What’s the World’s Greatest Invention?

The first telephone was invented in …

• 1850

• 1876

• 1880

• 1900

….. made the first powered airplane flight on December 17, 1903

• Orville Wright

• Adam Osborne

• Alan Kay

• Carl Robnett Licklider

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The first iPhone was released in …

• 2001

• 2003 

• 2005

• 2007

In ______, Apple finally released their first ever laptops (the Macintosh Portable). It costed about 6,5000 dollars but at the time it wasn't really that popular and it didn't sell well.

• 1975

• 1979

• 1989

• 1991

The origins of the internet are rooted in the USA of the ….. The Cold War was at its height and huge tensions existed between North America and the Soviet Union.

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1940s

• 1950s

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One of the early developments in toilet technology was made by Sir John Harington, an English courtier and writer, who designed a flushing water closet in the late …... century.

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

• 17th

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Though ______ is credited as the man who invented the lightbulb (1879), several inventors paved the way for him.

• Thomas Edison

• Menlo Park

• William Sawyer

• Humphrey Davy

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The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the ______ Carl Benz, is widely regarded as the world's first practical automobile, a self-propelled vehicle for carrying people, and first car put into series production.

• Spanish

• German

• French

• Austrian

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5G technology offers faster data speeds that enables innovations in healthcare, manufacturing, and autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things (IoT). It is one of the most important inventions of the ….........century. 

• 18th

• 19th

• 20th

• 20st

The earliest robots as we know them were created in the early _____ by George C. Devol, an inventor from Louisville, Kentucky.

• 1940s

• 1950s

• 1950s

• 1960s

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