?
    

    1. Jonas Salk

    2. Maurice Hileman

    3. Edword Jenner

    4. Albert Sabin

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    Answer

    : Albert Sabin

    Explanation

    :
    Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease.