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Audio Timeline Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who succeeded in recovering Mary's Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder?

a)

Marconi

b)

Clement Ader

c)

Emile Berliner

d)

Thomas Alva Edison

2.

In which year was the first music put on record with cornetist Jules Levy playing 'Yankee Doodle'?

a)

1877

b)

1878

c)

1881

d)

1887

3.

Who was granted a patent on a flat-disc gramophone in 1887?

a)

Clement Ader

b)

Marconi

c)

Emile Berliner

d)

Thomas Alva Edison

4.

Which inventor introduced an electric motor-driven phonograph in 1888?

a)

Thomas Alva Edison

b)

Marconi

c)

Clement Ader

d)

Emile Berliner

5.

Who successfully experimented with wireless telegraphy system in Italy in 1895?

a)

Marconi

b)

Clement Ader

c)

Emile Berliner

d)

Thomas Alva Edison

6.

Which company was founded by Emile Berliner and Eldridge Johnson in 1901?

a)

RCA

b)

Sony

c)

Victor Talking Machine Company

d)

Philips

7.

Who invented the triode vacuum tube in 1906?

a)

Enrico Caruso

b)

Lee DeForest

c)

Edwin F. Armstrong

d)

Thomas Edison

8.

In which year was the first live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera in NYC featuring Enrico Caruso?

a)

1912

b)

1910

c)

1917

d)

1916

9.

Who was issued a patent for a regenerative circuit in 1912, making radio reception practical?

a)

Enrico Caruso

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Edwin F. Armstrong

d)

Lee DeForest

10.

Which company was founded in 1919 and partially owned by United Fruit?

a)

Sony

b)

RCA

c)

Victor Talking Machine Company

d)

Philips

11.

In which year was the first commercial AM radio broadcast made by KDKA in Pittsburgh PA?

a)

1921

b)

1925

c)

1928

d)

1931

12.

Who introduced the microgroove 33-1/3 rpm long-play vinyl record (LP) in 1948?

a)

Columbia Records

b)

RCA

c)

Sony

d)

Victor Talking Machine Company

13.

Which company introduced the first digital delay line, the Lexicon Delta-T 101, in 1970?

a)

Yamaha

b)

Lexicon

c)

Ampex

d)

Mackie

14.

Who conceived and built the first 'affordable' digital multitrack recorder, the ADAT, in 1991?

a)

Alesis

b)

Sony

c)

Yamaha

d)

Mackie

15.

In which year were DVD videodiscs and players introduced, expected to eventually supplant the CD as the chosen playback medium in the home?

a)

1999

b)

1998

c)

2000

d)

1997