Extra Credit Questions

Question 1

The International Copyright Law of 1891 required:

Answer 1

that all authors had to give permission to publish their work

Question 2

What is the term that describes the current trend of large companies buying smaller companies so that fewer companies own more types of media?

Answer 2

Concentration of ownership

Question 3

First book published in America:

Answer 3

Bay Psalm Book

Question 4

A book that sells millions of copies by a well-known author is called:

Answer 4

Blockbuster

Question 5

According to a 2014 report from the Association of American Publishers, what percentage of book sales are e-books?

Answer 5

12%

Question 6

The rights to market a book for other uses—to make a movie, for example is called:

Answer 6

Subsidiary Rights

Question 7

Small publishing houses dominate book publishing in the U.S. T/F

Answer 7

False

Question 8

The biggest selling work published by colonial presses in the 1700s was:

Answer 8

Common Sense

Question 9

A royalty is:

Answer 9

A percentage of the selling price of each copy of a book

Question 10

Which British action turned most colonial printers into revolutionaries?

Answer 10

Passage of the Stamp Act

Question 11

What was the U.S. federal government’s first attempt to control the press?

Answer 11

Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 12

This refers to writing that, authorities claim, could incite rebellion against the government:

Answer 12

Seditious writing

Question 13

This refers to a form of sensationalized reporting that emphasizes crime, sex, and violence:

Answer 13

Yellow journalism

Question 14

This newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglas and was often called the most important African-American pre-Civil War newspaper:

Answer 14

The North Star

Question 15

The American Law principle that truth is the best defense against libel was established by the colonial case of:

Answer 15

John Peter Zenger

Question 16

Magazines are consolidating into a few large groups just like other media T/F

Answer 16

True

Question 17

What distinguished The Ladies’ Home Journal from many other 19th century publications?

Answer 17

It crusaded against patent medicine ads and venereal disease

Question 18

Investigative reporting was pioneered in the early 1900s by which magazine?

Answer 18

McClure’s Magazine

Question 19

All of the following are consumer magazine’s except (Parenting, American Medical News, Time, Maxim)

Answer 19

American Medical News

Question 20

The most striking characteristic of magazine development in the second half of the 20th century has been a trend toward:

Answer 20

Targeted audiences

Question 21

The inventor of the phonograph in 1877 was:

Answer 21

Thomas Edison

Question 22

In 1887, Emile Berliner developed this machine:

Answer 22

Gramophone

Question 23

The man who created the long-playing record was:

Answer 23

Peter Goldmark

Question 24

BMI was founded in part to avoid having to pay royalties to this company:

Answer 24

ASCAP

Question 25

Music videos have replaced promotional tours as the main revenue source for recording artists T/F

Answer 25

False

Question 26

The Radio Act of 1912:

Answer 26

Required federal licenses for people who wanted to broadcast or receive messages

Question 27

This refers to the payment of cash or gifts by recording companies to disc jockeys or program directors in exchange for air play:

Answer 27

Payola

Question 28

The Telecommunications Act of 1996

Answer 28

Removed the limit on the number of radio stations a company can own nationwide

Question 29

The War of the Worlds broadcast demonstrated that alarming information could be misinterpreted by the public, and the radio stations had to take responsibility for their broadcasts T/F

Answer 29

True

Question 30

He is credited with first photographing motion

Answer 30

Eadward Muybridge

Question 31

The Hollywood Ten

Answer 31

Were put on trial for contempt, eventually sentenced to jail and later blacklisted

Question 32

Global ownership and marketing is a trend in the movie industry today T/F

Answer 32

True

Question 33

This motion picture company was the first company to produce serious narrative movies for the African American audience

Answer 33

The Lincoln Motion Pictures Company

Question 34

These refer to the months when TV ratings services gather their most important ratings

Answer 34

Sweeps

Question 35

The only type of television programming that didn’t come from radio is:

Answer 35

Talk shows

Question 36

John F. Kennedy was the first president to appear on U.S. television T/F

Answer 36

False

Question 37

The Communications Decency Act, outlawing certain Internet content:

Answer 37

Was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997

Question 38

The person who is most responsible for creating the World Wide Web is

Answer 38

Tim Berners-Lee

Question 39

In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state law banning violent video games for minors was:

Answer 39

A violation of free speech

Question 40

This refers to the rules that require Internet providers to keep their networks open and available to carry all legal content

Answer 40

Net neutrality