Test your knowledge about the inventors behind commonly used items with this quiz! Can you match the invention to the right inventors and historical figures?
1. Who is credited with the invention of the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Edison
Isaac Newton
2. Who invented the light bulb?
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
James Watt
Michael Faraday
3. Who invented the World Wide Web?
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Tim Berners-Lee
Mark Zuckerberg
4. Who invented the first successful airplane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Leonardo da Vinci
George Cayley
Henry Ford
5. Who is known for inventing the printing press?
Gutenberg
Alexander Fleming
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
6. Who invented the first practical telephone?
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
Elisha Gray
Alexander Graham Bell
7. Who invented plastic?
Leo Baekeland
John Wesley Hyatt
Alexander Parkes
Henry Ford
8. Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel
Marie Curie
James Watt
Isaac Newton
9. Who invented the phonograph?
Guglielmo Marconi
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
John Logie Baird
10. Who invented the first mechanical computer?
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
John von Neumann
Bill Gates
11. Who invented the microwave oven?
Percy Spencer
Nikola Tesla
Samuel Morse
James Clerk Maxwell
12. Who invented the safety pin?
Elias Howe
Walter Hunt
Thomas Edison
Jethro Tull
13. Who invented the first electric battery?
Alessandro Volta
Benjamin Franklin
Michael Faraday
James Watt
14. Who invented the steam engine?
James Watt
Thomas Newcomen
George Stephenson
Robert Fulton
15. Who is credited with inventing the first automobile?
