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Send your responses in an email to dave@davemock.com for your chance to win a free, signed copy of The Qualcomm Equation. The first respondent to answer all questions correctly will win the prize and be announced here. If no responses are received with all correct answers by May 1st, the honor of Highest Qualcomm IQ will go to the response with the most correct answers. Complete answers to the quiz will be posted on this page, so check back often (hint: the answers aren't all in the book!).

Question #1: Who are most often considered to be the seven founders of QUALCOMM?

Question #2: What fellow instructor of Irwin Jacobs at MIT - who is also a product of the RLE (Research Laboratory of Electronics) - is now a common household name in home and professional audio?

Question #3: How much money did QUALCOMM raise in their IPO?

Question #4: QUALCOMM co-founder Klein Gilhousen moved to what city, state in 1991? He continues to reside there today and telecommute to work.

Question #5: True or False: Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi are both MIT PhDs.

Question #6: What is the date of QUALCOMM's merger with Omninet (mm/dd/yy)?

Question #7: When engineers at QUALCOMM first "ran the numbers" on the potential capacity of CDMA in a cellular network, up to what multiple of AMPS capacity did they see?

Question #8: What significant event happened on April Fool's Day in 1985?

Question #9: What two companies were the first to license QUALCOMM's CDMA technology?

Question #10: What was QUALCOMM's first essential CDMA patent lawsuit and who brought it against the company?