Screens, Games and Sport

Video games, animation, comics, film and sport — the entertainment that shaped how most of us spend our free time.

The industries in this collection are younger than almost everything else on QuizKite, and larger than most of it. Video games out-earn film. Animation studios on two continents developed entirely separate visual grammars. Sport codified rules in the nineteenth century that hundreds of millions still follow to the letter. These quizzes cover the games and consoles that built the biggest entertainment business on earth, comics and animation from America, Europe and Japan, film and television, the logic behind classic puzzles, and the rules, records and moments that turned sport into a shared language.

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Comics & Animation

Drawn Worlds

Comics and animation across America, Europe and Japan.

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Superman first appeared in which comic publication?

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Film & TV

How a Film Gets Made

The jobs, the jargon and the order of work behind the credits that scroll past at the end.

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What is the director of photography responsible for?

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Film & TV

Television Through the Decades

How television was invented, paid for and scheduled, from spinning discs to the shape of the screen.

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Which Scottish engineer publicly demonstrated a working television system in London in 1926?

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Film & TV

The Golden Age of Cinema

Ten questions on the silent era, the arrival of sound and the studios that ran Hollywood.

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Which 1941 film was Orson Welles's first feature as a director?

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Journalism & Media

How News Gets Made

The craft, structure and rules behind a published story.

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The "five Ws" of reporting are who, what, when, where and what else?

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Journalism & Media

Scoops That Changed Things

Ten investigations that ended careers, rewrote laws or forced institutions to open their files.

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Which newspaper's reporting on the Watergate break-in led to President Nixon's resignation?

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Journalism & Media

The Rules Reporters Work By

Embargoes, attribution, corrections and the difference between on the record and on background.

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If a source speaks "on background", what has usually been agreed?

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Music

Composers and Their Works

Ten pieces of classical music matched to the people who wrote them, from Vivaldi to Ravel.

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Who wrote the set of four violin concertos known as The Four Seasons?

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Music

Instruments of the Orchestra

Ten questions on how the instruments of an orchestra are grouped and how they actually make their sound.

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Which section of a symphony orchestra normally contains the most players?

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Music

Reading Music: Scales and Keys

Notation, intervals, key signatures and time signatures, explained through ten questions with no jargon left unexplained.

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How many semitones make up an octave in standard Western tuning?

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Music

The Orchestra, Section by Section

Who sits where, what each family does, and why the oboe gets to tune everyone.

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Which section contains the violin, viola, cello and double bass?

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Music

The Story of Recorded Music

From tinfoil cylinders to the compact disc, with the genres that grew up alongside each new format.

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Who demonstrated the first machine that could both record sound and play it back, in 1877?

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Sports

Olympic Feats and Firsts

The flame, the motto, the records and the events that came and went.

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Which city hosted the first Winter Olympics, in 1924?

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Sports

Records, Rings & Legends

The rules, records and moments the world actually watched.

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How often are the modern Summer Olympic Games normally held?

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Sports

The Rules of the Game

Scoring, team sizes and the basic laws of ten different sports.

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In basketball, a shot made from beyond the arc is worth how many points?

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