WorksheetsRadio/Television Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What technical experiments were prompted by the introduction of television in America?
3D effects
CinemaScope and Todd-AO
Virtual reality
Stop-motion animation
What was the aspect ratio of the Cinema process premiered in 1952?
1.33:1
1.66:1
2.35:1
2.59:1
Which widescreen cinema processes used single projectors in their presentation?
VistaVision and Technicolor
Dolby Cinema and RealD 3D
CinemaScope and Todd-AO
IMAX and Cinerama
What did CinemaScope 'squeeze' images on?
70mm film
16mm film
35mm film
8mm film
What large-screen system using 70mm film has over 1,500 screens around the world as of 2020?
4DX
Dolby Cinema
IMAX
RealD 3D
By what year had cinema attendance in Britain declined to one million a week?
2015
1965
2000
1984
What was the first British multiplex built in?
Manchester
Birmingham
London
Milton Keynes
What is becoming more common for modern audiences and lifestyles in terms of watching films?
Streaming film content
Listening to radio
Reading books
Playing video games
Who was the first to put the theory of radio waves into practice?
Guglielmo Marconi
Nikola Tesla
Heinrich Hertz
James Clerk Maxwell
Which device invented by Tesla is still used in radio and television sets today?
Telephone
Light bulb
Refrigerator
Tesla coil
What did radio and television bring directly into millions of homes?
Time travel
Robots
Aliens
Distant events
Who confirmed the feasibility of transmitting electromagnetic signals?
James Clerk Maxwell
Heinrich Hertz
Nikola Tesla
Guglielmo Marconi
What did Guglielmo Marconi put into practice?
Theory of radio waves
Theory of gravity
Theory of relativity
Theory of evolution
What did Tesla invent that converts low-voltage current to high-voltage low current at high frequencies?
Tesla coil
Telephone
Refrigerator
Light bulb
What was the new mode of communication that wedged its way into the coverage of a hallowed sports event in 1899?
Television
Radio
Internet
Telephone
