Bill O'Reilly: 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