Invention Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Trivia quiz questions and answers about inventions.

Invention Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

1. What landmark invention did Ts'ai Lun invent from bark and hemp in the second century?
    
2. What did "Art Fry invent after scraps of paper to mark tunes in his hymnal kept falling out?
    
3. What did Leonardo invent to check humidity while he worked on the Last Supper fresco?
    
4. What country was the first to register a patent on polyester?
    
5. What "foot doctor" held over 300 patents?
    
6. What 1947 invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories spawned pocket-sized radios?
    
7. What disease prompted polio vaccine inventor Dr. Jonas Salk to come out of retirement in 1987?
    
 
8. What was the occupation of cotton candy machine inventor William James Morrison?
    
9. What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592?
    
10. What did George Nisser invent after observing high wire performers bouncing on safety nets?
     
11. What century saw the invention of the shoelace?
     
12. What name did George Eastman invent in 1888 because it was easy to memorize, pronounce, and spell?
     
13. What innovative inventor's Dymaaxion car could carry eleven passengers, exceed 120 mph and get 30 miles per gallon in 1934?
     
14. What type of structure did R. Buckminster Fuller patent in 1954?
     
 
15. What century saw Alexander Cummings issued the first patent for a flush toilet?
     
16. What portable device did James Spengler invent in 1907, using a soap box, pillow case, a fan and tape?
     
17. What landmark invention eased farming chores for Sumerians in 3500 B.C.?
     
18. What food product did Hyppolyte Merge-mouries invent in 1868 by treating oils with hydrogen?
     
19. What British second lieutenant got the idea to fill a canister shell with musket balls and a charge of gunpowder?
     
20. Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?
     
 
21. What kitchen invention took the top prize at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
     
22. What company gave the world the first electric toothbrush?
     
23. What Edwin Budding invention began changing the face of English landscapes in the 1820s?
     
24. What invention for keeping cold air out of buildings in winter was patented by Theophilus Van Kannel in 1888?
     
25. What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 130 - Invention Trivia.

1. Paper.
2. Post-it Notes.
3. The hygrometer.
4. Briton.
5. Dr. Scholl.
 
6. The transistor.
7. AIDS.
8. Dentist.
9. Galileo.
10. The trampoline.
11. The eighteenth. 
12. Kodak. 
13. Buckminster Fuller's.
14. The geodesic dome.
15. The eighteenth.
16. The vacuum cleaner.
 
17. The plow.
18. Margarine.
19. Sir Henry Shrapnel.
20. Thomas Edison. 
21. The dishwasher.
22. Interplak.
23. The lawn mower.
24. The revolving door.
25. The Tractor.