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Scientists and Inventions

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented telephone?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Nicholas David The Third

c)

Edison

d)

Virat Kohli

2.

Who discovered electricity?

a)

Rutherford

b)

Copernicus

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Stan Lee

3.

Who made the first plane?

a)

Wright Brothers

b)

John Brothers

c)

Alfred Nobel

d)

Usain Bolt

4.

Who discovered gravity?

a)

Roy Williams

b)

Roger Madison

c)

Neil Bohr

d)

Sir Isaac Newton

5.

Who created Microsoft Windows?

a)

Donald trump

b)

Bill Gates and Paul Allen

c)

Mahatma Gandhi

d)

Aladin

6.

Who is this?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Rahul Dravid

c)

Ranak Salter

d)

Sugai Linio

7.

Who is this?

a)

Madam Curie

b)

Elizabeth Calton

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Shisuka

8.

True or False

Scientists keep what they learn only to themselves

a)

False

b)

True

9.

Who is this?

a)

Imran Khan

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

Ninja Hatori

d)

Nick Fury

10.

What do we call scientists that deals with the study of living organisms?

a)

Geologists

b)

Historians

c)

Paleontologists

d)

Biologists

11.

Which of the following statements is definitely true about scientists?

a)

They do not create new things.

b)

They do not record truthful data

c)

They love figuring out why things happen.

d)

They are not curious with the things around them.

12.

Which of the following was invented by Henry Ford?

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.

Who believed in the theory that the Sun is the center of the universe and not the Earth?

a)

Nicolaus Copernicus

b)

John Oliver

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

Ferdinand Marcos

14.

Before, people used straight strings and pins to hold paper together. In 1867, Samuel Fay invented the first one.

a)

The Paperclip

b)

The Stapler

c)

The Telephone

d)

The Elevator

15.

This invention helped architects design taller buildings. It allowed people to travel vertically from a floor to another.

a)

The Desk

b)

The Bed

c)

The Elevator

d)

The Staircase

16.

It was invented by the Chinese Cai Lun. In the past, people carved texts into stone or bone.

a)

The Pen

b)

The Paper

c)

The Folder

d)

The Pencil

17.

The telescope were invented around the year...

a)

1500

b)

1600

c)

1700

d)

1800

18.
Who invented the telegraph in 1840?
a)
James Hargreaves
b)
John Deer
c)
Samuel Morse
d)
John Montressor
19.

The first modern antibiotic was ....

a)

Pepto Bismol

b)

Amoxicillin

c)

Penicillin

d)

Metronidazole

20.
Inventions make our lives: 
a)
awful
b)
easier
c)
harder
d)
first
21.

Who is considered as the inventor of Video games?

a)

Ralph Baer in 1967.

b)

William A Burt in 1829

c)

Ladislo Biro in 1938.

22.

Fire was used by the early humans for…………..

a)

Cooking only

b)

To scare away the wild animals

c)

To get warmth

d)

A ,B and C are right

23.

The wheel was one of the most important inventions of the…………

a)

Stone Age

b)

Middle age

c)

Ancient age

d)

None of the above

24.
Who study animals?
a)
Paleontologist
b)
Zoologist
c)
Entomologist
d)
Botanist
25.

She was a Polish physicist and chemist. She did research on radioactivity. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. Who is she?

a)

Ada Lovelace

b)

Mary Anning

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Mary Somerville

26.

What object did Galileo first study in the night sky?

a)

Mars

b)

The Sun

c)

The Moon

d)

Venus

27.

What type of scientist is this?

a)

Meteorologist

b)

Astronomer

c)

Anthropologist

d)

Ecologist

28.

Who discovered the vaccine for smallpox?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Edward Jenner

d)

Stephen Hawkings

29.

Who discovered the light bulb?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Sir Isaac Newton

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Aristotle

30.

A person who studies how people live in groups

a)

social scientist

b)

archaeologists

c)

historian

d)

geographer

31.

Who is this?

a)

William Gates

b)

Steve Jobs

c)

Mark Zuckerberg

d)

Alan Turing