Famous Inventors Quiz

Who is known as the 'Wizard of Menlo Park' and invented the phonograph and the first practical electric light bulb?

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

Who is credited with inventing the telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Benjamin Franklin

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

Who is famous for his experiments with electricity and is known for inventing the lightning rod and bifocals?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Isaac Newton

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Edison

Who developed hundreds of products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans, including plastics, paints, and dyes?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Washington Carver

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Edison

Who is known for inventing the motion picture camera and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb?

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

Who is famous for inventing the first practical telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

• Benjamin Franklin

Who is known for his experiments with electricity and is famous for flying a kite in a thunderstorm to prove that lightning is electricity?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Isaac Newton

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

Who is famous for developing agricultural products and for promoting alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington Carver

• Benjamin Franklin

Who is known for inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

• Nikola Tesla

Who is famous for inventing the first practical telephone and for establishing the Bell Telephone Company?

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

• Benjamin Franklin

• Alexander Graham Bell