Famous Deaf Individuals
American Sign Language (ASL)
Events
North Dakota School for the Deaf (NDSD)
Assistive Technology
100

Deaf Inventor of the Light Bulb

Who is Thomas Edison?

100

The only universal sign using the combined handshape with these three letters: I, L and Y

What is the "I Love You" sign?

100

Deaf protest on a college campus in favor of a Deaf President

What is "Deaf President Now"?

100

Graduate of NDSD and the first deaf person to win a Tony Award

Who is Phyllis Frelich?

100

Words that appear at the bottom of a TV or Movie Screen

What is Captioning or Closed Captions?

200

First Deaf individual to win an Oscar

Who is Marlee Matlin? 

200

You focus on this area while watching a person sign

What is the face?

200

This man came to the U.S. in 1817 from France to help educate the Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing

Who is Laurent Clerc?

200

A teacher at NDSD and was Assistant Coach for the USA Deaf Hockey Team in 207

Who is David Zimmerman? 

200

Trained to alert a person with a hearing loss of things in the environment

What is a hearing service dog? 

300

Won the 22nd season of "Dancing with the Stars" and "Top Model" 

Who is Nyle Demarco?

300

Two countries in the world that mostly use ASL

What is Canada and the United States?

300

Filmed people and American Sign Language to preserve it

Who is George Veditz?

300

Played Basketball for NDSD and holds ND's record for making the most points in one game by an individual player 

Who is Steven Blehm?

(He personally scored 85 points in a single game) 

300

Three ways that assistive devices notify a person with a hearing loss

What is vibration, a strobe light or amplified sound?

400

First Deaf Miss America

Who is Heather Whitestone?

400

Two countries in the world that mostly use ASL

What is Canada and the United States? 

400

Studied ASL and found that sign languages are true languages 

Who is William Stokoe? 

400

Current president of Gallaudet University whose mother graduated form NDSD

Who is Roberta "Bobbi" Cordano?

400

An App that allows people to follow along with the music with live lyrics 

What is Sound Hound or What is Shazam?

500

Hard-of-Hearing person who is known as the "Father of the Internet" 

Who is Vinton Cerf? 

500

The standardization of international gestures

What is Gestuno? 

500

In 1880, this event banned sign language in Deaf Education

What is the Conference of Milan?

500

Born in ND, this individual may be the first Deaf person to earn a PhD. in Pharmacy. 

Who is Bethany Fiskum? 

(Maiden name: Bethany Sather) 

500

A sign language interpreter provided from another location

What is remote interpreter services?