PROJECT DIANA TRIVIA QUIZ
On January 10, 1946, the US Army Signal Corps succeeded in bouncing radio waves off the moon at Camp Evans in Belmar, NJ, currently the site of ISEC. Below are ten questions associated with Project Diana, each with multiple choice answers. The correct answers can be found HERE. Have fun and please let me know how you did!
1. What radio pioneer contributed his specialized equipment to the Project Diana engineering team?
(a) Robert Sarnoff
(b) Lee De Forest
(c) Edwin Howard Armstrong
(d) Guglielmo Marconi
2. What African American scientist carried out the mathematical calculations needed to determine the moon’s location at a given point in time?
(a) Walter McAfee
(b) George Washington Carver
(c) George Robert Carruthers
(d) Harvey Washington Banks
3. What scientific TV series includes an episode covering Project Diana?
(a) Bill Nye the Science Guy
(b) Star Trek
(c) Nova
(d) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
4. Scientists in what country carried out a successful radar moonshot less than a month after the success of Project Diana?
(a) Hungary
(b) Australia
(c) Germany
(d) Japan
5. How long did it take for a radio pulse to travel to the moon and back?
(a) A few nanoseconds - it was almost instantaneous
(b) Around 2.5 seconds
(c) Approximately 10 minutes
(d) Results were not available until the next day
6. Which of the following subsequent developments did Project Diana importantly contribute?
(a) The tradition of naming space missions after ancient Greek and Roman gods and goddesses
(b) The Cold War
(c) Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) communication
(d) All of the above
7. What was the affectionate nickname used by the Project Diana team for the enormous antenna they constructed for the purpose?
(a) The skyscraper antenna
(b) The bedspring antenna
(c) The moonbeam antenna
(d) The monster
8. What is the Signal Corps motto?
(a) Be Prepared
(b) Pro Patria Vigilans
(c) Semper paratus
(d) The Signal Corps does not have a motto
9. Which of the following was an important objective of Project Diana?
(a) demonstrating that radio waves can pass through the earth’s ionosphere
(b) measuring the distance from the earth to the moon
(c) determining the characteristics of the surface of the moon
(d) exploring the dark side of the moon
10. Who designed the Dymaxion Deployment Units (DDUs) that were used by Project Diana staff for storage and possibly for specialized research projects?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright
(b) Richard Buckminster Fuller
(c) Walt Disney
(d) Jack DeWitt
1. What radio pioneer contributed his specialized equipment to the Project Diana engineering team?
(a) Robert Sarnoff
(b) Lee De Forest
(c) Edwin Howard Armstrong
(d) Guglielmo Marconi
2. What African American scientist carried out the mathematical calculations needed to determine the moon’s location at a given point in time?
(a) Walter McAfee
(b) George Washington Carver
(c) George Robert Carruthers
(d) Harvey Washington Banks
3. What scientific TV series includes an episode covering Project Diana?
(a) Bill Nye the Science Guy
(b) Star Trek
(c) Nova
(d) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
4. Scientists in what country carried out a successful radar moonshot less than a month after the success of Project Diana?
(a) Hungary
(b) Australia
(c) Germany
(d) Japan
5. How long did it take for a radio pulse to travel to the moon and back?
(a) A few nanoseconds - it was almost instantaneous
(b) Around 2.5 seconds
(c) Approximately 10 minutes
(d) Results were not available until the next day
6. Which of the following subsequent developments did Project Diana importantly contribute?
(a) The tradition of naming space missions after ancient Greek and Roman gods and goddesses
(b) The Cold War
(c) Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) communication
(d) All of the above
7. What was the affectionate nickname used by the Project Diana team for the enormous antenna they constructed for the purpose?
(a) The skyscraper antenna
(b) The bedspring antenna
(c) The moonbeam antenna
(d) The monster
8. What is the Signal Corps motto?
(a) Be Prepared
(b) Pro Patria Vigilans
(c) Semper paratus
(d) The Signal Corps does not have a motto
9. Which of the following was an important objective of Project Diana?
(a) demonstrating that radio waves can pass through the earth’s ionosphere
(b) measuring the distance from the earth to the moon
(c) determining the characteristics of the surface of the moon
(d) exploring the dark side of the moon
10. Who designed the Dymaxion Deployment Units (DDUs) that were used by Project Diana staff for storage and possibly for specialized research projects?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright
(b) Richard Buckminster Fuller
(c) Walt Disney
(d) Jack DeWitt