Quiz  /  Communications Firsts Quiz

  • 1. 
    What was the first continuously published newspaper in the American colonies?

  • American Weekly Mercury
  • New York Weekly Journal
  • Boston News-Letter
  • Virginia Gazette

  • 2. 
    Where was the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica published?

  • Oxford, England
  • London, England
  • Manchester, England
  • Edinburgh, Scotland

  • 3. 
    Who discovered the Rosetta Stone near Alexandria, Egypt, in 1799?

  • Bouchard
  • Charles de Foucauld
  • Augelle
  • Baudin

  • 4. 
    Who was the first to make a permanent photographic image?

  • Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce
  • Alfred Le Chatelier
  • Eugene Maizan
  • Pierre Antoine Delalande

  • 5. 
    Who invented the stereoscope, a device for observing pictures in three dimensions?

  • Sir Charles Wheatstone
  • C.H. Douglas
  • Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Lewis Fry Richardson

  • 6. 
    What was the name of the first prepaid postage stamp used in England?

  • penny farthing
  • bluenose
  • three pearls
  • penny black

  • 7. 
    Who coined the term microphone?

  • Sir Charles Wheatstone
  • Anthony James Leggett
  • Horace Lamb
  • William Sturgeon

  • 8. 
    Who patented the first single-lens reflex camera?

  • William Henry Fox Talbot
  • Thomas Sutton
  • Richard Beard
  • Frederick Scott Archer

  • 9. 
    Who produced the first commercially successful typewriter?

  • William Austin Burt
  • Christopher Latham Sholes
  • Samuel W. Soulé
  • Henry Mill

  • 10. 
    Who patented a photographic “film” that used gel spread over paper?

  • Jacob Riis
  • Alfred Stieglitz
  • George Eastman
  • Eadweard Muybridge

  • 11. 
    Who founded the first film production company in France, which created more than 400 films from 1896 to 1913?

  • Auguste Lumière
  • René Clair
  • Pierre Étaix
  • Georges Méliès

  • 12. 
    Which Canadian inventor made the first radio broadcast?

  • J. Willard Gibbs
  • Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
  • John Slater
  • Edward Witten

  • 13. 
    Who was the Scottish engineer to first televise pictures of objects in motion?

  • Alexander John Forsyth
  • John Loudon McAdam
  • John Logie Baird
  • Andrew Gordon

  • 14. 
    Which Scottish physicist used the principle of echolocation to develop radar?

  • John Dalton
  • Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
  • Henry Coddington
  • Colin Humphreys

  • 15. 
    Who made a public demonstration of instant photography in 1947?

  • Garrett Brown
  • Thomas Armat
  • Edwin Herbert Land
  • Hannibal Goodwin

  • 16. 
    What is the name of the active communications satellite that allowed the first exchange of television programs between the United States and Europe?

  • Telstar 1
  • Echo 1
  • Intelsat 1
  • Westar

  • 17. 
    Who developed the first machine that could read printed text and produce a synthesized speech output?

  • Alan Blumlein
  • David Boggs
  • Ray Kurzweil
  • Martin Cooper

  • 18. 
    What is the name of the world’s lightest and smallest wearable phone, produced by Motorola, Inc., in 1996?

  • StarMax
  • Timeport
  • Moto E1
  • StarTac

  • 19. 
    What is the name of the first passive communications satellite, launched into orbit by the United States in 1960?

  • Ranger 1
  • Echo 1
  • Telstar
  • Explorer S1
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