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Early Communication/Technology

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During World War I what was extensively used to communicate? Some of them were even decorated!

a)

Carrier Pigeons

b)

Morse code

c)

Horses

d)

Telephones

2.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Eli Whitney

3.

What year was the telephone invented?

a)

1870

b)

1845

c)

1880

d)

1876

4.

What is the name of the picture language the Egyptians invented?

a)

Hieroglyphics

b)

Telegraphs

c)

Pictographs

d)

Cave Drawings

5.

What did Native Americans use as one of the earliest forms of communication?

a)

Bird letters

b)

Letters

c)

Horse messages

d)

Smoke Signals

6.

What year was the first cell phone invented?

a)

1992

b)

1973

c)

1985

d)

1968

7.

When was Morse Code invented?

a)

1830s

b)

1840s

c)

1850s

d)

1860s

8.

To communicate during World War II, many families used the ___________________.

a)

telephone

b)

telegraph

c)

morse code

d)

carrier pigeon

9.

What is this?

a)

Telegraph

b)

Morse coder

c)

Telephone

d)

Phonograph

10.

Ray Tomlinson, an American programmer, sent the first email in what year?

a)

1968

b)

1985

c)

1971

d)

1979

11.

Who were the two main founders of Apple, Inc?

a)

Bud Abbot and Lou Costello

b)

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

c)

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates

d)

Fusajirō Yamauchi and Mario

12.

What was the name of the first satellite launched into space?

a)

Spunky

b)

Sputinkia

c)

Sputnik

d)

Stinky

13.

When was the first color TV released?

a)

1952

b)

1954

c)

1948

d)

1962

14.

Who is typically credited for inventing the printing press?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

Johannes Gutenberg

15.

When was the first iPhone released?

a)

2005

b)

2006

c)

2007

d)

2008

16.

The first long radio broadcast came in what year?

a)

1916

b)

1917

c)

1918

d)

1919

17.

It was a Scottish man named __________ who was successful in showing moving images on a screen in 1925.

a)

William John Logan

b)

Kevin James McCallister

c)

John Logie Baird

d)

Eian John Abernathy

18.

What is the name of this device?

a)

Record player

b)

Rotary phone

c)

Spin dialer

d)

Rotary sender

19.

Telephone calls used to have to be routed through something called a ____________________.

a)

processor

b)

communicator

c)

switchboard

d)

router

20.

The image is the symbol for ______________ - a technology that allows data to be transferred over a wireless signal.

a)

Bowtech

b)

Arrowhead

c)

Double arrows

d)

Bluetooth