Multiple choice general knowledge

This statesman, politican, scholar, inventor, and one of our early presidents invented the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the moldboard plow, and the cipher wheel

  1. George Washington

  2. Alexander Hamilton

  3. John Adams

  4. Thomas Jefferson
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Explanation

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third U.S. President, was a prolific inventor and polymath who invented the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the moldboard plow (a better plow design), and the cipher wheel (for cryptography). George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams were not known for such inventions.

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