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William Shakespeare lived during the _____ period.
Elizabethan
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Which one of Edison's inventions eventually led to motion pictures?
Kinetoscope
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Internet uplaoding and downloading with file sharing has made the _____ shop almost extinct.
record (not "music")
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A traveling entertainer in the Middle Ages was called a
troubador
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CD sales have plummeted due to the adoption of the
MP3
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Archaeologists say music is at least how many years old?
12,000
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Satirical plays in ancient Egypt poked fun at the
Gods
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Modern orchestras developed during what period?
Victorian
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19th century Vaudeville evolved into this popular style of US musical theatre:
Broadway
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The "concept" of a story that motivates the characters to behave in a certain way is called what?
Theme
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Medieval theatre was performed outdoors in the
Inn Yard
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Greek tragedies were staged in Roman what?
theatre
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In 1927, Philo Farnsworth patented a key component in the development of what?
TV
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Feasts, fairs, tournaments, and banquets were popular forms of entertainment in when?
Middle Ages
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The earliest forms of music, dance, and drama were commonly a part of what kind of ceremony?
burial
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Roman baths were all male or not?
all gender!
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Marconi was the first one to experiment with radio or not?
nope
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Did the Middle Ages extend from the 5th to 10th century?
nope
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Did Edison help develop radio?
nope
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Ancient Egypt had sophisticated or primitive instruments?
Sophisticated
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What is the order of media forms from most popular to least popular?
TV, radio, recorded music, video games, theatre
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What performers were in the Roman "baths"?
poets, musicians, dancers, professional entertainers
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In what era was Vaudeville in? Who started it?
Victorian era; European immigrants
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What's the difference between a story's theme and genre and an example of each.
- Genre is the category it fits under (i.e.: romance)
- Theme is what motivates the characters in the story (i.e.: the great journey)
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The microphone acts as what in a radio transmission system to convert sound into electrical signals?
transducer
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Which "director" is responsible for all sound and content of all on-air broadcasts?
Program director
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What is it called when radio broadcasts convert the audio signal to an intermediate radio signal for broadcasts?
modulation
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Armstrong made a super-______ radio circuit to make radio receivers more sensitive and powerful.
heterodyne
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David Sarnoff managed what company to bring radios into the homes of everyone?
RCA
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The chief engineer at a radio station does what?
maintains the transmitter
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What were early "wireless" transmissions created by?
a spark
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The Sales Manager at a radio station sells what?
Advertising time
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What happens to the signal in satellite radio before being transmitted to a communications satellite?
it's digitized
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What component distributes radio broadcast signals over a wide area?
antenna
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Which "director" has a hand in picking the music played on air?
Music director
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Who is the self-proclaimed "Father of Radio"?
DeForrest
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Does the tuner in on a radio ALSO convert the RF signal back into IF signals along with picking the station?
YES
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Did Edison develop the first audion tube?
NOPE
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Does the sound mixer work with the DJ at a radio station?
NOPE
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Do most radio stations nowadays still use turntables and "cart" machines to do their programming?
yeppers
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What did the earliest "wireless" systems do?
transmit telegraph signals
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David Sarnoff was said to have the fastest fist in the industry because of what?
his excellent telegraph skills
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What did DeForrest contribute to radio?
introduced audion tube to allow broadcasting of sound
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What did Marconi contribute to radio?
developed wireless telegraphy (point-to-point)
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What did Armstrong contribute to radio?
developed "regeneration" to make signal stronger and clearer
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What did Sarnoff contribute to radio?
made radio sets for the public and turned RCA into an industrial giant; saw potential of point-to-masses broadcasting
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What did Tesla contribute to radio?
created Tesla Coil to create a spark, realized it create a measurable electro-magnetic wave
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Which American inventor's early work led to the development of the CRT?
Philo Farnsworth
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Who calls the shots in a studio TV production for the camera ops on the floor?
director
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In episodic TV, most scenes are shot with a ______ camera.
SINGLE!!
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Most of today's TV cameras ______ the analogue picture to digital.
convert
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What TV production technique allows images from multiple cameras to be edited on the fly?
switching
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What does the Floor director do?
coordinates the personnel working in the studio
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What type of display do modern TVs not use anymore?
CRT
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What in a TV converts light to electrical signals?
CCD
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is all of today's TV broadcast digitally?
yep
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the sine wave model is plotted over what?
360 degrees of a circle
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