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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Inventions Roads
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Which scotsman was a pioneer in the field of road surfacing ?

 

John Boyd Dunlop
Charles Macintosh
John Macadam
John Napier

 Percy Shaw was responsible for inventing & patenting what in 1935 ?

 

CatsEyes
Seat Belts
Automatic Car Wash
Road signs
Which London square saw the first traffic lights in 1868 ?

 

Parliament Square
Leicester Square
Trafalgar Square
Belgrave Square

 The first four lane motorway was built in Pennsylvania USA between ?

 

1927-30
1937-1940
1930-33
1940-1943
The first 50 miles of 2 lane motorway was built during 1924 in which country ?

 

Spain
Germany
USA
Italy

 Short stretches of motorway roads were attempted in the USA as far back as ?

 

1894
1904
1914
1884
In 1982 the worst road traffic accident killed more than 2000 people in ?

 

Afghanistan
India
Iran
Iraq

 The first electric 3 colour traffic light were established in New York in ?

 

1898
1918
1938
1878
Who was the inventor of the 'truck' considered as the 1st motor vehicle ?

 

Daimler Benz
Nicolas Cugnot
Jean Etienne Lenoir
Richard Trevithick

 Which country has the longest road network at over 4 million miles ?

 

India
Brazil
China
USA


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