History of Television

What this quiz asks

• In 1953, more than 20 million people in Britain watched which event live on television?
• Which satellite relayed the first live television pictures across the Atlantic in 1962?
• In 1936 the BBC began a regular public television service from which London building?
• BBC television was taken off the air during the Second World War.
• When ITV launched in 1955, what was the product in the very first advert shown on British television?
• John Logie Baird's first clear television images, made in 1925, showed the head of what?
• Was the first official TV advert in the United States, shown in 1941, for a brand of watches?
• Which American inventor, who sketched his idea for electronic TV as a schoolboy in Idaho, sent his first image in 1927?
• Which cartoon character, as a doll spinning on a turntable, was RCA's test image for experimental TV in 1928?
• In what year did BBC Two begin regular colour broadcasts, starting with the Wimbledon tennis championships?
• Select ALL of these British TV channels that launched before 1990.
• Zenith's Lazy Bones of 1950 was an early TV remote control. How was it connected to the set?
• Order these television events by date, earliest first.
• Which German inventor applied in 1884 for a patent on a spinning disc with spiral holes for scanning pictures?
• The PAL colour system, used across much of Western Europe, was developed in which country?
• Select ALL of these countries that broadcast in colour using the SECAM system.
• The pictures from John Logie Baird's mechanical television were made up of about 400 lines.
• Which Russian-born engineer led RCA's development of the iconoscope camera tube in the early 1930s?
• In 1954, NBC's first coast-to-coast colour broadcast in the US showed which event?
• The Emmy Awards take their name from 'Immy', a nickname for which piece of TV technology?