Some sample questions from this category:
* At the age of seven, Thomas and his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. He set up his first laboratory in the basement of his family's house at 10 years of age. At 12 years old, he found his first job working in a position attached to which field?
* Edison's first marriage began in 1871, when he decided to hitch up with a laboratory assistant nine years his younger. Who was this lovely girl with whom Thomas became betrothed?
* In 1876, Thomas, with the support of several financiers, including J. P. Morgan, set up a laboratory for inventing purposes in which small New Jersey town?
* What is Thomas Edison's middle name?
* Which one of these inventions did Edison not discover or help improve?
* When did Thomas Edison die?
* At what age did Edison become a telegraph operator?
* In 1876, Edison built his famous laboratory in Menlo Park. In which U.S. state is Menlo Park?
* In 1879, Edison successfully tested the incandescent light. What did he use for a filament?
* What is the name of Edison's motion picture invention?
* When did Edison marry his first wife Mary Stilwell?
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