Question: How many years did Bell and the US Government fight in court?
Answer: 9

Question: What excuse did the judges have for the trial despite the fact that the patents had expired?
Answer: precedent

Question: On what date did the US Government stop legal action?
Answer: November 30, 1897

Question: Who claimed to have invented the in 1834?
Answer: Antonio Meucci

Question: How many court trials did Meucci participate in?
Answer: 3

Question: At what company were Meucci's prototypes supposedly lost?
Answer: American District Telegraph (ADT)

Question: In what year did Western Union absorb ADT?
Answer: 1901

Question: What event caused Meucci's trials to be dropped?
Answer: death

Question: Because of their patent, what didn't Siemens & Halske have to give Bell?
Answer: royalties

Question: What was the home city for the International Bell Telephone Company?
Answer: Brussels

Question: In what year was the International Bell Telephone Company founded?
Answer: 1880

Question: Who did Bell marry in 1877?
Answer: Mabel Hubbard

Question: How many children did Bell and Mabel have?
Answer: 4

Question: Where did Bell and his wife go on their honeymoon?
Answer: Europe

Question: Before 1897, what did Bell get most of his money from?
Answer: lectures

Question: In what year did Mabel's father move to Washington D.C.?
Answer: 1880

Question: In what year did Bell acquire a house in D.C.?
Answer: 1882

Question: Where did Bell and Mabel live before 1880?
Answer: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Question: What did Bell have to go to court for in D.C.?
Answer: patent disputes

Question: In what year did Bell officially become an American?
Answer: 1882

Question: What was Bell's original nationality?
Answer: British

Question: Besides the US and UK, what other country claims Bell as a citizen?
Answer: Canada

Question: What does Bell call people who are citizens of two countries?
Answer: hyphenated

Question: What Island in Nova Scotia did the Bells go to in 1885?
Answer: Breton Island

Question: In 1886, what lake did Bell start building a house near?
Answer: Bras d'Or

Question: What did the Bells call the house completed in 1889?
Answer: The Lodge

Question: How many people worked for the Bell Boatyard?
Answer: 40

Question: Where did the Bells live when the Halifax Explosion happened?
Answer: Beinn Bhreagh

Question: On what day did the Halifax Explosion happen?
Answer: December 6, 1917

Question: Which of their two homes did the Bells start spending more time as Bell aged?
Answer: Beinn Bhreagh

Question: What city adopted the Bells?
Answer: Baddeck

Question: What did the Bells do to help the victims in Halifax?
Answer: mobilized the community

Question: What series of books does Gray say Bell would go to sleep reading?
Answer: Encyclopædia Britannica

Question: How many solo patents did Bell get?
Answer: 18

Question: How many patents did Bell co-author?
Answer: 12

Question: What famous lab did Bell spend time working for?
Answer: Volta

Question: What type of energy did Bell investigate at the Volta Laboratory?
Answer: magnetic

Question: The magnetic field is part of what sort of recorder?
Answer: tape recorder

Question: What form of water played a part in Bell's home cooling system?
Answer: ice

Question: What did Bell think could be collected from farm and factory byproduct?
Answer: Methane gas

Question: What kind of toilet did Bell work on?
Answer: composting

Question: Right before his death, what kind of energy did he speculate about?
Answer: solar

Question: What did Bell call his cord-free phone?
Answer: photophone

Question: Who did Bell invent the cord-free phone with?
Answer: Charles Sumner Tainter

Question: What did Bell's cord-free phone use to transmit messages?
Answer: light

Question: What lab association did Bell and Tainter both eventually join?
Answer: Volta Laboratory Association

Question: In the photophone, light carried sound and what?
Answer: normal human conversations

Question: Bell and his assistant first used their photophone on what date?
Answer: June 21, 1880

Question: How many feet did the first photophone message travel?
Answer: 700

Question: From what building was the first photophone message sent?
Answer: Franklin School

Question: How many years after this photophone message would the first message take place over radio?
Answer: 19

Question: What did Bell call the best thing he ever made?
Answer: The photophone

Question: Bell thought the photophone was better than what famous invention?
Answer: telephone

Question: What modern technology takes the next step from the photophone?
Answer: fiber-optic communication

Question: When was fiber-optics first patented?
Answer: 1880

Question: In what decade did fiber-optics become widely used?
Answer: 1980s

Question: What did Bell create in 1881?
Answer: metal detector

Question: What was in James Garfield that they wanted to get out?
Answer: bullet

Question: What did Bell think was wrong with the bed, which prevented his machine from finding the bullet?
Answer: metal bed frame

Question: On which run did Bell's metal detector give a small indication?
Answer: first

Question: When did Bell's metal detector work well?
Answer: in tests

Question: Bell gave his story about trying to find the bullet to the American Association for the Advancement of what?
Answer: Science

Question: Where did Bell go the day after trying to find the bullet?
Answer: Executive Mansion

Question: What kind of mattress was the President directly on?
Answer: horse-hair

Question: Where did Bell indicate that the bullet was too deep for his machine to register?
Answer: footnote

Question: Who wrote the paper laying out hydrofoils and hydroplanes?
Answer: William E. Meacham

Question: What nationality was Meacham?
Answer: American

Question: What did Bell start drawing after reading the article?
Answer: hydrofoil boat

Question: Who helped Bell investigate hydrofoils in 1908?
Answer: Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin

Question: Which Italian scientist did Baldwin draw inspiration from?
Answer: Enrico Forlanini

Question: In what country did Baldwin and Forlanini get together?
Answer: France

Question: What did Baldwin liken the hydrofoil boat to?
Answer: flying

Question: Which boat was first powered by a Renault engine?
Answer: HD-4

Question: What color silk covered Bell's kites?
Answer: maroon

Question: Who was on Cygnet I when it crashed?
Answer: Selfridge

Question: Bell's kits were flown from 1907 to what year?
Answer: 1912

Question: How many tetrahedral wings did Bell create?
Answer: 3

Question: Some of the kites remain at what National Historic Site?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

Question: What organization did Bell set up due to his interest in aerospace?
Answer: Aerial Experiment Association

Question: When was the AEA founded?
Answer: 1907

Question: Which original member of the AEA held motorcycle speed records?
Answer: Glenn H. Curtiss

Question: Which branch of the military was Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge in?
Answer: army

Question: What did the AEA work on after kites?
Answer: gliders

Question: What material was the Red Wing's frame made of?
Answer: bamboo

Question: What kind of plane was the Red Wing?
Answer: biplane

Question: How many accident-free flights had the AEA taken by 1909?
Answer: 150

Question: Who was the first person to die in a plane crash?
Answer: Selfridge

Question: What did the AEA name their last plane?
Answer: Silver Dart

Question: Who was the first to fly the Silver Dart?
Answer: J.A.D. McCurdy

Question: What professional did Bell make sure was present during the first Silver Dart flight?
Answer: a doctor

Question: What business did Baldwin and McCurdy start after the AEA folded?
Answer: Canadian Aerodrome Company

Question: On what month and day did the Silver Dart take its first flight?
Answer: February 23

Question: What kind of parents did Bell state were more prone to having deaf children?
Answer: congenitally deaf parents