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Great World War
1. World War I was the ultimate outgrowth of a chain reaction starting with an assassination that took place in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Who was the victim of that assassination?
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Government and History
1. One of the chief characters in discussions of the Wild West is the sheriff. Where did the word "sheriff" originate?
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Hair
1. This filamentous biomaterial grows from follicles found in the dermis. What is it?
2. The average numbers of hair on the head is highest with people of this hair color. Name it.
3. True or false: Hair grows faster in cold weather.
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Richard Wagstaff ‘Dick' Clark
1. In what year did "American Bandstand" first air on television? For bragging rights, also name the city where it aired.
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Censorship1. What do the terms "bleeping," "broadcast delay," "revisionism," and "whitewashing" have in common? 2. This term is used to describe the discouragement of a legitimate exercise of a constitutional right by the threat of a legal sanction. What is it? 3 In the 1915 case of Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, the Supreme Court made a decision that impacted the film industry. What decision was made? 4. Can you define copyright and trademark? 5. True or false: Trademarks can last as long as they are used for that purpose of identifying a source of a product, but copyrights can have a limited time. 6. Wikipedia's English-language pages, Mozilla Firefox, Google and others recently blacked out portions of their web sites or provided a link to a page from which users could sign a petition entitled "Tell Congress: Don't Censor the Web" in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. A similar effort was made in 2003. Name the 2003 issue. 7. What 1996 event led to the sporting of virtual black armbands and blue ribbons by many online search engines and lawsuits seeking injunctions against enforcement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation? 8. Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen and Bradley Manning were all accused of breaking this form of censorship, which is used to counter espionage (the process of gleaning military or sensitive government information). 9. On their website, the United States Patent and Trademark Office define four ways to protect different types of intellectual property.
10.Advertising for this company comically portrays a talking dog that has been trying to sell the family recipe for years. Can you name the product? For bragging rights, also name the lovable canine.
Answers: 1. The terms listed all refer to methods of censoring information, data or speech. 2. Chilling effect. 3. Films are not protected by the free speech provisions in the First Amendment of the Constitution. 4. Trademarks are words, names, designs or logos used to identify the source of a product, while copyright protects those who author or produce creative works. 5. True. Trademarks can last as long as they are used for that purpose. However, copyright gives the creators of original works certain exclusive rights to license, sell, reproduce, publicly perform and otherwise exploit the work, usually for a limited time. 6. In 2003, a coalition of mostly technological companies joined together to oppose legislation backed by the movie studios that would allow the U.S. government to set antipiracy standards for PCs and consumer-electronics devices. 7. The passage of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, signed into law by President Clinton. This Act was Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and was the part of the bill that outlawed the transmission of sexually explicit materials to minors. 8. Military censorship. In wartime, explicit censorship is carried out with the intent of preventing the release of information that might be useful to an enemy. 9. Patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. 10.Bush's Baked Beans with Duke the dog. Take "The Answer Man" to work or to school. Challenge your friends for "Bragging Rights." Send your questions and answers to: The Answer Man, Dawn Seamans-Shook. ACSTAM@gmail.com COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM
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