How closely have you been following the news? Try your hand at this year’s Yuletide Quiz and enter the Electronics Weekly competition - sponsored by distributor Farnell - to win a Christmas hamper.

For your chance to win a hamper, send your answers to the Quiz in an email to competition@electronicsweekly.com by December 12 for entry into the free prize draw.

1) At the beginning of the year Plastic Logic decided to base its production facility in which country?
A UK
B Germany
C Zimbabwe

2) What are researchers in Cambridge doing to these bees?
A Getting them ready for a race
B Using them to detect explosives
C Investigating pollen contamination on PCBs

3) UK touch sensor firm Quantum Research Group thought it recognised which of its own technologies in the iPod?
A The click wheel
B Music
C The screen

4) WEEE then RoHS, but what is the latest EU Directive on the horizon that will impact the electronics industry?
A ROACH
B REACH
C BEACH

5) In April Freescale told EW its East Kilbride fab was “strategically important”. It emerged later in the year it is so important the company plans to…
A Invest lots of money in it
B Turn it into a call centre
C Sell or close it

6) In May, Light Blue Optics teamed up with Displaytech, impressed by the firm’s FLCOS experience. What does FLCOS stand for?
A Ferroelectric liquid-crystal-on-silicon
B Faulty light circuit on switch
C Financial loss and cost optimisation solution

7) A femtocell is a…
A Hotel exclusively for women
B Home basestation
C Home brewery kit

8) The UK’s digital TV switchover began this year in Whitehaven. The Government said it would provide what for free to the elderly and disabled?
A Set-top boxes
B Wiis
C iPhones

9) EW’s website introduced a new section this year featuring reader’s inventions. Is it called…
A Nurd Zone
B Gadget Freak
C Reader’s Inventions

10) What is the missing word from this headline in our August 1 issue?
Mobile TV technology battle ends in XXXXXXXX for BT’s Movio service
A brawl
B Caracas
C defeat

11) In September Gordon Moore said this was “the biggest change in transistor technology since the 1960s”…
A Metal hafnium gate dielectrics
B The iPhone
C Femtocells

12) In October Dr Stepan Lucyszyn said just 25 per cent of electronics graduates at Imperial go on to enter the industry. Most – 50 per cent – go into…
A Financial services
B Hiding
C Academia

13) The European Union satellite navigation Galileo project has been in the news in November but what is the Russian GPS system called?
A Pravda
B Glonass
C Laika

14) The 45nm process node is currently entering the production stage at Intel and Matsushita. What is the next node being developed?
A 32nm
B 22nm
C 32cm

15) Researchers at this institute are developing thermo-chemical nanolithography…
A Gogte Institute of Technology
B Georgia Institute of Technology
C Google Institoogle for Technoology

16) Which distributor of electronics and electronic components is set to announce the winner of its first design challenge for the global environment in January 2008?
A Farnell
B Another distributor

Email your answers to competition@electronicsweekly.com

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