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Inventions and Inventors

Somebody had to think of it first. Twenty questions on the people behind the gadgets you would struggle to live without.

🧠 General Knowledge medium 20 questions ~7 min

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What this quiz asks

Who received the first United States patent for the telephone, in 1876?
Which invention is Johannes Gutenberg credited with bringing to Europe in the 1400s?
Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
What did Tim Berners-Lee propose at CERN in 1989?
Select ALL of these inventions that came out of Thomas Edison's laboratory.
Who developed the first widely used polio vaccine, declared effective in 1955?
Which scientist noticed in 1928 that a mould on a petri dish was killing bacteria?
Did the Wright brothers make their first powered flight before 1910?
Who invented dynamite and left his fortune to found a set of prizes?
Which brothers gave the first paying public screening of projected films in Paris in 1895?
The first passengers carried by a Montgolfier hot-air balloon were a sheep, a duck and a rooster.
What did the Hungarian journalist László Bíró invent?
Select ALL of these inventions that first appeared in the 20th century.
Select ALL of these formats that are read by a laser beam.
Did Nikola Tesla champion alternating current against Edison's preference for direct current?
Who patented an early electric telegraph and gave his name to the code it used?
Put these inventions in order of when they first appeared, earliest first.
Josephine Cochrane patented an early version of which household machine in 1886?
In which year was the first human-to-human heart transplant performed, by Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town?
Wilhelm Röntgen won the very first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering what?