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