Trivia: Who placed the first transcontinental phone call?
Woodrow Wilson
The mayor of San Francisco
Alexander Graham Bell
The president of AT&T
The correct answer is Alexander Graham Bell
So why is this answer correct? : In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson held the first-ever phone conversation, separated only two miles apart. Thirty-eight years later, those same two inventors held another landmark phone conversation — only this time they were separated by an entire continent. Bell was in New York City, Watson was in San Francisco, and some 3,400 miles of telephone wire stretched between them.