A) 1847 B) 1923 C) 1901 D) 1876
A) Light bulb B) Automobile C) Television D) Telephone
A) Germany B) United States C) Scotland D) England
A) Athlete B) Inventor C) Musician D) Painter
A) Volta Laboratory B) Einstein Laboratory C) Edison Laboratory D) Tesla Laboratory
A) Isaac Newton B) Charles Darwin C) Alexander Melville Bell D) Leonardo da Vinci
A) Thomas Edison B) Marie Curie C) Albert Einstein D) Nikola Tesla
A) Visible Speech B) Sign Language C) Braille D) Morse Code
A) Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you. B) Let's talk later. C) Can you hear me now? D) Hello, how are you?
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) Ben Herdman B) Alexander Melville Bell C) Melville James Bell D) Edward Charles Bell
A) Visible Speech B) The Standard Elocutionist C) A Manual of Deaf-Mute Instruction D) An Introduction to Acoustics
A) Edward B) Melville C) Graham D) James
A) L. H. Graham B) G. A. Bell C) H. A. Largelamb D) A. G. Bellman
A) An early telephone prototype B) A telegraph machine C) A simple dehusking machine D) A phonograph
A) Phonetician B) Physician C) Engineer D) Music teacher
A) The piano B) The violin C) Singing D) Painting
A) 250,000 B) 168 C) 500 D) 100
A) To travel to London with his grandfather B) Due to a family emergency C) He had completed only the first four forms and was marked by absenteeism and lacklustre grades. D) Because he wanted to study at University College London
A) Alexander Ellis B) Sir Charles Wheatstone C) Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen D) Hermann von Helmholtz
A) A talking dog B) Their own automaton head. 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) An assistant to his father B) A student at the University of Edinburgh C) A researcher in biology D) A 'pupil-teacher' of elocution and music at Weston House Academy.
A) He found that groundbreaking work had already been undertaken by Helmholtz. B) He discovered errors in his own research C) He realized he needed to learn German D) Helmholtz criticized his experiments
A) Studying animal behavior B) Building more automatons C) Developing musical instruments D) The transmission of sound using tuning forks.
A) United States B) France C) Scotland D) Canada
A) A school B) A laboratory C) An office D) A workshop
A) Inuktitut B) Mohawk C) Cree D) Ojibwe
A) Cultural Ambassador B) Honorary Chief C) Chief Linguist D) Language Specialist
A) Ottawa B) Toronto C) Vancouver D) Montreal
A) Toronto, Ontario B) Montreal, Quebec C) Paris, Ontario D) Ottawa, Ontario
A) A melodeon B) A guitar C) A piano D) A violin
A) Sarah Fuller B) Gardiner Greene Hubbard C) Alexander Graham Bell D) Helen Keller
A) American Asylum for Deaf-mutes B) Boston School for Deaf Mutes C) Horace Mann School for the Deaf D) Clarke School for the Deaf
A) Brantford B) Hartford, Connecticut C) Boston D) London
A) 50 B) 30 C) 15 D) 100
A) Alexander Graham Bell Jr. B) Gardiner Greene Hubbard C) Helen Keller D) Sarah Fuller
A) $100,000 B) $50,000 C) $25,000 D) $10,000
A) 1875 B) 1872 C) 1880 D) 1865
A) An encrypted journal B) A secret code for his notes C) A specially made table with a locking cover D) A hidden basement laboratory
A) Nova Scotia, Canada B) Washington, D.C. C) Baddeck, Nova Scotia D) Cambridge, Massachusetts
A) Spring B) Summer C) Winter D) Autumn
A) Finding alternative fuels B) Inventing more efficient photophones C) Creating better phonographs D) Developing new telephones
A) Thomas Edison B) Elisha Gray C) Amos Dolbear D) Antonio Meucci
A) Forlanini Hydrofoil B) HD-4 C) Bell's Speedster D) Dhonnas Beag
A) Six months B) Five years C) Two years D) One year
A) Red Wing B) June Bug C) Silver Dart D) White Wing
A) The Lodge B) Baddeck House C) Beinn Bhreagh D) Bell Estate
A) William E. Meacham B) Alexander Graham Bell C) Enrico Forlanini D) Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin
A) 450 B) 300 C) 587 D) 700
A) July 1, 1919 B) December 25, 1919 C) January 1, 1920 D) September 9, 1919
A) Two B) Five C) Ten D) None
A) Canada B) United Kingdom C) United States D) Europe
A) Both died in infancy B) They became inventors C) They moved to Canada D) They joined the U.S. Navy
A) London, UK B) Berlin, Germany C) Brussels, Belgium D) New York, USA
A) Mabel Hubbard B) Georgie Sanders C) Gardiner Greene D) Thomas Sanders
A) Anthony Pollok B) George Brown C) Marcellus Bailey D) Zenas Fisk Wilber
A) March 12, 1908 B) September 17, 1908 C) November 1883 D) February 23, 1909
A) 1901 B) 1886 C) 1896 D) 1913
A) Electricity B) Coal C) Methane gas D) Solar energy
A) Fever B) Severe headaches C) Insomnia D) Nausea and dizziness
A) The President's bed frame disturbed the instrument B) The device was turned off during the examination C) Bell did not have enough time to test it D) There were no bullets present
A) 1921 B) 1910 C) 1891 D) 1906
A) 700 feet (213 meters) B) 500 yards C) 1000 feet D) 1 mile
A) A minor improvement B) A failed experiment C) A very significant achievement D) An insignificant development
A) January 1881 B) June 1880 C) November 1879 D) December 1880
A) 1891 B) 1907 C) 1885 D) 1912
A) Methane gas B) Electricity C) Solar energy D) Hydrogen
A) Alec McCowen B) John Tench C) Charlotte Gray D) John Bach
A) Dr. Alexander Graham Bell B) Dr. Charles Sumner Tainter C) Doctor Willard Bliss D) Dr. James A. Garfield
A) 18 B) 12 C) 30 D) 26
A) Anthony Pollok B) Joseph Henry C) William Orton D) Thomas Edison
A) June Bug B) Silver Dart C) White Wing D) Red Wing
A) March 7, 1876 B) January 13, 1887 C) November 30, 1897 D) June 11, 2002
A) William E. Meacham B) Walter Pinaud C) Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin D) Enrico Forlanini
A) Sales from his laboratory B) Shares in the Bell Telephone Company C) Inventor fees D) Lectures
A) The metal detector B) The telephone C) The phonograph D) The photophone
A) Edison's company B) The Bell Telephone Company C) The Dominion Telegraph Company D) Western Union
A) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell B) A Sign of Her Own C) Murdoch Mysteries D) Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention
A) 350-horsepower (260-kilowatt) engines B) 500-horsepower engines C) 250-horsepower engines D) 100-horsepower 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) Reading lips C) Dancing D) Writing poetry
A) 1st place B) 57th place C) 100th place D) Not listed
A) Fifteen years B) Ten years C) Twenty years D) Five years
A) Heidelberg University B) Queen's University at Kingston C) Harvard University D) University of Edinburgh
A) The George Washington University B) Illinois College C) University of St Andrews D) University of Oxford
A) Illinois College B) University of Würzburg C) Dartmouth College D) Harvard University
A) A photophone B) A metal jacket C) An audiometer D) A hydroairplane
A) The cost of the equipment B) The process C) The distance of the call D) The sound quality
A) In 1877 B) In 1882 C) In 1915 D) In 1897
A) An electromagnetic telegraph B) The phonautograph C) Gray's water transmitter design D) A mercury-based variable resistance device
A) 1896 B) 1913, possibly 1914 C) 1886 D) 1908
A) A liquid transmitter B) A harmonic telegraph C) A phonautograph D) An electromagnetic telegraph
A) 26 B) 18 C) 30 D) 12
A) Fort Myer, Virginia B) Hammondsport, New York C) Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia D) Baddeck, Nova Scotia
A) Enrico Forlanini B) Alexander Graham Bell C) Walter Pinaud D) William E. Meacham
A) Thomas A. Watson B) Gardiner Hubbard C) Alexander Graham Bell D) Elisha Gray
A) Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin B) William E. Meacham C) Enrico Forlanini D) Walter Pinaud
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) Scottish Gaelic B) French C) English D) Italian |