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