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