Tuesday History Trivia Quiz
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- 1.Where was the first AVS Symposium held?
- A.
Asbury Park, New Jersey in 1954
- B.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1955
- C.
Boston, Massachusetts in 1957
- 2.In what year was the first issue of JVST published?
- A.
1960
- B.
1962
- C.
1964
- 3.When was the first poster session held at the Symposium?
- A.
1973
- B.
1975
- C.
1976
- 4.The Executive Secretary, Nancy Hammond, always called a piece of office equipment "Chumley." What piece of equipment was it?
- A.
Xerox copy machine. It was not Nancy’s favorite because it tended to jam at the most inconvenient times.
- B.
Pitney & Bowes Word Processor which was installed in 1979.
- 5.When and where was the first AVS 5km run held?
- A.
At the Joint AVS/International Vacuum Congress in Baltimore in 1982. The run was around the harbor front.
- B.
At the 1981 AVS Symposium at the Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim.
- 6.In 1881 Thomas Edison filed a patent titled “Vacuum Apparatus.” What was the “apparatus”?
- A.
Fluorescent light bulb
- B.
Vacuum pump
- C.
Getter pump
- D.
Vacuum gauge
- 7.What year was Galileo born, and what year was his most famous experiment performed on the moon?
- A.
1576, 1976
- B.
1564, 1964
- C.
1564, 1971
- D.
1571, 1971
- 8.Who discovered the neutron and when?
- A.
Thomas Edison, 1897
- B.
Robert Millikan, 1909
- C.
Ernest Rutherford, 1920
- D.
James Chadwick, 1932
- 9.When was the antecedent of NIST created? What does NIST stand for?
- A.
1895. National Institute for Standards and Techniques.
- B.
1901. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- C.
1913. National Institution for Standards and Technology.
- D.
1920. National Institute of Science and Technology.
- 10.When were the first experiments begun on the 60-inch cyclotron at the University of California at Berkeley, California?
- A.
1939
- B.
1940
- C.
1961
- D.
1962
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