When HiFi competitions were harder to win. 1982. How many can you answer correctly?

[restorer-john]

I absolutely love reading my Australian Electronics Magazines from the past.

Here's a competition to win a rather nice HiFi system run in August 1982.

Attached is the entry form and questions as a PDF if this is hard to read.

How many can you get right? Would you even be able to answer half of them?

And remember, NO INTERNET allowed, it was 1982. You needed to know the answers...

 

[mansr]

And remember, NO INTERNET allowed, it was 1982. You needed to know the answers...

What about the public library?

 

[restorer-john]

What about the public library?

Absolutely. Encyclopedias, etc. Do you even have a library card these days, I let mine lapse a few years ago...

 

[Monte]

Thank you Question 8. I'll adopt that folly known as the metric system when calendars and clocks are metric.

 

[restorer-john]

@DonH56 I thought of you when I posted this.

 

[pma]

Love that crystal radio receiver.

 

[tw99]

Did anyone actually win it, and if so was their score published ?

 

[mansr]

Absolutely. Encyclopedias, etc. Do you even have a library card these days, I let mine lapse a few years ago...

I have a one, mainly for the online resources it gives access to.

 

[tomtoo]

Oh fu** , i'am fu**ing stupid. Ok, no win, and hell that ST-8 looks so cool. At least the Shure i owned. ; )

 

[DonH56]

@DonH56 I thought of you when I posted this.

Swine... I wasn't even close, only know a few off-hand, would have been spending time in the college library for sure. One of those "Wait, I should know that, ummmm..." tests (*). That is an awesome test, though! And a nice prize list. Interesting that a NSW test begins with a question on British innovations... What was ETI?

Edit: Nevermind, here it is, with a list of archived back issues, cool! https://www.americanradiohistory.com/ETI_Magazine-AU.htm

Thanks John! Guess it's humble pie for breakfast today. - Don

(*) On day one of a class on device physics the prof handed out a pop quiz saying "You are all seniors or grad students so should know all of these." It was a list of common units like Ohms, Watt, Farad, Henry, Ampere, Volt, etc. and the question was to express each in MKS units (meter, kilogram, second). Humbling.