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