Deck 3: Entertainment

Question 1

Which term is used to describe a live performance with an on-site audience?

A) Interactive performance
B) Mediated performance
C) The real deal
D) Authentic performance
E) Eyeball-to-eyeball

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which term is used to describe the music genre that developed in the impoverished Bronx section of New York?

A) Bronx music
B) Rap music
C) Beat music
D) Dance music
E) Rockabilly

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Who has been described as "a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel"?

A) B. B. King
B) Joe Hill Louis
C) Jackie Brenston
D) Sam Phillips
E) Elvis Presley

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Which is a web portal for all kinds of online news,entertainment,and information,operated by Quebecor Media?

A) Quebecor.com
B) Quebec life
C) Canoe
D) Kayak
E) AOL

Question 5

Which term is used to describe the deluge of information from the media?

A) Information pollution
B) Information flood
C) Information overload
D) Rapid-fire information
E) Information crisis

Question 6

Television found a happy confluence of interest with which form of entertainment?

A) Sports
B) Music
C) Literature
D) Sex
E) Theatre

Question 7

Which term describes the distinctive style of black music that took form in the 1930s?

A) Rhythm and blues
B) Free-slave music
C) Hillbilly music
D) African music
E) Rockabilly

Question 8

Which term is used to describe the broad thematic categories of media content?

A) Types
B) Genres
C) Styles
D) Sub-groups
E) Subdivisions

Question 9

What drives genre trends?

A) Producers
B) Actors
C) Writers
D) Audience
E) Directors

Question 10

Which term describes a folk music genre that developed from the American black slave experience?

A) Black music
B) Slave music
C) Hillbilly music
D) African music
E) Rockabilly

Question 11

Who was the first play-by-play announcer for Hockey Night in Canada?

A) Foster Hewitt
B) Red Robinson
C) Don Cherry
D) Joseph Pulitzer
E) James Gordon Bennett

Question 12

Sports historians call which decade the Golden Era of Sports?

A) 1920s
B) 1930s
C) 1950s
D) 1980s
E) 1990s

Question 13

Which term is used to describe the black-hillbilly hybrid music that emerged in the 1950s?

A) Rhythm and blues
B) Blackabilly
C) Hillbilly music
D) Appalacian music
E) Rockabilly

Question 14

Who is credited with bringing rock 'n' roll to Canada?

A) B. B. King
B) Joe Hill Louis
C) Red Robinson
D) Sam Phillips
E) Elvis Presley

Question 15

The Broadcasting Act prohibits Canadian broadcasters from broadcasting anything

A) sexy.
B) obscene.
C) pornographic.
D) racy.
E) controversial.

Question 16

Which term is used to describe the changing lifestyle caused by the media?

A) Media-induced passivity
B) Couch-potato disease
C) Tunnel-vision
D) TV living
E) Media consciousness

Question 17

The Television Bureau of Canada estimates that the average Canadian watches how many hours of television per week?

A) 9 hours
B) 15 hours
C) 22 hours
D) 35 hours
E) 27 hours

Question 18

Which term is used to describe content that has been changed to be more effective when carried by mass media?

A) Mass production
B) Digitization
C) Mediated message
D) Content shift
E) Massification

Question 19

Which term describes the folk genre of music that developed from the rural Appalachian and Southern white experience?

A) Rhythm and blues
B) White music
C) Hillbilly music
D) Appalacian music
E) Rockabilly

Question 20

Who was the first newspaper publisher to assign reporters to sports regularly?

A) Sam Phillips
B) Red Robinson
C) John L. Sullivan
D) Joseph Pulitzer
E) James Gordon Bennett

Question 21

What is a distinguishing feature of high art?

A) It is technically and thematically complex.
B) It appeals to most people.
C) It is always a collaborative effort.
D) It celebrates the common person.
E) It is surprisingly simple.

Question 22

Entertainment predates the written history of the human species.

Question 23

What drives the economics of most media companies?

A) Music content
B) Sports content
C) Entertainment content
D) Sexual content
E) High art content

Question 24

According to Spike Lee,what is needed for the characterizations of African-Americans on television and in films to change?

A) Blacks need to achieve positions of power.
B) Blacks need better roles.
C) There must be better black actors.
D) Blacks must start playing the heroes.
E) Blacks should stop making Hollywood movies.

Question 25

Media elitists would most admire a media company that

A) earns the greatest profit.
B) encourages artistic risk-taking.
C) sells the most product.
D) promotes popularity and mass appeal.
E) wins the most industry awards.

Question 26

The average Canadian watches almost 27 hours of television per week.

Question 27

Which term is used to describe art that tries to succeed in the marketplace?

A) Low art
B) Popular art
C) Middle art
D) High art
E) Economic art

Question 28

Art and entertainment are the same thing.

Question 29

Which Canadian publisher became synonymous with the romance genre?

A) Pearson
B) Harlequin
C) Nelson
D) Oxford
E) Prentice-Hall

Question 30

The pervasiveness of many entertainment choices is always a good thing.

Question 31

Jerry Bruckheimer is a filmmaker who also produces television shows.

Question 32

Which filmmaker also produces the TV show CSI?

A) Herbert Gans
B) Spike Lee
C) Howie Mandel
D) Jerry Bruckheimer
E) Susan Sontag

Question 33

Who saw cultural and social value in pop art?

A) Dwight Macdonald
B) Susan Sontag
C) Herbert Gans
D) Spike Lee
E) Howie Mandel

Question 34

Why can't all media content rank high on an artistic scale?

A) Because only Leonard Cohen can produce artistic media
B) Because that is not what people want
C) Because of poor funding
D) Because of a lack of talent
E) Because of the vast quantities of material that must be produced

Question 35

According to the critics,the mass media are obsessed with which kind of art?

A) Low art
B) Popular art
C) Middle art
D) High art
E) Economic art

Question 36

Which term is used to describe the production-line movie production system devised by Hollywood in the 1920s?

A) Hollywood Inc.
B) Movies Inc.
C) Line production
D) Mass production
E) Studio system

Question 37

Which term is used to describe quickly and inexpensively produced,easy-to-read short novels?

A) Pulp fiction
B) Harlequin romances
C) Quickies
D) Tabloids
E) Novellas

Question 38

Which form of entertainment is catching up with the time spent watching television?

A) Music
B) Sports
C) Video games
D) Reading
E) Movies

Question 39

According to the Butler ruling,which would be classified as obscenity?

A) Partial nudity
B) Full nudity
C) Sex with violence
D) Homosexual sex
E) Heterosexual sex

Question 40

Which term was used in the 1950s to describe French New Wave directors who offered distinctive stories and messages?

A) Directeur
B) New Waver
C) Auteur
D) Producteur
E) Acteur

Question 41

Genres are clearest in literature.

Question 42

Genres are subdivisions of the major categories of storytelling and music.

Question 43

The time that enthusiasts spend playing video games is catching up with the timespent watching television.

Question 44

There is more immediate feedback during an authentic performance.

Question 45

Most music historians trace contemporary popular music to roots in American folk music.

Question 46

Early radio generally ignored the value of music.

Question 47

Genre trends are usually driven by writers and producers.

Question 48

"The Hockey Theme," a staple in Canadian hockey households,was written in 1968 by Foster Hewitt.

Question 49

Technology has little or no effect on performance.

Question 50

Sports have always been an important part of television broadcasting.

Question 51

Rap music originally flowed from the lives of Appalachian and Southern whites.

Question 52

Even before audio recording was invented,music was everywhere.

Question 53

Sam Phillips was a key figure in the development of rock 'n' roll.

Question 54

The Broadcasting Act states that Canadian broadcasters cannot broadcast anything pornographic.

Question 55

The Butler ruling allows the Canadian government to ban material that would be considered obscene.

Question 56

Rock 'n' roll was introduced to Canada in the 1970s.

Question 57

Genres rise and fall in popularity.

Question 58

It is easy to identify different genres in music.

Question 59

Shakespeare was the first writer of romances and mysteries.

Question 60

Improvements in audio recording fidelity affected musical styles.

Question 61

There is no substantive content in media programming.

Question 62

Genre trends are driven by the __________________.

Question 63

? Many people feel overwhelmed by _________________,the media deluge of information with no sense of order or priority.

Question 64

Mass media are mere conduits for entertainment.

Question 65

Kitsch is a German word that refers to sophisticated and cultivated material.

Question 66

The broad thematic categories of media content are called _________________.

Question 67

Watching a hockey game on television is an example of __________________ performance.

Question 68

Susan Sontag saw cultural and social value in pop art.

Question 69

Cross-media adaptations almost always work well.

Question 70

When Canadian rocker Neil Young performs in front of an audience,this is an example of _________________ performance.

Question 71

The mass media can enrich society by disseminating the best of human creativity.

Question 72

__________________ was distinctive in that it carried strains of slaves' African roots and at the same time reflected the black American experience.

Question 73

__________________ organized the first separate sports department at his New York World.

Question 74

The elitist view argues that the mass media do society a disservice by pandering to low tastes.

Question 75

British Columbia's _________________ is credited with bringing rock 'n' roll to Canada.

Question 76

Mass media messages are never considered high art.

Question 77

There's no doubt that the mass media are a source of _________________.

Question 78

The Television Bureau of Canada estimates that the average Canadian watches almost ?_________________ hours of television per week.

Question 79

Significant amounts of media content are imitative.

Question 80

Elitists see pop art as contrived and artificial.