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 – 5 to test your knowledge about the slang, textspeak, newly used phrases and catchphrases, the films that deal with them, etc.
Choose the right answer of Popular Culture Quiz-5 by clicking one of the following:
#1. Who introduced expressions such as “bad” and “chill” into conversational style in the 1990s?
#2. In 1987, which musician introduced the trend of using the word “bad” in a non-literal antonomic way?
#3. Which of the following is an example of compounding?
#4. Using “ppl” for people is an example of which clipping pattern used in textspeak?
#5. Which of the following words incorporates a letter symbol?
#6. Which of the following is NOT one of the five clipping patterns at work in textspeak?
#7. Which group of musicians is known for adopting a phonetic style that challenges the way of white American speakers of English?
#8. Who introduced buzzwords and catchphrases (hip, stylin’, cool, groovy, etc.) into everyday discourse in the 1920s?
#9. When did the term “duh” first surface?
#10. Which movie introduced the phrase “As if” as an exclamation as disbelief?
#11. Which movie introduced the term “wimp” to describe someone who is scared or has no courage?
#12. Which film did the word “dude” make an appearance in?
#13. Which of the following rap artists uses peculiar spelling patters in his name?
#14. Which word is used to explain the influence of language on pop culture?
#15. Which of the following rock groups of the 70s and 80s used different spellings for their names?
#16. ____ was used to describe counterculture youths of the 1960s.
#17. Abbreviations such as “etc.” are regarded as_______.
#18. Which HBO series used the F-word 100 times in a single two-hour episode?
#19. The abbreviation “LOL” is an example of_________which is a form of shorthand that makes it possible to carry out real-time written communication quickly and effectively.
#20. In the past, who brought the slang “hubbub”, “to bump”, “to dwindle” into acceptable usage?
