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November 1937 Radio-Craft

November 1937 Radio-Craft

November 1937 Radio Craft Cover - RF Cafe[Table of Contents]

Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Craft, published 1929 - 1953. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

Mixing a little fun with learning has always been a good motivation for students. I have written in the past about a particular electronic circuits professor I had that liked to play practical jokes during lessons and exams. Including gag options on a multiple choice test is a great way to inject a bit of tension-easing levity while at the same time eliminating one or more opportunities to guess at a wrong answer (although no relief for the truly clueless). I sometimes do that on the RF Cafe Quizzes that I generate. Radio-Craft printed a large bunch of such quiz questions under the title "Radio WittiQuiz," where the questions and answers were provided by readers. Here are Q19-27 from November 1937 issue. 

Other Radio WittiQuizzes: November 1937 | December 1937 | October 1938

Radio WittiQuiz

Radio Wittiquiz, November 1937 Radio-Craft - RF CafeFree - A 1-year subscription to Radio-Craft to each person who submits a WittiQuiz that in the opinion of the Editors is suitable for publication in Radio-Craft. Read the following WittiQuizzes; can you spot the correct answers? Now send in your idea of one or more good WittiQuizzes.

 

(19) A transformer is-

(a) An apparatus for converting telegraph into wireless.

(b) An ex- cross-country runner.

(c) A device for coupling electrical circuits.

(d) A device for altering the form of electrical energy between circuits.

(e) A toupée or wig.

- W. Ward

 

(20) Any person who is "up" in his radio knows that Radio-Craft is-

(a) Any sailing vessel which is especially equipped so that it can be con- trolled by radio.

(b) Newly developed acoustic paper used for cones in the better loudspeakers.

(c) A police cruiser having both radio transmitting and receiving facilities.

(d) Radio's livest magazine.

(e) The radio servicing profession.

- E. J. Sampson

 

(21) A mixer tube is usually one in which -

(a) Alternating current is changed to pulsating current.

(b) Concrete for building purposes is produced.

(c) The desired beat frequency is obtained by combining the carrier signal frequency with the locally -generated frequency.

(d) One in which the bass and treble notes are harmoniously mixed in order to produce a hi- fidelity tonal output.

- L. A. Webster

 

(22) A Wheatstone bridge is-

(a) A traffic bridge designed by Mr. Wheatstone.

(b) A device used to measure resistance.

(c) A stone used to grind wheat.

- Victor Richard

 

(23) A photoelectric cell is-

(a) One of those new-fangled, escape-proof contraptions in Alcatraz prison.

(b) A device for rushing photos back and forth in busy newspaper offices.

(c) A vacuum tube in which electron emission is produced by the illumination of an electrode.

- Carl Graham

 

(24) It is generally known that an indoor antenna is a type of antenna -

(a) Built in a door.

(b) Used to decrease the sensitivity and to increase the effects of static.

(c) One that needs no insulation.

(d) Strung up in a room or attic.

- Lyle C. Ragan

 

(25) All good amateurs know that an ohm is-

(a) A domesticated animal of South America.

(b) Equal to 40 W.

(c) A unit of electrical resistance.

(d) A new type of fixed condenser.

- Clarence E. Maw

 

(26) A grid cap is used -

(a) To keep the grid warm.

(b) As a shield.

(c) To prevent removal of the grid.

(d) To provide electrical connection to the grid.

- George Gellaty

 

(27) Those of us who dabbled in radio prior to the World War would refer to a loose coupler, meaning -

(a) A defective connection between earth and ground.

(b) An amateur who would not stay on his assigned frequency.

(c) A Justice of the Peace who performed marriage ceremonies.

(d) An R.F. receiving transformer.

- P. A. Flanagan

 

<answers below>

Quizzes from vintage electronics magazines such as Popular Electronics, Electronics-World, QST, Radio-Electronics, and Radio News were published over the years - some really simple and others not so simple. Robert P. Balin created most of the quizzes for Popular Electronics. This is a listing of all I have posted thus far.

RF Cafe Quizzes

Vintage Electronics Magazine Quizzes

Vintage Electronics Magazine Quizzes

Vintage Electronics Magazine Quizzes

 

Answers

(19)   (e)

(20)   (d)

(21)   (c)

(22)   (b)

(23)   (e)

(24)   (d)

(25)   (e)

(26)   (d)

(27)   (d)

 

 

Contest Rules (this, of course, does not hold anymore since Radio-Craft is out of publication)

(1) An award of a 1-year subscription to Radio-Craft will be given, each month, to each person who submits one or more Wiitiquizzes that the Editors consider suitable for publication in Radio-Craft.

(2) Wiitiquizzes should preferably be typed; use only one side of paper.

(3) Submit as many Wiitiquizzes as you care to - the more you submit the more chance you have of winning - but each should be good.

(4) Each Wiitiquizz must incorporate humorous elements, and must be based on some term used in radio, public address or electronics. Each Wiitiquizz may have 4 "answers," only one of which of course will be correct; and, only 1 of which is non-radio.

(5) All answers must be grouped, by question number and correct-answer letter, on a separate sheet of paper.

(6) All contributions become the property of Radio-Craft. No contributions can be returned.

(7) This contest is not open to Radio-Craft employees or their relatives.

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