Year-End Old TV Quiz!
I thought I'd try putting this together, just for fun. See how many you can get right-I tried not to make it too hard. I cleaned out my PM box, so just send me your answers. The contest will run for about a week (until Monday, January 2). Gotta have a prize? Okay: the first place winner gets 5 old TV sets, of my choosing, must be picked up by 1/31/12 from my place. (Second prize, you get 10 sets!)
Here goes! 1) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember223.jpg 2) Who built this UHF converter? http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember218.jpg 3) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember213.jpg 4) What chassis does this RCA TV use? http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember217.jpg 5) What manufacturer used this circuit? http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember220.jpg 6) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember216.jpg 7) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember215.jpg 8) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember214.jpg 9) Suppose you wanted to purchase a brand new TV to watch the first launch of the Space Shuttle. Of these 10 brands, which 5 could you not find brand-new that year? Admiral, General Electric, LG, Motorola, Philco, Proscan, Quasar, Samsung, Silvertone, Teknika 10) Match the manufacturer with the brand: 1-Admiral 2-GE 3-Zenith 4-RCA 5-Philco 6-Sears a-Chromix b-Era II c-Miss America d-Phonevision e-Coaxial f-Eye Witness Good luck! |
WOW this is good. I'm moving this to Site News so everyone can see it :)
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Thanks, Kam! Come on guys, let's see those answers!
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Whoops - and I was wondering why no one answered it yet...
So sorry. |
Uhhhhh I think your spost to PM him your answers
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Yeah, it'd be nice to others if you cleared out your post or a moderator removed it.
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PM sent...
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Last chance! I'll let it run until Tuesday night.
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Thanks to all who played-I wish more had participated; maybe next time?
Here are the answers: 1) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember223.jpg This one stumped everyone-it is an Admiral from the early 50s. 2) Who built this UHF converter? http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember218.jpg This is a Mallory. 3) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember213.jpg Philco, used from the Predicta up through the early 60s. 4) What chassis does this RCA TV use? http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember217.jpg CTC-12 5) What manufacturer used this circuit? http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember220.jpg I thought this would stump folks but I think everybody got this right: Zenith 6) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember216.jpg Admiral, 60s. 7) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember215.jpg Late 60s Sylvania. 8) Name the manufacturer: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ecember214.jpg RCA, starting in the late 60s. 9) Suppose you wanted to purchase a brand new TV to watch the first launch of the Space Shuttle. Of these 10 brands, which 5 could you not find brand-new that year? Admiral, General Electric, LG, Motorola, Philco, Proscan, Quasar, Samsung, Silvertone, Teknika The launch was in 1981; Admiral & Motorola were out of the TV business, Sears had stopped using the Silvertone name, LG was still known as Gold Star and Proscan wouldn't come along for a few more years. 10) Match the manufacturer with the brand: 1-Admiral 2-GE 3-Zenith 4-RCA 5-Philco 6-Sears a-Chromix b-Era II c-Miss America d-Phonevision e-Coaxial f-Eye Witness 1-b: Only one person remembered the Admiral Era II, which may have been their answer to the System III? 2-e: GE Coaxial. 3-d: Most folks knew about the Zenith Phonevision. 4-f: RCA Eye Witness, used in the late 40s. 5-c: Philco Miss America, also well known. 6-a: Most folks mixed up the Sears/Admiral answers. Looks like Chromix may have been Sears answer to Chromacolor? Again, thanks to all who played. The winner is DavGoodlin who, scary!-just might take me up on my prize offer! |
I wish I had time to play but my timing sucked. I would have got some right, and some not. No chance in *ell that I could claim the prize...I'm to dispose of two things to make room for my CTC4, and if I bring home anything larger than a BIG table radio I highly suspect that my folks will either kill me and scrap my stuff or kick me and my stuff out. Also could not go to the east coast even for a free CT-100 during active quarters at my college.
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I got most of them but I couldnt handle the threat of having to adopt any more sets:banana:
This was a good contest, well done |
Next time I'll make sure everyone knows you don't HAVE to take the sets :) I'm always looking for creative ways to coax folks out here to the edge of nowhere and let me load up their pickup truck with CTC-53's and 21" bw consoles!
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I got four of the first eight right, 80% of #9, and 50% of #10. I couldn't remember if Admiral had come back yet in 1981, or if Samsung TVs were available in the USA yet then.
Thanks, Bryan. |
Chris, that got me second guessing myself regarding Samsung, so I checked the Photofact index. Indeed, they didn't cover their first Samsung model until '82. Probably safe to say that they were available in '81 but I should have come up with something else!
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Ugh, I should have recognized the first picture. There's a door just like that a couple feet from my computer desk :)
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