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