Inventions MCQs

32. What inspired reflecting road lights to be invented?

A. Car door reflecting mirrors
B. The light a cat’s eyes gave off on a fence
C. Sun light on steel posts on road sides
D. The sun light on the windshield
✅ The correct answer is option B.
In 1933, Englishman Percy Shaw was driving home when he saw a cat’s eyes reflecting. He had been headed straight towards a fence with the cat on it, but on the other side was a drop of hundreds of feet.

36. Benjamin Franklin was a prolific inventor. He invented the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, studied electricity, discovered the Gulf Stream, started the first library, and on and on. Among his many other inventions, what musical instrument did he invent?

A. Banjo
B. Oboe
C. Clarinet
D. Harmonium
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Ben also holds a lot of firsts – first U.S. ambassador, first political cartoonist, first American philosopher, organized the first fire department, and on and on.

38. Who invented Gunpowder?

A. G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
B. Sir Frank Whittle
C. Roger Bacon
D. Leo H Baekeland
✅ The correct answer is option C.

40. Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

A. Potato Peterson
B. Turnip Townsend
C. Cabbage Carlson
D. Swede Svenson
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Viscount Charles ‘Turnip’ Townsend developed this revolutionary concept.
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