Q 01/05

NBC was founded in 1926 as a division of which company?

A) Radio Corporation of America

B) American Telephone & Telegraph

C) Westinghouse Electric

D) Columbia Phonograph

Answer · why

A) Radio Corporation of America

RCA kept a 50 percent stake, and regular broadcasts began on 15 November 1926.

Q 02/05

Which company bought a controlling stake in NBCUniversal in January 2011?

A) Charter

B) Comcast

C) Verizon

D) DirecTV

Answer · why

B) Comcast

Comcast took a 51 percent controlling stake in NBCUniversal in January 2011 and bought out the remaining share in 2013; 30 Rockefeller Plaza was renam...

Q 03/05

NBC's peacock logo was introduced in 1956 to promote what?

A) Stereo sound

B) Coast-to-coast live TV

C) Color broadcasting

D) Videotape recording

Answer · why

C) Color broadcasting

Color broadcasting: the bird debuted in 1956 as an on-air emblem for NBC's color programs, at a time when the network's parent company was selling col...

Q 04/05

How many feathers did the original 1956 NBC peacock have?

A) Five

B) Six

C) Nine

D) Eleven

Answer · why

D) Eleven

The original 1956 bird had eleven feathers; the 1986 redesign cut it to six, one for each division of the network at the time.

Q 05/05

Which division did yellow represent in NBC's six-feather 1986 logo?

A) News

B) Sports

C) Entertainment

D) Stations

Answer · why

A) News

News was yellow in the 1986 six-feather logo; Sports was orange, Entertainment red, Stations purple, Network blue and Productions green.