Multiple choice general knowledge math & puzzles

Who invented Gunpowder?

  1. G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin

  2. Sir Frank Whittle

  3. Roger Bacon

  4. Leo H Baekeland
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AI explanation

In popular trivia and older Western histories, the English friar Roger Bacon is credited with recording a formula for gunpowder in Europe in the 13th century, which is why he's the answer given among these choices. The other names relate to different inventions entirely (airships, jet engines, Bakelite), so none of them fit. Historically, gunpowder itself actually originated earlier in China, but Bacon is the figure conventionally cited in this kind of quiz question.

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