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Class 4 GK Worksheet: Inventions and Inventors

GK lesson 21: Inventions and inventors · Set 408 · 40 questions
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Remember (Who and what for?): Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell, first aeroplane – the Wright brothers, printing press – Johannes Gutenberg, raised-dot writing – Louis Braille. Smallpox vaccine – Edward Jenner, penicillin – Alexander Fleming, stethoscope – René Laennec, electric battery – Alessandro Volta, X-rays – Wilhelm Röntgen. Uses: telephone – talk far away, thermometer – body temperature, compass – directions, telescope – faraway stars, microscope – tiny germs.

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  1. 1.What did Johannes Gutenberg give us? (a) the smallpox vaccine (b) raised-dot writing (c) the printing press (d) the stethoscope
  2. 2.What does a printing press help us do? (a) see faraway stars (b) tell the time (c) print many books (d) see tiny germs
  3. 3.True or false: Alexander Fleming gave us penicillin. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: Edward Jenner gave us the stethoscope. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.What did Alexander Fleming give us? (a) the telephone (b) raised-dot writing (c) penicillin (d) X-rays
  6. 6.What did Edward Jenner give us? (a) penicillin (b) X-rays (c) the smallpox vaccine (d) the electric battery
  7. 7.True or false: Alexander Graham Bell gave us the telephone. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.💡 Who gave us the electric battery? (a) Alexander Fleming (b) Alessandro Volta (c) René Laennec (d) Johannes Gutenberg
  9. 9.💡 Who gave us X-rays? (a) Wilhelm Röntgen (b) Johannes Gutenberg (c) René Laennec (d) Alessandro Volta
  10. 10.What does a compass help us do? (a) talk to people far away (b) measure body temperature (c) find directions (d) see tiny germs
  11. 11.True or false: a clock helps us print many books. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: a microscope helps us see tiny germs. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: a telescope helps us see faraway stars. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Louis Braille gave us raised-dot writing. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔧 Which invention helps us see tiny germs? (a) microscope (b) calculator (c) thermometer (d) stethoscope
  16. 16.🔧 Which invention helps us find directions? (a) thermometer (b) compass (c) microscope (d) stethoscope
  17. 17.💡 Who gave us the telephone? (a) the Wright brothers (b) Louis Braille (c) Alexander Graham Bell (d) Wilhelm Röntgen
  18. 18.💡 Who gave us penicillin? (a) Alessandro Volta (b) Alexander Fleming (c) Johannes Gutenberg (d) Edward Jenner
  19. 19.What does a thermometer help us do? (a) print many books (b) see faraway stars (c) measure body temperature (d) see tiny germs
  20. 20.🔧 Which invention helps us print many books? (a) printing press (b) thermometer (c) stethoscope (d) calculator
  21. 21.💡 Who gave us raised-dot writing? (a) René Laennec (b) Johannes Gutenberg (c) Alexander Graham Bell (d) Louis Braille
  22. 22.True or false: a compass helps us find directions. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: a telephone helps us print many books. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.What did Alessandro Volta give us? (a) the printing press (b) the smallpox vaccine (c) the stethoscope (d) the electric battery
  25. 25.💡 Who gave us the printing press? (a) the Wright brothers (b) Alessandro Volta (c) Johannes Gutenberg (d) Wilhelm Röntgen
  26. 26.True or false: a stethoscope helps us hear the heartbeat. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.What does a telescope help us do? (a) find directions (b) measure body temperature (c) see tiny germs (d) see faraway stars
  28. 28.True or false: Alexander Graham Bell gave us the electric battery. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.What did Wilhelm Röntgen give us? (a) the electric battery (b) the printing press (c) the telephone (d) X-rays
  30. 30.What did the Wright brothers give us? (a) X-rays (b) the smallpox vaccine (c) the first aeroplane (d) penicillin
  31. 31.True or false: a telephone helps us measure body temperature. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: a stethoscope helps us talk to people far away. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.What does a telephone help us do? (a) print many books (b) measure body temperature (c) talk to people far away (d) hear the heartbeat
  34. 34.What did Alexander Graham Bell give us? (a) the first aeroplane (b) the telephone (c) the stethoscope (d) penicillin
  35. 35.💡 Who gave us the first aeroplane? (a) Alexander Graham Bell (b) Wilhelm Röntgen (c) the Wright brothers (d) Johannes Gutenberg
  36. 36.True or false: a printing press helps us print many books. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.What does a clock help us do? (a) print many books (b) hear the heartbeat (c) tell the time (d) do sums quickly
  38. 38.True or false: the Wright brothers gave us the stethoscope. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: a telescope helps us do sums quickly. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Wilhelm Röntgen gave us X-rays. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. the printing press
  2. print many books
  3. True
  4. False
  5. penicillin
  6. the smallpox vaccine
  7. True
  8. Alessandro Volta
  9. Wilhelm Röntgen
  10. find directions
  11. False
  12. True
  13. True
  14. True
  15. microscope
  16. compass
  17. Alexander Graham Bell
  18. Alexander Fleming
  19. measure body temperature
  20. printing press
  21. Louis Braille
  22. True
  23. False
  24. the electric battery
  25. Johannes Gutenberg
  26. True
  27. see faraway stars
  28. False
  29. X-rays
  30. the first aeroplane
  31. False
  32. False
  33. talk to people far away
  34. the telephone
  35. the Wright brothers
  36. True
  37. tell the time
  38. False
  39. False
  40. True

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