RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING AND EXPOSURE
2026 CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A PLUS
◉ Who discovered X-rays?
Answer: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
◉ Where were X-rays discovered?
Answer: Wurzburg, Germany
◉ The specific type of tube that Roentgen was working with was
called a ____________ ______.
Answer: Crookes tube
◉ During one of Roentgen's experiments he noticed a piece of paper
would glow when he turned on the tube, what material was this
paper made of?
Answer: Barium platinocyanide
◉ Refers to the instantaneous production of light resulting from the
interaction of some type of energy and some element of compound.
Answer: Flourescence
, ◉ The first radiograph was of Anna Bertha, Roentgen's wife.
Demonstrating her ________________
Answer: hand, with a ring on one finger
◉ Roentgen received the first Nobel Prize presented for physics in
__________.
Answer: 1901
◉ True or False
X-rays were an accidental discovery
Answer: True
◉ What did the public view the discovery of x-rays as?
Answer: A novelty
◉ True or False
Radiographic imaging and therapy became important to the medical
sciences
Answer: True
◉ What year did they discover that x-rays could do biological
damage?
2026 CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A PLUS
◉ Who discovered X-rays?
Answer: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
◉ Where were X-rays discovered?
Answer: Wurzburg, Germany
◉ The specific type of tube that Roentgen was working with was
called a ____________ ______.
Answer: Crookes tube
◉ During one of Roentgen's experiments he noticed a piece of paper
would glow when he turned on the tube, what material was this
paper made of?
Answer: Barium platinocyanide
◉ Refers to the instantaneous production of light resulting from the
interaction of some type of energy and some element of compound.
Answer: Flourescence
, ◉ The first radiograph was of Anna Bertha, Roentgen's wife.
Demonstrating her ________________
Answer: hand, with a ring on one finger
◉ Roentgen received the first Nobel Prize presented for physics in
__________.
Answer: 1901
◉ True or False
X-rays were an accidental discovery
Answer: True
◉ What did the public view the discovery of x-rays as?
Answer: A novelty
◉ True or False
Radiographic imaging and therapy became important to the medical
sciences
Answer: True
◉ What year did they discover that x-rays could do biological
damage?
