Q 01/05

Which children's television show, first aired in 1969, was created with grants from Andrew Carnegie's main foundation?

A) Captain Kangaroo

B) Sesame Street

C) Romper Room

D) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Answer · why

B) Sesame Street

Sesame Street. A Carnegie Corporation executive, Lloyd Morrisett, and producer Joan Ganz Cooney planned a show to ready poor preschoolers for school, ...

Q 02/05

What was Carnegie's father's trade?

A) Coal miner

B) Shipbuilder

C) Blacksmith

D) Handloom weaver

Answer · why

D) Handloom weaver

Handloom weaver. When steam-powered looms reached his town, hand weavers like him lost their work, and the family borrowed money to sail for America i...

Q 03/05

Which canal carried the newly arrived Carnegies west on their three-week journey from New York to Pittsburgh in 1848?

A) Morris Canal

B) Champlain Canal

C) Erie Canal

D) Welland Canal

Answer · why

C) Erie Canal

Erie Canal. Emigration agents steered the family onto slow canal boats because no railway yet reached Pittsburgh; Carnegie later noted that trains mad...

Q 04/05

What was Carnegie's first job in America?

A) Stable hand at a livery

B) Coal breaker in a mine

C) Newspaper seller on the street

D) Bobbin boy in a cotton mill

Answer · why

D) Bobbin boy in a cotton mill

Bobbin boy in a cotton mill. He changed spools of thread from before dawn until after dark, then moved to a bobbin factory where he tended the boiler ...

Q 05/05

What weekly wage did the young Carnegie earn in his first American job in 1848?

A) 40 cents

B) $1.20

C) $4.00

D) $12.00

Answer · why

B) $1.20

$1.20. He later wrote that none of the millions he made gave him as much happiness as that first week's pay, because it turned him into a breadwinner ...