SCIENTIFIC
INVENTIONS
Here's the 50-question MCQ set on Scientific Inventions
without the answers marked:
1. Who invented the telephone?
a) Thomas Edison
b) Alexander Graham Bell
c) Nikola Tesla
d) Graham Watson
2. The first computer was invented by:
a) Bill Gates
b) Steve Jobs
c) Charles Babbage
d) Alan Turing
3. Who discovered penicillin?
a) Louis Pasteur
b) Alexander Fleming
c) Marie Curie
d) Jonas Salk
4. The first successful airplane was invented by:
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Wright Brothers
c) Thomas Edison
d) Galileo Galilei
5. Who invented the light bulb?
a) Nikola Tesla
b) Thomas Edison
c) Alexander Graham Bell
d) Isaac Newton
6. The first vaccine was developed for:
a) Smallpox
b) Polio
c) Measles
d) Tuberculosis
7. Who invented the World Wide Web?
a) Steve Jobs
b) Bill Gates
c) Tim Berners-Lee
d) Mark Zuckerberg
8. The microscope was first developed by:
a) Anton van Leeuwenhoek
b) Robert Hooke
c) Galileo Galilei
d) Isaac Newton
9. Who invented the radio?
a) Guglielmo Marconi
b) Thomas Edison
c) Alexander Graham Bell
d) Nikola Tesla
10. The first successful heart transplant was performed by:
a) Michael DeBakey
b) Christian Barnard
c) Christiaan Neethling
d) Denton Cooley
11. Who invented the printing press?
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Johannes Gutenberg
c) Benjamin Franklin
d) William Caxton
12. The first successful cloning of a mammal was:
a) A mouse
b) Dolly the sheep
c) A cow
d) A dog
13. Who invented the steam engine?
a) James Watt
b) Thomas Newcomen
c) George Stephenson
d) Richard Trevithick
14. The first successful artificial heart was developed by:
a) Michael DeBakey
b) Robert Jarvik
c) Willem Kolff
d) Denton Cooley
15. Who invented dynamite?
a) Alfred Nobel
b) Alfred Einstein
c) Robert Oppenheimer
d) Nikola Tesla
16. The first successful rocket was developed by:
a) Wernher von Braun
b) Robert Goddard
c) Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
d) Sergei Korolev
17. Who invented the X-ray?
a) Marie Curie
b) Wilhelm Röntgen
c) Albert Einstein
d) Nikola Tesla
18. The first successful artificial satellite was:
a) Explorer 1
b) Sputnik 1
c) Telstar
d) Vanguard 1
19. Who invented the transistor?
a) William Shockley
b) John Bardeen
c) Walter Brattain
d) All of the above
20. The first successful kidney transplant was performed by:
a) Joseph Murray
b) Christian Barnard
c) Michael DeBakey
d) Denton Cooley
21. Who invented the telephone switchboard?
a) Alexander Graham Bell
b) Almon Brown Strowger
c) Thomas Edison
d) Nikola Tesla
22. The first successful artificial pacemaker was developed
by:
a) Paul Zoll
b) Wilson Greatbatch
c) Michel Mirowski
d) Earl Bakken
23. Who invented the ballpoint pen?
a) László Bíró
b) George Safford Parker
c) Lewis Waterman
d) Walter A. Sheaffer
24. The first successful solar cell was created by:
a) Albert Einstein
b) Bell Labs
c) Nikola Tesla
d) Thomas Edison
25. Who invented the laser?
a) Theodore Maiman
b) Albert Einstein
c) Charles Townes
d) Gordon Gould
26. The first successful artificial hip replacement was by:
a) Sir John Charnley
b) Sir George Pollock
c) Sir Harold Gillies
d) Sir Archibald McIndoe
27. Who invented the electric motor?
a) Michael Faraday
b) Nikola Tesla
c) Thomas Edison
d) James Watt
28. The first successful artificial kidney was developed by:
a) Willem Kolff
b) Michael DeBakey
c) Christian Barnard
d) Joseph Murray
29. Who invented the barcode?
a) Norman Joseph Woodland
b) George Laurer
c) David Collins
d) Alan Haberman
30. The first successful genetic engineering was done on:
a) Bacteria
b) Mice
c) Fruit flies
d) Yeast
31. Who invented the cathode ray tube?
a) Karl Ferdinand Braun
b) Thomas Edison
c) Nikola Tesla
d) James Clerk Maxwell
32. The first successful artificial limb was developed by:
a) Ambroise Paré
b) Douglas Bader
c) Abled Hakim
d) Ivan Sutherland
33. Who invented the electric refrigerator?
a) Jacob Perkins
b) James Harrison
c) Willis Carrier
d) Albert Einstein
34. The first successful artificial heart valve was by:
a) Charles Hufnagel
b) Michael DeBakey
c) Denton Cooley
d) Willem Kolff
35. Who invented the electric battery?
a) Alessandro Volta
b) Michael Faraday
c) Thomas Edison
d) Nikola Tesla
36. The first successful gene therapy was for:
a) Cystic fibrosis
b) Hemophilia
c) Muscular dystrophy
d) Sickle cell anemia
37. Who invented the electric fan?
a) Schuyler Skaats Wheeler
b) Thomas Edison
c) Nikola Tesla
d) George Westinghouse
38. The first successful artificial cornea was developed by:
a) Ramon Castroviejo
b) Harold Ridley
c) Charles Kelman
d) George Spaeth
39. Who invented the electric elevator?
a) Elisha Otis
b) Thomas Edison
c) Nikola Tesla
d) George Westinghouse
40. The first successful artificial pancreas was by:
a) Edward Damiano
b) Medtronic
c) JDRF
d) NIH
41. Who invented the electric traffic light?
a) Garrett Morgan
b) Thomas Edison
c) Nikola Tesla
d) George Westinghouse
42. The first successful artificial skin was developed by:
a) Ioannis Yannas
b) John Burke
c) Sherwin Kevy
d) Howard Green
43. Who invented the electric washing machine?
a) Alva J. Fisher
b) Thomas Edison
c) Nikola Tesla
d) George Westinghouse
44. The first successful artificial retina was by:
a) Mark Humayun
b) Dean Bok
c) Robert Machemer
d) Judah Folkman
45. Who invented the electric toaster?
a) Charles Strite
b) Thomas Edison
c) Nikola Tesla
d) George Westinghouse
46. The first successful artificial spleen was developed by:
a) Donald Tomich
b) Willem Kolff
c) Michael DeBakey
d) Joseph Murray
47. Who invented the electric drill?
a) Wilhelm Emil Fein
b) Thomas Edison
c) Nikola Tesla
d) George Westinghouse
48. The first successful artificial thymus was by:
a) Jacques Miller
b) Robert Good
c) Max Cooper
d) Mel Cohn
49. Who invented the electric razor?
a) Jacob Schick
b) Thomas Edison
c) Nikola Tesla
d) George Westinghouse
50. The first successful artificial lymph node was developed
by:
a) Gideon Dreyfus
b) Willem Kolff
c) Michael DeBakey
d) Joseph Murray