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Great Invention That Changed The World

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The first glue made around 1750 in Britain was made from

a)

Cats

b)

Plants

c)

Fish

d)

Pigs

2.

One of the main safety in the car are Air Bags. It was first offered by In 1973, by

a)

Maruti Suzuki

b)

General Motors

c)

General Electricals

d)

Honda

3.

The First Air Conditioner was invented by in 1902 by

a)

Willis Carrier

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Alexander Graham bell

d)

Samuel Morse

4.

The concept of ambulance service was first started with the Knights of St. John in

a)

Rome

b)

London

c)

America

d)

Europe

5.

In 1937, Willem Kolff was the first to use an artificial heart and he used it on a

a)

Dog

b)

Cat

c)

Monkey

d)

Elephant

6.

The first company to manufacture the famous pain relieving drug Aspirin was

a)

Glemmark

b)

Johnson & Johnson

c)

Bayer

d)

Fortes

7.

A brand of artificial turf or synthetic grass on which games like hockey & football are played today, was invented by James Faria and Robert Wright we call it

a)

Grass

b)

Plastic Grass

c)

Giber grass

d)

AstroTurf

8.

Bankmatic automatic teller machine or ATM, was first invented by Luther Simjian in

a)

1939

b)

1945

c)

1920

d)

1938

9.

The automobile as we know it was not invented in a single day by a single inventor but span over 100 years. the first person who invented the truly mechanical Car for mass production

a)

Soichiro Honda

b)

Kia Hyundai

c)

John Ford

d)

Henry Ford

e)

Sam Driver

10.

A Hungarian journalist named Laszlo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in

a)

1938

b)

1928

c)

1947

d)

1962

11.

Band-Aid® was first invented by Earle Dickson in

a)

1900

b)

1920

c)

1986

d)

1982

12.

The Barbie doll was invented by Ruth Handler in

a)

1959

b)

1960

c)

1958

d)

1961

13.

Batteries were invented in 1800 by

a)

Ruth Handler

b)

Alssandro Volta

c)

James Faria

d)

Earle Dickson

14.

James Naismith invented the ball games which draws the attention of millions in the US , the game is called

a)

Cricket

b)

football

c)

Throw Ball

d)

basketball

15.

Ernest Michaux invented the bicycle with pedal and rotary cranks in

a)

1861

b)

1819

c)

1900

d)

1921

16.

The Bikini was first designed by Jacques Heim and Louis Reard and names after Bikini Atoll in 1946, they were

a)

Americans

b)

Germans

c)

French

d)

Polish

17.

Dr. Charles Richard Drew was the first person to develop the

a)

Sperm Bank

b)

Cell Bank

c)

blood bank

d)

Word Bank

18.

Blue jeans was first invented by

a)

Levi Strauss

b)

Flying Machin

c)

Killer

d)

wrangler

19.

The first mechanical calculating device called the calculator was designed and built by

a)

Wilson Greatbatch

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

William Schickard

d)

Charles Richard Drew

20.

The first-ever digital camera was created in 1975 by

a)

Kodak

b)

Canon

c)

Nikon

d)

Fujifilm

21.

Wilson Greatbatch, credited with inventing the implantable pacemaker in

a)

1914

b)

1947

c)

1958

d)

1950

22.

In 1963, the first company to demonstrate the use of compact audio cassette

a)

Sony

b)

Canon

c)

GoPro

d)

Philips

23.

In 1223 the first nativity scene was staged by

a)

St Bernard

b)

St Gabriel

c)

St Paul

d)

Francis of Assisi

24.

The man who created the electrical Bulb is also credited with decorating the first Christmas three with lights in 1880, his name is

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Lee Falk

c)

John Pemberton

d)

Adam Osborne

25.

Cloning is the process of creating genetically identical copies of biological matter. Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned in

a)

US

b)

India

c)

China

d)

Scotland

26.

Coca-Cola" was invented by Dr. John Pemberton in

a)

1886

b)

1902

c)

1940

d)

1800

27.

As kids we all know “Mandrake the Magician” and “The Phantom,” these comic scripts were created by

a)

Lee Falk in 1936

b)

John Hackings 1943

c)

Paul Answer 1930

d)

Peter Scot 1920

28.

1. The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called

a)

Osborne 1

b)

Lappie

c)

the Mobile Laptop

d)

The Laptop

29.

1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I computer and started Apple Computers it was on

a)

Independence Day

b)

Labour Day

c)

workers Day

d)

April Fool's Day

30.

Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower for the Paris World's Fair of 1889, which honored the 100th anniversary of the

a)

Parisian War

b)

French Revolution

c)

German Separation

d)

Guf war

31.

Ray Tomlinson invented internet-based email in late

a)

1971

b)

1961

c)

1981

d)

1991

32.

How Mark Zuckerberg Launched the World's Most Popular Social Media Network called

a)

Hotmail

b)

YouTube

c)

WhatsApp

d)

Facebook

33.

The history of computer printers began in 1938 when Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process called electrophotography—commonly called

a)

Printek

b)

Hewlett-Packard

c)

Canon

d)

Xerox

34.

The worlds first artificial Satellite was launched on October 4, 1957, by

a)

the Americans

b)

The Chinese

c)

the Russians

d)

the Indians

35.

A device that directly converts the energy in light into electrical energy is called

a)

Power Cells

b)

Batteries

c)

Solar Cell

d)

Cells

36.

The first country to issue postage stamp was

a)

USA

b)

Italy

c)

Great Britain

d)

Germany

37.

The famous Statue of Liberty was created by Bartholdi Who was a

a)

French

b)

German

c)

Persian

d)

Indian

38.

We all know that Seymour Cray created the first Super Computer, but today the world’s fastest supercomputer called TaihuLight is in

a)

China

b)

India

c)

USA

d)

Germany

39.

In the 1870s, Alexander Graham Bell designed devices that could transmit speech electrically which is commonly called the

a)

Projector

b)

Robert

c)

Telephone

d)

Fax Machin

40.

In 1724, the first mercury thermometer was invented by

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

c)

Christopher Sholes

d)

Bartholdi

41.

The world's first traffic lights in the world were installed in

a)

London

b)

New York

c)

Bath

d)

Edinburgh

42.

Portable entertainment called Walkman that forever changed the way consumers listen to music was developed by

a)

Sony

b)

Panasonic

c)

JVC

d)

Polar

43.

Christopher Sholes a mechanical engineer, who invented the first practical modern typewriter in 1866 he was an..

a)

Britsiher

b)

American

c)

German

d)

Polish

44.

A tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired is called Braille was invented by

a)

Samson Braille

b)

Susana Braille

c)

Louis Braille

d)

Pauline Braille

45.

Penicillin is one of the earliest discovered and most widely used antibiotic agents it was discovered by

a)

Sir Newton Thomas

b)

Sir Peniclin Thomas

c)

Sir Alexander Fleming

d)

Sir Gowin Thomas