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Media Questions
100
This risky and tedious method of history keeping was the first type of media.
What is oral history?
100
Thomas Edison is famous for inventing this device, which allowed for the playback of recorded sound.
What is the phonograph?
100
This invention allowed for electronic devices to be reliably made for the first time.
What are vacuum tubes?
100
This nebulous invention contains an estimated 6 billions webpages.
What is the internet?
100
This platform, founded in 2006, is known for its disappearing "Stories" feature.
What is Snapchat?
200
The oldest cave paintings are found at this location in Europe.
What is Lascaux, France
200
Dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot means this common message in morse code.
What is SOS or Distress?
200
Launched the portable electronics age.
What is the transistor radio?
200
This streaming service, launched in 2007, is known for its original series like "House of Cards."
What is Netflix?
200
This is the purpose of any form of media.
What is to communicate a message?
300
Who is credited with inventing the movable type printing press in the 15th century?
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
300
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented this device, changing the way people communicated over long distances.
What is the Telephone?
300
The first radio broadcast in the United States broadcast this information.
What were the 1920 election results?
300
This device: 
What is the iPod?
300
This photo-sharing platform, founded in 2010, allows users to apply various filters to their photos.
What is Instragram?
400
This paper like material was the standard for writing from 4500 BCE to the 1800s
What is papyrus?
400
This invention, patented by Samuel Morse in 1837, revolutionized long-distance communication.
What is the telegraph?
400
This device is comparable to the fist iPod.
What is the transistor radio?
400
This term refers to the ability to share content in real time.
What is live streaming.
400
The video "Gangnam Style" by Psy became one of the first viral videos to reach this milestone in views on YouTube.
What is 1 billion views?
500
In medieval Europe, these early forms of books were often found in monasteries.
What are Illuminated Manuscripts?
500
The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to prevent this issue in early typewriters.
What is jamming of typebars or keys?
500
The first television went on sale for this price.
What is $400 or $5000 in today's money?
500
The term "podcasting" is a combination of "iPod" and this word.
What is broadcasting?
500
This video-sharing platform, popular among gamers, was acquired by Amazon in 2014.
What is Twitch?
600
This early form of communication involved sending messages by horseback riders.
What is the Pony Express?
600
George Eastman introduced this iconic camera, which made photography more accessible to the public.
What is the Kodak Brownie camera?
600
This decade saw the arrival of the remote control.
What is the 1980s?
600
This style of service allows a user to watch content on demand.
What are streaming services?
600
This term refers to individuals or entities on social media who have a significant and loyal following.
What are influencers?
700
The oldest known form of writing, dating back to ancient Egypt, used these symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
700
The name of this device.
What is the typewriter?
700
This is the year of the first radio broadcast.
What is 1920?
700
This is the first year Facebook was released.
What is 2006?
700
The famous "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, which caused a panic in 1938, was directed by this filmmaker.
Who is Orson Welles?
800
Before newspapers, these individuals would travel from town to town, spreading news and stories.
Who are town criers?
800
These publications brought began the era of fashion, health and home making.
What are illustrated magazines.
800
This is the name of the first computer.
What is the ENIAC?
800
Facebook collects this number of data points on its users.
What is 52,000?
800
This is the main means of mass communication that includes broadcasting, photography, film publishing, and the internet.
What is Media?
900
This collection of laws was carved on a large stone in 1792 BCE.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
900
These daily, weekly or monthly publications kept people aware of the world around them.
What are newspapers?
900
Televisions displayed pictures in this early binary color system.
What is black and white?
900
The accessibility of technology and ease of mass communication has given rise to this. A profession that use to be reserved for television.
What is citizen journalism?
900
This e-reader, introduced by Amazon in 2007, has become one of the most popular devices for reading digital books.
What is the Kindle?
1000
This ancient civilization is credited with the creation of the first known alphabet.
What is the Phoenician civilization?
1000
He is credited with created a dot and dash communication system.
Who is Samuel Morse
1000
This era in media history, characterized by the widespread use of electronic technology, saw the rise of television and radio.
What is the electronic age?
1000
This technology uses predictive analytics to select adds, based on decisions the user has not yet made.
What is FB Learner Flow?
1000
This iconic video game, released in 1980, featured a yellow, pizza-shaped character navigating a maze.
What is Pac-Man?