General Knowledge

Inventions - Section 1

11.  What charge card, developed in 1950, was the first to be accepted nationally in the US?

A. Visa
B. Discover
C. MasterCharge
D. Diner's Club
12.  What Enrico Fermi invented?

A. X ray machine
B. Betatron
C. Cyclotron
D. Nuclear reactor
13.  Which of the following was first patented by an Australian in 1889?

A. Electric Drill
B. Electric Shaver
C. Electric Fence
D. Electric Heater
14.  Who among the following invented the small pox vaccine?

A. Robert Koch
B. Edward Jenner
C. Robert Hooke
D. Louis Pasteur
15.  What George Westinghouse invented?

A. Light bulb
B. Electric razor
C. Refrigerator
D. Railway air brakes
16.  Who is the only U.S. President to invent and patent something?

A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Theodore Roosevelt
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. Rutherford B. Hayes
17.  Who invented the BALLPOINT PEN?

A. Biro Brothers
B. Waterman Brothers
C. Bicc Brothers
D. Write Brothers
18.  In which decade was the first solid state integrated circuit demonstrated?

A. 1950s
B. 1960s
C. 1970s
D. 1980s
19.  What J. B. Dunlop invented?

A. Pneumatic rubber tire
B. Automobile wheel rim
C. Rubber boot
D. Model airplanes
20.  Which scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?

A. Isaac Newton
B. Albert Einstein
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Marie Curie