Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of Early Television History

1. Which president had their speech broadcast from coast to coast for the first time on September 4, 1951?

Nixon

Eisenhower

Roosevelt

Kennedy

Truman

2. Television had many names until the 1920s including what?

Martianscope

Mass Tube

Hearing-Seeing

Mass Sedater

Real Politick

3. In what year was the world's first television station broadcast?

1928

1935

1941

1955

1970

4. Who was the first president to appear on television?

Harry S. Truman

Dwight Eisenhower

Warren G. Harding

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

5. Which teams played in the first televised baseball game?

Columbia and Princeton

Yankees and Mets

Princeton and Harvard

Duke and Rutgers

Yankees and Columbia

6. What percentage of television programming was devoted to the news during World War II?

Ten

Fifteen

Twenty

Fifty

One Hundred

7. What color make-up did early television actors have to wear?

Blue

Red

White

Purple

Green

8. How many American homes had televisions by 1955?

One-tenth

Half

All

Three-quarters

Two-fifths

9. What CBS reporter stood up to Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities?

Walter Cronkite

Peter Jennings

Edward R. Murrow

Barbara Walters

Mike Wallace

10. Television is believed to be a leading factor in the success of what candidate's presidential race?

Kennedy

Nixon

Johnson

Eisenhower

Truman