G.K. Practice Test: Question Set - 09
1. Who came up with the idea for INSTANT MASHED POTATO?
- (A) S. Tuberosum
- (B) W. Raleigh
- (C) E.
Asselbergs
- (D) K. Edwards
2. What Sir Isaac Newton invented?
- (A) Reflecting
telescope
- (B) Chronometer
- (C) Microscope
- (D) Spectacles
3. What toy was invented by Joshua Lionel Cowen around 1900?
- (A) Raggedy Ann
doll
- (B) Yo-yo
- (C) Electric
train
- (D) Tinkertoys
4. What drink was invented by Charles Leiper Grigg in 1929?
- (A) 7-Up
- (B) Yoo-Hoo
- (C) Pepsi
- (D) Hawaiian
Punch
5. What J. B. Dunlop invented?
- (A) Pneumatic
rubber tire
- (B) Automobile
wheel rim
- (C) Rubber boot
- (D) Model
airplanes
6. What invention caused many deaths while testing it?
- (A) Dynamite
- (B) Ladders
- (C) Race
cars
- (D) Parachute
7. Who invented Internal Combustion Engine?
- (A) Roger Bacon
- (B) Karl Benz
- (C) Dr. Alan M.
Turing
- (D) Otto
8. What 'game' was first produced by the Southern Novelty Company in Baltimore, Maryland in 1892?
- (A) Frisbee
- (B) Monopoly
- (C) Ouija board
- (D) Ping Pong
9. What invention is credited to the Russian born American inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin?
- (A) Telegraph
- (B) Radio
- (C) Television
- (D) Dishwasher
10. Who invented Bifocal Lens?
- (A) Alfred
B. Nobel
- (B) Thomas
Alva Edison
- (C) Benjamin
Franklin
- (D) Rudolf
Diesel
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