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Famous Inventors

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first person to name the charges positive and negative in electricity?

a)

Franklin

b)

Edison

c)

Tesla

d)

Newton

2.

Who invented the first motion picture camera

a)

Edison

b)

Morse

c)

Berners-Lee

d)

Tesla

3.

What was the name of the gas powered car that Ford created?

a)

Model-X

b)

Model-S

c)

Model-T

d)

Model-F

4.

Which two inventors worked at companies named after Edison

a)

Ford+Bell

b)

Ford+Tesla

c)

Berners-Lee+Morse

d)

Tesla+Morse

5.

Which inventor was mainly self educated?

a)

Edison

b)

Tesla,

c)

Morse

d)

Lamar

6.

Who carried out many experiments on his own in New York?

a)

Edison

b)

Jobs

c)

Tesla

d)

Bella

7.

Which inventor was first a portrait painter?

a)

Morse

b)

Tesla

c)

Jobs

d)

Lamarr

8.

Which African country is William Kamkwamba from?

a)

Kenya

b)

Malawi

c)

Botswana

d)

Zimbabwe

9.

Which university in the US was William given a scholarship to?

a)

Yale

b)

Dartmouth

c)

Cornell

d)

Duke

10.

Who was the apple cofounder alongside Steve Jobs?

a)

Mark Zuckerburg

b)

Paul Allen

c)

Steve Wozniak

11.

What did Steve Jobs die of?

a)

Kidney Failure

b)

Cancer

c)

Heart Attack

12.

Who made the early versions of the metal detector ?

a)

Edison

b)

Bell

c)

Morse

d)

Franklin

13.

Who worked on HTTP and URLs?

a)

Jobs

b)

Burners-Lee

c)

Morse

d)

Lamarr

14.

What degree did Berners-Lee graduate with?

a)

Architecture

b)

Engineering

c)

Physics BA

d)

Chemistry

15.

During what major event did Lamarr develop the radio guidance system?

a)

WW1

b)

Cold War

c)

WW2

d)

Hungarian War

16.

What did Lamarr’s radio system prevent that others before didn’t ?

a)

Frequency Dropping

b)

Signal Intercept

c)

Eavesdropping