Electronic Menu Quiz
August 1963 Popular Electronics

August 1963 Popular Electronics Table of Contents Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

This quiz appeared in the August 1963 edition of Popular Electronics. It challenges you to match the common food-related term for a device with its picture. If you've been around electronics labs and/or read electronics hobbyist magazines for a while, chances are you have run across most of the terms.  A couple of the names I have to admit not being familiar, so they seem rather 'corny'... get it?

Electronic Menu Quiz

By Robert P. Balin

Many of the nicknames most technicians use for electronic parts, effects, or methods, are also names of common foodstuffs, such as those on the electronic menu below. Of course, any resemblance is purely a visual one! Nevertheless, see if you can match the electronic dishes (1-10) with the corresponding sketches (A-L).

1  Spaghetti __ 

2  Ham __ 

3  Link __

4  Acorn __

5  Prune __

6  Banana __

7  Honey__

8  Pie __

9  Cone__

10  Salt __

 

 

Answers below.

 

 

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Popular Electronics published many quizzes over the years - some really simple and others not so simple. Robert Balin created many of the quizzes. This is a listing of all I have posted thus far.

Bridge Circuit Quiz -December 1966 Diode Function Quiz - August 1965 Diagram Quiz, August 1966 TV Trouble Quiz, July 1966 Electronics History Quiz, December 1965 Scope-Trace Quiz, March 1965 Electronic Circuit Analogy Quiz, April 1973 Test Your Knowledge of Semiconductors, August 1972 Ganged Switching Quiz, April 1972 Lamp Brightness Quiz, January 1969 Lissajous Pattern Quiz, September 1963 Electronic Quizoo, October 1962 Electronic Photo Album Quiz, March 1963 Electronic Alphabet Quiz, May 1963 Quiz: Resistive? Inductive? or Capacitive?, October 1960 Vector-Circuit Matching Quiz, June 1970 Inductance Quiz, September 1961 RC Circuit Quiz, June 1963 Diode Quiz, July 1961 Electronic Curves Quiz, February 1963 Electronic Numbers Quiz, December 1962 Energy Conversion Quiz, April 1963 Coil Function Quiz, June 1962

Meter-Reading Quiz, June 1966 Electronic Geometry Quiz, January 1965 Electronic Factor Quiz, November 1966 Electronics Math Quiz, November 1965 Series Circuit Quiz, May 1966 Electrochemistry Quiz, March 1966 Electronic Analogy Quiz, November 1961 Electronic Coupling Quiz, August 1973 Electronics Analogy Quiz, August 1960 Audio Quiz, April 1955 Electronic Unit Quiz, May 1962 Capacitor Circuit Quiz, June 1968 Quiz on AC Circuit Theory, December 1970 Magnetic Phenomena Quiz, February 1962 Electronics Geography Quiz, April 1970 Electronic Menu Quiz, August 1963 Electronic Noise Quiz, August 1962 Electronic Current Quiz, October 1963 Electronic Inventors Quiz, November 1963 Resistor Function Quiz, January 1962 Electronic Measurement Quiz, January 1963 Vacuum Tube Quiz, February 1961 Kool-Keeping Kwiz, June 1970

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Menu Quiz Answers

1 - J  SPAGHETTI is the slip-on sleeving used to insulate bare wiring.

2 - C  A HAM is a radio operator who has been granted an FCC amateur radio license and call letters.

3 - G  The part of a fuse that melts when the rated current is exceeded is the LINK.

4 - A  The ACORN is a type of vacuum tube for UHF applications, which has no base, and has its pins
          brought out through the sides of the glass envelope.

5 - H  To PRUNE a coil means to adjust the spacing between turns or to remove turns to alter its inductance.
 
6 - F  A BANANA plug has a segmented springy metal prong that maintains a low-resistance contact in the
         mating socket.

7 - I  A HONEYcomb coil has a pattern in which the position of adjacent turns is continuously shifted to
         minimize distributed capacitance.

8 - D  The PIEcrust effect is a kind of TV picture distortion due to a hunting action in the horizontal
          automatic frequency control circuit.

9 - B  A CONE is the conical paper diaphragm in a loudspeaker.

10 - E  Rochelle SALT crystals having the chemical name sodium potassium tartrate are used in
           phonograph cartridges.

 

 

Posted March 12, 2013