culture (for sources)

Question 1

… Life magazine special issue featuring ‘ideal’ mc woman = .., mother of … & married at …

Answer 1

1956
32
4
16

Question 2

by 1960 … Am homes had TVs

Answer 2

90%

Question 3

Father Knows Best first appeared …, … ‘Betty: Girl Engineer’ episode

Answer 3

1953
1958

Question 4

TV companies’ advertising revenue grew … in 50s

Answer 4

1,000%

Question 5

NBC’s The Nat King Cole Show …

Answer 5

1956-57

Question 6

MLK first televised interview in … on The Open Mind …

Answer 6

1957
1956-present

Question 7

50s films … (~war & adventure)

Answer 7

Around the World in 80 Days, The Bridge on the River Kwai (best picture 1958), Lawrence of Arabia, West Side Story

Question 8

movie Blue Denim … based on play

Answer 8

1959

Question 9

(film) many focused on using sexually explicit content e.g. Baby Doll …

Answer 9

1956

Question 10

(Hollywood able to ignore Motion Picture Code because public attitudes liberalising & … Sup Court ruling granted films freedom of expression)

Answer 10

1952

Question 11

… first interracial movie embrace in Island in the Sun (Code forbade showing interracial marriages until …)

Answer 11

1957
1956

Question 12

Rebel Without a Cause … = … plays archetypal teenager

Answer 12

1955
James Dean

Question 13

anti-war Paths of Glory … critically acclaimed but didn’t do well at box office

Answer 13

1957

Question 14

… on advertising 1950 -> … 1960

Answer 14

$5.7bn
$11.9bn

Question 15

… Yale historian … argued advertising as socially influential as education & religion

Answer 15

1954
David Potter

Question 16

…’s ‘Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male’ … & ‘Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female’ … claimed … males sexually active by 15, similar findings in book on females

Answer 16

Alfred Kinsey
1948
1953
95%

Question 17

… Time special edition ‘Teenagers on the Rampage’

Answer 17

1955

Question 18

from … known as beatniks - ‘pad’ in … or …

Answer 18

1958
North Beach, San Francisco
Greenwich Village, NYC

Question 19

… Cleveland disc jockey … christened ‘rock ‘n’ roll’

Answer 19

1953
Alan Freed

Question 20

teens spent … on records … & … 1960

Answer 20

$182mil
1954
$521mil

Question 21

Presley first single … -> num 1

Answer 21

Heartbreak Hotel

Question 22

Presley filmed waist up for appearance of Hound Dog on … in …

Answer 22

The Ed Sullivan Show
Sep 1956

Question 23

… black Am … founded Motown record label

Answer 23

1959
Berry Gordy

Question 24

Rocky …

Answer 24

1976

Question 25

TV series Fantasy Island ...

Answer 25

1977-84

Question 26

Star Wars ...

Answer 26

1977

Question 27

The Waltons ...

Answer 27

1971-81

Question 28

Little House on the Prairie ...

Answer 28

1974-83

Question 29

American Graffiti ... & Grease ...

Answer 29

1973 1978

Question 30

All in the Family ... central character ... presented as bigot

Answer 30

1971-79 Archie Bunker

Question 31

Mary Tyler Moore Show ...

Answer 31

1970-77

Question 32

made-for-TV movie A Question of Love ...

Answer 32

1978

Question 33

M.A.S.H. ...

Answer 33

1972-83

Question 34

The Deer Hunter ... starring ...

Answer 34

1978 Robert De Niro

Question 35

Apocalypse Now ...

Answer 35

1979

Question 36

Soylent Green ...

Answer 36

1973

Question 37

All the President's Men ...

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1976

Question 38

Roots ... -> appeared on US history curriculum & recor-breaking ... viewers for last episode = ... Am pop

Answer 38

1977 100mil nearly half

Question 39

Blaxploitation films ... = ... movies, influence began to decline after ...

Answer 39

1969-74 (first half of decade) over 200 1976

Question 40

Blaxploitation e.g. Blacula ..., Buck & the Preacher ..., Watermelon Man ... & Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes ...

Answer 40

1972 1972 1970 1974

Question 41

from ... Production Code Administration monitored content movies -> ... code abandoned

Answer 41

1934 1968

Question 42

Charlie's Angels ...

Answer 42

1976-81

Question 43

Last Tango in Paris ...

Answer 43

1973

Question 44

Deep Throat ...

Answer 44

1972

Question 45

CBS ..., NBC ... & ABC ...

Answer 45

Evening News Nightly News World News Tonight

Question 46

CBS News Programme '60 Minutes' fixed in 7pm Sunday evening slot from ... (first aired ...)

Answer 46

1976 1968

Question 47

daily ... newspapers 1973 -> ... 1980 (nat pop ...)

Answer 47

26mil 32mil over 200mil

Question 48

... took Philadelphia Eyewitness News format to ABC's New York news programme ...

Answer 48

Al Primo 1968

Question 49

... 'Battle of the Sexes' tennis match between ... & ... televised

Answer 49

1973 Billie Jean 55 yr old former champion Bobby Riggs

Question 50

... joined ABC Evening News ...

Answer 50

Barbara Walters 1976

Question 51

Oakland Raiders (football) owner ... moved team to LA in ...

Answer 51

Al Davis 1980

Question 52

by 1980 2 NBA players household names = ... & ...

Answer 52

Larry Bird of Boston Celtics Magic Johnson of LA Lakers

Question 53

NFL earnings for TV rights rose ... ... to ... ...

Answer 53

$188mil 1970-73 $646mil 1978-82

Question 54

1980 Super Bowl TV audience risen to ... & advertising revenue ... per 30 second ad

Answer 54

76mil $222,000

Question 55

(within 1973-80) ... men & ... women watched sport on TV

Answer 55

90% 75%

Question 56

... sued NFL to gain greater bargaining power over salaries & movement between clubs = along with NFL players' union won case ...

Answer 56

John Mackey of Blatimore Colts 1976

Question 57

(sport) 1970 average annual wage ... -> 1975 ... -> 1980 ...

Answer 57

$23,000 $56,000 $75,000

Question 58

Magic Johnson (basketball) offered contract ...

Answer 58

$25mil/yr

Question 59

estimate ... US Olympic team used steroids 1968 & ... by 1972

Answer 59

1/3 68%

Question 60

... Uni of New Mexico coaches found falsifying athletes' grades

Answer 60

1980

Question 61

... football game New England Patriot bumped Oakland Rider ... -> autobiography They Call Me Assassin ...

Answer 61

1978 1980

Question 62

disco boom began ... -> by ... ... discotheques in US

Answer 62

1974 1976 ~10,000

Question 63

Donna Summer no. 2 in charts ... 'Love to Love You Baby'

Answer 63

1976

Question 64

by ... Alice Cooper ... gold or platinum albums including ... album Billion Dollar Babies reached no. 1

Answer 64

1976 8 1973

Question 65

from ... the Last Poets put rhythmic rhyming speech against funky sounds Kool & the Gang

Answer 65

1968

Question 66

... record The Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight' sold ... copies

Answer 66

1979 over 2mil

Question 67

... IBM released IBM 5150 = small desktop PC (... memory), relatively affordable at ...

Answer 67

Aug 1981 16kB $1,600

Question 68

... Am households possessed PC by early 90s

Answer 68

nearly 1/4

Question 69

(during period Microsoft employees rocketed ... to ... & by 1992 Bill Gates richest in world & Microsoft revenue ...)

Answer 69

3 6,000 $1bn

Question 70

Atari 2600 went on sale ..., breakthrough with arrival Space Invaders in ...

Answer 70

1977 1980

Question 71

... Nintendo became major player on market

Answer 71

1985

Question 72

(VCRs - Batamax ... & VHS ...)

Answer 72

~$2,000 ~$250

Question 73

1984 sales CDs ...

Answer 73

$103.4mil

Question 74

first album on CD ... & first single ...

Answer 74

Billy Joel's 52nd Street The Visitors by ABBA

Question 75

R's dereg TV in early 80s = num channels rose ... to ...

Answer 75

5 or 6 several 100

Question 76

by 1990 ... Ams had a cable service

Answer 76

90%

Question 77

ESPN ... focused coverage sports

Answer 77

1979

Question 78

CNN ... = 24hr news coverage e.g. ... coverage Gulf War with reporters in Iraq

Answer 78

1980 1991

Question 79

Reverend Pat Robinson's Family Channel reached ... homes

Answer 79

50mil

Question 80

MTV ... (presented 24hr music ...)

Answer 80

1981 1981-83

Question 81

... made for TV movie The Day After

Answer 81

Nov 1983

Question 82

Love, Sidney ...

Answer 82

1981-83

Question 83

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air first aired ...

Answer 83

1990

Question 84

Murphy Brown ... - VP ... claimed undermined trad family values

Answer 84

1988-98 Dan Quayle

Question 85

MTV - ... audience 12-35, ... viewers by ...

Answer 85

85% 23mil 1982

Question 86

Thriller ...

Answer 86

1982

Question 87

women objectified in videos e.g. Van Halen 'Hot for Teacher' ... & Robert Palmer 'Addicted to Love' ...

Answer 87

1984 1985

Question 88

Madonna 'Like a Virgin' ... & 'Material Girl' ...

Answer 88

1984 1984

Question 89

Fatal Attraction ... & Basic Instinct ...

Answer 89

1987 1992

Question 90

Pretty Woman ... = ... plays Vivian, meets ...'s character elegant millionaire

Answer 90

1990 Julia Roberts Richard Gere

Question 91

... Rain Man starring ... opposite Tom Cruise

Answer 91

1988 Dustin Hoffman

Question 92

The Last Temptation of Christ ...

Answer 92

1988

Question 93

... film Boyz n the Hood focused on gang culture South Central LA (riot following year)

Answer 93

1991

Question 94

(MTV?) metal's share pop music rose ... to ... by ...

Answer 94

8% 20% 1984

Question 95

... PMRC successfully pressured MTV cease promotion metal with explicit lyrics & violent videos

Answer 95

1985

Question 96

1988 .... of 50 best selling albums metal

Answer 96

11

Question 97

Bon Jovi's best-selling 'Slippery when Wet' album ...

Answer 97

1986

Question 98

N. W. A.'s rap song 'F*** Tha Police' ...

Answer 98

1998

Question 99

stereotypical Am in 80s 'yuppie' = 25-35 earning at least ... however at most ... yuppies in Am

Answer 99

$40,000/yr 20mil