Question: How many wires did Bell send a signal through?
Answer: 1

Question: For  his system to work, Bell had to change what about each code?
Answer: pitch

Question: Bell needed to fix both the transmitter and what?
Answer: receiver

Question: Where was Bell's home?
Answer: Brantford

Question: What city did Bell decide to return to?
Answer: Boston

Question: In what year did Bell open his own school?
Answer: 1872

Question: How many people were in Bell's first class?
Answer: 30

Question: Which of Bell's students is the most well known?
Answer: Helen Keller

Question: Bell's goal was to instruct the deaf to speak and not use what?
Answer: sign language

Question: What would happen so some children's hands in schools?
Answer: tied behind their backs

Question: In what light to many pro-deaf people see Bell?
Answer: negative

Question: What was the only language many deaf people had?
Answer: signing

Question: With what school did Bell get his next teaching job?
Answer: Boston University School of Oratory.

Question: What was Bell's discipline?
Answer: Vocal Physiology and Elocution

Question: What did Bell do late at night?
Answer: experiments

Question: What health condition did Bell start to have?
Answer: headaches

Question: In what year did Bell start to focus on research into sound?
Answer: 1873

Question: Bell's two remaining students were "Georgie" Sanders and who?
Answer: Mabel Hubbard

Question: What was Georgie's father's name?
Answer: Thomas Sanders

Question: What disease made Mabel deaf?
Answer: scarlet fever

Question: How old was Mabel when she became deaf?
Answer: 15

Question: On what material did the phonautograph operate?
Answer: smoked glass

Question: What kind of reed did Bell want to play with?
Answer: metal

Question: What did Bell believe the reeds would turn the signal into?
Answer: sound

Question: What instrument is a phonautograph similar to?
Answer: pen

Question: In what year was Bell really working on his telegraph?
Answer: 1874

Question: What business was William Orton in charge of?
Answer: Western Union

Question: In 1874 the telegraph was known as the what of commerce?
Answer: nervous system

Question: What was the primary motivation for not building new telegraph lines?
Answer: cost

Question: Thomas Edison and what other scientist were already asked to work on a better telegraph?
Answer: Elisha Gray

Question: Who did Bell go to see in 1875?
Answer: Joseph Henry

Question: Who ran the Smithsonian in 1875?
Answer: Joseph Henry

Question: What was Henry's reply to Bell's statement that he lacked information to complete his telegraph?
Answer: Get it!

Question: Who did Bell meet in 1874?
Answer: Thomas A. Watson

Question: What kind of business did Watson work at?
Answer: electrical machine

Question: Who did Bell take on to work with him?
Answer: Thomas Watson

Question: What month and day did Watson and Bell have a breakthrough?
Answer: June 2

Question: How many reeds did Bell conclude he needed?
Answer: 1

Question: What name was given to the telephone that sort of worked?
Answer: gallows

Question: Who gave money to Bell and Watson?
Answer: Sanders and Hubbard

Question: What did Bell promise to split with his financers?
Answer: U.S. profits

Question: In what country other than the U.S. did Bell try to patent his telegraph?
Answer: Britain

Question: Which country did Bell first try to get a patent?
Answer: Britain

Question: Who did Bell ask to get a patent in Britain?
Answer: George Brown

Question: What kind of telegraph did Bell create?
Answer: acoustic

Question: What material did Elisha Gray use to convey sound?
Answer: water

Question: On what date did Gray and Bell both put in for a patent?
Answer: February 14, 1876

Question: On what day did Bell get to Washington?
Answer: February 26

Question: What office in Washington did Bell and Gray visit?
Answer: U.S. Patent Office

Question: What sort of machine did Bell and Gray both try to patent at the same time?
Answer: telephone

Question: What number is Bell's patent?
Answer: 174,465

Question: On what date did Bell get his patent?
Answer: March 7, 1876

Question: Bell's patent was for the method and what for transmitting vocal and other sounds telegraphically?
Answer: apparatus

Question: On what day did Bell go back to Boston?
Answer: March 7, 1876

Question: Bell sketched a design that looked like the work of who?
Answer: Gray

Question: What kind of transmitter did Bell put in his telephone?
Answer: liquid

Question: How did Bell refer to his partner in his well known line?
Answer: Mr. Watson

Question: What did the vibrations cause to change?
Answer: electrical resistance

Question: Bell implemented Gray's design as a what?
Answer: proof of concept

Question: Bell stopped using the liquid-based method after what month?
Answer: March

Question: Bell used his own design in all public demonstrations and what?
Answer: commercial use

Question: What part of the telephone was investigated by the patent officer?
Answer: variable resistance

Question: When did Bell put in his prior patent?
Answer: February 25, 1875

Question: What liquid did Bell use in his first application?
Answer: mercury

Question: Who declared himself an alcoholic?
Answer: Zenas Fisk Wilber

Question: In what war did Wilber and Bailey fight together?
Answer: Civil War

Question: How much did Wilber say Bell gave him in order to look at Gray's paperwork?
Answer: $100

Question: What did Bell only admit to knowing in a letter?
Answer: technical details

Question: From what city did Bell send his first message?
Answer: Mount Pleasant

Question: Bell sent messages over wires hooked onto telegraph lines and what?
Answer: fences

Question: What did the group at the Bells house hear other people doing?
Answer: reading and singing

Question: How much did Bell et al. try to sell his patent for?
Answer: $100,000

Question: Who did Bell et al. try to sell his patent to?
Answer: Western Union

Question: What did the President think the telephone was, such that he refused to buy the patent?
Answer: a toy

Question: How much the the President of Western Union want to pay for the patent later on?
Answer: $25 million

Question: In what city was the 1876 Centennial Exposition?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: What important person saw the telephone at the Centennial Exposition?
Answer: Emperor Pedro II

Question: Pedro II was the Emperor of what Country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Which Queen did Bell present his invention to?
Answer: Victoria

Question: In what year was the Bell Telephone Company founded?
Answer: 1877

Question: How many people in the United States had a telephone by 1886?
Answer: 150,000

Question: In what year did Bell get some of Edison's patents?
Answer: 1879

Question: What addition let people stop yelling into the telephone?
Answer: carbon microphone

Question: What company did Bell acquire the carbon microphone from?
Answer: Western Union

Question: In what month and year did Bell telephone across the country?
Answer: January 1915

Question: What company office did Bell make the original cross country phone call from?
Answer: AT&T

Question: What city did Bell make the first cross country call from?
Answer: New York

Question: What city did Bell make the first cross country call to?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: Who was on the other end of the first cross country phone call?
Answer: Thomas Watson

Question: During how many years did the Bell Company battle lawsuits?
Answer: 18

Question: How many times were Bell's patents contested?
Answer: 587

Question: How many of the court cases wound up at the Supreme Court?
Answer: 5

Question: Elisha Gray and what other man were behind many of the court cases?
Answer: Amos Dolbear

Question: In 1887 the US Government wanted to undo Bell's patent due to fraud and what?
Answer: misrepresentation

Question: The US Government lost the bid to overturn Bell's patent in what court?
Answer: Supreme Court