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Question of
Who is generally recognised as the inventor of radio?
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John Logie Baird
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Thomas Edison
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Guglielmo Marconi
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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?
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Priest
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Telegram Operator
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Teacher at a School for the Blind
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Question of
What was invented by American engineer Edwin Armstrong in 1933?
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AM (Amplitude Modulation)
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FM (Frequency Modulation)
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Short Wave Radio
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The 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds caused widespread panic amongst US wireless listeners. Who wrote the original story?
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Samuel Butler
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Olaf Stapledon
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H.G. Wells
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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).
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Radio Free Europe
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Radio Hope
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Radio Truth
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BBC Radio’s long-running rural soap opera The Archers is set in which fictional village?
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Ambridge
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Bredon-under-Hill
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Cattleton
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Question of
What contemporary pop song was the first to be played on BBC Radio One on its’ launch in 1967?
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Flowers in the Rain – The Move
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Baby Now That I’ve Found You – The Foundations
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I’m a Believer – The Monkees
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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?
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Alice
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Betty
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Caroline
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DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) was the fruit of what Eureka (EU research project) number?
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147
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180
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202
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Question of
The Jodrell Bank Observatory space telescopes monitors the skies above which English county?
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Cambridgeshire
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Cheshire
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Cornwall
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