All RF Cafe quizzes would make perfect fodder for 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.
1. In which decade was the transistor invented?
a) 1940s
b) 1950s
c) 1960s
2. In which decade was the telegraph invented?
a) 1810s
b) 1840s
c) 1870s
3. In which decade was the Internet first
implemented?
a) 1950s
b) 1960s
c) 1970s
4. In which decade was the first solid state
integrated circuit demonstrated?
a) 1950s
b) 1960s
c) 1970s
5. In which decade were the first successful diode and triode vacuum tubes invented?
a) 1880s
b) 1890s
c) 1900s
6. In which decade was the telephone invented?
a) 1850s
b) 1860s
c) 1870s
7. In which decade was the AEEE (now the IEEE) founded?
a) 1880s
b) 1910s
c) 1940s
8. In which decade with the first transatlantic radio broadcast occur?
a) 1880s
b) 1890s
c) 1900s
9. In which decade was the SPICE simulator introduced?
a) 1960s
b) 1970s
c) 1980s
10. In which decade was the ARRL founded?
a) 1910s
b) 1920s
c) 1930s
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