Q 01/05

Which toy was adapted in 2019 so that its pieces spell out braille letters and numbers?

A) Dominoes

B) Lego bricks

C) Jenga blocks

D) Rubik's Cube

Answer · why

B) Lego bricks

Lego bricks: each Braille Brick keeps only the studs that spell one character and prints the same letter beside them, so blind and sighted children ca...

Q 02/05

How does English braille show a capital letter?

A) Taller dots

B) The letter twice

C) A sign before it

D) Deeper dots

Answer · why

C) A sign before it

A sign before it: a single dot at the foot of a cell says 'capital follows', just as a number sign ahead of a letter turns it into a digit.

Q 03/05

How old was Louis Braille when he worked out his code?

A) Seven

B) Fifteen

C) Thirty

D) Sixty

Answer · why

B) Fifteen

Fifteen: by 1824 Braille had built the code in his free time from an army captain's clumsier system of dots, and his classmates took it up at once.

Q 04/05

How did Louis Braille lose his sight?

A) A fireworks explosion on Bastille Day

B) A fall from a horse at a country fair

C) A bout of smallpox as an infant

D) An awl accident in his father's workshop

Answer · why

D) An awl accident in his father's workshop

An awl accident in his father's workshop: aged three, he drove the leather punch into one eye, infection spread to the other, and by five he was compl...

Q 05/05

Louis Braille's birthplace, Coupvray, east of France's capital, now sits beside which attraction?

A) Parc Astérix

B) Versailles

C) Disneyland Paris

D) Fontainebleau

Answer · why

C) Disneyland Paris

Disneyland Paris: the resort was laid out across five villages, Coupvray among them, so some of its hotels now stand a short drive from the house wher...