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What does "FM" stand for in terms of radio?
Frequency Modulation
What does "AM" stand for in terms of radio?
Amplitude Modulation
Who created the language also known as "dots and dashes"?
Samuel Morse
Who holds the title of the "First Father of Radio"?
Guglielmo Marconi
AM signals are prone to lose sound quality because it can be affected by _______.
An early communication method that utilized two towers that were stationed on hills, which also used large movable arms to signal letters and numbers.
Semaphores
In 1877, a company that would be better known today as AT&T was formed under which name?
Bell Telephone Company
By the age of 12, what was Alexander Graham Bell inventing?
Farm Equipment
The first ever commercial radio station started out of which city?
Hint: The call letters were "WWJ"
Detroit, Michigan
While Morse Code helped in military efforts around the world, the invention also ________ the railroad industry.
streamlined
FDR won 4 terms as President. He won because of how much everyone loved him. He used the radio to his advantage by broadcasting his now famous ______ _____.
Who is the creator of the Audion Tube?
Lee De Forest
What is "SOS" in Morse Code?
... --- ...
The transmission that Marconi sent across the Atlantic only carried what message?
The letter "S"
Which entity oversees what goes out onto the air for both radio and television?
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
He received a message that his wife was sick. He rushed to be by her side, just to find out she was already dead and buried.
Samuel Morse
In 1899, Marconi founded which company?
Marconi Telegraph Company
KDKA in Pittsburgh became famous for its broadcast of what major event?
1920 Presidential Election
This event was a scary night for most listeners. Martians landed on the planet! What was this famous broadcast called?
War of the Worlds
In 1915, the first transcontinental phone call was made between which two cities?
New York & San Francisco
What was the first phrase that was uttered through a telephone?
Hint: It's between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson.
"Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
In 1940, which network performed it's first ever television broadcast in the US?
NBC
Where was the first ever program broadcasted from?
The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City
Alexander Graham Bell's father was a professor of speech, and his mother was also an accomplished pianist. What else was special about Bell's mother?
She was deaf
Marconi was able to send a telegraph signal across the Atlantic between which two countries?
England & Canada (Newfoundland)