If You Win This History of TV Quiz, You're Definitely an Expert

Can you imagine a world without television? We certainly can’t. But while you know all there is to know about your favorite shows, how much do you know about the actual history of television? Are you game for our cool quiz on this?

Faye Remedios
Created by Faye Remedios
On Nov 22, 2021
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Who is widely regarded as the brain behind the television as he was the first one to create live pictures and created the first mechanical television?

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Though television claims more just one inventor, who is regarded as having invented the first working electronic television?

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What year was the patent for the world’s first completely electronic TV set filed?

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In 1928, this inventor received the first license awarded to a television station in the United States with his station, W3XK, broadcast from Wheaton, Maryland.

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Television was first introduced to the American public at the _____ World's Fair in New York.

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The world's first television commercial aired for the Bulova Watch Company. The commercial  was only ___ long.

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The word television was coined by a Frenchman, Constantin Perskyi, at the ___ Paris Exhibition.

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The first color TV set was produced by Westinghouse in… 

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How old was Philo Taylor Farnsworth when he invented his modern electronic television system?

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What 1963 event did all television networks broadcast commercial-free for four days commercial-free, which led to the networks losing $100 million in advertising?

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What is the longest-running animated children series in the world?

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Betty White is the longest-tenured star on television and she has been on television since ______.

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MTV went on air on August 1, 1981, and the first video broadcast by the music network was ___.

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