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Famous Inventions
8 questions · Staff Pick
1
Who is credited with inventing the telephone?
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
✓Alexander Graham Bell
Guglielmo Marconi
2
In which country was the printing press invented?
China (Bi Sheng, 1040)
Germany (Gutenberg, 1440)
✓Both are correct for different types
England
3
Who invented the World Wide Web in 1989?
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
✓Tim Berners-Lee
Mark Zuckerberg
4
The Wright Brothers are famous for inventing what?
The automobile
✓The aeroplane
The helicopter
The motorcycle
5
Who discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic?
Marie Curie
Louis Pasteur
✓Alexander Fleming
Joseph Lister
6
What did Thomas Edison famously invent?
The radio
The steam engine
✓The practical electric light bulb
The telephone
7
Who developed the theory of gravity after observing a falling apple?
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Galileo Galilei
✓Isaac Newton
8
The steam engine, a key invention of the Industrial Revolution, was improved by whom?
✓James Watt
George Stephenson
Richard Trevithick
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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