Famous Inventors Trivia Quiz May 1, 2025April 30, 2025 Joe Messerli Quizzesnew quiz, test Famous Inventors For each of 20 inventions, select the person who is credited as the inventor. 1 / 20 Inventor of penicillin Gregor Mendel Alexander Fleming Charles Darwin Alfred Nobel Amedeo Avogadro 2 / 20 Inventor of air conditioner Isaac Singer John Deere Philo Farnsworth Willis Carrier Robert Goddard 3 / 20 Inventor of mercury thermometer James Watt Jacques Montgolfier Eli Whitney Jethro Tull Gabriel Fahrenheit 4 / 20 Inventor of theory of relativity (E=mc2) Albert Einstein Isaac Newton Plato Zacharias Jannsen Elon Musk 5 / 20 Inventor of game of baseball James Naismith Alexander Cartwright Ty Cobb Casey Stengel Honus Wagner 6 / 20 Inventor of Apple I and II computers Ronald Wayne Jony Ive Steve Wozniak Tim Cook Steve Case 7 / 20 Inventor of electric telegraph Samuel Morse Robert Goddard Edmund Abel John Baird Theodore Vail 8 / 20 Inventor of the telephone Charles Lee Alexander Graham Bell Mike Sievert Edward Whitacre Garrett Morgan 9 / 20 Inventor of lightning rod and bifocal lens James Hargreaves Thomas Edison Benjamin Franklin David Bushnell Nikola Tesla 10 / 20 Inventor of the atomic bomb Albert Einstein Werner Heisenberg Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Robert Oppenheimer Erwin Schrodinger 11 / 20 Inventor of World Wide Web Al Gore Bill Gates Alan Turing John von Neumann Tim Berners-Lee 12 / 20 Formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation Rene Descartes Aristotle Isaac Newton Maria Sklodowska-Curie Michael Faraday 13 / 20 Inventor of mechanical computing machines (forerunner of the modern computer) Steve Jobs Charles Babbage Larry Page Charles Ranlett Flint Dave Tandy 14 / 20 Inventor of light bulb Albert Einstein Guglielmo Marconi Thomas Edison Philo Farnsworth Jack Welch 15 / 20 Inventor of printing press Johannes Gutenberg Robert Boyle Otto von Guericke Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst 16 / 20 Inventor of steam engine Joseph Montgolfier Edmund Cartwright Samuael Crompton Willard Gibbs James Watt 17 / 20 Inventor of cotton gin Joy Mangano Joseph Priestley Henry Cort Eli Whitney Henry Maudslay 18 / 20 Inventor of machine gun Samuel Colt William Rugar Richard Gatling Mikhail Kalashnikov David Arneson 19 / 20 Inventor of the airplane Hedy Lamarr Orville and Wilbur Wright Benjamin Franklin William Boeing Allen Lockheed 20 / 20 Inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi Fred Allen Garrett Morgan Elijah McCoy John Muir Your score isThe average score is 85% 0% Restart quiz Other Links That May Interest You U.S. Presidents Trivia Quiz Game Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Like this:Like Loading… Related