See if you can answer one of these telephone trivia questions.

-1. Today, nearly everyone answers the phone with "Hello?" But in the earliest days, what other word was used?
-2. Who was the first President to have a phone on his desk?
3. Place the following in chronological order: princess phones, outdoor phone booths, area codes, touch-tone (push button) phones, hold buttons, picturephones (first public display), pay phones
-4. What song titles that feature telephone numbers are associated with: -a.) Glenn Miller -b.) The Marvelettes -c.) Tommy Tutone?
-5. Name the songs that feature these telephone lines: a.) "A telephone that rings, but who's to answer?" b.) "No phone, no pool, no pets..." c.) "When I call you up, your line's engaged..."
-6. What's the punchline to the prank call to a housewife that starts with, "Is your refrigerator running?"
-7. What fictional characters are associated with the following: a.) "One ringy dingy" b.) the shoe phone c.) "Phone home"?
8. What 1948 film starred James Stewart as a Chicago newspaper reporter who helps a scrubwoman prove her son's innocence in the death of a policeman?
-9. In what 1960 film did Liz Taylor portray a call girl and win her first Oscar for her performance?
10. It's easy to remember the number for Dial-A-Prayer (787-3837) because the numbers correspond to the letters STPETER. What names correspond to the following numbers?
a.) Dial-a-Joke 262-4073
b.) Dial-a-Hint 435-6473
c.) Dial-a-Poem 873-5468
d.) Dial-a-Painting 354-7326
e.) Dial-a-Review 739-7333
f.) Dial-a-Hussy 623-9378
g.) Dial-a-Dictator 434-2646

7.
a.) Ernestine
b.) Maxwell Smart
c.) E.T.

9. Butterfield 8

Two great starts!

6. Yes .. Well you better go catch it ??

2 - Hoover ??

1. "All our staff are currently busy with other customers. Your call is important to us, so please stay on the line and someone will be with you shortly" ??

Oh, sorry - that's more than one word

Mad and OB

Rog, I think it took years to perfect those lines.

1. Whoeewhoee (or similar - I'm sure I've heard Monty Burns use it when answering the phone).

Bernie

5. I think I know two of them
a These Foolish Things
b King of the Road
c ??
😊

4.
a. PE 6-5000
b. ?
c. ?

5C: You Won't See Me

I'll take 4b: Beechwood 4-5789

Bernie, try again.

flotsam and Marian - good teamwork!

curly, you've got the numbers right

ob, spot on!

4 a, PA 6-5000

Thanks Sue.

Such a classic!

1. Bell suggested "ahoy" but it didn't catch on.

4 c) 867-5309/Jenny

Yes to both!