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WorksheetsTV History & Genres
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who invented the television?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Philo T. Farnsworth
Charles Foster Kaine
Thomas Edison
When was the television invented?
1895
1905
1939
1927
What company produced the first commercial television sets available to the public?
RCA
GE
Netflix
Sony
The first commercial television set was introduced in 1939. Who was president at that time?
Abraham Lincoln
James Garfield
Charles Montgomery Burns
Frederick Delano Roosevelt
How many lines of resolution did the first television have?
60
576
2320
4640
This ___________ is so melodramatic! Jordan just rescued a stranger stick in a well, and it turned out to be his long-lost brother!
reality
soap opera
the news
sitcom
What makes telenovelas different from soap operas?
The conflicts in soap operas resolve more quickly.
The conflicts in telenovelas resolve more quickly.
Telenovelas are melodramatic, but soap operas are not.
Soap operas are only on during the day.
Big Bang Theory is an example of a
single camera sitcom
three camera sitcom
reality show
soap opera
Reality television ___________________
has always been this popular.
developed first as a radio genre.
has only been popular since 2000.
has been popular since the 1990s.
Select all the correct answers:
Daytime soap operas:
are shot with multiple cameras.
are shot with a single camera.
usually air 5 days a week.
can be on the air for decades.
Keeping up with the Kardashians is an example of a
sitcom
soap opera
reality show
game show
Approximately how many homes in the USA have televisions?
350,000
88 million
44 million
122 million
The Office is a sitcom shot in the style of a
movie
reality show
soap opera
cartoon
The first sitcom on TV was
The Goldbergs
The Simpsons
I Love Lucy
Seinfeld
The soap opera Guiding Light was on the air for ________
61 years.
32 years.
55 years.
72 years.
