G.K. Practice Test: Question Set - 11
1. This statesman, politician, scholar, inventor, and one of early presidents of USA invented the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the moldboard plow, and the cipher wheel.
- (A) George
Washington
- (B) Alexander
Hamilton
- (C) John
Adams
- (D) Thomas
Jefferson
2. What now-ubiquitous device was invented by Zenith engineer Eugene Polley in 1955?
- (A) Microwave
oven
- (B) Remote
control
- (C) VCR
- (D) Calculator
3. What Thomas Davenport invented?
- (A) Screw
propeller
- (B) Electric
streetcar
- (C) Chesterfield
- (D) Sleeping
(railway) car
4. When was bar code scanners invented?
- (A) 1940s
- (B) 1950s
- (C) 1970s
- (D) 1960s
5. CORN FLAKES - Who made them first?
- (A) Nabisco
- (B) Kellogg
- (C) Quaker
- (D) Archers
6. When was the Raggedy Ann doll patented?
- (A) 1915
- (B) 1920
- (C) 1919
- (D) 1911
7. The ELECTRIC BATTERY, who's charged with inventing this one?
- (A) Hertz
- (B) Ampere
- (C) Galvani
- (D) Volta
8. Which scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?
- (A) Isaac Newton
- (B) Albert
Einstein
- (C) Benjamin
Franklin
- (D) Marie Curie
9. Who perfected GENETIC ENGINEERING?
- (A) Cohen &
Boyer
- (B) Hunt &
Davids
- (C) Sinclair
& Roberts
- (D) Jaysson
& Simons
10. The first hand glider was designed by?
- (A) Leonardo
DaVinci
- (B) The Wright
brothers
- (C) Francis
Rogallo
- (D) Galileo
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