Question: Where does the Red Book get it's name from?
Answer: the colour of its cover

Question: What is the formal name for a CD? 
Answer: Compact Disc Digital Audio

Question: Do CDs have a two or four channel format?
Answer: two-channel

Question: What format has never been implemented on CDs?
Answer: Four-channel sound

Question: How is graphics information read from a CD+ Graphics?
Answer: television set or a computer monitor

Question: What is the primary use of Compact Disc + Graphics?
Answer: to display lyrics on a television set for karaoke

Question: Which channels does the CD+G use to hold graphics data?
Answer: channels R through W

Question: How much video can a CD-R contain?
Answer: 60 minutes

Question: Which has better resolution, a VCD or SVCD?
Answer: SVCD

Question: How are lengthy videos fit onto SVCDs?
Answer: lower the video bit rate

Question: What is the maximum amount of video a SVCD can properly hold?
Answer: 100 minutes

Question: How many images could Photo CDs initially contain?
Answer: 100

Question: When were Photo CDs initially released?
Answer: 1992

Question: Who created Photo CDs?
Answer: Kodak

Question: What type of paper can Photo CD images be produced on?
Answer: photographic paper

Question: In what book are Photo CD standards defined?
Answer: Beige Book

Question: When did record companies first attempt to protect their CDs from copying?
Answer: 2001

Question: Who said that protected CDs are not allowed to carry the CDDA logo?
Answer: Philips

Question: Where does the Red Book mention copy protection?
Answer: in the subcode

Question: What is the use of a transistor?
Answer: to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power

Question: What is a transistor made of?
Answer: semiconductor material

Question: Why does a transistor increase a signal?
Answer: the controlled (output) power can be higher than the controlling (input) power

Question: What is the minimum amount of external connection terminals to call an item a transistor?
Answer: three

Question: Where are most transistors found?
Answer: embedded in integrated circuits

Question: When was the first transistor created?
Answer: 1926

Question: Who invented the first transistor?
Answer: Julius Lilienfeld

Question: When was the first transistor implemented for practical use?
Answer: 1947

Question: When did the implementers receive a Nobel Prize for making the transistor?
Answer: 1956

Question: What list is the transistor on?
Answer: list of IEEE milestones in electronics

Question: When was the thermionic triode invented?
Answer: 1907

Question: What was the purpose of the thermionic triode?
Answer: amplified radio technology and long-distance telephony

Question: Who filed a patent for the field-effect transistor?
Answer: Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

Question: Where did Lilienfeld file his patent?
Answer: Canada

Question: What year did Lilienfeld file his patent?
Answer: 1925

Question: At what time did Bardeen and Brattain experiment on increasing signal output?
Answer: November 17, 1947 to December 23, 1947

Question: What were gold contacts attached to to increase signal output?
Answer: germanium

Question: Who was the Solid State Physics Group Leader?
Answer: William Shockley

Question: Who came up with the term transistor?
Answer: John R. Pierce

Question: Why was the term transistor used?
Answer: a contraction of the term transresistance

Question: In what year was the point-contact transistor invented?
Answer: 1948

Question: Where were Matare and Welker working when inventing the point-contact transistor?
Answer: Compagnie des Freins et Signaux

Question: Who invented the point-contact transistor?
Answer: Herbert Mataré and Heinrich Welker

Question: What was the name of Matare and Welker's transistor?
Answer: transistron

Question: What was the transistron used for?
Answer: amplified use in France's telephone network

Question: How many transistors make up a logic gate?
Answer: up to about twenty transistors

Question: How many transistors make up a microprocessor?
Answer: as many as 3 billion transistors

Question: How many transistors were made in 2002?
Answer: 60 million transistors were built in 2002… for [each] man, woman, and child

Question: How many individually packaged transistors are produced each year?
Answer: over a billion

Question: What are some abbreviations for integrated circuits?
Answer: IC, microchips or simply chips

Question: Why is a transistor so useful?
Answer: gain

Question: What is gain?
Answer: it can act as an amplifier

Question: What is an additional use of the transistor?
Answer: turn current on or off in a circuit

Question: What determines the amount of current in an electrically controlled switch?
Answer: other circuit elements

Question: How many types of transistors are there?
Answer: two

Question: What controls the large current between the collector and emitter?
Answer: A small current at the base terminal

Question: What are the components of a field-effect transistor?
Answer: gate, source, and drain

Question: In a field-effect transistor, what controls the current between the source and drain?
Answer: a voltage at the gate

Question: What are the components of a bipolar transistor?
Answer: base, collector, and emitter

Question: Why does the collector voltage drop in grounded-emitter transistor circuits?
Answer: reduced resistance from collector to emitter

Question: What would happen if the voltage difference from collector and emitter were zero?
Answer: the collector current would be limited only by the load resistance (light bulb) and the supply voltage

Question: What is the term for a zero difference between collector and emitter?
Answer: saturation

Question: Why is the term saturation named as such?
Answer: current is flowing from collector to emitter freely

Question: What position is the switch in when saturated?
Answer: on

Question: What is a major problem with using bipolar transistors as switches?
Answer: Providing sufficient base drive current

Question: What does the transistor provide?
Answer: current gain

Question: What determines the current ratio in transistors?
Answer: the type of transistor

Question: If the type of transistor is the same what determines the current ratio?
Answer: collector current

Question: How are parameters chosen in a switching circuit?
Answer: the "off" output is limited to leakage currents too small to affect connected circuitry

Question: What is a switching circuit trying to simulate when on?
Answer: short circuit

Question: What is a switching circuit trying to simulate when off?
Answer: open circuit

Question: How quickly does the change from open circuit to short circuit happen?
Answer: instantaneous

Question: What gives bipolar transistors their name?
Answer: they conduct by using both majority and minority carriers

Question: What was the first mass-produced transistor?
Answer: bipolar junction transistor

Question: What is the bipolar junction transistor a combination of?
Answer: two junction diodes

Question: What is the name for a layer of p-type semiconductor set between two n-type semiconductors?
Answer: n–p–n transistor

Question: What is the name for a layer of n-type semiconductor set between two p-type semiconductors?
Answer: p–n–p transistor

Question: How many terminals do BJTs have?
Answer: three

Question: How many layers of semiconductor do BJTs have?
Answer: three

Question: What are the layers of semiconductor in a BJT?
Answer: an emitter, a base, and a collector

Question: How can one find the amount of collector current?
Answer: β (common-emitter current gain) times the base current

Question: What is the usual collector current for small-signal transistors?
Answer: greater than 100

Question: What determines the conductivity in a FET?
Answer: electric field that is produced when a voltage is applied between the gate and source terminals