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