A series of dots and dashes that stood for letters in the alphabet and that interrupted the electrical current along a wire cable.
What is Morse Code?
100
This small projection system required individual viewers to look through a small hole to see images moving on a tiny plate.
What is a kinetoscope?
100
A large flat metal disk perforated with small holes organized in a spiral pattern.
What is a scanning disk?
100
This is what ARPA (as in ARPAnet) stands for.
What is Advanced Research Projects Agency?
100
Multiple coin-operated mechanical games gathered together in a single location.
What is a penny arcade?
200
The first U.S. president to be broadcast over the radio.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
200
The English photographer living in America who is credited with being the first person to make images move.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
200
An Idaho teenager credited with transmitting the first electronic TV picture.
Who is Phil Farnsworth?
200
Tim Berners-Lee.
Who is invented the World Wide Web?
200
Ways games are used other than for pure entertainment.
What are workforce training, military recruiting and classroom instruction?
300
The person credited with creating FM radio.
Who is Edwin Armstrong?
300
The actress who became “America’s Sweetheart,” permanently elevating the status of actors in
the minds of the American public; she also broke free from the grip of the Zukor studio to form her own company, United Artists.
Who is Mary Pickford?
300
The oldest show on television.
What is Meet the Press?
300
These are some major commercial structures of the Internet.
What are Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web browsers (like Internet Explorer or Firefox), directories and search engines, and e-mail?
300
The first electronic game to attract serious attention and spur public outcry because of its content, consequently starting the move towards governmental involvement in the content and official rating of electronic games.
What is Death Race?
400
The genre of music that claims most music stations.
What is country?
400
Sinister, unstable characters and a resistance to the normal conventions of narrative are characteristics of this kind of film.
What is film noir?
400
The main revenue sources for broadcast television.
What are syndication and advertising?
400
The contrast between those who have access to and can afford to pay for Internet service and those who cannot.
What is the digital divide?
400
Video game tips and cheats shared by players of the games, usually online.
What is collective intelligence?
500
The way commercial radio stations generate their revenue.
What is local and national advertising?
500
Ways a movie makes money other than doing well in the box office.
What is video/DVD rentals and sales, cable and TV runs and worldwide movie markets.
500
The original promises of television.
What are to bypass traditional print literacy; be accessible to more and more Americans; and provide information and entertainment to unite diverse groups of viewers
500
The digital divide, government surveillance, increasing commercialization and censored Internet access overseas are examples of this.
What are the current biggest threats to the democratic potential of the Internet?
500
The characteristics of electronic games that convinced the Supreme Court that video games should be granted the same protections of free speech afforded to other forms by the First Amendment.