Popular culture accumulates cultural products such as music, art, literature, fashion, dance, film, cyberculture, television, and radio that are consumed by the majority of a society’s population. The term “popular culture” was coined in the 19th century or earlier.
Take the following Popular Culture Quiz – 2 to test your knowledge about NBC Radio sitcom, popular celebrity of the 1960s, mini-narrative of a musical jingle, hip-hop style, silent moive, pop music, and so on.
Choose the right answer by clicking one of the following:
#1. In which year did music download sites bombard the internet?
#2. When did the hip-hop lifestyle become attractive to many youths?
#3. Who contributed to the rise of country music in the 1960s?
#4. Name the popular celebrity of the 1960s.
#5. Which silent movie actor became popular in the 1910s?
#6. Which band was associated with the “British Invasion” in 1964?
#7. When was the golden age of radio broadcasting?
#8. Which medium was the first to incorporate advertising into its textual format?
#9. Which online media outlet is currently popular for amateur musicians to showcase themselves?
#10. Which instrument set rock apart from the pop music styles that came before it?
#11. What was the dominant type of popular music between 1935 and 1945?
#12. Which of the following was a popular television show in the 1990s?
#13. Which of the following musicians was influential during the hip-hop movement?
#14. Which of the following is a mini-narrative or musical jingle about a product or service?
#15. When was the Lite-Brite a popular fad?
#16. Who invented the first Phonograph (record player)?
#17. Which NBC radio sitcom became popular in 1928?
#18. Which device became the first electronic system of international communications in 1837?
#19. Which of the following refers to a vague nostalgia felt by people about the icons and the fads of the past?
#20. Which car model was popular in the 1980s?
