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Famous Inventors and Their Inventions

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is known for his experiment with a kite and key to prove that lightning is a form of electricity?

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Alessandro Volta

d)

James Clerk Maxwell

2.

Who invented the first electric battery, called the voltaic pile?

a)

Michael Faraday

b)

Jack Kilby

c)

Alessandro Volta

d)

Claude Shannon

3.

Who discovered electromagnetic induction, which made electric motors and generators possible?

a)

William Shockley

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Michael Faraday

d)

Thomas Edison

4.

Who developed the first practical incandescent light bulb?

a)

Samuel Morse

b)

James Clerk Maxwell

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

5.

Who is known for his work with alternating current (AC) electricity systems?

a)

Jack Kilby

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Claude Shannon

d)

Robert Noyce

6.

Who formulated a set of equations that describe electricity and magnetism?

a)

James Clerk Maxwell

b)

William Shockley

c)

Gregorio Zara

d)

Ernesto De Castro

7.

Who invented the telegraph and Morse Code?

a)

Claude Shannon

b)

Samuel Morse

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Michael Faraday

8.

Who is credited with inventing the first wireless telegraph or radio signal system?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Guglielmo Marconi

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Jack Kilby

9.

Known as the father of modern digital communication and information theory.

a)

Claude Shannon

b)

Robert Noyce

c)

Nikola Tesla

d)

Ernesto De Castro

10.

Who invented the integrated circuit (microchip) used in electronics today?

a)

William Shockley

b)

Jack Kilby

c)

Gregorio Zara

d)

Diosdado Banatao

11.

Co-founder of Intel and co-inventor of the microchip.

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Robert Noyce

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Samuel Morse

12.

Invented the transistor and helped start the modern electronics era.

a)

William Shockley

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Gregorio Zara

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

13.

Who invented the two-way video telephone in the Philippines?

a)

Diosdado Banatao

b)

Gregorio Zara

c)

Ernesto De Castro

d)

Jack Kilby

14.

Who is a Filipino engineer known for inventing computer chips and founding several tech companies in Silicon Valley?

a)

Gregorio Zara

b)

William Shockley

c)

Diosdado Banatao

d)

Michael Faraday

15.

A Filipino engineer known for his work in power system automation and electronics education.

a)

Ernesto De Castro

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Robert Noyce

d)

Claude Shannon

16.

Who among the following focused on sending messages over long distances through electrical signals?

a)

Alessandro Volta

b)

Samuel Morse

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Diosdado Banatao

17.

Which personality is associated with the discovery of the relationship between electricity and magnetism?

a)

Michael Faraday

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Gregorio Zara

d)

Claude Shannon

18.

Who made important contributions to the theory of electromagnetic waves?

a)

Robert Noyce

b)

James Clerk Maxwell

c)

Jack Kilby

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

19.

Who helped improve the processing and memory chips used in modern-day computers and devices?

a)

Ernesto De Castro

b)

Samuel Morse

c)

Diosdado Banatao

d)

Nikola Tesla

20.

Which of these personalities was not a Filipino innovator?

a)

Gregorio Zara

b)

Ernesto De Castro

c)

James Clerk Maxwell

d)

Diosdado Banatao