Invention Questions and Answers

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General Knowledge Invention Questions with Answers list important discoveries and inventors. Common in SSC, RRB, and Banking exams, they help learners recognize scientific contributions and their inventors

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31. Who had an explosive idea and first patented DYNAMITE?

  • J. R. Gluber
  • A. Nobel
  • G. Fawks
  • W. Bickford
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32. Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

  • Thornton Hargreaves
  • Peter Hargreaves
  • James Hargreaves
  • Simon Hargreaves
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33. Which insurance salesman invented the fountain pen in 1884?

  • Lewis Edson Waterman
  • Sir William Grove
  • Charles Kettering
  • George Fountain
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34. When was the first elevator built?

  • 1743
  • 1739
  • 1760
  • 1785
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35. What charge card, developed in 1950, was the first to be accepted nationally in the US?

  • Visa
  • Discover
  • MasterCharge
  • Diner's Club
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36. What Enrico Fermi invented?

  • X ray machine
  • Betatron
  • Cyclotron
  • Nuclear reactor
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37. Which of the following was first patented by an Australian in 1889?

  • Electric Drill
  • Electric Shaver
  • Electric Fence
  • Electric Heater
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38. Who among the following invented the small pox vaccine?

  • Robert Koch
  • Edward Jenner
  • Robert Hooke
  • Louis Pasteur
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39. What George Westinghouse invented?

  • Light bulb
  • Electric razor
  • Refrigerator
  • Railway air brakes
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40. .Who is the only U.S. President to invent and patent something?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
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