All RF Cafe quizzes would make perfect fodder
in
employment interviews for technicians or engineers - particularly those who are fresh
out of school or are relatively new to the work world. Come to think of it, they would
make equally excellent study material for the same persons who are going to be interviewed
for a job.
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RF Cafe Quizzes.
Note: Some material based on books have quoted passages.
1. Who is credited with
inventing the computer mouse?
a) Bill Gates b) Steve Jobs c) Bill Nye (the science guy) d) Douglas
Engelbart
2. Who is credited with discovering the transistor?
a) John Bardeen b) William Shockley
c) Walter Brattain d) All the above
3. Who invented the Viterbi programming algorithm?
a)
Andrew Viterbi b) Robert Pease c) Albert Einstein d) Robert Lucky
4. Who is credited with
inventing the triode amplifier vacuum tube (Audion)?
a) Sir Jonathan Audion b) James Watt c) Brian
Koenigsmark
d) Lee De Forest
5. Who invented the tunnel diode? a) Scott Adams b) Leo Esaki c) Patrick
Fitzgerald
d) Igor Stravinsky
6. Who is credited with inventing spread spectrum communications?
a) Akio
Morita b) Thomas Steenland c) Hedy Lamarr d) Albert Gore
7. Who is credited with inventing
frequency modulation (FM)?
a) Edwin Armstrong b) Heike Onnes c) Robert Jarvik d) Charlie Eppes
8. Who is credited with inventing television?
a) Yataro Iwasaki b) Lothar Rohde c)
Hermann Schwarz d) Philo Farnsworth
9. Who is credited with inventing radar?
a) Gordon
Gould b) Elmer Sperry c) Sir Robert Watson-Watt d) Augustus Raytheon
10. Who is credited
with inventing the first integrated circuit?
a) Garrett Morgan b) Jack Kilby c) James (Jim) Wilson
d) Grace Hopper
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