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Inventors/Inventions
Programs
New Technologies
Cable TV
Misc.
100
Inventor who first "perfected" an all mechanical TV system.
Who is John Baird?
100
This early TV program was hosted by Ed Sullivan and went on to become the place where the Beatles first performed on TV in America.
What is "Toast of the Town?"
100
What the letters H D T V stand for.
What is High Definition Television?
100
This is the main reason cable television was started back in the late 1940's.
What is "to bring TV to people who could not receive it over the air?"
100
Place where TV was introduced to the American public.
What is The 1939 New York World's Fair?
200
Business man who was the first to market a home TV receiver.
Who is Allen DuMont?
200
Lucille Ball starred in this popular early TV show.
What is I Love Lucy?
200
Invented by Japanese manufacturer JVC, this device allowed people to "time shift" TV programs and watch them when they wanted.
What is the VHS VCR?
200
This cable TV network began in 1980, and was one of the first to deliver movies to an eager home audience.
What is HBO- Home Box Office?
200
This cartoon character served as a TV transmission test subject in early RCA broadcasts.
Who is Felix the Cat?
300
Vladimir Zworykin is remembered for inventing this.
What is "all electronic TV" or the iconoscope tube?
300
This program starred Jackie Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden.
What is "The Honeymooners?"
300
Also known as DBS, this technology relies on "extra terrestrial" means to deliver digital TV to viewers.
What is Direct Broadcast Satellite?
300
This cable company, the largest in the nation, also serves Lafayette, Indiana.
What is Comcast?
300
This committee, formed by the government, adopted the first set of Black and White television standards in 1941.
What is The National Television System Committee-NTSC?
400
In 1888, invented the mechanical scanning disk, the forerunner to modern television.
Who is Paul Nipkow?
400
This quiz show featured Herb Stempel and Charles Van Doren.
What is "21?"
400
This service and device was the first to allow viewers to record their favorite shows on a hard drive.
What is TIVO?
400
If you've got cable, you don't need one of these on your roof.
What is a TV antenna?
400
This company developed a mechanical color TV system in the 1950's.
What is CBS?
500
As a high school student, this man outlined the specifics to an all electronic form of television.
Who is Philo Farnsworth?
500
This comedy program starred Sid Caeser and Imogine Coca and was more or less like Saturday Night Live, only on the air more than 30 years earlier!
What is "Your Show of Shows?"
500
This is the new date deadline for the switchover to digital TV.
What is June 12?
500
Cable TV is credited with "saving" this?
What is UHF television?
500
Highest resolution (number of "lines") found in HDTV.
What is 1080?