Top 250+ Solved Transition to the Contemporary World MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who introduced the continental system?
a. Napoleon Bonaparte
b. Robert Fulton
c. Alexandro Volta
d. Michael Faraday
Q. In 1764, ……………..invented a machine called the ’Spinning Jenny.’
a. James Hargreaves
b. John MacAdam
c. Charles Telford
d. John Smeaton
Q. In 1769, ……………invented a machine run by waterpower instead of manpower. Hence it came to be called the ’Water-Frame’.
a. Richard Arkwright
b. John MacAdam
c. Robert Fulton
d. James Watt
Q. Samuel Crompton removed the defects of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame, with his machine known as ……………..
a. Spinning Mule
b. John MacAdam
c. John Smeaton
d. Charles Telford
Q. ……………..removed the defects of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame, with his machine known as ’Spinning Mule’( 1778) .
a. Samuel Crompton
b. Charles Telford
c. James Watt
d. Alexandro Volta
Q. In 1733, ………….had invented a device called the ’Flying Shuttle’.
a. John Kay
b. John MacAdam
c. Charles Telford
d. John Smeaton
Q. In 1785, ……………..invented the Automatic or Power Loom.
a. Dr. Edmund Cartwright
b. John Smeaton
c. Robert Fulton
d. James Watt
Q. Who invented a machine called the ’Cotton Gin.’?
a. Eli Whitney
b. John MacAdam
c. Charles Telford
d. Thomas Newcomen
Q. In 1816, …………….invented a machine called Davy’s Safety Lamp.’
a. Sir Humphry Davy
b. John Smeaton
c. Thomas Newcomen
d. James Watt
Q. In 1856, ……………discovered a process by which impurities could be removed from iron. This purified refined iron came to be known as ’steel’, which helped in making more accurate tools, implements, weapons and machines.
a. Henry Bessemer
b. John MacAdam
c. Robert Fulton
d. Charles Telford
Q. In 1801, ………………invented the first steam locomotive.
a. Richard Trevithick
b. Charles Telford
c. Thomas Newcomen
d. James Watt
Q. Who is regarded as ’the father of the railway locomotive’?
a. John Smeaton
b. George Stephenson
c. Charles Telford
d. Robert Fulton
Q. George Stephenson is regarded as ’the father of the railway locomotive’, because he made great improvements on Trevithick’s locomotive in his ………….. in 1814.
a. Phone
b. ’Rocket’
c. Computer
d. Railway
Q. In 1807, …………..invented the steamboat called the ’Clermont’.
a. Robert Fulton
b. James Watt
c. Alexandro Volta
d. Robert Bakewell