Yr 10 'Popular Culture' (Retroactive 10) Quiz

Which Christian organisation set up a film unit in Australia in 1900?

Which one is not true of the Hippies movement of the 1960s?

What two movies did Bill Haley bring together?

Which was the first shopping mall to open in Australia?

What is considered to be the first feature film ever made in the world?

What is not true of the role of Radio broadcasting in Australia in the 1930s and 40s?

The Beatles took the world by storm in the...?

Who was one of the most popular singer protest songwriters?

Colour TV was introduced in Australia in the...?

Who introduced the World Cricket Series to Australia and the world?

Who did not win medals for Australia at the Olympic Games in 1956?

Who recorded their major hit in 1956?

How did poker machine legislation & selling rights to commercial TV change sport in Australia?

Until the early1960s, most children in Australian schools left school in what is now Year 10.

How many episodes did the radio version of 'Dad and Dave' have?

In which country/ies were radio stations not fully or partially government controlled?

What were the main reasons (focus points of) the hippie movement? 

Protest songs played a very important part in workers' movement in the...? 

List 2 new technologies that became popular by 1945.

Who made black music acceptable between the 1950’s and 1970’s? 

What resulted from the change of government and leadership in Australia in 1975?

The first Olympic Games to be hosted in Australia in 1956 took place in?

Surf music was very popular where before it spread further afield?

When did US surfing songs Pipeline, Wipeout & Surfin USA reach high on Australian charts?

When was the first shopping centre built in Victoria?

The main factors that influenced changes in popular culture in the 1960s were...?

When did Australia start transmitting radio broadcast stations?

TV began transmitting in Australian capital cities around the same time as in US and UK cities.

What was the ABC based on?

What was one of Australia’s most famous ABC radio stations that ran from 1949-1976?