First Post, First Quiz, Second Semester

1. The first photo that was "sent across the wire" was sent on January 1, 1935.
2. The photo that was first sent across telephone wires was a picture of a plane crash; it was black and white and it looked almost scratched up because the picture quality wasn't good.
3. Twenty-five cities received this first photo of the plane crash.
4. The Hindenburg was the blimp that got blown up.
5. The Glenn Miller Orchestra performed the popular tine of "In the Mood" during this era.
6. The magazine that used the concept of picture magic was Life.
7. The United States government agency that documented poverty in the 1930s was the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
8. The African-American photographer that worked for this agency was Gordon Parks.
9. The painting that inspired Gordon Parks' best known photograph was the painting of the man and woman in front of a church known as "American Gothic" by Grant Wood. 
10. The famous landscape photographer that was shown in the video was Ansel Adams.
11. Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941.
12. The pin-up girl was a girl who wore a bathing suit, had her hair up, and wore high heels.
13. Between D-Day and the first photo sent "across the wire," was 9 years.
14. Robert Capa took the famous photos on Normandy Beach during D-Day.
15. Rosenthal's picture with the American Flag were soldiers holding up the American Flag on a mountain at the Battle of Iwo Jima.