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O'Reilly's History Quiz
Test Your Knowledge of Samuel Morse & the Telegraph
1. Samuel Morse sent the first telegraphic message on May 24, 1844. What Bible verse did he reference?
What hath God wrought
Pray continually
He is risen
I am not ashamed
Repent
2. While the inventor of the telegraph, Morse also contributed to what field?
Automobiles
Farming
Painting
Telepathy
Music
3. Morse was a professor at what university when he invented Morse Code?
Columbia University
New York University
Yale University
Rutgers University
Harvard College
4. When was the battery invented?
1800
1900
1920
1850
1820
5. The completion of what changed the world of communications in 1861?
Pony Express
Transcontinental Railroad
Cross Atlantic Cable
Transcontinental Telegraph Line
Overland Express
6. Many inventors contributed to making the telegraph successful, including what man whose name is eponymous with a university?
Baylor
Bucknell
Rice
Cornell
Princeton
7. What event made the telegraph indispensable?
Civil War
Panama Canal
Lewis and Clark
War of 1812
Napoleonic Wars
8. Which Confederate general's forces got tangled in telegraph wires and ended up losing an attack?
Bragg
Stuart
Johnston
Hood
Longstreet
9. The telegraph was used by which president to revolutionize the office?
Lincoln
Taft
Roosevelt
Harding
Washington
10. When was the first telegraph cable placed on the floor of the Atlantic?
1900
1920
1866
1850
1800
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