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Inventions and discoveries: GK questions and answers

Behind every machine and medicine there is a person who thought of it first. These questions match the great inventions and discoveries with the people credited for them.

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20 questions on inventions and discoveries

  1. Who invented the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell He was granted the patent in 1876.
  2. Who is credited with inventing the practical electric bulb? Thomas Edison
  3. Who made the first successful powered aeroplane flight? Wright brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright flew in 1903.
  4. Who is credited with inventing the radio? Guglielmo Marconi
  5. Who is credited with inventing television? John Logie Baird
  6. Who is called the father of the computer? Charles Babbage
  7. Who invented the World Wide Web? Tim Berners-Lee
  8. Who discovered penicillin? Alexander Fleming He discovered it in 1928.
  9. Who developed the first vaccine, against smallpox? Edward Jenner
  10. Who discovered X-rays? Wilhelm Röntgen
  11. Who discovered the element radium? Marie Curie She worked with her husband Pierre Curie.
  12. Who gave the law of gravitation? Isaac Newton
  13. Who gave the theory of relativity? Albert Einstein
  14. Who invented the printing press with movable type in Europe? Johannes Gutenberg
  15. Whose improvements to the steam engine helped start the Industrial Revolution? James Watt The unit of power, the watt, is named after him.
  16. Who invented dynamite? Alfred Nobel The Nobel Prizes are named after him.
  17. Which Indian scientist discovered the Raman effect? C. V. Raman National Science Day, 28 February, marks this discovery.
  18. Which Indian scientist showed that plants respond to stimuli and built the crescograph? Jagadish Chandra Bose
  19. Who discovered the circulation of blood in the human body? William Harvey
  20. Who invented the stethoscope? René Laennec

These are well-established facts, written in our own words and last checked on 11 November 2026. If your textbook says something different, follow your textbook and tell us.

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