2. What new word did Claude Shannon, a mathematical researcher at Bell Labs, introduce in the in-house journal called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?
(a) The relay.
(b) The transistor.
(c) The bit.
(d) The circuit.

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

4. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?
(a) The Birth of Writing.
(b) The First Language.
(c) A Table Alphabeticall.
(d) Oxford English Dictionary.

5. What was Claude Shannon fascinated with?
(a) Electronics.
(b) Communications.
(c) Computing.
(d) Cryptograms.

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

7. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?
(a) To limit the work to only proper English.
(b) To alphabetize all words.
(c) To provide the pronunciation of all words.
(d) To catalog the entire English language.

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

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

10. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"
(a) 100,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 22,278.
(d) 2,500.

11. What were conflicting statements created by the Principia Mathematica called?
(a) Circular arguments.
(b) Non-conclusive results.
(c) False positives.
(d) Recursive.

12. What culture was the first to use a written language?
(a) Italian.
(b) English.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Egyptian.

13. What did a young mathematician named Kurt Gödel conclude about conflicting statements?
(a) That Russell had made an error in basic structure of the Principia Mathematica.
(b) There frequency represented only a .001 percent possibility of occurring.
(c) That the Principia Mathematica was flawed and began his own work.
(d) There were some statements that could neither be proved or disproved.

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

15. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?
(a) Alphabetical.
(b) Random.
(c) Numeric.
(d) Statistical.