All 13 questions
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Which inventor is credited with patenting the first practical telephone?
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Nikola Tesla
- Thomas Edison
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Who is famous for developing the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb?
- James Watt
- Benjamin Franklin
- Michael Faraday
- Thomas Edison
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Which German inventor introduced the movable-type printing press to Europe around 1440?
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Rudolf Diesel
- Martin Luther
- Karl Benz
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The code of dots and dashes used in early telegraphy is named after which inventor?
- Charles Babbage
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Samuel Morse
- Joseph Henry
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Which scientist is best known for formulating the law of universal gravitation?
- Albert Einstein
- Galileo Galilei
- Isaac Newton
- Johannes Kepler
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Which Scottish scientist discovered penicillin in 1928?
- Joseph Lister
- Edward Jenner
- Alexander Fleming
- Louis Pasteur
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Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989?
- Bill Gates
- Vint Cerf
- Steve Jobs
- Tim Berners-Lee
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The Wright brothers are famous for achieving what historic first in 1903?
- The first helicopter flight
- The first powered airplane flight
- The first hot-air balloon ascent
- The first jet engine
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Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
- True
- False
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Galileo Galilei used a telescope to observe the moons of Jupiter.
- True
- False
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The printing press was invented in ancient Rome.
- True
- False
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Alfred Nobel invented the explosive ___ in 1867.
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In 1886, the German engineer Karl ___ patented what is often called the first practical automobile.