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A) 1876 B) 1847 C) 1901 D) 1923
A) Television B) Light bulb C) Telephone D) Automobile
A) United States B) Scotland C) Germany D) England
A) Inventor B) Musician C) Athlete D) Painter
A) Edison Laboratory B) Einstein Laboratory C) Tesla Laboratory D) Volta Laboratory
A) Leonardo da Vinci B) Isaac Newton C) Alexander Melville Bell D) Charles Darwin
A) Nikola Tesla B) Albert Einstein C) Thomas Edison D) Marie Curie
A) Braille B) Morse Code C) Sign Language D) Visible Speech
A) Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you. B) Hello, how are you? C) Let's talk later. D) Can you hear me now?
A) His father's work on elocution B) A childhood accident C) His mother's gradual deafness D) His brother's death from tuberculosis
A) Melville James Bell B) Edward Charles Bell C) Alexander Melville Bell D) Ben Herdman
A) An Introduction to Acoustics B) Visible Speech C) A Manual of Deaf-Mute Instruction D) The Standard Elocutionist
A) Melville B) Edward C) Graham D) James
A) L. H. Graham B) A. G. Bellman C) H. A. Largelamb D) G. A. Bell
A) An early telephone prototype B) A phonograph C) A telegraph machine D) A simple dehusking machine
A) Phonetician B) Music teacher C) Engineer D) Physician
A) The violin B) Singing C) The piano D) Painting
A) 100 B) 500 C) 250,000 D) 168
A) He had completed only the first four forms and was marked by absenteeism and lacklustre grades. B) To travel to London with his grandfather C) Because he wanted to study at University College London D) Due to a family emergency
A) Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen B) Sir Charles Wheatstone C) Alexander Ellis D) Hermann von Helmholtz
A) Their own automaton head. B) A talking dog C) A mechanical man that could walk D) An elocution machine
A) A horse B) A cat C) The family's Skye Terrier, Trouve. D) A parrot
A) A 'pupil-teacher' of elocution and music at Weston House Academy. B) A student at the University of Edinburgh C) A researcher in biology D) An assistant to his father
A) He found that groundbreaking work had already been undertaken by Helmholtz. B) He realized he needed to learn German C) Helmholtz criticized his experiments D) He discovered errors in his own research
A) The transmission of sound using tuning forks. B) Building more automatons C) Studying animal behavior D) Developing musical instruments
A) United States B) France C) Scotland D) Canada
A) An office B) A laboratory C) A workshop D) A school
A) Mohawk B) Cree C) Inuktitut D) Ojibwe
A) Language Specialist B) Cultural Ambassador C) Chief Linguist D) Honorary Chief
A) Montreal B) Vancouver C) Toronto D) Ottawa
A) Ottawa, Ontario B) Paris, Ontario C) Montreal, Quebec D) Toronto, Ontario
A) A melodeon B) A piano C) A violin D) A guitar
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) Gardiner Greene Hubbard C) Sarah Fuller D) Helen Keller
A) Horace Mann School for the Deaf B) Boston School for Deaf Mutes C) American Asylum for Deaf-mutes D) Clarke School for the Deaf
A) Hartford, Connecticut B) London C) Brantford D) Boston
A) 15 B) 100 C) 30 D) 50
A) Sarah Fuller B) Helen Keller C) Alexander Graham Bell Jr. D) Gardiner Greene Hubbard
A) $10,000 B) $25,000 C) $100,000 D) $50,000
A) 1865 B) 1872 C) 1875 D) 1880
A) A hidden basement laboratory B) An encrypted journal C) A specially made table with a locking cover D) A secret code for his notes
A) Nova Scotia, Canada B) Baddeck, Nova Scotia C) Washington, D.C. D) Cambridge, Massachusetts
A) Autumn B) Summer C) Winter D) Spring
A) Inventing more efficient photophones B) Developing new telephones C) Finding alternative fuels D) Creating better phonographs
A) Elisha Gray B) Amos Dolbear C) Antonio Meucci D) Thomas Edison
A) HD-4 B) Forlanini Hydrofoil C) Bell's Speedster D) Dhonnas Beag
A) Five years B) One year C) Two years D) Six months
A) Red Wing B) Silver Dart C) White Wing D) June Bug
A) The Lodge B) Bell Estate C) Beinn Bhreagh D) Baddeck House
A) Enrico Forlanini B) Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin C) Alexander Graham Bell D) William E. Meacham
A) 587 B) 700 C) 450 D) 300
A) July 1, 1919 B) December 25, 1919 C) January 1, 1920 D) September 9, 1919
A) None B) Ten C) Two D) Five
A) Europe B) United Kingdom C) United States D) Canada
A) They joined the U.S. Navy B) Both died in infancy C) They became inventors D) They moved to Canada
A) Berlin, Germany B) Brussels, Belgium C) London, UK D) New York, USA
A) Thomas Sanders B) Georgie Sanders C) Mabel Hubbard D) Gardiner Greene
A) George Brown B) Marcellus Bailey C) Anthony Pollok D) Zenas Fisk Wilber
A) September 17, 1908 B) November 1883 C) March 12, 1908 D) February 23, 1909
A) 1901 B) 1896 C) 1913 D) 1886
A) Methane gas B) Coal C) Solar energy D) Electricity
A) Nausea and dizziness B) Fever C) Insomnia D) Severe headaches
A) The President's bed frame disturbed the instrument B) There were no bullets present C) The device was turned off during the examination D) Bell did not have enough time to test it
A) 1906 B) 1921 C) 1891 D) 1910
A) 1000 feet B) 700 feet (213 meters) C) 500 yards D) 1 mile
A) A failed experiment B) An insignificant development C) A very significant achievement D) A minor improvement
A) January 1881 B) December 1880 C) June 1880 D) November 1879
A) 1891 B) 1907 C) 1912 D) 1885
A) Methane gas B) Hydrogen C) Electricity D) Solar energy
A) Alec McCowen B) Charlotte Gray C) John Bach D) John Tench
A) Dr. Alexander Graham Bell B) Dr. Charles Sumner Tainter C) Doctor Willard Bliss D) Dr. James A. Garfield
A) 18 B) 26 C) 30 D) 12
A) Joseph Henry B) William Orton C) Anthony Pollok D) Thomas Edison
A) Silver Dart B) Red Wing C) White Wing D) June Bug
A) November 30, 1897 B) January 13, 1887 C) June 11, 2002 D) March 7, 1876
A) Enrico Forlanini B) Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin C) Walter Pinaud D) William E. Meacham
A) Shares in the Bell Telephone Company B) Inventor fees C) Sales from his laboratory D) Lectures
A) The phonograph B) The photophone C) The telephone D) The metal detector
A) The Dominion Telegraph Company B) Western Union C) The Bell Telephone Company D) Edison's company
A) A Sign of Her Own B) Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention C) Murdoch Mysteries D) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
A) 350-horsepower (260-kilowatt) engines B) 250-horsepower engines C) 500-horsepower engines D) 100-horsepower engines
A) Two miles B) Three hundred and forty miles C) Eight miles (thirteen kilometres) D) Four miles (six kilometres)
A) Dancing B) Playing the piano C) Writing poetry D) Reading lips
A) 57th place B) 100th place C) Not listed D) 1st place
A) Fifteen years B) Twenty years C) Ten years D) Five years
A) Queen's University at Kingston B) Heidelberg University C) University of Edinburgh D) Harvard University
A) University of Oxford B) The George Washington University C) Illinois College D) University of St Andrews
A) Dartmouth College B) University of Würzburg C) Illinois College D) Harvard University
A) A metal jacket B) A hydroairplane C) A photophone D) An audiometer
A) The cost of the equipment B) The process C) The sound quality D) The distance of the call
A) In 1915 B) In 1897 C) In 1877 D) In 1882
A) Gray's water transmitter design B) An electromagnetic telegraph C) The phonautograph D) A mercury-based variable resistance device
A) 1908 B) 1886 C) 1913, possibly 1914 D) 1896
A) A harmonic telegraph B) A liquid transmitter C) An electromagnetic telegraph D) A phonautograph
A) 30 B) 18 C) 12 D) 26
A) Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia B) Fort Myer, Virginia C) Baddeck, Nova Scotia D) Hammondsport, New York
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) Enrico Forlanini C) William E. Meacham D) Walter Pinaud
A) Thomas A. Watson B) Elisha Gray C) Gardiner Hubbard D) Alexander Graham Bell
A) Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin B) Enrico Forlanini C) Walter Pinaud D) William E. Meacham
A) Attend in silence without any music B) Not wear black, the traditional funeral color C) Bring flowers instead of wearing any specific color D) Wear white as a symbol of peace
A) French B) Italian C) English D) Scottish Gaelic |