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Universal is the only studio
How many studios have released three billion-dollar films in one year?
Universal Productions France S.A.
What was the name of the Universal production company based in Paris?
Universal Pictures France
What was the name of Universal's French distribution company?
The Champagne Murders
What was the English title of Le scandale?
Fred Zinnemann
Who directed The Day of the Jackal?
Les Valseuses
What film was known in English as Going Places?
telephone
What is Bell most famous for inventing?
1922
What year did Bell die?
practical
What was special about his telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What is Bell's full name?
telephone
What is Bell famous for inventing?
elocution and speech
What were his relatives known for working on?
deaf
What was interesting about his mother and wife?
1876
What year did Bell get the patent for his telephone?
U.S.
In what country did Bell patent his telephone?
telephone
What did Bell never put in his study?
33
How many people started the National Geographic Society?
National Geographic Society
Bell was the second president of what magazine?
hydrofoils
What field did Bell later work in, apart from optical telecommunications and aeronautics?
1898
What year did Bell become President of the National Geographic magazine?
Edinburgh
What city was Bell born in?
stone
What material marks Bells family home as his birthplace?
tuberculosis
What disease did his two brothers die of?
10
At what age did Bell ask for a middle name?
Aleck
What did those close to him call Bell?
botanical specimens
What sort of things did Bell collect as a child?
Ben Herdman
Who was Bell's closest friend as a child?
flour
What sort of mill did Bell's neighbors run?
rotating paddles
Bell's dehusking machine combined what with nail brushes?
small workshop
What was Bell's reward for his dehusking machine?
music
Bell was gifted at art, poetry, and what?
piano
What did Bell succeed at without being taught?
12
How old was Bell when his mom started to go deaf?
forehead
What part of his mom's head would Bell talk into?
acoustics
What did Bell research because of his mom's deafness?
Dublin
Where did Bell's uncle live?
The Standard Elocutionist
What was Bell's father most famous for publishing?
pronunciation
Bell learned to accurately read lips even without knowing what?
168
The Standard Elocutionist was printed how many times?
father
Who taught Bell when he was very young?
Royal High School
What school did Bell leave at 15?
biology
What was Bell's favorite subject?
16
How old was Bell when he became a "pupil-teacher"?
1863
In what year did Bell's father take him to see an automaton?
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Who created the automaton Bell saw?
human voice
What did the automaton mimic?
Melville
Bell built his own automaton with who?
skull
What part of the automaton did Bell create?
Skye Terrier
What living thing did Bell use in his research?
Trouve
What was Bell's pet's name?
How are you grandma?
What phrase did people believe Bell's dog could say?
tuning forks
Bell investigated resonance using what?
growl continuously
What did Bell instruct his dog to do?
Alexander Ellis
Who did Bell get to read his work?
Germany
What country was doing work similar to Bell's?
Hermann von Helmholtz
Who wrote The Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music?
19
How old was Bell when he wrote his paper?
Professor Henry Higgins
What fictional character is based on Alexander Ellis?
electrical
By what means did Bell conclude vowel sounds could be made?
consonants
What else besides vowels did Bell decide could be created?
German
What language was Bell happy he couldn't read?
electricity
What did Bell think he didn't know well enough?
1865
In what year did the Bell's move to London?
Weston House
Where did Bell go in work in 1865?
Somerset College
What building was Bell in?
A.G. Bell
How did Bell sign his letters?
1867
In what year did Bell move home?
South Kensington
What city is Susanna E. Hull located in?
deaf
What sort of student attended Susanna E. Hull?
Melville
Who died in 1870?
Newfoundland
Where did Bell's father go to recover from illness?
lisp
What did Bell help his final student get rid of?
23
How old was Bell when he went to Canada?
SS Nestorian
What boat did Bell travel on?
Quebec City
In what Canadian city did Bell first arrive?
Paris
What city did Bell arrive at by train?
10.5
How many acres was the farm the Bell's bought in Canada?
carriage house
What building did Bell use as a workshop?
dreaming place
What did Bell call his special spot in the back of the property?
Mohawk
What Native American language did Bell learn?
Honorary Chief
What special status did Bell get in the Mohawk tribe?
Onondaga
Where was the Six Nations Reserve located?
melodeon
What did Bell rework to send music?
pump organ
What is a melodeon a kind of?
1871
When did Bell go to Montreal?
father
Who went with Bell to Montreal?
electrically
How did Bell's reworked melodeon send music?
Sarah Fuller
Who ran the Boston School for Deaf Mutes?
the public Horace Mann School for the Deaf
What name does the Boston School for Deaf Mutes go by now?
April
What month did Bell go to Boston?
instructors
Bell trained who in Boston?
Hartford
What city was the American Asylum in?
1
How many wires did Bell send a signal through?
pitch
For his system to work, Bell had to change what about each code?
receiver
Bell needed to fix both the transmitter and what?
Brantford
Where was Bell's home?
Boston
What city did Bell decide to return to?
1872
In what year did Bell open his own school?
30
How many people were in Bell's first class?
Helen Keller
Which of Bell's students is the most well known?