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SCIENCE INVENTIONS

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 57mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these BEST describes how Alexander Graham Bell’s invention impacted the world?

a)

It made long distance travel faster and easier.

b)

It helped mail reach people much more quickly.

c)

It led to the creation of the motion picture industry.

d)

It allowed people to talk to one another over greater distances.

2.

He invented the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Rube Goldberg

3.

____________ designed and built the first controlled, powered airplane in Dayton, Ohio.

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

The Wright Brothers

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Benjamin Franklin

4.

He invented a system which helps blind people read.

a)

Louis Braille

b)

Franklin C. Mars

c)

Rube Goldberg

d)

Milton Hershey

5.

Thomas Edison invented the __________.

a)

bifocals

b)

lightening rod

c)

light bulb

6.

Who developed cures for rabies and anthrax, and made milk safer to drink?

a)

Antoine Lavoisier

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)

Louis Pasteur

7.

Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Niels Bohr

8.

Who collected evidence over 20 years and published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859)?

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Charles Darwin

9.

The Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, ___

a)

Penicillin

b)

Phlogiston

c)

Aspirin

d)

Amoxicillin

10.

Which English theoretical physicist authored The Theory of Everything, and A Brief History of Time?

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Ernest Rutherford

11.
"Everything that goes up must come down."
a)
Max Planck
b)
Isaac Newton
c)
Albert Einstein
d)
Justus Liebig
12.

Who discovered the vaccine for smallpox?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Edward Jenner

d)

Stephen Hawkings

13.

What is Mary Anning known for?

a)

Being the first woman in space

b)

Her work regarding forces (mainly air resistance)

c)

Her work gaining insight to the Jurassic past

d)

Gaining insight into marine life

14.

Which ship did Charles Darwin sail on to the Galapagos islands?

a)

HMS Beagle

b)

HMS Titanic

c)

HMS Poodle

d)

HMS Victory

15.

Which of these BEST describes how Alexander Graham Bell’s invention impacted the world?

a)

It made long distance travel faster and easier.

b)

It helped mail reach people much more quickly.

c)

It led to the creation of the motion picture industry.

d)

It allowed people to talk to one another over greater distances.

16.

He invented the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Rube Goldberg

17.

____________ designed and built the first controlled, powered airplane in Dayton, Ohio.

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

The Wright Brothers

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Benjamin Franklin

18.

He invented a system which helps blind people read.

a)

Louis Braille

b)

Franklin C. Mars

c)

Rube Goldberg

d)

Milton Hershey

19.

Thomas Edison invented the __________.

a)

bifocals

b)

lightening rod

c)

light bulb

20.

Who developed cures for rabies and anthrax, and made milk safer to drink?

a)

Antoine Lavoisier

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)

Louis Pasteur

21.

Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Niels Bohr

22.

Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Niels Bohr

23.

Who collected evidence over 20 years and published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859)?

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Charles Darwin

24.

The Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, ___

a)

Penicillin

b)

Phlogiston

c)

Aspirin

d)

Amoxicillin

25.

Which English theoretical physicist authored The Theory of Everything, and A Brief History of Time?

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Ernest Rutherford

26.
Who invented the first light bulb?
a)
Aristotle
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Wright brothers
27.
"Everything that goes up must come down."
a)
Max Planck
b)
Isaac Newton
c)
Albert Einstein
d)
Justus Liebig
28.

Who discovered the vaccine for smallpox?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Edward Jenner

d)

Stephen Hawkings

29.

What is Mary Anning known for?

a)

Being the first woman in space

b)

Her work regarding forces (mainly air resistance)

c)

Her work gaining insight to the Jurassic past

d)

Gaining insight into marine life

30.

Which ship did Charles Darwin sail on to the Galapagos islands?

a)

HMS Beagle

b)

HMS Titanic

c)

HMS Poodle

d)

HMS Victory

31.

Who is this woman, known for her work on radioactivity and treatment for cancer?

a)

Jane Goodall

b)

Rosalind Franklin

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Mary Anning

32.

Inventor of the Web

a)

Ted Nelson

b)

Tim Berners-Lee

c)

Marc Andressen

d)

Ray Tomlinson

33.

Inventor of the Web

a)

Ted Nelson

b)

Tim Berners-Lee

c)

Marc Andressen

d)

Ray Tomlinson

34.

George Washington Carver made important contributions to the advancement of

a)

medicine

b)

astronomy

c)

crop science

d)

energy production

35.
He invented the telephone in 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
The Wright Brothers
36.
Who invented the first airplane that could successfully hold a human and an engine in 1903.
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
The Wright Brothers
37.

Alberto Barton is an inventor from

a)

England

b)

Kenya

c)

Peru

d)

China

38.

Who invented the famous cotton gin?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Jo Anderson

c)

Robert Fulton

d)

Benjamin Franklin

39.
Who improved the steamboat?
a)
Jo Anderson
b)
Eli Whitney
c)
Robert Fulton
40.

The inventor Alessandro Volta is associated with...

a)

inventing the fridge

b)

inventing the light bulb

c)

inventing the electric battery

d)

inventing the steam engine

41.

The first commercial ______-powered device was a water pump, developed in 1698 by Thomas Savery. It used condensing _______ to create a vacuum which raised water from below and then used ______ pressure to raise it higher.

a)

steel

b)

steam

c)

nuclear

d)

electric

42.

The first cars were built ....

a)

in 1790s

b)

in 1890s

c)

in 1920s

d)

in 1940s

43.

What is a major component used in buildings, infrastructure, tools, ships, automobiles, machines, appliances, and weapons?

a)

electricity

b)

steam

c)

nuclear power

d)

steel

44.

The first Internet was named....

a)

ARPANET

b)

World Wide Web (www)

c)

NSFNET

d)

UNIX

45.

Robert Taylor, Lawrence Roberts, Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf worked on projects to ...

a)

invent the airplane

b)

invent the light bulb

c)

invent the Internet

d)

invent the refrigerated system

46.

Who improved Humphry Davy's invention?

a)

Thomas Alva Edison

b)

Otto Hahn

c)

Amedeo Avogadro

d)

Georg Simon Ohm

47.
Samuel Morse created what?
a)
morse code
b)
lightbulb
c)
phonograph
d)
cotton gin
48.
Nikola Tesla created what?
a)
coil, AC, induction motor
b)
telephone
c)
phonograph and light bulb
d)
cotton gin
49.
Henry Ford created what?
a)
coil, AC, induction motor
b)
automobile and assembly line
c)
phonograph and light bulb
d)
airplane
50.
Who invented the steamboat 1804?
a)
Cyrus Mc Cormick
b)
Elias Howe
c)
Samuel F.B. Morse
d)
Robert Fulton
51.
The Bessemer process, invented by Henry Bessemer, was created to produce...
a)
cotton
b)
peanuts
c)
steel
d)
electricity
52.

Who invented different products using peanuts?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Henry Ford

53.

Which scientist among these not contributed for the invention of transistor?

a)

Walter Brattain

b)

John Bardeen

c)

William Shockley

d)

Linus Pauling

54.

This German scientist invented PVC(Polyvinyl Chloride). who is he?

a)

Eugen Baumann

b)

Waldo Semon

c)

Carl Schotten

d)

Herman Von Fehling

55.

Who invented the fire extinguisher?

a)

Michael Faraday

b)

Richard Trevithick

c)

George William Manby

d)

James Dewar

56.

Who invented the method of vulcanization of rubber?

a)

Charles Goodyear

b)

John Dunlop

c)

Thomas Hancock

d)

Charles Macintosh

57.

Which German scientist discovered the X ray machine?

a)

Wilhelm Rontgen

b)

Henry Becquerel

c)

Phillip Lenard

d)

Marie Curie

58.

Who is the founder of radar system?

a)

Eric Megaw

b)

Arnold Wilkins

c)

Heinrich Hertz

d)

Robert Watson

59.

Who invented the Hydrogen bomb in 1952?

a)

Enrico Fermi

b)

Edward Teller

c)

John Neumann

d)

Ernest Lawrence

60.

Who is the inventor of the Polio vaccine?

a)

Jonas Salk

b)

Albert Sabin

c)

Thomas Francis

d)

Donna Lindsay

61.

Who discovered Insulin?

a)

Edward Jenner

b)

Fredrick Banting

c)

Charles Best

d)

James Collip

62.

who invented the method of vulcanization rubber?

a)

Jack Kilby

b)

Adolf Dassler

c)

Hans Geiger

d)

Charles Goodyear

63.

Who invented the compass?

a)

William Thomson

b)

Rudolf Clausius

c)

Nicolas Leonard

d)

Anders Celsius

64.

For a certain research Albert Einstein won the Nobel Chemistry prize in 1921.What is that?

a)

Quantum Physics

b)

Photoelectric effect

c)

Chemical Science

d)

Earth and related environmental sciences

65.

What is the protozoa which causes Malaria?

a)

Aconoidasida

b)

Plasmodium

c)

Amoeba

d)

Paramecium

66.

Which scientist is considered as the"Father of Quantum physics"?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Max Planck

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Niels Bohr

67.

For discovering which subatomic structure, James Chadwick was awarded with the Nobel physics prize in 1935?

a)

Proton

b)

Electron

c)

Neutron

d)

Mesosome

68.

Which Austrian scientist discovered the human blood groups?

a)

Karl Landsteiner

b)

Phillip Levine

c)

Jan Jansky

d)

Alexander Wiener

69.

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in

a)

Boston, Massachusetts

b)

Edinburgh, Massachusetts

c)

Edinburgh, Scotland

d)

Graham, Scotland

70.

When Alexander Graham Bell was a young boy, he invented a machine that could clean

a)

Wheat

b)

An entire house

c)

A car engine

d)

dirty clothes

71.

Alexander Graham Bell became interested in the science of sound because

a)

he loved science and music

b)

he was deaf

c)

his mother and wife were deaf

d)

his children were deaf

72.

In 2014, the director James Marsh made a movie called "The Theory of Everything". It's about my personal life.

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Nicola Tesla

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Arquimedes

73.

I was the first scientist to say "Eureka!"

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Arquimedes

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

James Watson

74.

When I discovered the Teory of Evolution, everybody made fun of me.

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Archimedes

75.

I formulated my laws when a apple fell in my head

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Marie Curie

76.

My most famous discovery is the Law of Relativity

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Alexander G. Bell

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Albert Einstein

77.
Around what years were the airplane, telephone, light bulb and peanut farming in the South invented?
a)
Late 1900s
b)
Early 1900s
c)
2000s
d)
Last Year
78.

Marie Curie and her husband Pierre were awarded the Nobel Prize for _________ in 1903, and she received another one, for ___________, in 1911.

a)

Chemistry, Physics

b)

Science, Chemistry

c)

Physics, Chemistry

d)

Radiology, Science

79.

On July 4, 1934,Marie Curie died of ____________, a blood disease that is often caused by too much exposure to radiation.

a)

acute radiation syndrome

b)

cutaneous radiation syndrome

c)

anaphylaxis

d)

aplastic anemia

80.

Who invited the first telescope?

a)

Sir. Issac Newton

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Steve Jobs

81.

What country did Sir. Issac Newton live in?

a)

France

b)

England

c)

Germany

d)

United States

82.

Who invented math?

a)

Jack Septiceye

b)

The Devil

c)

Thales of Miletus

d)

Sir. Issac Newton

83.

Who invented the principles of vaccination?

a)

Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison

b)

John Wayne and Thomas Ford

c)

Louis Pasteur and Alexander Fleming

d)

Jacque Cousteau and Charles Darwin

84.

Who invented the first TV remote

a)

Sir. Issac Newton

b)

Benjarman Franklin

c)

Nicolas Tesla

d)

Homer Simpson

85.

Who mass produced the first Cell phones?

a)

Apple

b)

Android

c)

Radio Shack

d)

Nokia

86.

What was the very first nobel prize for phyics for?

a)

Sliced Bread

b)

X-ray machine

c)

Atomic Bomb

d)

Microscope

87.

When was the first electric car made?

a)

1981

b)

1991

c)

2001

d)

2011

88.

Who invented the first clock?

a)

David Banner

b)

Benjamin Banneker

c)

Benjamin Maker

d)

David Benjamin

89.

Fredrick McKinley Jones invented the ___ ___ ___ unit in the 1930's.

a)

portable air conditioning

b)

an engine motor

c)

a time machine

d)

a teleportation device

90.

Who invented the traffic light and the gas mask?

a)

George Jefferson

b)

Morgan Freeman

c)

Garrett Morgan

d)

George Crum

91.

This man invented 100 ways to use peanuts and sweet potato... Who is he?

a)

George Crum

b)

George Washington

c)

Curious George

d)

George Washington Carver

92.

____ invented the portable pencil sharpener in 1883

a)

John Joseph Love

b)

John Lewis

c)

John Lee Love

d)

John John

93.

Who invented the doorknob and door stop in 1878?

a)

Otis Boykin

b)

Osbourn Duran

c)

Ozzy Osbourne

d)

Osbourn Dorsey

94.

Who invented the guitar in 1886?

a)

Robert Flemming Jr.

b)

Roberto Clemente

c)

Robert Downing Jr.

d)

Robert Smith

95.

Who invented the ironing board?

a)

Sarah Allen

b)

Sarah Breedlove (Madam C.J. Walker)

c)

Sarah Moore

d)

Sarah Boone

96.

Carter G. Woodson is known as the _____.

a)

Father of Soul

b)

Father of Faith

c)

Father of Black History

d)

Father of Inventions

97.

What was the first invention in early human history?

a)

Stone Tools

b)

Fire

c)

Bow and Arrow

d)

Stones

98.
Where are the first traces of humans on earth? 
a)
Egypt
b)
East Africa (Rift Valley)
c)
Mesopotamia
d)
Yellow River
99.

Who designed and supervised construction of the Great Pyramid?

a)

Hemiunu

b)

Thutmoses III

c)

Enumah Elish

d)

Cheops

100.

When added to copper, tin creates _______ .

a)

iron

b)

steel

c)

bronze

d)

metal

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