Great British Inventions and Innovators Practice Test

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1. Which Scottish inventor developed the television in the 1920s?
2. Who is best known for the discovery and development of radar in 1935?
3. Which British mathematician's 1930s 'Turing machine' was foundational to modern computer science?
4. Who invented the World Wide Web, with the first data transfer taking place on 25 December 1990?
5. Who developed the jet engine in the 1930s while serving in the Royal Air Force?
6. Who invented the hovercraft in the 1950s?
7. The first ATM (cashpoint) was used by Barclays Bank in Enfield, north London, in which year?
8. Where was the world's first 'test-tube baby' (born following IVF treatment) born in 1978?
9. Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was created in 1996 by which British scientists?
10. Concorde — the supersonic airliner that first flew in 1969 — was developed by which countries?
11. Which TWO of the following innovators are correctly described?
12. True or false: the structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 at British universities by a team that included Francis Crick.
13. Was the Harrier 'jump jet' — a vertical-take-off aircraft — designed and built in Britain?