15 Famous Inventors Trivia Questions and Answers

Our world would be a lot different without some of the inventions we use every day. Can you answer these famous inventors trivia questions? Test your family and friends.

15 Famous Inventors Trivia Questions

1. Q: Who is credited with inventing the telephone?
2. Q: What famous inventor is known for the electric light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera?
3. Q: Who invented the first practical automobile?
4. Q: Who is known as the father of the World Wide Web?
5. Q: What did the Wright brothers invent?
6. Q: Who discovered the principles of vaccination, including creating the first vaccine for smallpox?
7. Q: Who is credited with inventing the polio vaccine?
8. Q: What famous scientist developed the theory of relativity?
9. Q: Who invented the process of pasteurization?
10. Q: Who is known for the invention of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system?
11. Q: Who invented the first successful camera, the Kodak?
12. Q: Who invented the first mechanical computer, known as the Difference Engine?
13. Q: Who is credited with inventing dynamite?
14. Q: Who invented the first practical reflecting telescope, known as the Newtonian telescope?
15. Q: What pair of brothers invented the hot air balloon?
    

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15 Famous Inventors Trivia Questions and Answers

1. Q: Who is credited with inventing the telephone?
   A: Alexander Graham Bell.
2. Q: What famous inventor is known for the electric light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera?
   A: Thomas Edison.
3. Q: Who invented the first practical automobile?
   A: Karl Benz.
4. Q: Who is known as the father of the World Wide Web?
   A: Tim Berners-Lee.
5. Q: What did the Wright brothers invent?
   A: The airplane.
6. Q: Who discovered the principles of vaccination, including creating the first vaccine for smallpox?
   A: Edward Jenner.
7. Q: Who is credited with inventing the polio vaccine?
   A: Jonas Salk.
8. Q: What famous scientist developed the theory of relativity?
   A: Albert Einstein.
9. Q: Who invented the process of pasteurization?
   A: Louis Pasteur.
10. Q: Who is known for the invention of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system?
    A: Nikola Tesla.
11. Q: Who invented the first successful camera, the Kodak?
    A: George Eastman.
12. Q: Who invented the first mechanical computer, known as the Difference Engine?
    A: Charles Babbage.
13. Q: Who is credited with inventing dynamite?
    A: Alfred Nobel.
14. Q: Who invented the first practical reflecting telescope, known as the Newtonian telescope?
    A: Sir Isaac Newton.
15. Q: What pair of brothers invented the hot air balloon?
    A: Joseph Michel and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier.

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