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Inventions

The light bulb, the telephone, the printing press, the bicycle: real photos of great inventions and the people behind them.

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The questions

  1. 1

    What invention is this?

    • The camera
    • The light bulb
    • The radio
    • The telephone

    Answer: The light bulb

  2. 2

    What invention is this old machine?

    • The camera
    • The radio
    • The telephone
    • The typewriter

    Answer: The telephone

  3. 3

    What invention is this?

    • The bicycle
    • The car
    • The motorbike
    • The scooter

    Answer: The bicycle

  4. 4

    What invention is this?

    • The computer
    • The piano
    • The printer
    • The typewriter

    Answer: The typewriter

  5. 5

    What invention is this?

    • The camera
    • The microscope
    • The radio
    • The telescope

    Answer: The camera

  6. 6

    What invention is this?

    • The computer
    • The radio
    • The telephone
    • The TV

    Answer: The radio

  7. 7

    What invention is this?

    • The camera
    • The compass
    • The microscope
    • The telescope

    Answer: The telescope

  8. 8

    What invention is this?

    • The camera
    • The lamp
    • The microscope
    • The telescope

    Answer: The microscope

  9. 9

    What invention is this?

    • The clock
    • The coin
    • The compass
    • The watch

    Answer: The compass

  10. 10

    What invention is this?

    • The clock
    • The coin
    • The plate
    • The wheel

    Answer: The wheel

  11. 11

    What invention is this?

    • The airplane
    • The bird
    • The helicopter
    • The rocket

    Answer: The airplane

  12. 12

    What invention is this?

    • The loom
    • The piano
    • The printing press
    • The washing machine

    Answer: The printing press

  13. 13

    Who invented the telephone?

    • Albert Einstein
    • Alexander Graham Bell
    • Isaac Newton
    • Thomas Edison

    Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

  14. 14

    Who is famous for making a practical light bulb?

    • Alexander Graham Bell
    • Charles Darwin
    • Marie Curie
    • Thomas Edison

    Answer: Thomas Edison

  15. 15

    Who flew the first powered airplane in 1903?

    • The Grimm brothers
    • The Lumière brothers
    • The Marx brothers
    • The Wright brothers

    Answer: The Wright brothers

  16. 16

    Who invented the printing press in Europe around 1440?

    • Galileo Galilei
    • Johannes Gutenberg
    • Leonardo da Vinci
    • William Shakespeare

    Answer: Johannes Gutenberg

  17. 17

    Who invented the World Wide Web?

    • Bill Gates
    • Mark Zuckerberg
    • Steve Jobs
    • Tim Berners-Lee

    Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

  18. 18

    Which country invented paper?

    • China
    • Egypt
    • Greece
    • Italy

    Answer: China

  19. 19

    Who discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic?

    • Alexander Fleming
    • Galileo
    • Isaac Newton
    • Louis Pasteur

    Answer: Alexander Fleming

  20. 20

    Which invention lets us see things that are very far away?

    • It's the compass
    • It's the microscope
    • It's the radio
    • It's the telescope

    Answer: It's the telescope

  21. 21

    Which invention lets us see very tiny things?

    • It's the camera
    • It's the microscope
    • It's the mirror
    • It's the telescope

    Answer: It's the microscope

  22. 22

    Which of these was invented first?

    • The airplane
    • The bicycle
    • The telephone
    • Writing

    Answer: Writing