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