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  • Question of

    Who is generally recognised as the inventor of radio?

    • John Logie Baird
    • Thomas Edison
    • Guglielmo Marconi
  • Question of

    Brazilian Robert Landell de Moura is thought to be the first person to transmit the human voice across the radio-waves (a distance of eight kilometres in 1892). What was his profession?

    • Priest
    • Telegram Operator
    • Teacher at a School for the Blind
  • Question of

    What was invented by American engineer Edwin Armstrong in 1933?

    • AM (Amplitude Modulation)
    • FM (Frequency Modulation)
    • Short Wave Radio
  • Question of

    The 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds caused widespread panic amongst US wireless listeners. Who wrote the original story?

    • Samuel Butler
    • Olaf Stapledon
    • H.G. Wells
  • Question of

    Name the radio station established at the start of the Cold War to transmit US propaganda to the Communist-controlled Eastern bloc? (It would later merge with Radio Liberty).

    • Radio Free Europe
    • Radio Hope
    • Radio Truth
  • Question of

    BBC Radio’s long-running rural soap opera The Archers is set in which fictional village?

    • Ambridge
    • Bredon-under-Hill
    • Cattleton
  • Question of

    What contemporary pop song was the first to be played on BBC Radio One on its’ launch in 1967?

    • Flowers in the Rain – The Move
    • Baby Now That I’ve Found You – The Foundations
    • I’m a Believer – The Monkees
  • Question of

    Until the Beebs’ belated acknowledgement of Pop/Rock music, pirate radio stations, broadcasting from international waters, served the musical needs of Britain’s youth. The most popular pirate station was named after which daughter of John F. Kennedy?

    • Alice
    • Betty
    • Caroline
  • Question of

    DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) was the fruit of what Eureka (EU research project) number?

    • 147
    • 180
    • 202
  • Question of

    The Jodrell Bank Observatory space telescopes monitors the skies above which English county?

    • Cambridgeshire
    • Cheshire
    • Cornwall

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