G.K. Practice Test: Question Set - 05
1. Who was the first American female to patent her invention, a method of weaving straw with silk?
- (A) Marjorie
Joyner
- (B) Margaret
Knight
- (C) Amanda Jones
- (D) Mary Kies
2. When was the first lawn mower invented?
- (A) 1830
- (B) 1854
- (C) 1835
- (D) 1849
3. Which insurance salesman invented the fountain pen in 1884?
- (A) Lewis Edson
Waterman
- (B) Sir
William Grove
- (C) Charles
Kettering
- (D) George
Fountain
4. 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
5. Who is often called the 'first African-American' inventor?
- (A) Bessie
Blount
- (B) George
Washington Carver
- (C) Benjamin
Banneker
- (D) Elijah McCoy
6. In which decade was the transistor invented?
- (A) 1940s
- (B) 1950s
- (C) 1960s
- (D) 1980s
7. Ralph Samuelson was only 18 when he invented this sporting item in 1922. What was that?
- (A) Golf tee
- (B) Motorboat
- (C) Water skis
- (D) Hang glider
8. Who invented Airship (rigid)?
- (A) Dr. Alan M.
Turing
- (B) Roger Bacon
- (C) G. Ferdinand
Von Zeppelin
- (D) Otto
9. What groovy item was invented by Englishman Edward Craven Walker in 1963?
- (A) Leisure suit
- (B) Lava lamp
- (C) Eight-track
tape deck
- (D) Hot comb
10. William Frederick is credited with the invention of the modern Frisbee in the mid 1950's. In 1957 the Wham-O Company bought his idea and the rest is history. They named the toy after William Frisbee who was a ________?
- (A) Pie maker
- (B) Owner
of a pizza parlour
- (C) Student at
Yale
- (D) Ceramic
plate designer
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