The Innovators: 20 Questions on Inventors and Inventions
Question 1: Who is known as the father of the computer?
A) Charles Babbage
B) Alan Turing
C) Thomas Edison
Question 2: Who invented the telephone?
A) Alexander Graham Bell
B) Elisha Gray
C) Nikola Tesla
Question 3: Who is credited with inventing the light bulb?
A) Thomas Edison
B) Joseph Swan
C) Both A and B
Question 4: Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?
A) Jonas Salk
B) Albert Sabin
C) Louis Pasteur
Question 5: Who is known for the invention of the World Wide Web?
A) Tim Berners-Lee
B) Vint Cerf
C) Robert Kahn
Question 6: Who invented the first practical refrigerator?
A) Carl von Linde
B) John Gorrie
C) James Harrison
Question 7: Who is credited with the invention of the printing press?
A) Johannes Gutenberg
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) William Caxton
Question 8: Who invented dynamite?
A) Alfred Nobel
B) Dmitri Mendeleev
C) Michael Faraday
Question 9: Who is known for inventing the first successful airplane?
A) The Wright brothers
B) Glenn Curtiss
C) Santos-Dumont
Question 10: Who invented the first commercially successful steam engine?
A) James Watt
B) Thomas Newcomen
C) George Stephenson