Who Gets Credit Trivia Quiz

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Who gets credit for discovering the St. Lawrence River?

       a. John Cabot
       b. Jacques Cartier
       c. Henry Hudson
       d. Martin Frobisher


Who gets credit for being the first person to travel around the world?

       a. Francis Drake
       b. Ferdinand Magellan
       c. Christopher Columbus
       d. Jacques Cartier


Who gets credit for being the first country to use paper money?

       a. China
       b. Japan
       c. USA
       d. England


Who gets credit for inventing the first gasoline automobile?

       a. Henry Ford
       b. Karl Benz
       c. Elisha Otis
       d. Thomas Edison


Who gets credit for inventing the first telescope?

       a. Galileo Galilei
       b. Rene Descartes
       c. Hans Lippershey
       d. Nicolaus Copernicus


Who gets credit for issuing the first postage stamp?

       a. China
       b. USA
       c. England
       d. Germany


Who gets credit for mapping Newfoundland?

       a. Jacques Cartier
       b. John Cabot
       c. Henry Hudson
       d. Christopher Columbus


Who gets credit for discovering New Zealand?

       a. Abel Tasman
       b. Ferdinand Magellan
       c. John Cook
       d. Francis Drake


Who gets credit for inventing the first printing press?

       a. Sir Thomas Moore
       b. Leonardo da Vinci
       c. Johannes Gutenberg
       d. Angelo Poliziano


Who gets credit for sculpting "David"?

       a. Leonardo da Vinci
       b. Michelangelo
       c. Raphael
       d. Federico da Montefeltro


Who gets credit for inventing the guillotine?

       a. Dr. Joseph Guillotin
       b. Napoleon Bonaparte
       c. Maximilien Robespierre
       d. King Louis XVI


Who gets credit for inventing the bicycle?

       a. Kirkpatrick Macmillan
       b. Thomas Edison
       c. Karl Benz
       d. Benjamin Franklin


Who gets credit for inventing dynamite?

       a. Isaac Singer
       b. Alfred Nobel
       c. Linus Yale
       d. Samuel Johnson


Who gets credit for inventing the light bulb?

       a. Huber Booth
       b. Thomas Edison
       c. Alexander Graham Bell
       d. Lucien Smith


Who gets credit for developing the laptop computer?

       a. England
       b. USA
       c. Japan
       d. Germany


Who gets credit for inventing the steam engine?

       a. Henry Seely
       b. James Watt
       c. Thomas Edison
       d. Henry Ford


Who gets credit for developing the game of squash?

       a. England
       b. Scotland
       c. USA
       d. Canada


Who gets credit for the game of hockey?

       a. USA
       b. Canada
       c. Norway
       d. Switzerland


Who gets credit for conquering the Incas?

       a. Francisco de Almeida
       b. Hernan Cortes
       c. Francisco Pizarro
       d. Afonso d'Albuquerque


Who gets the credit for inventing the telegraph?

       a. Albert Einstein
       b. Samuel Morse
       c. Thomas Edison
       d. James Booth


Who gets credit for the game of basketball?

       a. England
       b. Canada
       c. USA
       d. Scotland


Who gets credit for conquering the Aztecs?

       a. Hernan Cortes
       b. Francisco Pizarro
       c. Ferdinand Magellan
       d. Ponce de Leon




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