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How well do you know your telephone?

 
Most telephones today have a numeric keypad which you use to dial the numbers. The old style phones, which are still in use in some places today, use a rotary dial which is used to select the numbers.

We use telephones just about every day. We could not survive without them. Yet, how well do you know your telephone?

When you use a telephone, you often just dial the number of the person that you want to call. Many phone numbers, however, are specifically chosen because they spell a word or phrase that is supposed to be easier to remember than a long number. For example, you could have a number such as 1-555-BEA-VERS. That would be easier to remember than a bunch of numbers. What if the telephone that you wanted to use did not have letters on it? What if the letters had worn off? Could you still dial the number?

Try this quiz. Enter the letters that you think correspond to the numbers on the telephone keypad on the right into the table above the keypad. To check your answere, just click on the buttons on the keypad.

No peeking though!        After all, this is a quiz.

 
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