Thomas Edison - Assessment

1.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

What was Edison's nickname?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

the Wizard of Menlon Park

2.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

How many materials did Edison research for filaments in his lightbulb?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

3000

3.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

Where was Edison's laboratory?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

Menlo Park, New Jersey

4.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

How did Edison's inventing career begin?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

when he was a young telegraph operator

5.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

What is a kinetoscope?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

a peephole viewer and forerunner to the projector

6.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

Who designed the kinetoscope?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

Edision's assistant, william Dickson

7.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

Where was the birth of the motion picture industry?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

at a studio called teh Black Maria, at Edison's West Orange Laboratory, New Jersey

8.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

How many inventions did Edision patent?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

over 1000

9.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

Where and when was Edison's Genius/perspiration quote published?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

Harper's Monthly magazine, published September 1932

10.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

Who was Edision inspired by in terms of motion pictures?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

Eadweard Muybridge

11.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

What did Eadweard Muybridge do?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

used hundreds of frames to capture movement

12.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

What happens in Edison's incandescent bulb?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

An electric current heats carbon filament, the vacuum in bulb prevents the filament from burning up, and the filament glows when heated

13.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

When did Edison give the first demonstration of the light bulb?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

1879

14.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

What company did Edison found in 1881?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City

15.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

What were some of Edison's inventions?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

phonograph, the ticker-tape telegraphy, the kinetograph, and an improved design of the telephone

16.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

Who produced the first incandescent bulb?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

not Edison; he improved on the ideas of others to produce the first commercial bulb

17.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

Whose sneeze was recorded?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

a laboratory worker Fred Ott

18.

Open Ended

30 sec

1 pt

What power plant did Edison help build in 1882?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Answer explanation

the Pearl Street power plant for the south of Manhattan

Explore this activity with a free account