Who Invented It? The Famous Inventors Quiz

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Who Invented It? The Famous Inventors Quiz
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Think you can pass our famous inventors quiz? Test your knowledge to see if you know the minds behind the innovations.
Who patented the first successful telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Michael Faraday
Who created the first gasoline-powered car?
Karl Benz
Henry Ford
Who invented television?
Albert and Meyer Bernstein
Philo Farnsworth

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Who came up with Coca-Cola?
Dr. John S. Pemberton
Caleb Bradham
Who invented the first commercially successful lightbulb?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Which of these inventors transformed literature and learning with his movable-type printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
James Watt

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Which of these men invented the game of basketball?
Walter Camp
James Naismith
Who came up with disposable diapers?
Marion Donovan
Michael Bay
The cotton gin revolutionized American industry - who invented it?
George Washington Carver
Eli Whitney

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Who invented liquid paper in 1954?
Bette Nesmith Graham
Laszlo Biro
Who invented the world's first successful airplane?
Karl Drais
The Wright Brothers