AMST
In 1930, someone asked Babe Ruth about the appropriateness of a baseball player like him earning $80,000 a year for playing baseball when President Hoover earned less. (Hoover, incidentally, earned $75,000 and was a big fan of baseball.) What was Ruth's response?
"I had a better year than him."
Babe Ruth hit fifty four home runs during the 1920 season. Ruth's individual total was more than the combined total for how many of the sixteen major league teams that year?
14
In 1918, more than 675,000 Americans died out of a population of 105 million. The population of the United States in the year 2020 is 330 million. If COVID-19 kills the same number of Americans as did the Spanish Flu of 1918, how many people will die?
2,121,000
Which of the following signal protocols was the first to allow telephone text messaging?
2G
How old was Babe Ruth when he died on August 16, 1948?
53
How many home runs did Ruth hit during his career?
714
This person is generally credited as having invented the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
Which of the following was part of the "American Numbering Plan"?
Area codes
At what museum is the painting referenced in the previous question located?
Art Institute of Chicago
This president was impeached during the late 1990s for perjury and obstruction of justice when, during a sworn legal deposition, he did not tell the full truth about his extramarital affair with a 22-year-old intern. The vote to convict in the Senate did not meet the constitutional threshold for conviction, so he was acquitted and remained in office.
Bill Clinton
During spring training for the 1918 season, several of Babe Ruth's teammates suffered symptoms of influenza after playing an exhibition game for "doughboys" at this military installation near Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Camp Pike
Which of the following is most responsible for spreading the idea of "cultural literacy"?
E. D. Hirsch
True or false? Babe Ruth believed that abstaining from alcohol helped make him a better hitter.
False
True or false? Ruth had his best season in 1925.
False
What was Babe Ruth's actual name?
George Herman Ruth
The kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby took place during a period of hostility in the United States against many immigrants (and reflected in art through movements like Regionalism). From which of the countries below did the man convicted of the Lindbergh kidnapping immigrate?
Germany
To where did Lindbergh move the year after the kidnapper was convicted?
Germany
In 1997, control of this port city was transferred from of Britain to Communist China with the understanding that the city's system of government would continue to operate autonomously. Twenty-two years later in 2020, China imposed a sweeping national security law that criminalized many forms of dissent.
Hong Kong
During the late 1930s, Lindbergh became an isolationist who opposed American support of the British or French against the Germans. At an America First rally in September 1941, Lindbergh made a speech in which he blamed this group of people for pushing the United States into war.
Jews
This person, who in 1961 became the first American to orbit the Earth, a seventy-seven years of age became the oldest astronaut in 1998 after he flew on a mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
John Glenn
The United States invaded this country in 1989 to protect a strategically-important canal. In 1903, the United States had helped this country to gain independence from Colombia after the Colombian government refused to sign a treaty to build a canal there. The United States then oversaw construction of a canal and controlled it until 1999.
Panama
One of Lindbergh's daughters was interviewed for the documentary. What was her first name?
Reeve
This pair of entrepreneurs, who later built one of the first personal computers, were involved in a joint venture in which they manufactured and sold "blue boxes" that could be used for "phreaking."
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
This superhero was known for using a telephone booth to change out of his secret identity.
Superman
The name of the company AT&T contains a legacy of a technology that predated and was largely supplanted by the telephone. Which of the following is it?
Telegraph
The first cordless home telephones were created during the 1960s, but they did not become widespread for several reasons. Which of the following was NOT a reason.
The radio frequencies caused some users to develop brain cancer.
True or false? According to Tim Wiles, Babe Ruth provided the template for the American culture of celebrity.
True
True or false? The New York Yankees had never won a championship until Babe Ruth joined the team.
True
After a 51-day standoff in this place, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched an attack on a religious group called the Branch Davidians who had killed four agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in an earlier shootout. The result of the FBI raid was a massive fire that destroyed the compound and killed 76 people, including 25 children.
Waco
True or false? After retiring as a player, Ruth became a manager for the New York Yankees.
fALSE
How often are the Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune lined up on the same side of the Sun so that a spacecraft can use the "gravitational slingshot" technique to visit all four planets with relatively little fuel?
175
The "Dream City" of white buildings was a part of this world's fair.
1893 Columbian Exposition
The Ferris wheel and the Edison motion picture machine made their debut at this world's fair.
1893 Columbian Exposition
Aunt Jemima brand pancake mix made its debut at this event. (Listen to Aunt Jemima on the radio, watch her on television, and see advertisements and other physical artifacts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ipamH6EEwI .)
1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago
The Bolshevik Revolution took place during this year.
1917
In the section about World War I, how many female factory workers are shown?
2
According to James Dunnigan, what is a "workstation"?
A computer equipped with expensive processors and displays that allow for Computer Assisted Design and other graphic-intensive activities.
In the painting F111, this person is depicted as the pilot of the aircraft.
A little girl underneath a hair dryer
As used by James Dunnigan, what is BASIC?
A programming language for computers
Who was Howdy Doody?
A puppet who starred in an early television program targeted explicitly at children.
According to the words of the song, who or what was the "Yellow Rose of Texas"? (Listen to it here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77V7FhV8Unw .)
A woman of mixed race
In which of the following ways did Robert Hughes say that Minimalism reflected the American past?
A&B
This agency of the United States government is credited with creating the Internet.
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
This is something that does NOT have any roots in the past.
Ahistoric
According to Boorstin, which of the following are forms of pseudo-events?
All of the above
What is the title of the professional journal for the American Studies Association?
American Quarterly
The nickel that preceded the one with Thomas Jefferson on it had this image on the reverse (back side).
American bison (buffalo)
Freud would say that a person who compulsively wants everything an exact way is exhibiting this psychological disorder.
Anal retentive
This 1979 film was set in Southeast Asia during the American war in Vietnam, but its plot was based on a novel about Africa (Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness). It was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Apocalypse Now
What was Richard Nixon shown riding during the video?
Automobile
One of the Jackson Pollock paintings featured in the documentary is about this season of the year.
Autumn
This person created a series of minimalistic paintings titled Stations of the Cross.
Barnett Newman
This 1957 film features men whistling in unison.
Bridge over the River Kwai
The European Organization for Nuclear Research where the World Wide Web was invented goes by these initials. This organization presently operates the world's largest nuclear accelerator and recently discovered the Higgs Boson.
CERN
Carrie Chapman Catt was born less than twenty-four months before the start of this conflict and died less than twenty-four months after the end of this conflict.
Civil War and World War II
This creator of "Pop Art" was known for his sumptuous sculptures of food.
Claes Oldenburg
In his 1927 book Main Currents in American Thought, Vernon Parrington helped found the field of American Studies by applying to historical documents this method from Critical literary theory.
Close reading
This famous criminal had a fondness for Ford automobiles and wrote a letter of praise to Henry Ford.
Clyde Barrow
Who is depicted racing in soap box derby cars?
College Students
This event during 1962 marked the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war than at any other time in history.
Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1948, the Soviet Union took control of this Central European country. Its previously leader, Jan Mazurek, was said to have committed suicide by jumping through a window. For the interesting symbolism associated with this country and cause of death, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague). What was the name of the country?
Czechoslovakia
Where did the Wright Brothers live?
Dayton, Ohio
Where did Ransom Olds open his plant in 1901 to make Oldsmobile cars?
Detroit, Michigan
In the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Marilyn Monroe sings about this type of precious gem.
Diamond
In the discussion about the Internet at minute 50:00 in the documentary, an example of an email from the late 1990s is shown. To whom is the message addressed?
Donald Trump
This former general was serving as president of Columbia University at the time of his nomination and election to the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which of the following devices helped make automobiles more accessible to women during the 1910s and 1920s?
Electric starter
Dunnigan says that prior to the twentieth century most people listened to this kind of music as opposed to the "court music" that was listened to by people with money and knowledge. Loss says that this kind of music became popular during the 1950s among people on the political left. Well-known performers of this type of music included Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan. Anthropologist Harry Smith published a book about it in 1952.
Folk
Which of the following, according to the reading, was most directly involved with shaping the highway infrastructure of the United States?
Ford Motor Company
Darrell Collins of the National Park Service was interviewed for the documentary. His family heritage goes back to the Native Americans who inhabited the North Carolina Outer Banks and also the African Americans who settled this place on Roanoke Island in 1862 (See https://www.alegacyofgreatness.com/about)
Freedmen's Colony
In the editorial cartoon about Western Civilization, which of the following is NOT one of the words written on the falling bombs?
Freedom
This event, which was originally heralded as a triumph of Enlightenment rationalism and humanism, degenerated within a few years into chaos, death, and dictatorship. The shock of its occurrence help give rise to the Romantic Movement.
French Revolution
In 1960, a U2 reconnaissance aircraft that was on a spy mission was shot down over the Soviet Union. Thinking that the plane was destroyed and the pilot dead, President Eisenhower initially denied that the United States was conducting overflights. The pilot, however, survived and was captured by the Soviets. What was the name of the pilot?
Gary Powers
This company emerged during the 1920s as a rival to the Ford Motor Company. It is mentioned in both reading selections.
General Motors
This person revolutionized photography by creating a camera that used rolls of celluloid film.
George Eastman
Who was the Eastman referenced in the chapter? (Hint: Look in your AMST 102 notes from earlier in the term.)
George Eastman
Which of the following is not given in the readings as an example of petroleum?
Grain alcohol
Which of the following was NOT a form of stock car racing described by Foster in the reading?
Grand Prix races at Le Mans
In this book, written by John Steinbeck, the protagonists drive from Oklahoma to California in a rickety, overloaded vehicle. The reading selection mentions later that this book was made into a motion picture directed by John Ford.
Grapes of Wrath
Duke Ellington established residence in this part of New York City when he first left the southern United States.
Harlem
This designer for General Motors was inspired by fighter aircraft like the P-38 to incorporate tail fins into the 1948 Cadillac. The idea sparked a trend the continued into the next decade.
Harlow Earl
Which of the following best describes Adolf Hitler's feelings about atomic weapons?
He thought that money and effort was better spent building V-2 rockets.
How did Ruth die?
He was stricken with cancer.
Bernstein uses this composer as an example of music that was inspired by African American songs from New Orleans.
Henry F. Gilbert
Name the person who hired Sheeler to go to the place referenced in the previous question.
Henry Ford
This television comedy first became popular during the era of Joseph McCarthy, Elvis Presley, Dwight Eisenhower, and Fulton J. Sheen.
I Love Lucy
This is a theory that ultimate reality lies in a realm that transcends phenomena or physical objects that are perceived through the five human senses.
Idealism
This person composed the song God Bless America in 1918. The First World War ended before it could be released, however, so the person put it aside. The release did not occur for another twenty years.
Irving Berlin
On February 17, 1990, Voyager 1 achieved this distinction.
It became the most distant human-made object from Earth.
At the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, what did the robot do that amazed many people?
It counted to five.
The film depicts the funeral held in Wallace, Idaho, for the last traffic light to be located on an interstate highway. Go to the site https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2949. Where is the traffic light presently located?
It is displayed in a coffin in a mining museum.
Which of the following is NOT true of Minimalism?
It was highly personal
The 1985 film Back to the Future featured a DeLorean automobile that had been modified into a time machine. What is the name of the department store shown in the excerpt?
J. C. Penney
This physicist was the civilian in charge of the laboratory that designed the first atomic bombs.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Having undergone Jungian analysis, this artist believed that through his work he was expressing the collective unconscious. In addition, by physically entering his paintings as he created them, he was emulating the American Indians he had seen during his childhood who had created artwork using sand. His style came to be known as Abstract Expressionism, which was the first artistic movement of global influence to start within the United States.
Jackson Pollock
This actor starred in the film Rebel without a Cause in which the main character engaged in an automotive game of "chicken" in which the players raced their jalopies towards the edge of a cliff. The winner was the one who ditched his car last. This actor influenced youth culture by influencing teenaged males to wear slicked-back, ducktail haircuts and roll packages of cigarettes in the sleeves of their t-shirts.
James Dean
This newspaper editor conducted one of the earliest interviews of the modern type.
James Gordon Bennett
This person received much of his training as an artist by painting advertisements on billboards at Times Square in New York City.
James Rosenquist
This artist created a "skyscape" called Second Meeting in Los Angeles. He also sculpted the rim of the Roden volcanic crater in Arizona.
James Turrell
According to the film, Frank Lloyd Wright was greatly inspired by the aesthetics of this country.
Japan
This philosopher wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
John Locke
This person developed an injected vaccination for polio that stimulated the immune system by using deactivated viruses.
Jonas Salk
Where did the artist Donald Judd live?
Marfa, Texas
Based upon the documentary, which metaphor most accurately characterizes Bernstein's view of American culture and national identity?
Melting Pot
Although the dime minted by the United States from 1913 to 1945 had an image of the Goddess Liberty on the obverse (front side), it was nicknamed for this Roman male messenger god.
Mercury
The Czech composer Antonin Dvorak encouraged American composers to draw upon this kind of folk music.
Native American
Freud would say that a person who compulsively smokes cigarettes or chews on the ends of pencils is exhibiting this psychological disorder.
Oral fixation
What was the name of the pilot who commanded the B29 aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Paul Tibbets
Babe Ruth helped to save baseball after the "Black Sox" scandal. Which of the following best describes this incident?
Players of the Chicago White Sox conspired intentionally to lose the 1919 World Series so that gamblers could make money. One of the accused players—"Shoeless Joe" Jackson—was a native of Greenville County. He was forever banished from baseball as punishment.
Started during 1690 in Boston, this was the first multi-page newspaper published in the English colonies.
Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick
During the early twentieth century, this company became a pioneer in the development of commercial radio and in the manufacture of radio receivers that allowed people to listen to broadcasts in their homes.
Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
This Texas billionaire ran for president in 1992 as the most successful third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt.
Ross Perot
The 1921 National Highway Act provided federal funding for a road network across the United States. It was the origin for such routes U.S. 25, U.S. 29, U.S. 76, and U.S. 221. What was the symbol (and still is the symbol) on the signs designating a national highway?
Shield
This African American actor starred in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night and in the film of the same year Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Sidney Poitier
This person authored a book titled The Interpretation of Dreams.
Sigmund Freud
Released in 1937, this was the first full-length animated feature film.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
What according to James Dunnigan, are computers really used for?
Social networking
Under this economic system, the "means of production" or property is controlled by the government, which also tends to regulate prices, wages, output, product quality, working conditions, and so forth.
Socialism
The Stars and Stripes Forever was composed one year before this conflict, which marked the beginning of a more expansionist foreign policy by the United States. The militaristic tone of this march reflected the enthusiasm for was that many Americans had during this time.
Spanish-American War
This work reflected Cold War fears of communism, homosexuals, and nuclear war.
Target with Four Faces
According to Cumo, this 1927 Warner Brothers film was the first feature-length motion picture to have sound. Getlein and Gardiner argue that the technology for this kind of film existed earlier but was delayed by unimaginative and greedy studio executives.
The Jazz Singer
This 1927 film, which was the first major motion picture in the United States to have a soundtrack, climaxed with a performance of its star in blackface. A 1980 remake of the same film changed the scene to a performance of a song titled America. (See the climax of the 1927 film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaj7FNHnjQ&t=50s .)
The Jazz Singer
This is the first film in the montage in which the soundtrack contains human voices.
The Jazz Singer
Julie Andrews also starred in the musical that followed My Fair Lady in the montage. She was nominated for an Academy Award but did not win. The film, however, received five. What was its title?
The Sound of Music
D. W. Griffith directed numerous films besides Birth of a Nation. Which of the ones listed below is NOT shown in the montage?
The Struggle (1918)
The title of this episode was The Empire of Signs. To what "empire" does the title refer?
The United States after the Second World War
What is Kodachrome?
The first commercially available color film
At the start of the twentieth century, what was the main problem with travelling in the American countryside?
The roads were muddy and rutted.
This president used the "bully pulpit" to put forth a legislative agenda called the "Square Deal."
Theodore Roosevelt
As a result of economic inflation, the value of a dollar in the year 1900 is equal to this amount of money in the year 2020.
Thirty dollars
In this song, the protagonist challenges the ideology of capitalism by trespassing on private property.
This Land is Your Land
Vince Campanella was an artist employed by the WPA. Go to his website at the link http://www.vincentcampanellapaintings.com/. At the top of the home page there is a portrait of a famous American artist painted by Campanella. This artist would later called Campanella a Communist. What is his name?
Thomas Hart Benton
This person led International Business Machines (IBM) during its formative years.
Thomas J. Watson
During the early years of his career, how did W. E. B. DuBois think that African Americans were going to improve their circumstances?
Through the efforts of a "talented tenth" of black people
Raymond Hood based his design for the foyer of the New York Daily News Building on this.
Tomb of Napoleon
At the New York World's Fair of 1939, which featured the "World of Tomorrow," this sculpture represented "free flight into the future."
Trylon
What was the duration of the first flight?
Twelve seconds
This artist created the "freak" painting of the 1913 Armory Show.
Urinal
What is the definition of cultural hegemony?
When the imposed, ruling-class worldview becomes the cultural norm.
This president campaigned that his program of legislation would bring about a "New Freedom" for the American people.
Woodrow Wilson
Jimi Hendrix performed The Star Spangled Banner at this music festival.
Woodstock
Which of the following was NOT good for service on a "party line"?
Yell at people who hog the line.
For extra credit, watch the Mrs. Butterworth's advertisements at the links below. Which of them contains the oldest commercial?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtcmXbROR4
Watch the video for Yankee Doodle Boy. What was the nickname for singer Billy Murray? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im-4H6FGy-Y
"The Denver Nightingale"
The star of this world's fair was a forty-five-foot-tall steam engine that produced 1,400 horsepower and was built by the Corliss Company.
1876 Centennial Exposition
Michelangelo's sculpture The Pieta was brought from Rome to this world's fair.
1964 New York World's Fair
How much money did the United States military pay the Wright Brothers for one of their aircraft?
20,000
How many gallons of fuel did a B-17 aircraft need to go on a bombing mission during the Second World War?
2000
According to the documentary, how long will the Voyager spacecraft have sufficient electrical power to communicate with Earth?
2025
According to the narration at the start of the film, how long did the first flight last?
3.5 seconds
How many people in Boston died from influenza during the 1918 pandemic?
4,800
What was the highest number of home runs that Ruth hit during any single season?
60
How many days did the first transcontinental automobile trip require?
63
In the video for Pink Houses, a sign for an Interstate Highway is shown. What is its number? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkpu6749w
65
How many more times powerful was the first hydrogen fusion device compared to the uranium fission device that was detonated over Hiroshima?
750
In the excerpt shown of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, what does the cowboy-like character ride?
A nuclear-tipped missile
During the years immediately following the First World War, this attorney general led an effort to deport immigrants who belonged to the Communist Party or were anarchists suspected of subversive activities.
A. Mitchell Palmer
For one point—and for information that is covered elsewhere in the course—what is the artistic style of the automobile designed by Bel Geddes?
Art Deco
Babe Ruth's baseball career began in 1914 when he joined a minor league team of this organization.
Baltimore Orioles
Where was Babe Ruth born?
Baltimore, Maryland
In the scene about cruising, what is the name of the bank shown in the film?
Bank Of America
This well-known American patriotic song is sung to the tune of another song titled John Brown's Body.
Battle Hymn of the Republic
During August 1961, the Soviet Union began construction of a wall to divide this city.
Berlin
During the part of the documentary in which Bill Moyers talks about millions of pounds of horse manure and thousands of gallons of horse urine being in the streets, what is NOT visible in the film footage being shown?
Bicycle lanes
This folk singer was known for such songs as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changin."
Bob Dylan
This person, who was considered by many to be the leading African American of the early 1900s, argued that black people should not fight against segregation but should instead focus on becoming better trained in the trades and industrial arts. W. E. B. DuBois disagreed with him.
Booker T. Washington
Staffers for Ronald Reagan's re-election wanted to play this song at campaign events, but the musician who composed and performed the piece refused to grant permission.
Born in the USA
In 1935, Ruth's contract was sold by the Yankees to this team.
Boston Braves
In Marxism, this term is associated with factory owners, businesspeople, and administrators.
Bourgeoisie
This bridge was featured in paintings by John Marin and Joseph Stella.
Brooklyn Bridge
According to Cumo, this technology broadened the appeal of television. According to Dunnigan, this same technology contributed to a decline in audiences at movie theaters.
Cable television
First used during the 1500s, this device consists of a box, tent, or room with a small hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside, where the scene is reproduced, inverted, (thus upside-down) and reversed (left to right), but with color and perspective preserved.
Camera Obscura
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is nicknamed "The Brickyard" because its founder paved the race track with bricks. This person later became an advocate for building a coast-to-coast highway. What was his name?
Carl Fisher
This person is most closely associated with ideas like collective unconscious, archetypes, and synchronicity.
Carl Jung
The documentary shows a 1954 picture of boxer Muhammad Ali before he won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and before he won the heavyweight championship for the first time in 1964. What was his birth name?
Cassius Clay
This was one of the devices pioneered by the Apple Macintosh of the early 1980s.
Computer mouse
This United States Senator from Colorado spoke out against the 1937 sit-down strike at General Motors.
E. L. Johnson
On February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 took this unusual photograph.
Earth and the other planets of the Solar System
What did Charles Kettering invent?
Electric starter
Extrapolating from his discovery of the four largest moons of Jupiter, this person argued for a heliocentric Solar System rather than one in which the Sun went around the Earth.
Galileo Galilei
In addition to recognizing the Apollo 11 astronauts, Richard Nixon presented a group achievement award to the people who worked for NASA in the mission operations center. The group was represented by the same flight controller who was interviewed for the documentary at 5:45. The president said at the time that "this is the young man, when the computers seemed to be confused and when he could have said Stop, or when he could have said Wait, said, Go." What was the name of this person?
Gene Kranz
This diplomat warned that the Soviets were insecure, neurotic, illogical, and ambitious. This is not mentioned in the film, but he articulated these views in an influential article that was published during 1947 in the journal Foreign Affairs. His idea of containing communism because a tenet of American foreign policy.
George Kenan
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? contains a very brief reference to a song composed by this person, who was mentioned in the lecture about American Patriotic Music. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I8-CbJYGMA )
George M. Cohan
This artist painted skyscrapers like the Radiator Building and the Shelton Hotel in New York City.
Georgia O'Keefe
In the video of Jimi Hendrix beingin interviewed about his performance at Woodstock of the Star Spangled Banner, how does he characterize it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ZYUaRKQkk
Groovy
Where did W. E. B. DuBois complete his Ph.D.?
Harvard University
This person became the first African American to receive an Academy Award for her role as "Mammy" in the 1938 film Gone with the Wind.
Hattie McDaniel
Which of the following best describes Henry Ford's position on highways?
He thought that roads should be built by the government.
What happened to the Lindbergh baby?
He was killed on the night he was kidnapped.
This person wrote the book Progress and Poverty, which advocated a "single tax" on land and inspired the game Monopoly.
Henry George
According to the slide titled "History of American Studies," which of the following wrote the article titled "Can 'American Studies' Develop a Method?"
Henry Nash Smith
This early practitioner of American Studies wrote a book titled Virgin Land.
Henry Nash Smith
Which of the following did NOT cause "turmoil on the floor" of automotive factories during the mid-twentieth century?
High wages and generous benefits for workers.
This philosophy stresses an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason. It rejects supernaturalism.
Humanism
Which of the following does the uncertainty principle call into question?
Humanism
According to the narrator, the theme of the 1933 world's fair of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Adapts" reflects most accurately which of the following sentiments?
Humankind had lost control over the ways in which technology shaped society and events.
This educational reformer was a Progressive and a pragmatist at heart.
John Dewey
An image of this president was placed on the half dollar a year after his assassination.
John F. Kennedy
This leader of the Soviet Union rejected American economic assistance as "financial aggression."
Joseph Stalin
This early camera contained a roll of film that allowed the customer to take one hundred pictures. The camera was then returned to the manufacturer, who developed the exposed film, created prints, reloaded the camera with new film, and returned everything to the customer.
Kodak Black
Federal troops were sent to this city in 1957 to enforce a federal court order to desegregated schools.
Little Rock
Much of the designing of the first atomic bombs took place at this location in New Mexico.
Los Alamos
For which of the following architects did Frank Lloyd Wright work during the early part of his career?
Louis Sullivan
This sculptor immigrated to the United States from France. Her sculptures often dealt with the human body and the lingering anxiety caused by her traumatic childhood.
Louise Bourgeois
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of modernism?
Macrocosmic
What was Lindbergh's occupation immediately before he undertook his trip across the Atlantic?
Mail delivery pilot
This term was used to describe a kindly, matronly African American woman who worked as a loyal house servant to a white family. (The stereotype persists in the character of Aunt Jemima.)
Mammy
First minted in 1946, the Roosevelt dime replaced this image.
Mercury (actually, the Goddess Liberty)
This person was one of the three Apollo 11 astronauts.
Michael Collins
This comedian used sight gags, bizarre costumes, and corny jokes for a variety show called Texaco Star Theater. He was referred to as "Mr. Television" or in avuncular terms. In addition to being popular among housewives, the broadcast of his show reduced the number of people going to nightclubs and taverns. It also attracted crowds to the windows of appliance stores.
Milton Berle
What was the occupation of Wilbur and Orville's father Milton?
Minister
This automobile was the first to be produced by the Ford Motor Company.
Model T
According to the film, how were roads leveled at the start of the twentieth century?
Mule-drawn drag
Sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd wrote Middletown in Transition based on their studies about this town, which relied heavily upon the automobile industry for jobs.
Muncie, Indiana
The "Niagara Declaration" led to the creation of this organization in 1909.
NAACP
By teaching canines to associate feeding time with a particular sound, this scientist conditioned them to drool at the sound even when food was not provided. Boorstin compares news reporters to the animals in the experiment.
Neither "Hard" nor "Soft"
Just as Paris had been the center of world art during the nineteenth century and Rome during the seventeenth, many Americans considered this place to have assumed this position by 1970.
New York City
A painting of a military veteran going to college was featured on the cover of the October 5, 1946, Saturday Evening Post and created by this famous American artist.
Norman Rockwell
Near what city did Lindbergh land?
Paris
This was the first American coin to have a president on the obverse (or front).
Penny
At the New York World's Fair of 1939, this Modernist sculpture represented the Earth of the present day.
Perisphere
This was the most popular folk music group of the sixties.
Peter, Paul, and Mary
What position did Ruth play for the Yankees?
Pitcher
By flying a kite in a thunderstorm to test whether lightning consisted of electricity, Benjamin Franklin was practicing which of the following ideas?
Positivism
Where was President Truman when the first full-scale test took place?
Potsdam Conference
This is a philosophical approach holding that what is right or truthful is what works in application.
Pragmatism
What was the architectural style of the Robie House?
Prairie
How did Josef Stalin first learn about the successful test of an atomic bomb?
President Truman told him.
What is the main subject of the 1926 film The General?
Railroad locomotive
To demonstrate that American music often draws upon popular tunes, Bernstein uses a selection composed by this person.
Randall Thompson
This person is most closely associated with singing America, the Beautiful.
Ray Charles
This is a theory that objects of sense perception or cognition exist independently of the mind.
Realism
Rebel Without a Cause was a 1955 film starring James Dean and Natalie Wood. The film reflected concerns of the time about juvenile delinquency, parenting techniques, and the moral fiber of American youth during an age of comfort and plenty. What color was Dean's jacket?
Red
This 1957 film was originally a work of propaganda shown to members of the American armed forces. An abbreviated version was broadcast to the general public in 1962. The latter lasts twenty eight minutes and can be seen at the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgR4apcz_Ew (Watching the entire film is not required but this link is provided here for those who are interested.)
Red Nightmare
The documentary observes that many of the pilots who attempted trans-Atlantic crossings paid for their attempts with their lives. Go to the web site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orteig_Prize. Which of the people listed below did NOT die while attempting or preparing for a trans-Atlantic crossing
Rene Fonck
Charles Sheeler was hired to visit this place, where he created both his photograph Criss-Crossed Conveyors and his painting American Landscape.
River Rouge Plant
This painter is most closely associated with surrealism.
Salvador Dali
When did the drive for legal rights for women begin?
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
The Soviet Union detonated their own atomic bomb on this date.
September 2, 1949
The cover of Shakira's album Oral Fixation does NOT reference which of the following archetypes?
Serpent
Which of the following was NOT listed in the reading by Archie Loss as an event that took place during the civil rights movement of the 1950s?
Sit in by four North Carolina A&T students at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
What was the A.A.A. symbol to be slow and careful?
Skull and crossbones
In the video of Battle Hymn of the Republic, where did singer Andy William perform the song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGEZUJGODRI
St. Patrick's Cathedral
This person played a key role in the development of the Apple I computer.
Steve Wozniak
Which of the following contributes to the distinctiveness of jazz music?
Synchopation
This idea calls into question the idea that cause precedes effect.
Synchronicity
What were television viewers led to think about the parade for General MacArthur?
That actually attending the parade was more exciting than watching it on television
This 1975 cult film/musical was a fixture at "midnight movies" in which moviegoers dressed up as the main characters, memorized the lines, and threw rice in the theaters during the wedding scene. The excerpt in the montage features actor Tim Curry singing about being a "sweet transvestite from Transylvania."
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
This 1955 film featured an iconic scene in which breeze from a subway vent blows up the skirt of Marilyn Monroe. Her then-husband—the New York Yankees baseball player Joe DiMaggio—was outraged.
The Seven Year Itch
According to the film, which of the following is NOT true about the network of highways in Germany that was built during the 1930s?
They were used to mass forces on the border when the Germans supported the Spanish Civil War during the 1930s.
According to John Philip Sousa in the video for Stars and Stripes Forever, what do poets and painters, novelists and historians, maids and matrons, and youth and man all have in common? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykXbv6Hml18
They were worshippers at the Shrine of Music.
This Regionalist artist painted rural scenes from the American Midwest. His work marked a rejection of European modernism and abstraction. He is famous for painting a series of murals in the Missouri State Capitol. He would become a mentor to a later artist, Jackson Pollock.
Thomas Hart Benton
A nickelodeon was used for this purpose.
To view short motion pictures
According to the film, the Soviet Union lost this number of its people during the Second World War as a direct result of the conflict. (By contrast, the United States lost 419,400.)
Twenty million
In Freudian terms, the idea of the Id corresponds most closely with which of the following?
Unconscious mind
If Bloom's taxonomy is rendered as an inverted pyramid, as it is on the slide, which of the following is closest to the base?
Understanding
Which of the following is NOT modernistic?
Victorian furniture
Both Dunnigan and Cumo associate this technology with music videos, adolescents, and the MTV network.
Video Cassette Recorders (VCRs)
Born in the USA is a song about a veteran of this war.
Vietnam War
Which of the following conflicts contributed most directly to "the Age of Anxiety"?
Vietnam War
This person—who according to the chapter made Arthur MacEwen the first editor of the San Francisco Examiner—was the owner of multiple newspapers. This person is more famous for helping to instigate the 1898 Spanish-American War as part of an effort to sell more newspapers. He is also famous for being the inspiration for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. His granddaughter was sent to prison in 1976 for robbing a bank. The company he founded presently owns the WYFF television station in Spartanburg.
William Randolph Hearst
What is actually heard on the soundtrack? [You can also look it up at the link https://www.livescience.com/65950-neil-armstrong-first-words-on-moon.html.)
"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
The 1946 film Casablanca contains elements of Film Noir, but it is generally not classified as such because it ultimately is a story about human nobility and virtue. Which of the following is the quote from the film used in the montage?
"We'll always have Paris."
How much ransom did the kidnapper demand for return of the Lindbergh baby?
$50,000
What was the advertised price for the first Apple computer?
$666.66
Scientific management involves "time and motion" studies to make the manufacturing process more efficient. Managers and owners tend to like scientific management techniques because they often result in reduced costs and increased production. Laborers tend to dislike scientific management techniques because they often result in greater monotony, less freedom, and lower pay. An exhibit where scientific management was discussed took place at this world's fair.
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
The "Great Unisphere" was the symbol of this world's fair.
1964 New York World's Fair
How much did one of Andy Warhol's cookie jars sell for at the auction shown in the video?
21,000
How old was Lindbergh when he flew across the Atlantic?
25
How much did Henry Ford's Model T cost by the mid-1920s?
290
How many years will it take before Voyager 2 encounters the next star, Sirius?
296,000 years
To save fuel, what was the national speed limit in the United States during the Second World War?
35
At the start of the twentieth century, a trip across the United States by automobile or truck required approximately sixty days to complete. By the early 1980s, when the documentary was produced, how many days did the drive require?
4
Directed by Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery, is one of the first American films to tell a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It is said that audiences of the early 1900s were frightened at the end of the film when the villain empties his six-shooter at the camera. How many shots does he fire in the excerpt? (If you want to watch the entire Porter film, it is twelve minutes long and available at the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuto7qWrplc.)
4
This question and the ones that follow are based on the documentary 1954: Bomb Explodes on Bikini Island. How many years after the Second World War did the Soviet Union detonate an atomic bomb?
4
This numeral was featured prominently in the painting by Charles DeMuth that was shown in the film.
5
The slip-form paver developed by James Johnson and Burt Myers replaced how many men with rakes and rollers.
50
The pilots and airmen who dropped the first atomic bombs belonged to this organization, which in 1947 was involved with the Roswell Incident.
509th Composite Group
When Henry Ford announced the $5 workday in 1914, for how many hours per day did he expect his employees to work in his factories?
8
Dialing this number as the area code resulted in automatic fees being charged to the line of the person making the call.
900
Elia Kazan made the film On the Waterfront during the Red Scare after he revealed to the House Un-American Activities Committee that playwright Arthur Miller had been affiliated with the Communist Party. Miller famous wrote The Crucible in response to receiving a congressional subpoena. On the Waterfront is a rebuttal to Miller and the others who regarded Kazan as a traitor. The film tells the story of dockworker (played by Marlon Brando) who testifies against the corrupt leaders of a longshoremen's union. What does the dockworker—who is also an aspiring boxer—say that he could have been?
A contender
This device is an ancient example of a mechanical rather than an electronic computer.
Abacus
Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Barnett Newman all belonged to this "school" of artists.
Abstract Expressionist
Born in the Quaker faith, she earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and a master's degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She challenged the suffrage movement because she believed that the campaign should take a more militant approach.
Alice Paul
According to Boorstin, which of the following were pseudo-events used by Franklin Roosevelt?
All of the above
Ed and Nancy Kienholz's Shine on Shine was inspired in part by Chester Daniel French. What did Chester Daniel French do?
All of the above
In the film, which of the following was discussed in relation to the 1982 world's fair in Knoxville?
All of the above
Which of the following was characteristic of Henry Ford's Model T?
All of the above
Which of the following observations did the narrator in the documentary make about Jackson Pollock?
All of the above.
The first coin minted in the United States had this image on the obverse (front side).
All-seeing eye
Popular during the 1850s, this kind of photograph consisted of a positive image on glass. It required a black background in order to be seen.
Ambrotype
This main theme of this song about America is immigration.
America, by Neil Diamond
The shock of this event helped give rise to the Realist movement.
American Civil War
According to narrator Robert Hughes, this was "The idea that America had a special mission on earth which had been wired into American minds since the time of the Puritans."
American Exceptionalism
What is the title of the famous painting featuring a woman standing in front of a farm house next to a man holding a pitchfork?
American Gothic
Which of the following did NOT take place during the 1970s?
Americans became less dependent on automobiles.
This main theme of this song about America is globalization.
Amerika, by Rammstein
The comedy act featured two characters who spoke and acted in ways that perpetuated negative stereotypes of African Americans. They were initially voiced over radio by two white men, who later donned blackface for a motion picture titled Check and Double Check. During the 1950s, a television show featuring the characters starred African American men. [Listen to a radio broadcast with Hattie McDaniel as guest star at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNYi2PTpv9U Watch the film Check and Double Check (with Duke Ellington performance) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08V5mOqXGys . Watch the television show at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMB8EkrHf8&list=PL_1CaijClnHOJFkDGq-P-DdOCMZTtkI-m .]
Amos and Andy
What is the title of the first piece played in the documentary? (Disregard the Mozart piano sonata played with the introduction and title.)
An American in Paris
What is needed to detonate a hydrogen fusion bomb?
An atomic bomb
What was a Blackberry telephone?
An early "smart phone" that used a physical keyboard.
What is a daguerreotype? (Hint: Look in your AMST 102 notes from earlier in the term.)
An early type of photography
This artist created the work Gold Marilyn.
Andy Warhol
This artist explored the idea of celebrity and fame in American culture.
Andy Warhol
This artist is the best known of the ones listed for taking photographs of the scenes of automobile accidents.
Andy Warhol
Many Manhattan skyscrapers of the 1930s were built using this artistic style, which originated in Paris, France, at a 1925 exposition.
Art Deco
In the antislavery version of My Country Tis of Thee, what is the last line of the second verse? http://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform/resources/antislavery-hymn
As foulest sin
During April 1961, the John F. Kennedy administration supported an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro by landing forces at this location in Cuba.
Bay of Pigs
Allen Ginsberg belonged to this informal group of poets.
Beats
This record producer was closely associated with Diana Ross and the Supremes.
Berry Gordy
This person played a key role in the development of the disk operating system (or DOS) that allowed the PC to run other programs. This person ultimately oversaw the development of the Windows disk operating system.
Bill Gates
These two people founded Microsoft.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen
This model was the first commercial aircraft to be designed entirely by computer. All previous ones had been designed using the same wind tunnel technology that the Wright Brothers had pioneered.
Boeing 777
The documentary mentions Alberto Santos-Dumont as being the "Father of Flying" in Europe. What was his native country? (For additional information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont)
Brazil
Frequently the protagonist in the Tales of Uncle Remus, this character is said to have roots in African folklore. His ability to trick or outwit more powerful adversaries is said to have provided comfort to the enslaved people who told and heard his adventures.
Brer Rabbit
The lighted sign over RKO's Mayfair Theater boasted that moviegoers could see the "Finest Talking Pictures" there. What film was showing at the time?
Bring 'Em Back Alive
This 1954 decision by the United States Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated facilities did violate the Fourteenth Amendment and that "separate" was "inherently unequal."
Brown v. Board of Education
The sixteen-year-old son of this American president died from a blister that he rubbed on his foot after playing tennis without socks. He did not have access to antibiotic drugs.
Calvin Coolidge
This minstrel troupe gave performances in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, during June of 1865.
Cambell Minstrels
Under this economic system, the "means of production" or property is owned by private individuals. Government regulation of prices, wages, output, product quality, working conditions, and so forth is minimal.
Capitalism
Near the end of the documentary, Bill Moyers reads a 1918 poem titled "Portrait of a Motor Car." Who was the poet?
Carl Sandburg
Where does the concert take place?
Carnegie Hall
Directed by Brian DePalma, this 1976 horror film about a high school girl with telekinetic abilities is based on the first novel published by Stephen King.
Carrie
Popular during the American Civil War of the 1860s, this kind of photograph consisted of a negative image copied onto a thin paper base and then mounted on a thicker piece of paper.
Carte de Visite
Many early personal computers of the early 1980s used this device to store data.
Cassette tape recorder
During the early 1980s, some of the first cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) appeared in this neighborhood of San Francisco, which was frequented by large numbers of homosexual men.
Castro District
Which of the following was a result of the 1915 referendum on women's suffrage in the state of New York?
Catt decided to focus her efforts on amending the federal constitution.
This British engineer invented several mechanical computers that were used to perform mathematical calculations.
Charles Babbage
This actor starred in the 1936 film Modern Times.
Charlie Chaplin
This famous actor starred in the 1940 film The Great Dictator.
Charlie Chaplin
This leader of the Cuban Revolution was present in Guatemala during 1954 when, at the behest of the United Fruit Company, the democratically-elected government was overthrown with the help of aircraft supplied by the American Central Intelligence Agency. Guatemala was then taken over by a dictator who supported the United States. The image of this leader became a symbol of countercultural rebellion and is still featured on articles of clothing.
Che Guevara
The list of automobiles that starts at minute 34:33 is an example of the "tiering by class" strategy pioneered by General Motors executive Alfred P. Sloan. Cadillac was the top of the line, but it is not mentioned in the documentary. Which of the vehicle listed was the lowest in status?
Chevy
This communist country entered the Korean War during the winter of 1950-51 after its border was threatened.
China
This country became communist in 1949.
China
This early home computer could be hooked to a television as well as a monitor. Its popularity led to its being called the "Model T of personal computers."
Commodore 64
Thomas Paine wrote this book. Its title reflects the positivist and empiricist tendencies of thought that prevailed during the Enlightenment.
Common Sense
Which of the following was NOT a reason why digital photography did not become widespread for more than a decade after the initial prototype was created.
Consumers enjoyed the wait and expense for prints made from celluloid film.
Mary Mallon was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid who spread the disease to more than fifty other people because she worked in this occupation and refused to quit even after having been involuntarily quarantined for three years.
Cook
The most "symbolically-loaded" automobiles of the 1930s was this model. It was an example of "streamlining" and luxury. Famous film actor Clark Gable owned one.
Cord 810
This term is used to describe an organization which is authorized by the government to act as a legal entity for the purpose of conducting a business or related activity. It often run by "trustees" who act on its behalf.
Corporation
Duke Ellington and his band are most closely associated with this New York night spot.
Cotton Club
Directed by Emile Ardolino, this 1987 motion picture starred Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze. Although the story was set in the Catskills Mountains of New York State, much of the filming took place at less than fifty miles from Spartanburg at Lake Lure, North Carolina.
Dirty Dancing
Microsoft became a dominant company in the computing industry because during the 1980s it provided this technology for the first personal computer developed by International Business Machines (IBM). Because the agreement between IBM and Microsoft allowed the latter to sell this same technology to other computer manufacturers, it became the industry standard. By contrast, products made by Apple are not compatible.
Disk Operating System (DOS)
This 1962 film was the first motion picture to feature the character of James Bond.
Dr. No
According to the reading, Don "Big Daddy" Garlits and Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney are most closely associated with this aspect of automobile culture.
Drag racing
Which of the following made "dialing" a number obsolete and led to push-button calling instead?
Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency signaling (DTMF)
In 1919, when the United States Army sent a convoy of trucks across the United States to test the adequacy of the road, one of the leaders who went on the journey was a young officer who had graduated from West Point and who at the time was disappointed that he had missed participating in combat during the First World War. He would later play a significant role in the development of an interstate highway system in the United States.
Dwight Eisenhower
Which of the following was NOT one of the qualifications for Mrs. America given by the film?
Educated to take a high-paying job outside of the home
This artist focused on solitary, disconnected individuals in silent, still settings that conveyed a sense of mystery.
Edward Hopper
Bernstein uses this composer as an example of music that was inspired by American Indian folk tunes.
Edward MacDowell
This Hungarian physicist is regarded as the inventor of the hydrogen bomb.
Edward Teller
The 1930s-era vacuum cleaner used in the film as an example of "streamlining."
Electrolux
James Dunnigan said that this performer gained popularity for his ability to "sing black." Archie Loss described this same singer as a "white Negro."
Elvis Presley
This practice is built on the philosophy that knowledge or reality exists outside of oneself and comes from sensory experience. Especially in the natural sciences, it relies on observation and experiment.
Empiricism
Used by the Germans during the Second World War, this device was used to encrypt and decrypt important messages. Unbeknownst to them, the Allies were able to decode these messages thanks to the accidental capture of one such device and the work of mathematicians.
Enigma
The first hydrogen device was too large to place inside a bomb and was instead located within a specially constructed building. It was detonated in 1952. Where did this test occur? (Hint: It was not Bikini Atoll, which had been used to test atomic bombs since 1946.)
Eniwetok
This artist drew inspiration for his paintings from the suburbanization of the United States during the twentieth century. The detachment of his subjects is reminiscent of Edward Hopper.
Eric Fischl
This person wrote the book For Whom the Bell Tolls, which is set during the Spanish Civil War that was fought between fascists and communists during the 1930s.
Ernest Hemingway
Born in New Zealand, this British scientist performed experiments using gold foil to prove his theory that an atom consisted of a dense center (later called the nucleus) of one electric charge surrounded by a less dense field of oppositely-charged particles. This idea established the present-day model of the atom.
Ernest Rutherford
This person is most closely associated with a thought experiment involving a cat.
Ernest Schrodinger
This person ran as the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America on multiple occasions during the early 1900s. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Act after being accused of speaking out against the military draft for the First World War.
Eugene Debs
If Bloom's taxonomy is rendered like an inverted pyramid, as it is on the slide, which of the following is closest to the top?
Evaluating
Name the famous house in Pennsylvania designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and featured in the film.
Falling Water
What was the biggest challenge Lindbergh faced?
Falling asleep at the controls
True or false? A computer was used to tabulate the 1890 census because a fire at the Commerce Department destroyed the written manuscripts that had been collected.
False
True or false? The first transcontinental road played a significant role in moving soldiers and supplies from the interior of the United States to coastal ports.
False
What is the meaning of the Greek prefix "pseudo"?
False or intending to deceive
What, as of the time of the film, happened to the natives of Bikini Atoll?
Families remained divided.
The Romans used a bundle of rods and axes to symbolize the power of the government. It was depicted on the reverse (back side) of an American dime until the Second World War. The political party led by Benito Mussolini had a related name.
Fasces
Prior to the summer of 1963, what was the standard length of a network nightly news broadcast?
Fifteen minutes
On September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 took this unusual photograph.
First image of the Earth and Moon together in space
This style of music, which according to Norman Risjord generally featured a single instrument leading a band with rehearsed improvisations, helped give both Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong lasting fame because of such songs as "Mood Indigo" and "When It's Sleepytime Down South." James Dunnigan said that this same style of music was popular during the 1930s and 1940s and played by "big bands" consisting of twelve to sixteen instruments.
Folk
In a classic scene from the 1925 film The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin uses which of the following to make potatoes dance?
Fork
This was the informal name of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, which authorized tuition and cost-of-living funding for veterans to attend college. This legislation is credited with helping to fuel the economic boom that followed the Second World War.
G.I.. Bill
This famous American composer—who also wrote the symphonic piece Rhapsody in Blue and the opera Porgy & Bess—wrote a popular song in 1919 that was based on the minstrel tune Old Folks at Home. (Listen to it and see an accompanying blackface performance at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmBPvHzF2c .)
George Gershwin
This person composed Rhapsody in Blue, which debuted in 1924.
George Gershwin
Who composed the first piece played in the documentary?
George Gershwin
This country, which during the Cold War had been split into an eastern part dominated by the Communists and a western one dominated by Capitalists, was reunited into a single country during 1990.
Germany
The excerpt from the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock suspense film Vertigo features this Art Deco landmark.
Golden Gate Bridge
This 1939 film showed black servants remaining loyal to their slaveholding family during the worst of times following the Civil War. It was based on a novel by Margaret Mitchell and premiered in the city of Atlanta.
Gone with the Wind
What happened to the first husband of Carrie Chapman Catt?
He died of typhoid fever.
In the excerpt from This Is the Army, the character played by future president Ronald Reagan hears the song God Bless America in this way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zF7a0wB-Lg
He listens to it on the radio.
In 1957, Major John Glenn set a speed record for the fastest flight across the United States. Which of the following was NOT one of the other things that he did during his life. (For additional information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn.)
He served as a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War.
This German scientist discovered radio waves during the late 1880s.
Heinrich Hertz
The narrator Robert Hughes considered this person to be a successor to Abstract Expressionism. Other critics consider her to be one of the last of the Abstract Expressionists.
Helen Frankenthaler
Lindbergh received an award from this famous person.
Herman Goering
This person invented a computer that could tabulate data contained on key punch cards. The first widespread use of this machine was to process the federal census of 1890.
Herman Hollerith
This motel chain was created by Kemmons Wilson, a real estate developer from Memphis, Tennessee, who became dissatisfied with "mom and pop" innkeepers who charged extra for children and whose facilities often lacked air conditioners, in-room telephones, ice machines, swimming pools, and convenient nearby restaurants. He built his first motel in Memphis and then sold franchises across the country. By this 1970s this chain was nicknamed "the nation's innkeeper."
Holiday Inn
Finished in 1935 and funded by the federal government, this work of architecture on the border of Nevada and Arizona became a symbol of enduring American self-confidence during the Great Depression.
Hoover Dam
The advice to "Go West, young man" is often attributed to this famous newspaper editor who ran unsuccessfully for president against Ulysses Grant in 1972. In the chapter, he is mentioned for having interviewed Brigham Young.
Horace Greeley
In John Steinbeck's novel about the Great Depression titled The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family migrates westward in this model of automobile.
Hudson
This French scientist received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how to induce atoms of otherwise stable elements to emit radiation.
Irene Curie
Bernstein uses a piece titled Alexander's Ragtime Band as an example of a familiar tune. It was released in 1912 and played on the first (and final) voyage of the Titanic. Listen to it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni6vV9heJhM. There is a scene within that shows a copy of the original sheet music. Who is the composer identified on the cover?
Irving Berlin
This person developed mathematical formulas that explained the motion of falling objects on Earth as well as the movements of planets in the night sky.
Isaac Newton
According to the narrator, the synchronized swimming performances at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City reflected which of the following?
It demonstrated a kind of control and precision that contrasted with the chaos of the outside world at the time.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a pseudo-event?
It is a type of propaganda built on stereotypes.
What was the significance of the 1890 film Monkeyshines No. 1 by William Kennedy Dickson and William Heise? (For additional information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeyshines)
It is thought to be the first motion picture filmed in the United States.
What happened to the company AT&T during the 1980s?
It was broken up into smaller "Baby Bells" after a judge ruled that the company held an illegal monopoly.
This 1975 film marked the debut of Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture director. It also was the first of the "summer blockbusters" in which studios invested large sums of money into creating (and marketing) a film with the intention of it become widely viewed. The film was about a giant, shark. What was the title?
Jaws
The narrator observed that mid-twentieth century American automobiles were highly sexualized. For example, he said that many of the cars had "chromium breasts" like this famous film star of the 1950s and 1960s.
Jayne Mansfield
Bernstein says that the development of this kind of music during the first part of the twentieth century contributed to the rise of a distinctive American sound.
Jazz
At minute 6:23, the documentary shows motion picture footage of United States Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. A still photograph of the same event was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1945. Who was the photographer? (For additional information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima).
Joe Rosenthal
In which of the following ways was the name of the Apple computer NOT symbolic?
Just as the fruit rots, the first part of an Apple computer to fail tends to be its microprocessor or core.
This person is most closely associated with singing God Bless America.
Kate Smith
The penny that preceded the one with Abraham Lincoln on it had this image on the obverse (front side).
Lady Liberty with an American Indian headdress
This early practitioner of American Studies wrote a book titled The Machine in the Garden in which he used examples from literature to examine how industrialism affected Americans during the nineteenth century.
Leo Marx
Photographs of young cotton mill workers taken by this person helped bring about compulsory schooling laws and stricter regulations regarding the employment of child laborers.
Lewis Hine
This photographer (who visited Spartanburg in 1912 to take pictures of child laborers at Beaumont, Drayton, and Saxon Mills) took photographs of workers who were constructing the Empire State Building.
Lewis Hine
Jackson Pollock became a celebrity after being featured in a 1949 article published in this magazine.
Life
This documentary contains quite a few errors of precision. (For example, the motion pictures of the Apollo 11 launch are clips from the film Apollo 13 and are not actual footage. The music from the film can be heard faintly in the background.) Similarly, the first German-built V-2 rocket was fired at Paris, and the majority of them were aimed at the port of Antwerp in Belgium. According to the film, the destination of the V2 was "only" this city.
London
During August 1965, the first major riot in an urban ghetto took place in this city.
Los Angeles
In what city is the air-powered automobile in the film being tested?
Los Angeles
Riots in this city were sparked in 1992 after the acquittal of four policemen who had been videotaped beating an African American named Rodney King.
Los Angeles
This president waged a "War on Poverty" through his "Great Society" program of legislation.
Lyndon Johnson
Name the wealthy New York art patron who moved to Taos and married a Pueblo Indian.
Mabel Dodge Luhan
This word was used during the 1700s to describe a person (generally male) who put on airs by trying to act more sophisticated and refined that he actually was.
Macaroni
This term means that an idea or concept has universal applicability.
Macrocosmic
This French scientist, who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for work with radiation and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the element radium, died of cancer associated with exposure to radiation. The hand-written notes taken by this scientist are so contaminated that they still glow in the dark a century later.
Madame Curie
This black leader disagreed with the strategy of using nonviolent resistance to push for civil rights.
Malcolm X
Under the leadership of this person, the Communist Party in China fought a decades-long civil war against the Nationalists before prevailing in 1949.
Mao Zedong
Fritz Lang based this film about an urban dystopia on New York City.
Metropolis
The sets and costumes of this 1927 film by Fritz Lang are often used as examples of the Art Deco style.
Metropolis
During "Freedom Summer" of 1964, hundreds of college students from northern states worked for civil rights in this southern state.
Mississippi
What happens at the end of the song about Molly O'Neill and the automobile?
Molly and her love get married and go on a honeymoon.
In the context of the reading by Archie Loss, the "studio system" referred to which of the following forms of mass media?
Movies and film
Martin Luther King, Jr., quotes parts of this patriotic American song in his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech.
My Country Tis of Thee
Neil Diamond's 1981 song America contains lines from this older song.
My Country Tis of Thee
This well-known American patriotic song is sung to the tune of a song sung by members of a British society that was devoted to an Ancient Greek lyricist known for his drinking songs and erotic poems.
My Country Tis of Thee
This well-known American patriotic song is sung to the tune of the British national anthem.
My Country Tis of Thee
This American company produced mechanical computers that performed basic mathematical calculations. Many of its successor companies and many of the people associated with them helped lay the foundation of the computer industry within the United States.
National Cash Register Company
The Federal Art Project was part of this legislative agenda.
New Deal
Which of the following best characterizes the policies of presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, whose policies established a direct connection between the federal government and individual citizens through programs like Social Security and the Civilian Conservation Corps?
New Deal Liberalism
From which region of the United States did Carrie Chapman Catt's family come originally?
New England
Name the state in which the artists' colony Taos is located.
New Mexico
According to all three readings, this American city gave birth to jazz music
New Orleans
The world's fair held in this city during 1939 reflected modernism through sculptures like the Trylon and Perisphere and through its optimistic view of technology at exhibits like Futurama.
New York
Where, according to the reading selection by Mary Ann Watson, did television make its debut in the United States?
New York World's Fair
A serving of fried tripe (stomach lining) cost this amount during the early twentieth century at the Hicks Brothers Half-Dime Lunch Room in Hartford, Connecticut.
Nickel
From 1900 to 1969, a Hershey bar cost this amount. The size was adjusted to account for the price of sugar, cocoa, and other associated costs.
Nickel
This word combined the price of admission to a film during 1900 with the Greek word for theater.
Nickelodeon
How many times does the Queen clap at the end of God Save the Queen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjOvglYEzcg
None
Freud would say that a man who has a psychologically unhealthy closeness to his mother is exhibiting this psychological disorder.
Oedipus complex
How did Pollock die?
Of injuries sustained in an automobile accident
Originally composed for Christy's Minstrels, this tune is the state song of Florida. The words were modified in 2008. (Listen to Paul Robeson, a famous African American singer and activist, perform it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hJeMk1PLg .)
Old Folks at Home
Automobile executive Henry Joy played a major role in building the first transcontinental road across the United States. Of what company was he president?
Packard
In 2021, the United States landed the Perseverance rover on Mars. The first such rover landed on the Red Planet in 1997. What was its name?
Pathfinder
In his 1973 song Kodachrome, this musical artist sings ironically about how this color film technology renders an overly-optimistic view of reality.
Paul Simon
The creation of this coin coincided with the rise of an isolationist foreign policy by the United States, the passage of legislation to limit immigration, and the popularity of Regionalist painters like Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton.
Peace dollar
W. E. B. DuBois did his pioneering work in social science by conducting a study of African Americans in this city.
Philadelphia
Prior to February 17, 1990, when it was overtaken by Voyager 1, this object had been the most distant human-made object from Earth. It had been launched by the United States during March 1972 and was the first space probe to cross the asteroid belt, the first to visit the planet Jupiter, and the first to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System. Contact with it was lost in 2003.
Pioneer 10
Text in the documentary indicates that this space probe was launched during April 1973. It was the first spacecraft to visit the planet Saturn. It is presently on a course that will take it out of the Solar System. Contact with it was lost in 1995.
Pioneer 11
This instrument was used to play the jazz-influenced piece by Roger Sessions.
Pipe Organ
The Boston Red Sox purchased Ruth's contract so that he could play this position.
Pitcher
The iron lung is a medical device most closely associated with this disease.
Polio
David Sarnoff was the president of this company, which sponsored the debut of television in the United States, owned the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), and produced some of the first commercially-available television sets.
Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
This African American writer used the stream-of-consciousness style in his book titled The Invisible Man.
Ralph Ellison
According to the readings (especially the one by Archie Loss), which of the following most directly gave rise to rock-n-roll music of the 1950s?
Rhythm and Blues
The narrator Robert Hughes admired this Los Angeles artist, wo is known for his Ocean Park paintings.
Richard Diebenkorn
While walking on the Moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts received a telephone call from this person.
Richard M. Nixon
Who was the vice president under Dwight Eisenhower who explained the "New Look" policy in the documentary?
Richard Nixon
Andy Williams sang The Battle Hymn of the Republic at the funeral of this person.
Robert F. Kennedy
Which of the following was an artist who wanted to use painting to make known the conditions endured by immigrants? He led a group that was called the "Ashcan School" of realist painting.
Robert Henri
This artist dumped 10,000 tons of rock into the Great Salt Lake to create his 1970 work The Spiral Jetty. He died in a plane crash during 1973 while reconnoitering the site of another work in Amarillo, Texas.
Robert Smithson
This 1976 film was inspired by boxer Muhammed Ali's fight with Chuck Wepner. It marked the rise to prominence of actor Sylvester Stallone. The excerpt in the montage shows the title character after he finishes running up the seventy-two steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the music of Bill Conti. A statue of the title character—which was created for one of the numerous sequels—was erected near the site in 2006. What was the title?
Rocky
James Cameron, who directed the 1998 film Titanic, viewed the film as being primarily an example of this genre.
Romance
This was the name given to a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that emphasized imagination and emotions. It was a reaction against neoclassicism.
Romanticism
According to the voice-over heard in the film and the map shown in the film at minute 14:14, which of the countries listed below did NOT have the "Iron Curtain on its western border?
Rumania
The episode ends with these artifacts.
Rusty rocket parts
Famous for her role in guiding Lewis and Clark across the North American continent, this Native American was honored by having her image on the obverse (front side) of a dollar coin.
Sacajawea
The first transcontinental automobile trip started in San Francisco and ended in Burlington, Vermont. Look at the map in the film. Through which of the following cities did it go?
Sacramento, Caldwell, Omaha, Chicago, Cleveland
This 1923 film has a famous scene in which the protagonist (Harold Lloyd) dangles high off the ground above traffic from the hands of a large clock. The scene has been recreated in later films like Hugo and Back to the Future. (You can watch the entire film at the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-XZWZVVhvQ.)
Safety Last
After both of his parents died, Babe Ruth attended this school, where he was mentored by a member of the faculty named Matthias Boutlier who loved baseball.
Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys
This exotic dancer—who was known for the "fan dance" and the "bubble dance"—was arrested four times at the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago.
Sally Rand
This term was used to describe an enslaved African American who was loyal to his master, kindhearted, a selfless—"the ideal plantation negro."
Sambo
This world's fair in this city introduced the public to cafeteria dining, celebrated the completion of the Panama Canal, and featured demonstrations of biplane aircraft.
San Francisco
Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, this 1998 film was a work of historical fiction about the Allied Invasion of France that took place on June 6, 1944. Quite a few D-Day veterans who watched the film said that the opening sequence—which depicts the landing at Omaha Beach—was very realistic. What was the title of the film?
Saving Private Ryan
The films For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966) marked the rise to movie stardom of Clint Eastwood. They were called "spaghetti westerns" because they were filmed outside the United States and dubbed in Italian. The films also marked a shift in American westerns from having clearly virtuous heroes and nefarious villains to having morally ambiguous antiheroes like the characters played by Eastwood. What was the name of the director?
Sergio Leone
How many years did the Wright Brothers study the problem of controlled flight before successfully making one?
Six years
The Man in the Gray-Flannel Suit referenced at minute 34:16 is the title of a best-selling novel that was published in 1955. Its main character is a World War Two veteran who becomes a businessman. Who was the author? [For additional information follow the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Gray_Flannel_Suit_(novel)]
Sloan Wilson
In the color film footage of Ruth at minute 21:45, what is he doing?
Smoking a cigarette
The Kennedy administration supported the dictatorial Ngo Dinh Diem of this country.
South Vietnam
The bottom third of the painting I Love You with My Ford features this substance.
Spaghetti
The influenza epidemic of 1918 was named after this country, which was neutral during the First World War and did not have wartime censorship of newspapers. As a result, its newspapers were the only ones to report on the disease.
Spain
This ride, which is available at Disney World in Florida and at Disneyland in California, features a briar patch setting and characters from the Tales of Uncle Remus.
Splash Mountain
What was "phreaking"?
Stealing long distance calls during the mid-to-late twentieth century by using whistles and related tones to take advantage a weakness in DTMF technology.
The 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire is based on a play by Tennessee Williams and was directed by Elia Kazan. Marlon Brando played the main male character, named Stanley, who famously yells to his wife by calling her name. What is her name?
Stella
This famous American composer of the nineteenth century drew upon minstrel songs for many of his most famous pieces. A statue of him in Pittsburgh was removed from a public park during 2018 because many people considered the positioning of his figure above that of a black man and the contrast in clothing to be racist.
Stephen Foster
Grant Wood, who painted the iconic American Gothic in 1930 established an art commune in this place, where he wrote a book titled Revolt against the City.
Stone City, Iowa
As an eleven-year-old boy, art historian Robert Rosenblum remembered seeing this at the 1939 World's Fair.
Synchronized swimming
This was the motto of the person who led International Business Machines (IBM) during its formative years.
THINK
The "Futurama" exhibit was designed by theatrical and industrial designer named Norman Bel Geddes. Look him up at the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bel_Geddes. He also designed an automobile. What shape did the automobile resemble?
Teardrop
What is Ta-Nehisi Coates's opinion about the O. J. Simpson case?
That the Los Angeles Police likely lied or planted some of the evidence used against Simpson
The rhythm to which the audience clapped and the percussion section played was reminiscent of this dance, which was popular in the United States during the 1920s.
The Charleston
W. E. B. DuBois was the "crusading editor" of this publication.
The Crisis
What did the artist in the previous question call his studio?
The Factory
This 1940 John Ford film was based on a famous novel of the same title that was written by John Steinbeck.
The Grapes of Wrath
Sociologist David Riesman, in a famous book published in 1950, argued that Americans had moved away from an "inner-directed" reliance on past tradition and authority towards an "other-directed" reliance on contemporary opinion and community. What was the title of this book? (For additional information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Riesman.)
The Lonely Crowd
Which of the following was NOT one of the factors that persuaded President Roosevelt to take steps toward building an American nuclear weapons.
The Nazis began building a graphite reactor in Berlin.
General Leslie Groves, who was the military commander of the effort to build an atomic weapon, also oversaw the construction of this American landmark.
The Pentagon
What, according to the film, was the problem of giving the Japanese time to evacuate the target city?
They could have used the time to use American prisoners as human shields.
The man shown at minute 22:48 and the woman shown at minute 22:51 are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. How did they die in 1953? (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg).
They were executed in the electric chair.
In 1997, this twenty-one-year-old became the youngest person to win the Masters Golf Tournament. His effort to break the record for winning the most major golf tournaments (Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and British Open) was hampered after he suffered leg injuries in a 2021 automobile accident.
Tiger Woods
In 1997, this Gulf War veteran was convicted of detonating a fuel-fertilizer truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The death toll was 168 people, including 19 children at a day care center on the first floor. He said that he did it in retaliation for the federal government's role in the 1993 incident at Waco.
Timothy McVeigh
Much of this 1962 film takes place in a courtroom. It is about the trial of an accused rapist.
To Kill a Mockingbird
According to the lecture, what is the professor's ultimate goal for teaching American Studies to students?
To help them enrich their lives
This was the initial rationale for development of the Internet.
To prevent a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union from crippling American computer systems.
The Alaskan Highway was built for this purpose.
To provide a military supply route during the Second World War
Which of the following is true about the Interstate Highway Act of 1956?
To provide a military supply route during the Second World War
In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first manmade satellite ever to orbit the Earth. Its Russian name was Sputnik. What did this name mean in English?
Travelling companion or fellow traveler
Voyager 2 observed geysers of nitrogen gas erupting from this moon of Nepture.
Triton
Biographer Leigh Montville made the point that Americans idolized sports heroes like Babe Ruth in part because the United States was a young country that lacked a deeper common folklore or mythology
True
True or false? Another problem with establishing a distinctively American style of music is that the United States is a relatively young country.
True
True or false? Architect Philip Johnson disliked the artistic style of the Chrysler Building but admired it as being a symbol of American resilience during the Great Depression.
True
True or false? Babe Ruth's ability to hit home runs helped change the game of baseball from a low-scoring, defense-based game into a higher-scoring, offense-based game.
True
True or false? Daniel Boorstin does not think that pseudo-events are the products of conspiracy or that they were created by people seeking to do evil. Most of them are manufactured by people of good will.
True
True or false? Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could be considered Modernists because of their improvisational musical style.
True
True or false? In the performance of America from West Side Story, the female characters have a generally positive view of the United States while the males are more negative about their experiences
True
True or false? Moyers points out the irony that young people used automobiles to drive to the 1969 music festival at Woodstock so that they could "celebrate their disenchantment with materialism."
True
This American Studies course emphasizes which of the following aspects of America?
United States
Invented in 1904, this technology made possible the first electronic computers. This technology was also used in the first radios.
Vacuum tube
In 1958, this twenty-three-year-old pianist from Texas went to the Soviet Union and won the International Tchaikovsky Competition. He remains the only classical musician to receive a ticker-tape parade through New York City.
Van Cliburn
To demonstrate that American music is often sweet, simple, sentimental, and hymn-like, Bernstein uses a selection composed by this person.
Virgil Thomson
"Rastus" was short for Erastus in the Bible. During the late 1800s it came to be associated with a minstrel character and as a derogatory term for an African American man. It was the original name of Aunt Jemima's husband, but it is most closely associated with a product made of this grain.
Wheat
What device did the Wright Brothers nickname their "magic box"?
Wind tunnel
Films like Double Indemnity are example of what is called "Film Noir." They are characterized by morally ambiguous plots, shadowy lighting styles, and treacherous female characters known as femmes fatales. What creates the distinctive shadows in the excerpt of Double Indemnity?
Window blinds
Microsoft developed this program in response to the Apple Macintosh.
Windows 3.1
In addition to the New York World's Fair, the year 1939 also witnessed the release of this famous American film.
Wizard of Oz
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was modelled after this prominent organization of the late 1800s.
Women's Christian Temperance Union
This skyscraper, which originally served as the headquarters for a company known for its chain stores in which every item for sale had a fixed price of a nickel or a dime—was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930, when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building.
Woolworth Building
For what words, officially, did the abbreviation WPA stand?
Works Progress Administration
In the video for God Bless the USA, there is a scene where a group of people look through a photo album and appear to remember someone who was killed in a war. Which war was it? https://vimeo.com/132584096
World War II
What was the motto or theme of the 1939 World's Fair in New York City?
World of Tomorrow
Following the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Carrie Chapman Catt devoted the remainder of her life to this cause.
World peace
This Soviet cosmonaut became the first human being in space on April 12, 1961.
Yuri Gargarin
When was the last time that all four of the gas giant planets were aligned on the same side of the Sun?
late 1970s
On which of the moons of Jupiter did the Voyager spacecraft observe erupting volcanos?
lo
Which of the following were described by Archie Loss as being examples of "social deviancy" during the 1950s?
"Beatniks" like Howl author Allen Ginsberg and On the Road author Jack Kerouac
Which of the following was NOT a term used by white people to address African Americans during the 1800s?
"Boy" or "Girl"
Which of the following was a term—intended to be derogatory—used to describe Cubism and Fauvism as artistic genres suitable only for immigrants and Jewish people?
"Ellis Island Art"
Following the first successful detonation of an atomic device, J. Robert Oppenheimer later said that this line from the Hindu religious text the Bhagavad Gita came to his mind.
"I am become death, the shatterer of worlds."
In the banner at the bottom of the picture at minute 6:38, the documentary misquotes the actual words that were spoken when the first human stepped onto the surface of the Moon. What does the banner read?
"It's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
What was the nickname of the Model T?
"Tin Lizzie"
How much was the Orteig Prize?
$25,000
How long did the Apollo 11 spacecraft take to reach the Moon from Earth?
3
How many parachutes did the Apollo 11 capsule have braking it when it landed in the Pacific Ocean?
3
The documentary said that according to the Census Bureau the "normal number" of children that an American woman would have (during the Baby Boom) was 2.4 children. What was the fertility rate in 2019? (See https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-fertility-drops-to-historic-low-in-2019-300920093.html.)
1.7
As the film nears its end and begins to foreshadow the next episode about the Great Depression, black-and-white motion picture footage is show of the New York Stock Exchange. Two clocks are shown. What is the time on both of them?
10
The color footage of the Spirit of St. Louis was taken from a 1957 film starring Jimmy Steward and directed by Billy Wilder. The shot of the cockpit interior probably came from the same movie because Lindbergh did not carry a motion picture camera with him. What did the air speed indicator say?
120 and 130
President William McKinley was a proponent of world's fairs. Ironically, he was assassinated at this one. The "Tower of Light" at this fair is also said to have helped popularize electric lighting.
1901 Pan American Exposition
The Summer Olympic Games were held in conjunction with this world's fair, which also helped to popularize waffle cones for ice cream. (This was not in the film, but the fountain at this fair inspired Scott Joplin to compose a piece of ragtime music titled "The Cascades." In addition, a popular song inspired by the fair and played in the background of the documentary became the genesis of a motion picture of the same title that starred Judy Garland.)
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Einstein introduced his equation during this year as part of a paper about mass-energy equivalence that he submitted to Annalen der Physik. This paper was one of four that were published that year in the prestigious scientific journal. Because all four helped to revolutionize the field of physics, they are called the annus mirabilus (Latin for "miraculous year") papers.
1905
According to Boorstin, this year marked the rise of the modern presidential press conference.
1933
David Sarnoff introduced the then-new technology of television at this world's fair.
1939 New York World's Fair
The "perisphere" and the "trilon" were symbols of this world's fair.
1939 New York World's Fair
Henry Ford eventually reached an agreement with the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union during this year.
1941
Sponsored by General Motors, the "Futurama" exhibit at the New York World's Fair of 1939 featured a scale-model of what the highway system of the United States would look like by this year.
1960
According to Boorstin, this year marked the rise of presidential news conferences that were broadcast live on television.
1961
The "Space Needle" and a monorail were features of this world's fair.
1962 Century Twenty-One Exposition in Seattle
During what year were the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes launched by the United States?
1977
During what year did Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 visit the planet Jupiter?
1979
During what years did Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 visit the planet Saturn and fly through its rings?
1980-81
Voyager 2 became the only spacecraft from Earth to visit the planet Uranus during this year.
1986
Voyager 2 became the only spacecraft from Earth to visit the planet Neptune during this year.
1989
This year marked the first one in which entrepreneurs were allowed to use the Internet for commercial purposes.
1995
What is the number of the loft apartment at 141 Wooster Street in the Soho District of New York City where Walter De Maria's New York Earth Room located? This 1977 "work of "installation art" involves a room filled with dirt to a depth of twenty two inches.
2B
Another Frenchman, George Melies, was a pioneering filmmaker of the late 1800s and early 1900s. What are the titles of the famous film directed by him in 1902? (A film featuring a fictionalized account of his life was released in 2011 and directed by Martin Scorsese. It contains numerous visual references to early films. The title is Hugo if you have an interest in watching it.) (If you want to watch the entire Melies film, it is thirteen minutes long and available at the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLVChRVfZ74.)
A Trip to the Moon
What is ARPA?
A government-sponsored research group that helped create the Internet
What kind of toy inspired the Wright Brothers as children? (Hint: the answer is pictured in the film but not spoken.)
A helicopter
What was "The House That Ruth Built"?
A new stadium for the Yankees that was constructed to hold all of the fans who wanted to see Ruth play.
Which of the following was NOT one of the subjects that was both painted by George Bellows and featured in the episode?
A paralyzed woman crawling across a field in Maine
What is a penumbra?
A partially shaded region
Which of the following is NOT in Ed Kienholz's Portable War Memorial?
A photograph of the mushroom cloud from the detonation of a nuclear bomb
What was Operation Plowshare?
A project that explored the idea of using atomic explosives to build canals and tunnels
As used in the assigned reading by James Dunnigan, what is "wireless"?
A reference to the radio and that fact that, unlike the telegraph, it did not rely upon wires
On which of the following dates was an atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima?
August 6, 1945
The Lumiere Brothers were not American, but French. They are nevertheless significant to the history of American film because during the 1890s they were pioneers in the technology of motion pictures. What were their first names? (Hint: Look at the names below the film titles.)
Auguste and Louis
True or false? The narrator Robert Hughes thinks that the politicization of late twentieth century art in the United States improved the overall quality of American painting and sculpture.
False
True or false? The octagonal, red-and-white "STOP" sign became the national standard in 1915.
False
True or false? The parents of Carrie Chapman Catt strongly encouraged her to become an activist for women's suffrage.
False
True or false? The rise of television led to a decline in the number of print newspapers and magazines being published during the 1950s.
False
In addition to designing the "Double Eagle" gold coin, this famous American sculptor also carved the monument to the all-black Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment that fought in South Carolina at Battery Wagner during July 1863.
Augustine Saint-Gaudens
True or false? W. E. B. DuBois remained an influential figure within the civil rights movement. Both Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr., valued his advice.
False
The main character of this book is a scientist who, in keeping with the humanism of the Enlightenment, tries to create new life by resurrecting dead body parts. This attempt by a person to play God results in a monstrous creature.
Frankenstein
Which of the following actresses was NOT hired by the Quaker Oats Company to portray Aunt Jemima? (For additional information and photographs, see http://theafricanamericanstory.com/the-many-faces-of-aunt-jemima/ .)
Hattie McDaniel
In order to reinforce the point that national accents can make a difference in musical accents just as they do in speech and literature, Bernstein reads poems by these two poets—one English and the other American.
Keats and Fearing
After serving with the Communist Chinese during the Second World War, this person became the leader of North Korea in 1948 with the assistance of the Soviet Union. Following his death in 1994, his son and grandson have ruled the country in turn.
Kim Il Sung
Known for their recording of "Louie, Louie," this group was investigated by the FBI.
Kingsmen
At the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon debated the merits of their respective countries in this setting.
Kitchen
The documentary explains how automobile clubs raised money for roads and lobbied politicians to appropriate government money to construct roads. Nine of these clubs joined together in 1902 to create the American Automobile Association (AAA), which remains a prominent group. Look up it up at the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Automobile_Association#History. Who is considered to be the founder of the AAA?
Augustus Post
Where during September 1900 did the Wright Brothers begin testing gliders?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
This was the first widespread film used to make color photographs.
Kodachrome
These German chemists were the first people intentionally split atoms using slow-moving neutrons.
Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman
In 1903, this person was the first to cross the United States by automobile. He served as a medic in World War I, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism, and helped to found the American Legion. What was his name?
Horatio Nelson Jackson
What was Ronald Reagan shown riding during the video?
Horse
Within the context of the chapter, what is "HUAC"?
House Un-American Activities Committee
Allen Ginsberg's poem America was first published as part of a collection with this title.
Howl
Louis Armstrong went to this city when he first left the southern United States.
Chicago
The first controlled nuclear chain reaction took place in this American city.
Chicago
The inspiration for America, the Beautiful included the "White City" at the World's Fair in this city.
Chicago
In 1953, the government of Iran was overthrown with the assistance of the American Central Intelligence Agency. The elected prime minister—who had tried to take over oil fields that had been developed by British Petroleum—was replaced with the Shah. This monarch was overthrown in 1979 by Islamic revolutionaries, who subsequently attacked the American Embassy in Tehran and held the occupants hostage for over a year. The documentary provides the name of the Islamic cleric who ruled Iran from 1979 to 1989. What was his name?
Ayatollah Khomeini
Which of the following is NOT a form of folk dancing?
Ballet
This early rock-n-roll singer worked on an automobile assembly line at one point in his life, sang an automobile-related song called Maybelline, and was convicted under the Mann Act for transporting a fourteen-year-old Mexican prostitute across state lines for immoral purposes.
Chuck Berry
True or false? According to Watson, most consumers during the 1950s and 1960s found purchasing an automobile to be a pleasant experience. The dealers then were much less likely to cheat customers or engage in high-pressure sales.
False
This person was executed by the State of New York in 1927 for murdering a guard during an armed robbery. Many people questioned whether his conviction had less to do with his actual guilt and more to do with his being an immigrant and his support for anarchism. His alleged partner in crime, who had similar national origins and political beliefs, was executed as well.
Batholomew Vanzetti
What patriotic song does Pete Seeger play as the last verse of John Brown's Body? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBsrCimWodM
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Why did representatives of the liquor industry oppose women's suffrage?
Because many advocates of women's suffrage also supported temperance or prohibition.
The oldest concrete road in the United States was built in 1891 by George Bartholomew. Where is it located?
Bellafontaine, Ohio
Some of the first automobile makers were the sons of men who built these things.
Bicycles and carriages
To demonstrate that American music often invokes ideas of loneliness and wide-open spaces, Bernstein uses a selection from this ballet composed by Aaron Copland.
Billy the Kid
Most films by Alfred Hitchcock focused on a particular kind or source of fear. What was it in this 1963 motion picture?
Birds
True or false? After the atomic bombing, Hiroshima was never rebuilt because radiation rendered the area uninhabitable.
False
True or false? Alexej Leonow said that at the time of the launch in 1969 he thought that the lunar lander would sink into the soft soil of the Moon.
False
True or false? Because he himself was an immigrant and understood the experience, Jacob Riis made certain to treat with respect the immigrants he photographed.
False
True or false? Carrie Chapman Catt supported equal rights for Chinese immigrants not only because she opposed discrimination on the basis of ethnicity or face, but because the Chinese supported equal rights for women.
False
Although this film is considered to be a landmark of cinematography, its racist favorable portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan makes it controversial. Its director D. W. Griffith used techniques like the "close up" shot of characters to differentiate the audience experience of watching a film from that of watching a play on stage.
Birth of a Nation
W. E. B. DuBois argued in his editorials that this 1915 film should be banned.
Birth of a Nation
In the excerpt of 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's shown in the montage, what color dress does the leading female character wear?
Black
This 1999 film was the first widely-released film to be marketed on the Internet.
Blair Witch Project
True or false? During the Great Depression, the Roosevelt administration attempted to stimulate the economy by paying automobile workers $10 per day instead of the $5 per day that Henry Ford had initiated.
False
Although the film mentions several world's fairs that took place prior to the twentieth century, it does not mention the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895. Which of the people below made a famous speech at this world's fair in Atlanta? If you need additional information, go to the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_States_and_International_Exposition.
Booker T. Washington
The work of this artist involved people painting themselves, carousels consisting of animal carcasses making unpleasant scraping noises as they revolve, and a mime pretending to defecate in a hat and then placing it on his head.
Bruce Nauman
This person was convicted of the Lindbergh kidnapping and executed for the crime.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
This notorious police commissioner authorized the use of powerful fire hoses to control civil rights protesters in Birmingham.
Bull Connor
The "Space Race" was part of the twentieth century rivalry between communism and capitalism. Which of the following was the Soviet Union's version of a space shuttle?
Buran
Which of the three Apollo 11 astronauts was interviewed for the documentary?
Buzz Aldrin
How, according to James Dunnigan, did the data processing (or DP) personnel strike back?
By installing sniffer programs, monopolizing repair parts, and taking other steps exert control over PC users, who had enjoyed relative freedom from network administrators.
What automobile company did Henry Leland found?
Cadillac
True or false? Europe returned to prosperity within two years after the end of World War II.
False
The influenza epidemic of 1918 spread rapidly because large numbers of young men had joined the armed forces and were living closely together in camps like this one in Greenville.
Camp Sevier
True or false? In the film, the congregants at a drive-in church were shown in the praying for American soldiers fighting in Vietnam
False
The influenza epidemic of 1918 spread rapidly becase large numbers of young men had joined the armed forces and were living closely together in camps like this one in Spartanburg.
Camp Wadsworth
Which of the following forms of protest did Carrie Chapman Catt generally prefer?
Campaigns to sign petitions
To which of the following did the narrator compare the television?
Campfire
True or false? Song of Russia was a film that warned about the evils of the Soviet Union.
False
Shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, envelopes containing spores of this pathogen were mailed to several federal lawmakers. Five of the twenty-two people who were exposed to the spores contracted this disease and died. This disease is not common, but it is highly lethal. Several countries are known to be experimenting with it for use as a bioweapon.
Anthrax
What type of drug did the documentary mention as having changed lives?
Antibiotic
While testifying before congress, this scholar of Asian history described the kind of "pseudo-event" that Daniel Boortstin wrote about in his 1961 book The Image.
Owen Lattimore
The first motel was built at San Luis Obispo in 1925. The designer tried to trademark the name "Mo-Tel" but was unsuccessful, which meant that others could and did use it. Go to the site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motel_Inn. What was the designer's name?
Arthur S. Heineman
Near the end of the documentary, Bernstein invites this American composer to take the baton and conduct a famous piece titled Fanfare for the Common Man.
Aaron Copland
This person wrote the book The Wealth of Nations, which argued against the then-prevalent economic system of mercantilism and said that the "hidden hand" of the marketplace did a better job of managing an economy than did direct government intervention.
Adam Smith
This famous American actor gave concerts and performed in numerous films while wearing blackface. He was one of the first Jewish actors to be open about his religious faith. He believed that by wearing blackface he was honoring African Americans and the musical traditions of jazz and ragtime. (See and hear him playing the role of a Christy Minstrel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFi_MbK6dkg .)
Al Jolson
This German scientist, who feared for his safety because he was Jewish—immigrated to the United States after Adolph Hitler took power in 1933.
Albert Einstein
This person is most closely associated with the idea that time is relative to the velocity and position of the observer.
Albert Einstein
This person developed an oral vaccination for polio that stimulated the immune system by using weakened viruses.
Albert Sabin
This person is credited with inventing the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
This Soviet cosmonaut made the first pace walk in March 1965, three months before Ed White became the first American to do the same. He was interviewed for the documentary, and he mentioned that Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. (The cosmonaut had unexpected problems with his space suit that nearly cost him his life. For more information see https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-nightmare-of-voskhod-2-8655378/ ).
Alexej Leoniv
In 1936, this person was the president of General Motors.
Alfred P. Sloan
According to the film, this "John the Baptist" of art fostered the rise of the Modernist style in the United States.
Alfred Stieglitz
Name the famous American photographer to which the artist in the previous question was married.
Alfred Stieglitz
This photographer, who was married to the painter Georgia O'Keefe, is arguably best known for his photograph The Steerage, which reflects the some of the class divisions depicted in the 1995 film Titanic.
Alfred Stieglitz
During the years following the Second World War, this high-level staffer for the State Department testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that he was not a communist and that he did not associate with any communists. A then-young congressman and member of the committee named Richard Nixon proved him wrong, which resulted in his being convicted of perjury. Although some people argued for decades that this person was not a Communist, the release of the Venona Decrypts during the 1990s indicate that he was.
Alger Hiss
This former State Department official president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was accused of being a communist by Whitaker Chambers. He was convicted of perjury, but whether or not he was a Soviet spy remained a matter of heated debate until the 1990s when declassified documents revealed that he indeed had been working for the Russians.
Alger Hiss
Only half of the roads in American cities were paved at the start of the twentieth century. Which of the following materials was used?
All of the above
Which of the following is characteristic of pseudo-events?
All of the above
Which of the following is true about the Interstate Highway Act of 1956?
All of the above
Which of the following is true of a pseudo-event?
All of the above
Which of the following is true of a stereotype?
All of the above
During the celebrations that marked the end of the twentieth century, President Bill Clinton quoted "Let Freedom Ring," which is a line from this famous patriotic song.
America (My Country Tis of Thee)
Computer users who subscribed to this Internet Service Provider received an upbeat "You've Got Mai!" announcement when they received messages.
America Online
What was Project Rover?
An effort to build nuclear-powered rocket ships
In the "double slit" experiment used to demonstrate the quantum nature of reality, electrons are fired at a partition having two elongated hole. If a particle detector is not used, what image appears on the flat surface on the other side of the partition?
An interference pattern appears as a result of the electron's wave properties.
This photographer is perhaps best known for his black-and-white photographs of mountains in Yosemite National Park.
Ansel Adams
Which of the following was featured in Aunt Jemima commercials of the 1960s and 1970s? See the commercials at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T86ONpfY9XM , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzUa6mt8DaY , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJzT1togZ3A , and
Answers A and B
At minute 15:18, a neon sign is show for a place where Duke Ellington and his band frequently performed. What was its name?
Cotton Club
This term was used during the 1950s (and in the readings) to describe the practice by music companies of having a white performer record a song that had been done previously by a black singer.
Covering
How did Henry Ford reduce the price of the Model T?
Creating uniform parts and a moving assembly line
This term was originally used to describe persons of Spanish or French ancestry who were born in America. During the early 1900s when jazz music developed, this term came to be synonymous in the northern United States with a "mulatto" or person of mixed race. This term also appeared in the name of a band to which Louis Armstrong belonged.
Creole
This was the first publicly available photographic process. It was invented by a Frenchman and widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.
Daguerreotype
This Abstract Expressionist was a sculptor whose use of iron as a medium and welding as a technique was reflective of American industry during the twentieth century.
David Smith
On what date did the first controlled flight take place?
December 17, 1903
Which of the following is used to communicate from Earth with the Voyager spacecraft?
Deep Space Network
A dish of mutton chops cost this amount during the early twentieth century at Frank's Dining Rooms in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dime
Ruth Cleveland was the daughter of President Grover Cleveland. Her nickname of "Baby Ruth" is said to have inspired the candy bar of the same name. She died of this disease.
Diphtheria
Aunt Jemima's Pancake House was a restaurant franchised nationwide by the Quaker Oats Company. One such restaurant operated from 1955 to 1970 at this amusement park.
Disneyland
This song was originally composed for Bryant's Minstrels by Daniel Emmett, this tune became the anthem of the Confederacy. (Listen to a 1916 recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff58W_m2ipk&list=RDff58W_m2ipk&start_radio=1 .)
Dixie
This photographer did most of her work during the Depression Era. Her best known work is Migrant Mother. During the 1930s she visited Spartanburg County, where she recorded images of white sharecroppers near Chesnee.
Dorothea Lange
This photographer took a famous, Depression-era picture of an impoverished woman who had recently sold the tires off of her vehicle to obtain money to feed her children.
Dorothea Lange
This attorney, judge, feminist, and political activist seved on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from 1946 until 1950. On March 8, 1950, she testified before Congress that she was not a member of the Communist Party. She also emphasized that she was not a "fellow traveler," which was a term used to describe someone who sympathized with communist ideas but was not an active party member.
Dorothy Kenyon
In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order that made private ownership of more than five of these coins illegal.
Double Eagle
President Truman fired this general for insubordination after they disagreed on the scope of the Korean War and the general persisted with the disagreement.
Douglas MacArthur
This slang, which originally referred to making any kind of call using a pay telephone but later came to mean snitching to the police, arose from the cost of using a pay telephone to make a call during the middle of the twentieth century.
Drop a Dime
At the start of the film, John F. Kennedy is shown on April 22, 1963, at a ceremony marking the start of a countdown clock for the 1964 New York World's Fair. He said at the time that "in December I attended your Groundbreaking Ceremonies and, 366 days from today, I plan to attend your opening. We have a deadline to meet and by dialing "1-9-6-4" I launch the final phase of this great effort." He was assassinated exactly seven months later. The technology he used for the call was one you learned about earlier in the term. What was it called?
Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency signaling (DTMF)
True or false? The arts suffered during the presidency of Ronald Reagan because he believed that government spending was wasteful and therefore cut federal funds for programs like the National Endowment for the Arts.
False
This filmmaking pioneer, who at one time was an employee of Thomas Edison, is most famous for the path-breaking cinematography of his 1903 work The Great Train Robbery. His techniques included the use of the "cut" and the "chase" to advance the narrative.
Edwin S. Porter
In the example given by Boorstin on pages 24 and 25, a newspaper reporter called this number of senators in order to persuade one of them to criticize another senator who had made a nasty remark about the president.
Eight
At the end of the reading by Cumo, this mode of transportation begins to make a comeback during the late twentieth century after tensions in the Middle East contribute to an oil shortage.
Electric railways like trolleys
During the years following the Civil War, these two women believed that the best way to gain the right for women to vote would be to pass an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
During the narration about youth culture, between minutes 47:20 and 47:30 of the video, a group of young men is shown reporting for military service and getting haircuts. (From 1940 to 1973, all American men between ages 18 and 26 were required to spend two years of active duty in the armed forces.) The camera focuses on one of the young men while the narration describes him as a "hero" of the "silent generation." What is his name?
Elvis Presley
This early rock-n-roll singer, who grew up in extremely impoverished circumstances and viewed ownership of a luxury automobiles as evidence of his success, is closely associated with pink Cadillacs.
Elvis Presley
This person, who is better-known for writing a book about proper etiquette, tested the route of the proposed transcontinental highway.
Emily Post
This Art Deco skyscraper is featured prominently in the 1933 film King Kong.
Empire State Building
Within a few months after the completion of the Chrysler Building, this skyscraper surpassed it in height.
Empire State Building
This was the name given to a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that emphasized rationality. Although it generally rejected traditional social, religious, and political ideas like Original Sin and the Divine Right of Kings, many of its adherents admired the Ancient Greeks and Romans.
Enlightenment
What was the name of the B29 aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb?
Enola Gay
Mussolini instructed this Italian scientist to render a fascist salute at a Nobel Prize presentation ceremony in Sweden. Rather than obey, this scientist chose instead to defect to the United States, where he played a key role in the development of the first atomic bomb.
Enrico Fermi
This Italian scientist—who received the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating new elements by bombarding uranium and thorium with slow-moving neutrons—inadvertently became the first person to split atoms.
Enrico Fermi
A quantum computer relies most heavily on this idea.
Entanglement
Near the end of the documentary, narrator Bill Moyers alludes to the period as the "Age of Anxiety." This is a reference to a poem titled Age of Anxiety that was written by W. H. Auden and that received the 1948 Pulitzer Prize. The poem inspired Leonard Bernstein during 1948 and 1949 to compose a symphony titled Age of Anxiety. Which episode of the documentary American Visions that you were assigned uses the same title?
Episode 8
In the scene in which "On the Road Again" by the group Canned Heat is played, what is the name of the gas station at which the driver stops?
Esso
Leonard Bernstein was careful to mention the contributions that women made to folk music.
False
Reflecting the common usage of the 1950s, Leonard Bernstein uses the term "colored" to refer to African Americans.
False
True or false? According to Daniel Boorstin, Abraham Lincoln's maxim "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time" is as true in the present as it was in the past.
False
During 1939, Enrico Fermi and four colleagues warned the U.S. Department of the Navy about the possibility that the Nazis could build an atomic weapon. What happened?
Fermi and his colleagues were ignored.
This person was the leader of Cuba from 1959 until 2008, when he stepped down from power because of poor health. He was a Communist who survived an American-sponsored invasion of his country at the Bay of Pigs as well as multiple assassination attempts orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. He permitted the Soviet Union to install medium-range nuclear missiles in his country, but a "quarantine" imposed by President Kennedy put a stop to the project and brought the world to the brink of full-scale nuclear war.
Fidel Castro
Which of the following was NOT a genre of American film discussed in the readings (especially the one by Archie Loss)?
Films that raised questions about the legitimacy of capitalism and the American way of life
To which of the following does the object with the numeral belong?
Fire Truck
W. E. B. DuBois went to these two places on the way from Great Barrington to Berlin.
Fisk University in Tennessee, and Harvard University in Massachusetts
In the video of Ray Charles performing America, the Beautiful, how many women are shown? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUjr8EVgBg
Five
According to the narration at the start of the film, how did the Wright Brothers decide who would fly first?
Flip of a coin
One of the themes running throughout Episode 6 is the belief held by many Americans that technology and machines would always improve their lives. The use of technology and machines to kill millions of people during the Second World War curtailed this sense of optimism. Which of the following images does the filmmaker use to reinforce this point?
Footage of the burning wreckage of the Battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor
After becoming president and learning about the existence of an atomic bomb, which of the following was NOT one of the four options that President Truman took under consideration?
Forego using the atomic bomb and instead use chemical and biological weapons
This 1994 film follows the main character through many of the major historical events of the United States during the mid-to-late twentieth century. It starred Tom Hanks and won six Academy Awards.
Forrest Gump
In 1908, First Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge became the first passenger to die in an accident when an aircraft piloted by Orville Wright crashed at this military installation.
Fort Myer, Virginia
Otto Lilienthal died in 1896 as a result of a glider accident. How high in the air was he when he lost control of the aircraft? (For additional information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal)
Forty nine feet
During 1908, the Wright Brothers demonstrated their aircraft in this country.
France
In 1620, this person articulated the scientific method.
Francis Bacon
This person was the leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Movement.
Francis Willard
The quote "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings" comes from the 1946 It's a Wonderful Life, which became a Christmas classic after its copyright expired in 1974 and cable television stations began playing it repeatedly during the holiday season. Republic Pictures successfully regained control over the copyright in 1993 by arguing in court that it still owned rights to the story and musical score. Who directed the film?
Frank Capra
When Moyers discusses the formation of General Motors by Billy Durant, which of the following does Moyer NOT mention?
Packard
This person, whose father owned several large textile factories, co-authored The Communist Manifesto.
Frederick Engels
Sponsored by General Motors, this exhibit imagined how the automobile would change American society by the 1960s.
Futurerama
The 1952 film Singin' in the Rain is a comedy about the transition from silent films to ones with spoken dialogue. The lead actress was Debbie Reynolds, who was the mother of Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher. It features an iconic dancing sequence. The dancer is the second person listed below the title. What is his name?
Gene Kelly
The 1968 film Night of the Living Dead transformed the idea of a zombie from an aspect of Haitian Voodoo to the shambling, undead, human-flesh-eating creatures seen in television shows like The Walking Dead. What is the name of the director?
George Romero
Name the artist who is famous for painting images of Southwestern landscapes, buildings, and religious icons; skulls of animals; and sexually-suggestive flowers. (This is not in the film, but this artist lived in Columbia, South Carolina, during the 1910s.)
Georgia O'Keefe
Many people think that the flowers painted by this artist have a sexual subtext reflecting the ideas of Sigmund Freud.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Where did W.E.B. DuBois live at the time of his death in 1963?
Ghana
Folk singer Woody Guthrie composed This Land Is Your Land because he disagreed expressly with the sentiments expressed in this famous patriotic song.
God Bless America
This song contains a line from America, the Beautiful.
God Bless the USA
What was the color of the numeral referenced in the previous question?
Gold
Both of the Voyager spacecraft have this.
Golden record containing sounds from Earth
This was the second full-length feature film to use Technicolor that appeared in the montage.
Gone with the Wind
Artist Jacob Lawrence created sixty paintings about this story, which was not recorded by the WPA.
Great Migration of African Americans
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was part of this legislative agenda.
Great Society
During the early 1980s, some of the first cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) appeared in this neighborhood of New York City, which was frequented by large numbers of homosexual men.
Greenwich Village
The United States invaded this country in 1983 for the stated purpose of preventing American medical students from being taken hostage. The invasion also prevented Communists from building an airstrip capable of handling Soviet bombers.
Grenada
Which of the following was NOT part of the environment in which Louis Armstrong spent his childhood?
Growing up in a neighborhood called Storyville, which was part of the New Orleans French Quarter
Which of the following art museums did Frank Lloyd Wright design?
Guggenheim Museum of New York City
During the mid-to-late 1890s (Cumo says 1895, Dunnigan says 1898), this Italian inventor used radio waves to send a message in Morse code.
Guglielmo Maconi
In the video for Born in the USA, what instrument does Bruce Springsteen play? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ
Guitar
At 24:30, a Model T is intentionally crashed by sending it down a steep rock face on Stone Mountain, Georgia, where the Ku Klux Klan was reborn in 1915 and which presently features a bas-relief sculpture of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. Find the name of the driver by going to https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/stone-mountain-monumental-dilemma
Gutzon Blorgum
Which of the following songs was NOT composed by George Cohan?
Hail Columbia
The film erroneously says that the United States launched a monkey into space. The animal was actually a chimpanzee. What was its name?
Ham
This facility near Pasco, Washington, made the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
Hanford
In 1927, when Henry Ford drove of the assembly line with the fifteen millionth Model T, who was sitting with him?
His son Edsel
The professor who teaches this course has a bachelor's, master's, and doctorate in which of the following disciplines?
History
Under the leadership of this person, the Communist Party in North Vietnam fought a decades-long civil war against the French, the United States, and the Republic of South Vietnam. He died in 1969 before his side prevailed in 1975.
Ho Chi Minh
This person revolutionized the automobile industry by creating a car that was inexpensive enough for ordinary Americans to drive. He accomplished this through the development of a moving assembly line and of paying his workers five dollars a day. The latter allowed them to purchase the products they were building.
Henry Ford
This was a name applied to a group of screenwriters who were imprisoned for "contempt of Congress" after refusing to testify about alleged subversive activities regarding the Communist Party. They were subsequently could not obtain employment because they were "blacklisted" by the major studios.
Hollywood Ten
In which of the following things was Ed Kienholz buried after his death in 1994?
Packard automobile
Developed during the mid-twentieth century, this camera featured fully automatic focusing, aperture adjustment, and exposure timing. It also used cartridges that made changing film easier to accomplish. Disposable flash cubes provided additional lighting as needed.
Instamatic
In 1981, this company introduced what it called the "PC" or "personal computer."
International Business Machines (IBM)
Under the WPA, artists were hired by the federal government to create murals in public areas. Which of the following was NOT among the places mentioned?
Interstate highway billboards
On its face, this 1956 science fiction film was about an attack by extraterrestrial spores from space that turned their victims into "pod people." The subtext, as the documentary points out, was fear of Communism.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States helped to prop up the highly-controversial dictator of this country in 1953 in order to secure access to cheap petroleum. The death of this dictator in 1979 was followed by a revolution by Islamic fundamentalists and the kidnapping of fifty-three people from the American embassy in this country's capital. The 444-day hostage crisis and a botched rescue effort served to humiliate the United States and led to the decade's second major spike in oil prices. What is the name of this country?
Iran
The United States invaded this country in 1991 after the latter took over Kuwait. The United States invaded it again in 2003 and occupied it until 2011. American troops returned in 2014 and have remained as of 2021.
Iraq
This person wrote Principia, which is a shortened version of the full Latin title Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Translated from Latin, this means Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy.
Isaac Newton
The Arab Oil Crisis of 1973 was initiated by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which instituted an embargo on Middle Eastern oil in retaliation for American military support of this country. OPEC had tried this tactic previously during conflicts in 1956 and 1967, but domestic oil producers in the United States had been able to raise production. The situation had changed by 1973. What is the name of the country?
Israel
Why is the Heliosheath important to study?
It protects humans from galactic cosmic radiation.
Which of the following is NOT characteristic of propaganda?
It substitutes accurate facts for biased opinion.
This physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the uranium and plutonium fission bombs was opposed to developing a hydrogen fusion bomb because he feared such a device would lead to another world war.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Around minute 48:30, the video shows an African American father with his wife and son. It then shows this same man playing baseball. (In 1959, though not mentioned in the film, this same man sparked protests in Greenville, South Carolina, after he refused to use the segregated waiting room at the airport.) What was his name?
Jackie Robinson
Richard Serra created one of his sculptures by throwing molten lead into a corner. Though he said it was not intentional, his technique resembled that of which artist?
Jackson Pollock
Author of an 1890 book called How the Other Half Lives, this photographer specialized in taking pictures of immigrants.
Jacob Riis
This machine of the 1800s was a mechanical computer of a sort because it could be programmed to weave certain patterns of cloth.
Jacquard Loom
This African American performed as a minstrel during the late 1800s and wrote the song Carry Me Back to Old Virginia, which was the state song of Virginia until it was "retired." (Hear it performed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyhQYOxTHaw .)
James Bland
This British scientist received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the neutron.
James Chadwick
Another "hero" of the silent generation starred in the film Rebel without a Cause. What was his name?
James Dean
Automobiles from this country provided the primary "competition from abroad" described by Foster during the 1970s.
Japan
What, according to the film, was the problem for the United States of dropping a demonstration bomb over a deserted island?
Japanese morale would be boosted if the bomb was a dud.
This artist was known for creating painting of American flags, which called into question the nature of flags. (A native of Augusta, Georgia, he attended the University of South Carolina briefly but did not graduate.)
Jasper Johns
This artist is known for his porcelain sculpture of Michael Jackson and Bubbles the Chimp. His best-known work is Rabbit, which is the metallic sculpture shown in the video. Rabbit set a record for the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist when it sold at auction during 2019 for $91 million.
Jeff Koons
This actress and Playmate of the Year blamed her son's autism on the vaccines he received as an infant. Consequently, she became a leader in the "antivaxxer" movement.
Jenny McCarthy
A super-computer named after the person who led International Business Machines (IBM) during its formative years appeared on this television game show and defeated two of the best human players.
Jeopardy!
The system of legalized segregation that existed in parts of the United States during the late 1800s and early-to-mid-1900s took its name from this minstrel character. (See the song performed in a 1941 film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALTam2L9NhE .)
Jim Crow
The 1941 film Citizen Kane is considered to be a path-breaking film because its director Orson Welles pioneers a number of camera techniques that set a new standard for cinematography. The last shot of the excerpt is an example of the "deep focus" in which close-up and far-away images remain in focus simultaneously. In the excerpt, Kane makes a speech promising that if elected he will appoint a district attorney to arrange the indictment, prosecution, and conviction of a particular character, who is a political "boss" and who happens to be looking down at the stage from a balcony. What is the name of the character?
Jim W. Gettys
At the start of the documentary, the narrator shows images of what various presidents were doing during the decade following the end of the Second World War. Which of the following was a United States Navy officer who served aboard the U.S.S. Pomfret off the coast of China during the Korean War. [For additional information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pomfret (SS-391)]
Jimmy Carter
This photographer won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1945 photograph of United States Marines raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima.
Joe Rosenthal
This newspaper editor from Atlanta collected folk stories from African Americans and published them in a volume titled Tales of Uncle Remus.
Joel Chandler Harris
This person, who was also one of the Southern Agrarians who wrote I'll Take My Stand, also contributed to the field of literary criticism and American Studies by writing a book called The New Criticism.
John Crowe Ransom
Through his Standard Oil Company, this person came to dominate the petroleum industry at the start of the twentieth century.
John D. Rockefeller
This engineer who helped design the Pontiac GTO wrote a fourteen-page, single-spaced assessment of automotive executives he considered to be (in Foster's words) "Insolent Chariot Makers."
John De Lorean
Robert Rauschenberg's painting Retroactive I features this American president.
John F. Kennedy
Which of the following presidents is shown at the start of the documentary?
John F. Kennedy
Boorstin references a famous presidential debates between these two candidates.
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon
The 1939 film Stagecoach—which starred the actor John Wayne—was directed by this famous director of westerns. During World War II this director was wounded while filming the Battle of Midway and carried a camera ashore as part of the D-Day landings. Unfortunately, most of the footage was lost. He made numerous other well-known motion pictures after the war.
John Ford
The "New Look" policy promised the "massive retaliation" of a nuclear attack against the Soviet Union if the communists provoked conflicts in smaller countries like Korea. Practitioners of the policy also believed in "brinksmanship." This meant a willingness to escalate tensions with the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war because "mutually assured destruction" meant that both sides would be reluctant to go to war. Who was the secretary of state under Dwight Eisenhower who promoted this policy?
John Foster Dulles
The first American in space was Alan Shepard, who was launched on May 5, 1961. Instead of Shepard, tThe documentary erroneously identifies this other astronaut as the first American in space. Actually he became the first American to do into orbit on February 20, 1962.
John Glenn
Walter P. Chrysler met with this union leader to work out a contract between labor and management.
John L. Lewis
Arguing that the human mind was a "blank slate" at birth, this person went against the prevailing notion that people were inherently evil and tainted by Original Sin. The ideas of this person established the foundation for modern psychology.
John Locke
This person wrote The Second Treatise of Civil Government as a justification for the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which overthrew King James II and established a system of constitutional monarchy in England. The Treatise is significant because it helped undermine the idea of "Divine Right" monarchy and later inspired the Declaration of Independence.
John Locke
This person was best known for composing marches like The Stars and Stripes Forever.
John Philip Sousa
This famous American artist painted the official portrait of Theodore Roosevelt that is shown in the lecture about American coinage.
John Singer Sargent
Bill Moyers refers to the Oldsmobile as being "merry." This is reference to a popular song of 1905. Look up the lyrics at the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_My_Merry_Oldsmobile. What are the names of the boy and his "girl" whose story is told in the song?
Johnny and Lucille
Bill Moyers refers to the Oldsmobile as being "merry." This is reference to a popular song of 1905. Look up the lyrics at the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_My_Merry_Oldsmobile. What are the names of the couple whose story is told in the song?
Johnny and Lucille
This artist created works of art by scavenging for pieces of junk and then arranging them in boxes.
Joseph Cornell
Boorstin uses this senator as an example of a politician who understood how to create pseudo-events for his own advantage.
Joseph McCarthy
During the years following the Second World War, this United States senator from Wisconsin led an effort to eliminate Communists from the federal government.
Joseph McCarthy
This United States senator is most closely associated with the Red Scare.
Joseph McCarthy
Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) created a sculpture of this kind of person for a façade at Rockefeller Center.
Journalists
In 1862, this person composed The Battle Hymn of the Republic. She and her husband, who supported the abolitionist cause, worked for the United States Sanitary Commission during the American Civil War.
Julia Ward Howe
This person was executed by the United States federal government in 1953 for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union during a period in which the Russians obtained secrets for building an atomic bomb. His wife was executed with him. Their two young sons were orphaned. Although some people argued for decades that this person was innocent, the release of the Venona Decrypts during the 1990s indicate that he was guilty.
Julius Rosenberg
The first full-scale test of an atomic bomb took place on this date.
July 16, 1945
This person wrote the book Das Kapital, which argued that human history, politics, and economics were driven by class conflict over the means of production.
Karl Marx
Although this company invented the first prototype digital camera in 1975, its reliance upon revenue from celluloid film sales and development services contributed to its inability to adapt to the new realities of digital photography.
Kodak
Directed by D. W. Griffith, the 1915 Birth of a Nation was set in the South Carolina Upcountry during the years following the American Civil War. It is based on a book by Thomas Dixon, who was born near Blacksburg. (Dixon School Road that crosses Interstate 85 is named after his family.) It is also the first film to be screened in the White House. Woodrow Wilson is said to have described the film as "writing history with lightning." (You can watch the entire film, which is three hours long, at the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGQaAddwjxg.) Members of this group are the heroes of the film.
Ku Klux Klan
This person wrote the book The Wizard of Oz, which reflects (either intentionally or unintentionally) the concerns about capitalism that were raised by the Populist movement of the 1890s.
L. Frank Baum
In November 1957, the Soviet Union launched a second satellite into orbit. This one carried a dog, which died of overheating after travelling several times around the Earth. What was the name of the dog?
Laika
The Soviet Union launched the first animal into space during November 1957. What was the dog's name?
Laika
In the section of the film about the suburbanization of the United States after World War Two, there is a scene in which a family signs paperwork for a new house and then goes inside one. What is the woman carrying?
Lamps
This artist of the Harlem Renaissance used free verse and an improvisational jazz-like style in much of his poetry.
Langston Hughes
According to the interview with Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, what did the weapon taste like?
Lead
This Ford automobile executive is credited with designing the Mustang "muscle car," which was a sports car that the average person could afford.
Lee Iacocca
According to the slide titled "History of American Studies," which of the following wrote the book title The Machine in the Garden?
Leo Marx
In 1912, this person invented the electric traffic light.
Lester Farnsworth Wires
The Franklin Half Dollar had this image on the reverse (back side).
Liberty Bell
Known for photographs, this popular magazine raised awareness of racial inequities during the 1950s and 1960s by publishing stories and photographs about segregated conditions in places like Memphis, Tennessee.
Life
What was the name of the first transcontinental road across the United States?
Lincoln Highway
This monument most closely resembles the Parthenon in Greece.
Lincoln Monument
In the American Studies minor at USC Upstate, the courses in "Group B" feature which of the following disciplines?
Literature
Twenty-three Japanese fishermen were accidentally exposed to radioactive fallout from the testing of the hydrogen fusion device detonated at Bikini Atoll during the Castle Bravo test. All of them displayed symptoms of radiation sickness. One of them died. What was the name of their ship?
Lucky Dragon
During the years following the Civil War, this woman believed that the best way to gain the right for women to vote would be to change the laws on a state-by-state basis.
Lucy Stone
This American president ordered narrator Bill Moyers not to drive his noisy 1952 Chevrolet on the White House grounds.
Lyndon Johnson
This was the name given to the American effort to develop and built an atomic weapon.
Manhattan Project
Born in Italy, Anthony Campagna immigrated to the United States and became a prominent real estate developer in New York City. According to the film, what did he build to celebrate his success?
Mansion
One of the first modernist works to achieve widespread notoriety in the United States was exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City. Titled Nude Descending a Staircase, it called into question the true reality of the object being painted. Who created it?
Marcel Duchamp
This organization was dedicated to fighting polio. After polio ceased to be a significant threat, it redirected its mission to preventing birth defects.
March of Dimes
The 1961 film West Side Story is a modernized retelling of the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The excerpt in the montage is a variation on the balcony scene. What is the name of the girl featured in the film?
Maria
In 1939, this African American opera singer performed My Country Tis of Thee at the Lincoln Memorial.
Marian Anderson
In 1998, this baseball player broke the single-season home run record that had been held by Babe Ruth for 34 years and by Roger Maris for 37 years. (His record was broken in 2001 by Barry Bonds, who still holds the record after 19 years.)
Mark McGwire
This person painted the piece titled Red, Brown, and Black.
Mark Rothko
This American modernist painter disliked Taos but loved the landscape of New Mexico. He was also inspired by a visit to Berlin.
Marsden Hartley
This was the name of a program that funded billions of dollars for economic assistance to Europe. The program was named after the secretary of state at the time, who had served as a general during the Second World War.
Marshall Plan
Around minute 48:40, the video shows still photographs of a famous civil rights leader. What was his name?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This drama, broadcast in 1953 on the Philco Television Playhouse, featured what its writer called "the marvelous world of the ordinary." Although audiences loved it, advertisers did not like the main character because he was psychologically complex, accepted his physical unattractiveness, and did not care what other people thought about him. These values were contrary to consumer culture.
Marty
The 1964 film My Fair Lady was based on a play of the same name that had starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. The producers of the film, however, thought that Andrews lacked sufficient star power. They instead cast Audrey Hepburn (who had starred, among other roles, in Breakfast at Tiffany's) as the female lead. Now unemployed, Julie Andrews was cast in another major film, featured earlier in the montage, about a nanny who uses an umbrella to fly. Andrews won the Academy Award for best actress, and the film beat out My Fair Lady for that year's best musical. What was the name of the musical?
Mary Poppins
During what month of 1918 did Babe Ruth first contract influenza?
May
President John F. Kennedy said: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." When did he make this statement?
May 1961
Manhattan building codes prohibited skyscrapers from going straight up and required buildings to step back the levels to allow light to reach the streets. This style was reminiscent of which of the following cultures.
Mayan
Though fictional, both serial stories on the radio and situation comedies on television are individual worlds with specific characters and setting to which the listener or viewer returns on a regular basis. Some shows even have their own laws of physics or religion that allow for faster-than-light velocity, time travel, or interaction with the dead. Which of the following terms best describes these programs?
Microcosmic
This Russian space station, which was visited by American astronauts during the 1990s, preceded the International Space Station.
Mir
What was the name of the innermost large moon of Uranus described in the documentary?
Mirandan
Gresham's law originally applied to which of the following? (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law).
Money
This term is used to describe a situation in which a single entity controls an entire business or industry.
Monopoly
After having the orchestra play a horn call from Beethoven's Third Symphony, Bernstein uses a piece written by this composer to provide an example of how an American interprets a horn call.
Morton Gould
What was Robert Hughes shown riding in the photograph of him as a young man?
Motorcycle
During the 1980s, this company manufactured the first cell phone in the United States.
Motorolla
Dvorak's "Going Home" is from the second movement of this piece of music. (Click on the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FMUttpSllY to hear the piece performed by the Brigham Young University Choir.)
New World Symphony
The "Futurama" display at an international exposition in this city (and pictured in the reading) demonstrated the optimism that many Americans felt about the automobile and highways as a mode of transportation.
New York
What is the name of the orchestra?
New York Philharmonic
Used by the United States military during the Second World War, this bomb sight was a mechanical computer.
Norden
This American artist painted a famous picture titled The Problem We All Live With about the event (not a pseudo-event) mentioned on page 29. The event was a recent one when Boorstin's book was published in 1961, and the painting would not be painted until 1964. To see it, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_We_All_Live_With. Who was the painter?
Norman Rockwell
This artist created a painting titled The Gossips that reflected some of the ways in which the telephone changed communications within society.
Norman Rockwell
According to the reading by Archie Loss, this type of family consisted of a married husband and wife who had two to four children. The husband usually worked while the wife stayed at home. They generally belonged to the middle class and lived in suburban areas.
Nuclear
What is the source of electrical power for the Voyager spacecraft? [Hint, it was manufactured in South Carolina at the Savannah River Site.]
Nuclear
The painting was the star "freak" of the 1913 Armory Show that introduced Modernist Art to the United States.
Nude Descending a Staircase
This retired professional football player and actor famously fled police on live television in a white Ford Bronco before being arrested and tried for murdering his ex-wife and her male companion. His 1995 was called the "trial of the century." His acquittal exposed continued racial divisions in the United States.
O. J. Simpson
What is the name of the 2016 documentary that Coates refers to frequently in the article?
O. J.: Made in America
This facility in Tennessee enriched the uranium used for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
Oak Ridge
Babe Ruth contracted influenza for the second time within the year 1918 during this month.
October
In the film the narrator says that a world's fair was scheduled to take place during 1992 in Chicago. Which of the following best describes what happened? For additional information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1992_World%27s_Fair.
Organizers withdrew from the project in 1987 because of concerns over financing and the refusing of various government entities to support it.
This antibiotic drug was discovered in 1928.
Penicillin
How did television change the arrangement of living rooms?
People arranged their furniture in a circle around it as they would to warm themselves around a fire.
This American artist, whose paintings included one of Ku Klux Klansmen, rejected the minimalism that had been popular during his time.
Phillip Guston
In the concert given by Marian Anderson, what musical instrument is behind her? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpYg_8pU_cQ
Piano
In the excerpt from the film Yankee Doodle Dandy, actor James Cagney plays composer George Cohan. What instrument does he play on which instrument does he compose the song Over There? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYV044H5muI
Piano
The "purple mountain majesty" in America, the Beautiful refers to this place.
Pike's Peak
This song tells about an African American man who—most likely as a result of urban renewal projects of Lyndon Johnson—ended up with a highway in his front yard. This was not an unusual occurrence during the 1960s and 1970s.
Pink Houses
This 1896 decision by the United States Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated facilities did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment so long as they were "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
Listen to Bing Crosby sing this recording of Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I8-CbJYGMA Which of the following is NOT something done by the protagonist of the song?
Plowed acres of wheat fields
Introduced during the late 1940s, this technology allowed a photographer to take self-developing pictures.
Polaroid
The 1950-53 Korean War was the first major conflict of the twentieth century in which the United States Congress did not pass a declaration of war. President Truman relied instead upon a resolution by the United Nations and characterized the American involvement in these terms.
Police Action
As discussed in both the lecture about American coinage and the one about epidemic disease, the main purpose of the March of Dimes was to prevent or cure this disease.
Polio
President Franklin Roosevelt suffered from this disease, which reached epidemic proportions in the United States during the early to mid-twentieth century.
Polio
This is a philosophical system that rejects metaphysics and theism because it holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof.
Positivism
Which of the following best characterizes the policies of presidents like Theodore Roosevelt, who earned the nickname "Trustbuster" by filing lawsuits against monopolistic businesses under laws like the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Interstate Commerce Act?
Progressivism
Which of the following was NOT one of the things done by the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Prohibited landlords and realtors from discriminating on the basis of race
In Marxism, this term is associated with laborers and industrial workers.
Proletariat
This 1960 film by Alfred Hitchcock featured a scene in which a young woman is murdered in the shower.
Psycho
O. J. Simpson claimed to love this novel. Following his retirement from football, he aspired to play one of the characters in a film adaptation of the book. Throughout the article Ta-Nehisi Coates uses characters from the book as symbols or metaphors.
Ragtime (by E. L. Doctorow)
This author of the book Unsafe at Any Speed launched a "salvo against the auto industry" by criticizing the safety of the Corvair model automobile manufactured by General Motors.
Ralph Nader
When this Governor of Virginia and member of the Democrat Party was a medical student during the 1980s, he wore blackface for a yearbook photograph while posing next to a friend who was dressed as a Ku Klux Klansman.
Ralph Northam
This person met Richard and Maurice MacDonald at their hamburger stand in San Bernardino, California, after he sold them eight machines for making milkshakes. He realized the potential of the brothers' operation, became a partner in the business, and helped make MacDonald's an international fast food giant. What was his name?
Ray Kroc
In art and literature, this theory emphasizes that nature and real life should be represented in terms of its physical objectivity rather than being idealized.
Realism
The 1994 film Forrest Gump was notable for its use of special effects to insert the title character into historical footage. The excerpt shown in the montage shows Forrest Gump at which of the following locations?
Reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument
In the 2002 film One Hour Photo, this comedian starred as a disturbed man who becomes obsessed with a customer's family while working as a photographic technician.
Robin Williams
Widely admired by women, this film star of the mid-twentieth century kept his homosexuality a secret until he contracted Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). His death brought the disease to the forefront of public debate.
Rock Hudson
One year after directing Rosemary's Baby, this director's wife and unborn child were murdered by followers of Charles Manson. This person also directed the 1974 film Chinatown, which is featured in the montage. In 1978, this director fled the United States while awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to having sexual relations with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Roman Polanski
This artist is best known for painting pictures of African American life in Harlem.
Romare Bearden
Bernstein uses a piece written this composer to demonstrate that American music often has characteristics of a pioneer spirit.
Roy Harris
According to the newspaper shown in the documentary, how much did the first son of Charles Lindbergh weight at birth?
Seven-and-a-half pounds
During the Baby Boom that lasted in the United States from 1946 to 1964, approximately how many children were born?
Seventy million
The narrator mentions that Sandra Day O'Connor was attending Stanford University at the end of the Second World War. What distinction did she later attain? (For additional information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor.)
She was the first woman to be appointed as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
This person is most closely associated with the idea that the human mind is divided into three parts: conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.
Sigmund Freud
In the video excerpt from The Jazz Singer, Neil Diamond wears a scarf as he performs the song America. What color is the scarf? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc-v8CFJzu4
Silver
Prior to 1965, American dollar coins, half dollars, quarters, and dimes were made mostly (90%) of this metal.
Silver
Ruth's doctor endangered his life by using this substance to treat the baseball player's influenza?
Silver nitrate
Invented during the early 1970s by Intel, this technology resulted in the first hand-held video games.
Single chip microprocessor
This traumatic event played a role in the development of radio technology.
Sinking of the S.S. Titanic
Originally released by Walt Disney in 1946, this film was the first major motion picture to combine live actors and actresses with animation. It was based on the book Tales of Uncle Remus. James Baskett, who portrayed Uncle Remus, became the first African American male to receive an Academy Award. Because of complaints that the film sanitized slavery and perpetuated negative stereotypes of African Americans, the film has never been released on video-cassette, DVD, Blu-Ray, or streaming service. (Watch parts of it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN4R4UkIYoM&list=PLQtfinuWgy8ceLscfeOoapY8GHjgF8rFZ. )
Song of the South
This Walt Disney film contained numerous stereotypes of African Americans.
Song of the South
The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into space during October 1957. It was called Sputnik. What was its shape? (Hint: look at the footage in the film.)
Spherical
Based on the stunning special effects of his film 2001: A Space Odyssey, some conspiracy theorists believe that the National Aeronautics and Space Agency hired this director to help with a U.S. government plot to fake the Apollo Moon Landings. Some of these conspiracy theorists further believe that this director secretly admitted to his involvement with the fraud by leaving clues in his 1980 film The Shining, which is also shown in the montage.
Stanley Kubrick
In the video for Amerika, the members of the group Rammstein gather on the moon's surface around a pinball machine. What is the name of the game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM
Star Trek
The special effects of this 1977 motion picture forever changed what audiences expected when they went to see a science fiction film. The director was George Lucas.
Star Wars
This person worked for computer giant Hewlett-Packard. After company executives rejected his idea for developing personal computers for home use, he and his partner created the first Apple computer. This person had previously built and sold "blue boxes" that could be used by "phreakers" to make long distance telephone calls without having to pay charges.
Steven Wozniak
This artist portrayed the "verve" of the 1930s through what was called "colonial cubism." It foreshadowed Andy Warhol's "Pop Art" of the 1960s.
Stuart Davis
Where, according to the narrator, did the average American family live?
Suburbs
What, according to the film, was the problem for the United States of launching a conventional invasion of Japan?
Such an invasion would have resulted in unacceptably high casualty rates.
This antibiotic drug was discovered in 1908.
Sulfanilamide
Famous for her efforts to obtain the right to vote for women, this suffragist was honored by having her image on the obverse (front side) of a dollar coin.
Susan B. Anthony
Rejecting minimalism, this artist moved to New Mexico. Horses were among her preferred subjects to paint.
Susan Rothenberg
The American modernist painter referenced in the previous question was a homosexual whose German boyfriend was killed in the First World War. According to the film, this painter commemorated the death of this man at the hands of the state by representing him using three symbols of state power. Which of the following was NOT one of those symbols.
Swastika
Which of the following was NOT part of the environment in which Duke Ellington spent his childhood?
Taking piano lessons from ragtime composer Scott Joplin
This term is used to describe a tax that is placed on imported goods for the purpose of raising revenue and/or providing a competitive advantage to domestic industries.
Tariff
Who composed the Russian music based on the folk song "The Little Birch Tree"?
Tchaikovsky
Boorstin compares the presidential debates to which of the following kinds of entertainment?
Television quiz show
Which of the following best characterizes the narrator's (Robert Hughes's) opinion of Abstract Expressionism?
That it was overhyped.
At the start of the reading selection from Defining Visions, author Mary Watson quotes an article from the New York Times that said "the average American family hasn't the ime for" television and that radio will continue to be the dominant medium. What does Watson argue in the final section of the chapter titled "Test Patterns, New Patterns"?
That television became such an ingrained part of life that people would spend time watching test patterns.
In 1951, after being fired by President Truman for insubordination, General Douglas MacArthur was given a parade through the streets of Chicago. What was the chief complaint of the people who witnessed the parade first hand?
That they could have seen the event better if they had stayed home and watched it on television
In the "twins paradox" used to demonstrate Einstein's Theory of Relativity, one of a pair of identical twins is sent into space and accelerated to nearly the speed of light while the other remains on Earth. What is the outcome of this thought experiment?
The twin who was accelerated to nearly the speed of light is younger.
This 1960 film is based on an earlier film shown in the montage produced in Japan and titled The Seven Samurai. It was directed by John Sturges and starred, among others, Yul Brenner.
The Magnificent Seven
What is the definition of verisimilitude? (Hint: look in a dictionary.)
The appearance of being real
The decorations of the Chrysler Building were reminiscent of the automobile is multiple ways. Which was NOT one of the ways mentioned in the film?
The carpets at the entrance resembled passenger seat floor mats.
Why does the flight duration stated at minute 4:30 differ from the flight duration stated at the start of the documentary? (For additional information see https://spacecenter.org/a-look-back-at-the-wright-brothers-first-flight/)
The flight mentioned at the start of the documentary took place on 14 December and was uncontrolled.
During 1939, Edward Teller and Leo Szilard asked Albert Einstein to sign a letter to President Roosevelt warning about the possibility that the Nazis could build an atomic weapon. What happened?
The importance of the letter was acknowledged, but it was filed away without any immediate action.
According to the article, how was Simpson's football career as a running back symbolic of his own life and that of African Americans?
The job of a running back is to run away or escape defending players.
Which of the statements below are NOT supported by the graph below (which was also in the reading)?
The rise of television during the 1950s contributed to a sharp decline in the popularity of AM radio.
Which of the following topics did W. E. B. DuBois address in his book The Souls of Black Folk?
The so-called "Negro Problem"
The slide for Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land has two verses from the song that are rarely heard. Guthrie sings one of them in the recording. Which one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1my1jn6QHzE
There was a big high wall there. . . .
How did the British help to slow progress by the Nazis towards building an atomic weapon?
They bombed a heavy water plant in Norway.
What happened to the natives who lived in the islands at or near the test area?
They did not receive prior warning about the tests because of the need for secrecy.
Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons given in the film why immigrants enjoyed going to the movies?
They dreamed of being like actor Charlie Chaplin, whose characters at the end of the pictures often were shown enjoying extravagant wealth and power.
How did the United States react in 1948 after the Soviet Union blockaded all of the roads leading into Berlin?
They used aircraft to deliver supplies.
Designing airplanes started as a hobby of the Wright Brothers. What did they do for a living?
They were bicycle mechanics.
Popular during the 1860s and 1870s, this kind of photograph consisted of a positive image on thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel.
Tintype
Both Eminem and 2 Live Crew disagreed with the efforts of this person to place parental notification labels on music deemed to be potentially offensive.
Tipper Gore
Which of the moons of Saturn has a thick nitrogen-methane atmosphere that scientists think resembled Earth before life existed?
Titan
Directed by James Cameron, this 1997 film was a work of historical fiction about a major disaster that took place during the early 1900s.
Titanic
This 1962 film, based on a novel by Harper Lee, placed southern race relations in a more realistic, complex light than many other motion pictures of the time.
To Kill a Mockingbird
According to Coates, what was O. J. Simpson's greatest accomplishment?
To be indicted for a crime and then receive the kind of treatment typically reserved for rich white guys
What was the original purpose of the 1878 film The Horse in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge? (For additional information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse_in_Motion).
To develop faster racehorses by learning more about their strides
The games of Solitaire and Minesweeper in early versions of Microsoft Windows were included for this reason.
To give users a fun way to learn how to use a mouse rather than a keyboard.
As depicted in the film, what was the purpose of a Whirlaway?
To serve food at a drive-in restaurant
According to the film, the New York skyscrapers drawn by Hugh Ferriss resembled this.
Tomb
American thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson are most closely associated with this intellectual movement.
Transcendentalism
Invented during the late 1940s at Bell Laboratories, this technology allowed for smaller computers and radios.
Transistor
Leonard Bernstein used hand gestures to imitate American Indians that were common during the 1950s but that in recent years would be considered offensive by many people.
True
True or false? Many of the speeches preserved in the Congressional Record were never actually delivered on the floor of the House or Senate.
True
True or false? Motown, in some respects and according to Archie Loss, reflected the civil rights movement in that it brought blacks and whites closer together musically.
True
True or false? Much of the road building accomplished during the New Deal of the 1930s was done by hand in order to maximize the number of available jobs for people during the Great Depression.
True
True or false? One of the problems with establishing a distinctively American style of music is that the people come from many different places in the world that have many different kinds of folk music.
True
True or false? The ENIAC developed in 1945 marked a significant advance in American computer technology because it operated electronically rather than mechanically.
True
True or false? The contractors who built Interstate 70 through Colorado were required to pay penalties if they destroyed raspberry plants or cottonwood trees.
True
This heavy cruiser of the United States Navy was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine after delivering to Tinian Island the casing an uranium for the first atomic bomb. The film does not mention that search and rescue efforts did not begin until three days later. Only 316 out of a crew of 1,195 men survived. The majority died from dehydration, exposure, and shark attacks.
U.S.S. Indianapolis
In 1956, the country of Hungary tried to break away from control by the Soviet Union. The effort was initially successful, but the Soviets took advantage of this incident to reassert communist control over the Eastern European country.
U2 Incident
This person wrote the book The Jungle, which exposed unsanitary and disgusting practices within the meat-packing industry and advocated a socialist system of government as a solution. The book was first published in serial form in the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason.
Upton Sinclair
According to the readings, both automobiles and airplanes changed this aspect of American life.
Vacationing
John D. Rockefeller commissioned Mexican artist Diego Rivera to paint a mural in which capital and labor were reconciled. Rivera was fired and the mural destroyed because the artist incorporated this person into the painting.
Vladimir Lenin
This person was the first leader of a large country to put Marxist ideas into practice.
Vladimir Lenin
Boris Yeltsin—who played an instrumental, if not heroic role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union—stepped down from the presidency of Russia in 1999 and turned over power to this person.
Vladimir Putin
When Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand made their documentary of New York City titled Manhatta, they built their film around verses penned by this famous American poet.
Walt Whitman
Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech during August 1963 in this American city.
Washington, D.C.
Which of the following substances is used in a "crash cushion"?
Water
This 1995 film was directed by Bryan Singer and done in the Film Noir Style. Its title was inspired by a well-known quotation from the film Casablanca. This line (and hence the title) was one of the possible answers for the multiple choice question pertaining to the 1946 film. What was the title?
We'll Always Have Paris
Which of the following best characterizes policies of presidents like Andrew Jackson, who refused to renew the charter of the central bank because he did not think that the federal government should be using paper money to manipulate the economy.
Welfare Capitalism
This person is most closely associated with the Uncertainty Principle.
Werner Heisenberg
Leonard Bernstein composed the music for the song America in this Broadway play.
West Side Story
Where is Great Barrington?
Western Massachusetts
According to Getlein and Gardiner, which two genres of American film escaped the commercialization of the movie industry while retaining many of their artistic qualities?
Westerns and slapstick comedies
Over There was composed during this conflict, which marked the first time that Americans did not heed George Washington's advice to avoid entangling alliances with other countries.
World War I
The Corona virus first appeared in city in China, which is known not only for its markets that sell bats and reptiles that might have been the source of the epidemic, but also a biological weapons laboratory that might have played a role as well.
Wuhan
In 1869, this state became the first to allow women to vote.
Wyoming
In the video for Banned in the USA, multiple patriotic songs are played in the background. Which one is not heard? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzbl6n7Mqjo
Yankee Doodle
What is Babe Ruth alleged to have done during the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs?
While at bat he pointed to a spot in the stands and then on the next pitch hit a home run
The main theme of this song about America is the First Amendment.
White America, by Eminem
What was the name of Wilbur and Orville's nephew (actually great nephew) who was interviewed for the documentary? (He died in 1999.)
Wilkinson Wright
This white southerner, who subsequently won the Nobel Prize for Literature, used the modernistic stream-of-consciousness style in his book The Sound and the Fury.
William Faulkner
This philosopher is considered to have originated Pragmatism.
William James
Bernstein uses a piece written by this composer to demonstrate that American music often has characteristics of youth, optimism, and vitality.
William Schuman
This architect designed the Chrysler Building.
William Van Alen
The Organization Man referenced at minute 34:18 is the title of best-selling book nonfiction book that was published in 1956. Its author argues that Americans of the mid-twentieth century prefer collectivism over individualism. What is the name of the author? (For additional information follow the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Organization_Man)
William Whyte
This Abstract Expressionist was an illegal alien from Holland who came to the United States by jumping ship in 1926. A painting of his that was featured in the documentary was Woman I.
William de Kooning
The 1996 film Space Jam, which featured basketball legend Michael Jordan, was released one year after the Internet was opened for commercial use. The web page used to promote this film has survived in its original form, which is rare because most of the early Internet was not preserved. Go to the site http://www.spacejam.com, click on the icon titled "Steller Souvenirs," and then click on "Screen Savers." For which of the following computer operating systems were the screen savers designed?
Windows 95
In 1946, this former prime minister of Great Britain coined the term "Iron Curtain."
Winston Churchill
Although the 1935 film Becky Sharp was the first full-length feature film to use Technicolor, this was the first such film to appear in the montage. (The earlier animated one does not count.)
Wizard of Oz
The Federal Reserve Act was passed during the presidency of this person.
Woodrow Wilson
According to the video about Yankee Doodle, the song was played by the Marquis de Lafayette following this Revolutionary War battle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcVNahOavw
Yorktown
The "Space Race" was part of the twentieth century rivalry between communism and capitalism. Which of the following was the first human being to go into space?
Yuri Gagarin
In the years following 1982, American pennies have been made of this metal. Even so, the cost of making penny still costs more than one cent. This fact has contributed to arguments to eliminate the penny from American coinage.
Zinc
Which of the following marks the boundary of interstellar space? Voyager 1 cross this threshold during 2012. Voyager 2 crossed it during 2018.
heliopause
