2. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?
(a) Egypt.
(b) The Mediterranean region.
(c) South America.
(d) Asia.

3. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?
(a) Word meanings.
(b) The history of alphabets.
(c) Alphabets of the world.
(d) New words.

4. In his graduate paper, to what did Claude Shannon apply the binary logic of George Boole?
(a) To an advanced telegraph.
(b) To circuit grid.
(c) To a system of relays.
(d) To a logarithm table.

5. What was the small device intended to replace bulky vacuum tubes perfected by Bell Laboratories called?
(a) The transistor.
(b) The grid.
(c) The relay.
(d) The circuit.

6. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?
(a) Morse code.
(b) Radio waves.
(c) Sub-Saharan drums.
(d) The alphabet.

7. How was the telephone superior to the telegraph?
(a) Ease of use, no need for encoding of the message, and its availability.
(b) It was the preferred means of communications by government.
(c) Anyone could use a phone.
(d) It was less expensive.

8. How did people save money in sending telegraph messages?
(a) By compressing the message.
(b) By creating their own code.
(c) By bribing the operators.
(d) By not using it.

9. What was the intent of the Principia Mathematica?
(a) To prove or disprove any statement.
(b) To disprove the theory of relativity.
(c) To confirm the theory of gravity.
(d) To prove or disprove quantum consciousness.

10. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?
(a) That machines could cure disease.
(b) That machines could think.
(c) That machines could take over the human race.
(d) That machines could have emotions.

11. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?
(a) Electronic Messaging.
(b) Tele-Com Messaging.
(c) Morse Code.
(d) Bell's Code.

12. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?
(a) The Quantum theory.
(b) The theory of relativity.
(c) The M-Theory.
(d) The information theory.

13. Shannon showed that it was theoretically possible to overcome any amount of signal noise by what action?
(a) By changing locations.
(b) By sending corrective bits of information.
(c) By creating the first anti-virus element.
(d) By limiting data.

14. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?
(a) Charles Babbage.
(b) Issac Newton.
(c) John Napier.
(d) Galileo.

15. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?
(a) The drummer added special emphasis.
(b) The drummer had to let those receiving the message figure out the right words.
(c) The drummer added short descriptive phrases.
(d) The main drummer was assisted by another drummer.