Media as Propaganda (1)
This star spangled Marvel superhero was created in 1941 during WW2 to build American morale.
Who is Captain America?
The city in the U.S where salsa first gained popularity in the 1960s.
What is New York City?
Rick Astley made this hit single in 1987, and it’s now commonly played to “Rick Roll” somebody.
What is Never Gonna Give You Up?
THIS character debuted as the player character of Donkey Kong, in a 1981 platform game.
Who is Mario?
A Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve superiority in space exploration and technology.
What is the Space Race?
This 1986 homoerotic film about bromance stars Tom Cruise in an advanced naval academy.
A Samba parade that happens yearly in Rio de Janeiro and started in the early 19th century.
What is Carnival?
This hit song by a-ha talks of being gone in a day or two, as well as running away
What is Take On Me?
THIS was considered the first video game ever and sparked the video game industry.
What is Pong?
A large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
Everyone knows its iconic billboards and posters laden across the Bay Area. This dance production is actually put on by a Chinese cult.
What is Shen Yun?
This process led to the creation of different genres of Latin music.
What is migration/relocation?
This band is known for songs like “Africa”, “Rosanna”, and “Hold the Line.”
Who is Toto?
THIS company developed the first widely bought video game console featuring PONG!
What is Atari?
A spaceflight conducted in 1969, by the United States, launched by NASA. It marked the first time that humans landed on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
This famous Ballet turned psychological thriller starring Natalie Portman was aired across the soviet union during the night of its collapse.
What is Black Swan?
The Afro-Indigenous dance and music style Punta originates from the Garifuna people, who predominantly live in this Latin American country.
What is Honduras?
Bon Jovi’s hit song which came out in the album Slippery When Wet in 1986 after performing extremely well as a single. It was the band’s first song to hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. In 2013 the song went triple platinum, making it one of the best selling singles of all time.
What is Livin' On a Prayer?
After Nintendo rejected a partnership offer to create a console together, THIS company went on to create their own successful gaming console.
What is Sony?
This spacecraft exploded shortly after launch on January 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
What is the Challenger?
In the 1980s, a group of CIA agents faked the production of a fake movie to extract several US diplomats that were trapped in Iran. That story was made into a 2018 Oscar-nominated movie starring Ben Affleck.
What is Argo?
This Mexican singer was known as the king of ranchera music through his career in 1970s.
Who is Vicente Fernandez?
This hit band made bangers time and time again, with songs such as “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Ordinary World,” and “Come Undone.” These songs came from their albums Rio and The Wedding Album.
Who is Duran Duran?
Home video game revenue peaked at around $3.2 billion in 1983, then fell to around $100 million by 1985 (a drop of almost 97 percent) during THIS event.
What is the Video game crash (of 1983)?
(Also accept Atari Shock)
She was the first woman in space.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?