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Television Quotes - The Second Season

written by: shimonbentzvi
 
A very difficult quiz in which you must identify the person quoted in the question.

Question 1:


Name the very popular writer of screenplays who said, "There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism."
Cokie Roberts
Wolf Blitzer
Mike Taibbi
Nora Ephron

Question 2:


What TV personality said, "People always assume that you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong."?
Diane Sawyer
Oprah Winfrey
Cokie Roberts
Nora Ephron

Question 3:


Who delivered these words: "Television has brought murder back to the home where it belongs."?
Bill O'Reilly
Alfred Hitchcock
Rod Sterling
Newton Minow

Question 4:


Which of these is NOT a quote by the New Zealand writer /comic Tony Folliani?
"You shouldn't spend your life watching TV. You should spend your life selling TVs."
"Karl Marx is wrong. Television is the opiate of the people."
"Sometimes the highlight of the day is watching highlights."
"Why do they call TV a medium? Because it's rare when it's well done."

Question 5:


This panelist on an early TV quiz show stated, "Television is the triumph of machine over people."?
Harpo Marx
Fred Friendly
Groucho Marx
Fred Allen

Question 6:


Which quote is by the Australian-born wit Clive James?
"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."
"Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look."
"The trouble was all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me."
"Television is simultaneously blamed often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it."

Question 7:


What writer remarked, "If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."  (place mouse pointer over ? icon to view hints or answer requirements)
Louis Black
Carlos Mencia
Fred Allen
Kurt Vonnegut

Question 8:


"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and propaganda without moral passion is television." Name the author who delivered these words.
Rita Mae Brown
Cathy-Jane Simmons
Erika Jong
J.K. Rowling

Question 9:


Who made the statement, "Television is chewing gum for the eyes."?
Woody Allen
Frank Lloyd Wright
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Cameron Swayze

Question 10:


Who said, "Television has done much for psychiatry, spreading information about it as well as the need for it."?
Sid Cesar
Alfred Hitchcock
Howie Morris
Carl Reiner

 
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