💡 Eureka Challenge! Test Your Knowledge about Inventions: Top 50 Trivia!

From light bulbs to the internet, prove you know the stories behind history's greatest innovations!

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Easy Level

  1. Who invented the light bulb?
  2. What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
  3. Which brothers invented the first successful airplane?
  4. What did Johannes Gutenberg invent?
  5. Who is credited with discovering penicillin?
  6. What invention is Steve Jobs most famous for?
  7. Who invented the World Wide Web?
  8. What did Benjamin Franklin invent to protect buildings?
  9. Which inventor created the alternating current (AC) system?
  10. What did Karl Benz invent?
  11. Who invented the telephone's microphone?
  12. What did George Washington Carver invent uses for?
  13. Who invented dynamite?
  14. What did James Watt improve that powered the Industrial Revolution?
  15. Who invented the polio vaccine?

Medium Level

  1. What did Garrett Morgan invent to help traffic flow?
  2. Who invented the first programmable computer?
  3. What did Percy Spencer invent by accident in 1945?
  4. Who invented the first successful sewing machine?
  5. What medical device did Willem Einthoven invent?
  6. Who invented the first practical refrigerator?
  7. What did John Logie Baird demonstrate in 1926?
  8. Who invented the first commercially successful steamboat?
  9. What did Mary Anderson invent for cars in 1903?
  10. Who invented the first synthetic plastic (Bakelite)?
  11. What did Grace Hopper invent that revolutionized computing?
  12. Who invented the first digital camera?
  13. What did Whitcomb Judson invent in 1893?
  14. Who invented the first rechargeable battery?
  15. What did Josephine Cochrane invent to help with household chores?

Hard Level

  1. Who invented the first working laser?
  2. What did Hedy Lamarr co-invent that's used in modern WiFi?
  3. Who invented the first integrated circuit (microchip)?
  4. What medical breakthrough did Wilhelm Röntgen discover accidentally?
  5. Who invented the first computer algorithm?
  6. What did John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent?
  7. Who invented the first successful helicopter?
  8. What did Stephanie Kwolek invent that's used in bulletproof vests?
  9. Who invented the first artificial heart implanted in a human?
  10. What did Charles Goodyear invent through vulcanization?
  11. Who invented the first successful color photography process?
  12. What did Maria Beasley invent that saved thousands of lives at sea?
  13. Who invented the first programmable electronic computer (ENIAC)?
  14. What did Lewis Latimer improve that made light bulbs practical?
  15. Who invented the first successful water frame for spinning cotton?