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 – 3 to test your knowledge about the horror story, variety show, different effects, reality television, sitcoms, news cable channel,
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#1. What is the effect that states that television has often been the maker of history, not just its documenter?
#2. What is considered a “pseudoevent” in television history?
#3. _______was one of the most popular soap operas of the early television era.
#4. What was the first reality show that dates back to 1948?
#5. In the_____, colour movies began to replace black-and-white movies.
#6. Which term refers to the idea that the celebrities that television creates are perceived as mythic figures that are larger than life?
#7. Which of the below is an example of a variety show?
#8. Which 1998 Movie demonstrates why reality television has become so popular?
#9. ________was the most enduring film in 1930s.
#10. What was the first major American silent film?
#11. Which game introduced the video game industry to the US in 1970?
#12. Which Hollywood director has been most successful in exploiting the film medium?
#13. Which of the following sitcoms used fantasy characters?
#14. What are the two key components of pop culture entertainment?
#15. Where were the first television sets sold in 1936?
#16. Which company invented the first home videotape recorder?
#17. Where did the film industry first establish itself in the USA?
#18. Which television show portrayed the mythology of fatherhood that reflected the social mind-set of the 1950s?
#19. What was the first true horror story?
#20. Which of the below was the first all-news cable channel?