Inventions MCQs

101. When were bar code scanners invented?

A. 1940s
B. 1950s
C. 1970s
D. 1960s
✅ The correct answer is option C.
The scanner reads the bar code label on something at a supermarket, and translates it into a number which the computer reads.

105. Who invented Bakelite?

A. Charles Goodyear
B. Leo Hendrik Baekeland
C. Roy Plunkett
D. Henry Ford
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented the first plastic called Bakelite.

107. For whom high heeled shoes were invented?

A. Cleopatra
B. Queen Elizabeth I
C. King Louis the XIV
D. King Charles II
✅ The correct answer is option C.
King Louis XIV was very short and didn’t like looking up at people he spoke to, so he had a tall pair of shoes made for him.

108. When were blue jeans invented?

A. 1900s
B. 1860s
C. 1870s
D. 1850s
✅ The correct answer is option D.
The first blue jeans were invented by tailor Levi Strauss, who invented tougher working pants for the miners of the California Gold Rush.

109. In which decade was the transistor invented?

A. 1940s
B. 1950s
C. 1960s
D. 1980s
✅ The correct answer is option A.
On December 23, 1947, William Shockley, Walter Brattain and John Bardeen, of Bell Labs, announced their discovery of the point-contact germanium transistor to management.

110. Who perfected GENETIC ENGINEERING?

A. Cohen & Boyer
B. Hunt & Davids
C. Sinclair & Roberts
D. Jaysson & Simons
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Genetic Engineering, the technique of DNA cloning was perfected by Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer in 1973.
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