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Intro to Mass Comm Fall Final Practice #1

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the first IN-HOME video game console sold?

a)

Nintendo

b)

Atari

c)

Magnavox Odyssey

d)

Sega Genesis

2.

Which invention introduced by Karl Ferdinand Braun led to the development of television?

a)

Cathode Ray Tube

b)

LED Lighting

c)

Electricity

d)

VHS Tape

3.

What is the name of rooms in monasteries where monks transcribed books?

a)

Scriptoria

b)

Monk Houses

c)

Wordpartments

d)

Parsonages

4.

What is the term to describe the speech of "the common people"?

a)

Tubage

b)

Vernacular

c)

Lineage

d)

Issage

5.

Which 1940s development eventually led to the expansion of the number of TV channels people could watch?

a)

Film

b)

Antenna

c)

Sound

d)

Cable

6.

What 19th century development made books cheaper and more accessible to audiences?

a)

Vending Machines

b)

Amazon

c)

Paperbacks

d)

Books on Tape

7.

Which U.S. conflict was one of the first that had newspaper war reporters?

a)

Vietnam War

b)

Civil War

c)

World War I

d)

World War II

8.

Which newspaper publisher was best known for sensationalism?

a)

Joseph Pulitzer

b)

Jeff Bezos

c)

Nellie Bly

d)

John Peter Zenger

9.

Which former newspaper publisher has a world-renowned journalism prize named after him?

a)

William Hearst

b)

Bill Lee

c)

Robert Redford

d)

Joseph Pulitzer

10.

What was the term used for the first movies with sound?

a)

Soundbooms

b)

Explosions

c)

Musicals

d)

Talkies

11.

Which cheaper and more available form of a newspaper was first issued in 1833?

a)

Tabloid

b)

Regional

c)

Bulletin

d)

Penny Press

12.

Which newspaper was the first penny press in the U.S.?

a)

New York Times

b)

Atlanta Constitution-Herald

c)

The Sun

d)

Portland Gazette

13.

In 2009, television started transmitting all digital signals, replacing ______?

a)

LED Signals

b)

Plasma Signals

c)

Analog Signals

d)

Jelly Signals

14.

Which of these things does the First Amendment NOT protect?

a)

Freedom of Speech

b)

Freedom from Criticism

c)

Freedom of Press

d)

Freedom of Religion

15.

Which organization (which is still in existence) was the first major wire service in the U.S. newspaper industry?

a)

New York Times

b)

Associated Press

c)

CNN

d)

UPN

16.

Which media effects theory concludes that as minority opinions are silenced, the illusion of consensus grows, and so does social pressure to adopt the dominant position?

a)

Direct Effects Model

b)

Spiral of Silence

c)

Uses and Gratifications Theory

d)

Cultivation Analysis

17.

What is the magazine with the highest circulation?

a)

Sports Illustrated

b)

Saturday Evening Post

c)

AARP Magazine

d)

Time

18.

What type of newspaper covers celebrity news and rumors?

a)

Magazines

b)

Dailies

c)

Tabloids

d)

Bulletins

19.

What is the name of the Idaho teenager who in 1927 transmitted the first all-electronic TV picture (but barely profited on his invention)?

a)

Opie Griffith

b)

Philo Farnsworth

c)

Hank Anderswild

d)

Luke Ebersol

20.

Who invented the printing press?

a)

Johannes Gutenberg

b)

William Hearst

c)

Joseph Pulitzer

d)

Bill Lee

21.

Which of Edison's inventions helped spur the development of popular music?

a)

Phonograph

b)

Kinetoscope

c)

Light Bulb

d)

Sound

22.

Which media effects theory states that mass media determine the issues that concern the public rather than the public’s views?

a)

Agenda-Setting Theory

b)

Direct Effects Model

c)

Uses and Gratifications Theory

d)

Symbolic Interactionism

23.

In 2005, the year after Facebook went live, what percentage of American adults were using social media?

a)

1%

b)

5%

c)

50%

d)

75%

24.

Which media effects theory states that heavy exposure to media causes individuals to develop an false perception of reality based on repetitive messages within the medium?

a)

Spiral of Silence

b)

Uses and Gratifications Theory

c)

Cultivation Analysis

d)

Agenda-Setting Theory

25.

Who is most frequently credited as the inventor of radio?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Karl Ferdinand Braun

c)

Endeavour Morse

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

26.

Which long-distance form of communication relayed messages through a series of long and short clicks (Morse code)?

a)

Telephone

b)

Telegraph

c)

Radiathon

d)

Longweiler

27.

What was the first radio network established in the United States?

a)

NBC

b)

CBS

c)

PBS

d)

ABC

28.

At which newspaper was Jayson Blair working when he was accused of plagiarizing and manufacturing fake articles?

a)

Omaha World-Herald

b)

Baltimore Sun

c)

Chicago Tribune

d)

New York Times

29.

In what year was the Federal Radio Commission established?

a)

1934

b)

1983

c)

1901

d)

1927

30.

Which organization replaced the Federal Radio Commission in 1934?

a)

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

b)

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)

c)

International Radio Commission (IRC)

d)

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

31.

When did High Definition Television first become available?

a)

1933

b)

1998

c)

2001

d)

2017

32.

In which country were Atari and Nintendo founded?

a)

China

b)

Japan

c)

United States

d)

Italy

33.

What is the earliest known social media site?

a)

Friendster

b)

MySpace

c)

Six Degrees

d)

Instagram

34.

Who initiated the first radio transmission of the human voice?

a)

Milton Berle

b)

Lee De Forest

c)

Reginald Fessenden

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

35.

Which of these forms of media created the highest amount of revenue in the past decade?

a)

TV

b)

Radio

c)

Newspaper

d)

Social Media