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