Communications Question

Question 1What were the first words ever recorded?
a) “Row, row, row your boat”
b) “Mary had a little lamb; its fleece was white as snow”
c) “Twinkle, twinkle little star”
d) “I’m all about that bass, no treble”
Question 2
Who actually deserves credit for the invention of radio?
a) Guglielmo Marconi
b) Elon Musk
c) Nikola Tesla
d) August E. Grant
Question 3
Why is digital audio so much better than analog?
a) Because it uses more electromagnetic waves that are compressed at a higher frequency
b) Because it combines thousands of samples of an analog signal and creates a smooth wave that is a
more accurate reproduction of the sound
c) Because the sound is reproduced on a physical object
d) Because the waves are converted into electrical patterns that sharpen the sound reproduction
Question 4
How did MP3s help the radio industry convert from analog to digital?
a) The sound was much better than cassette tapes and vinyl records.
b) MP3s compress audio data to a manageable size that can be transmitted faster.
c) CDs were difficult to store and expensive to broadcast.
d) The larger audio files require less bandwidth to broadcast.
Question 5
Why did Taylor Swift pull her music off of Spotify in 2014?
a) She wanted listeners outside the United States to pay for a subscription.
b) She wanted listeners inside the United States to pay a higher subscription rate.
c) She believes that Spotify does not fairly compensate writers, producers, artists, and creators of music.
d) She wants record labels to share revenues with artists.
Question 6
Even though digital streaming services have an overabundance of music and programming
choices—as well as algorithms that seem to predict exactly what you want to hear—what is
the one thing that local radio does better?
a) It gives the listener free music.
b) It offers local news.
c) It provides work for local DJs and radio personalities.
d) It connects listeners with their local communities.
Question 7
In the future, trust and technology will continue to rise together.
True
False
Question 8
Joseph Niepce is credited with taking the first-ever photograph of the view outside his country
house in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. What method did he use?
a) Lithography
b) Heliography
c) Daguerreotype
d) Calotype
Question 9
Analog photos are continuous tone images captured by recording light on film or videotape.
Digital images are made up of discreet pixels, which makes them much easier to:
a) Trace
b) Light
c) Capture
d) Manipulate
Question 10
The lens and shutter of a traditional still camera focus light reflected or emitted from objects
onto film, which is later chemically developed onto photographic paper. What do digital
cameras use instead of film?
a) An image sensor
b) A lens and shutter
c) A memory chip
d) A magnet
Question 11
What determines the quality of a digital image? (Select all that apply.)
The aperture
The size of the image sensor
The number of pixels
Exposure time
Question 12
Our eyes work by focusing light reflected or emitted from objects onto our retinas. We only
see about half of the image and our brains reconstruct the rest by applying knowledge to the
visual information. This process is similar to:
a) Traditional photography
b) Computational photography
c) Digital imaging
d) Polaroid images
Question 13
What is Project Gutenberg?
a) A website for accessing and downloading pirated books
b) A Digital Rights Management (DRI) licensing agency
c) A resource through the Library of Congress for blind people to access audio books
d) An organization that has digitized public domain books
Question 14
When did Amazon announce that ebooks began to outsell traditional books?
a) 2008
b) 2011
c) 2013
d) 2015
Question 15
Why are ebook file formats so important for the reader’s experience?
a) Readers need information like chapter markers and page locations.
b) Images should be high resolution.
c) Content should flow for reading on different screen sizes.
d) Files should not require too much memory.
e) All of the above
Question 16
As 5G web access becomes available, consumers should expect minimum download speeds of
_________________ .
a) 5 MBps
b) 100 MBps
c) 500 MBps
d) 5 TBps
Question 17
Digital Rights Management is another important aspect of ebook software that enforces book
licensing. What does that mean for the reader? (Select all that apply.)
Time restrictions for borrowed books are enforced.
Books can only be accessed on allowed devices.
Readers may or may not be able to share books with others.
Authors receive proper royalties for their work.
Question 18
When you buy the hard copy of the book, you own it and can do whatever you want with it,
including lending it to someone else. When you buy an ebook, what do you actually get?
a) Ownership of the book, but not the copyright
b) The right to read the book
c) The right to read, copy, and share the book with others
d) The copyright for the book
Question 19
Who holds “monopsony power” over the ebook industry?
a) Publishers
b) Authors
c) Amazon
d) The federal government
Question 20
What was Alexander Graham Bell’s inspiration for developing the world’s first telephone?
a) A zeal for competition to be first
b) A desire to help serve the deaf with a “talking telegraph”
c) Entrepreneurial savvy
d) His own experience with scarlet fever
Question 21
What was the inspiration for Martin Cooper, an electrical engineer, to developed the first
mobile phone?
a) A portable communication device that James Bond used in the 1965 movie Thunderball
b) Captain James T. Kirk’s communicator on the original Star Trek series
c) The shoe phone that Maxwell Smart used in the 1960s TV series Get Smart
d) The walkie talkies he played with as a child
Question 22
Which of the following IS NOT considered one of the smartphone’s four tiers of technology?
a) The phone itself
b) The data plan
c) The operating system
d) The apps you use
e) The network connection
Question 23
What generation of technology is next for smartphones?
a) 3G
b) 4G
c) 5G
d) 6G
Question 24
Which of the following is true about cryptocurrencies? (Select all that apply.)
They exist digitally with no physical presence.
They are much safer than using banks or credit cards.
The government doesn’t regulate them.
You can buy or sell things anonymously.
Question 25
The next generation of communication technologies provide you an opportunity to get rich.
True
False