Movie Piracy
Multiple Choice Oral Comprehension Quiz
This is quiz to check your general comprehension of the 60 Minutes' report on Movie Piracy located on the "Graduate Page" of my blog. First watch the news report and jot down as many details as you can hear. Then do the quiz and see how well you understood! Good luck!
- Rephrase this sentence: "It's bleeding Hollywood to the tune of a billion dollars per year."
- Hollywood is losing a billion dollars a year due to internet piracy.
- Hollywood is giving a billion dollars to combat internet piracy.
- Hollywood is gaining a billion dollars through internet piracy.
- These are small time operators selling VHS cassettes on the sidewalk. Small time operators are:
- local phone dealers
- small business owners
- petty criminals
- The authorities are finding it hard to keep up (with these crimes). "Keep up" means:
- stay behind
- stay ahead of
- stay abreast with
- We're LA Police Department. We have a search warrant. Open up the doors. A "police warrant" is:
- a piece of paper giving police the right to search your property
- a piece of paper promising police overtime pay
- an insurance policy giving police protection against criminals
- ...movie titles that recently came out... Find the best verb synonym for "to come out".
- appeared
- bought
- left
- They were wholesalers who acted like mobsters. What's the opposite of a "wholesaler"?
- a retailer
- an owner
- an inventory
- They would pick up customers in this van and drive them around blindfolded before bringing them here to fill their large orders. Rephrase the beginning of this sentence:
- They used to pick up customers...
- They will be able to pick up customers...
- They wanted to pick up customers...
- Where do you sit in a movie theatre?
- in a window seat
- in an armchair
- in a seat in a row
- What is a multiplex?
- a shopping mall
- a movie theater
- an internet cafe
- This is more commonplace. What does commonplace mean?
- serious
- prevalent
- mundane
- They act as lookouts? What is a lookout?
- a person who stands guard
- a person who stares at people
- a person who takes care of someone
- What is the MPAA?
- The Movie Police Active Agency
- The Motion Picture Association of America
- The Movement of Pirates of America Association
- A diaper is what in American English?
- a nappy
- a hat
- a sweater
- They've cut out the cupholder, and they'll set the camera in it. How is "will" used in this phrase?
- to designate a future action
- to designated a desire
- to designate habitual actions
- What is the opposite of "to upload"?
- to delete
- to download
- to install
- What are the 3 components of internet piracy according to investigator Gary Kissinger?
- Downloading, uploading, and sharing
- Copying, uploading, and sharing
- Camcording, internet piracy activities, and selling the movies on the street.
- Who is John Malcolm?
- a former justice department official specializing in intellectual property
- the former LAPD Police Chief
- a retired police investigator
- "a barrel of money" means:
- a ton of money
- a small amount of money
- a bank heist
- What are the Mexican Drug Cartels brazenly doing?
- selling DVDs on the streets of Las Vegas
- stamping their DVDs with their logos
- erasing the watermarks on films
- It's breathtaking! Translate breathtaking into French:
- suffocant
- stupéfiant
- décevant
- Why are the Mexican drug cartels getting into internet piracy?
- to make more money
- to diversify their activities
- to enter the International market
- What other crimes do the drug cartels commit?
- Car theft, prostution, drug trafficking, burglaries, bank robberies
- Gambling, human trafficking, drug dealing, child prostitution, and counterfeiting
- Prostitution, human trafficking, terrorism, murders, and kidnapping.
- What is gee whiz technology?
- It is internet technology.
- It is cutting edge technology.
- It is movie technology.
- What does a bittorrent program do?
- It copies whole films and distributes them throughout the internet.
- It streams movie files over the internet allowing people to copy them more easily.
- It takes a large movie file and breaks it up into small pieces making it easier to trade in a swarm
- Why did Steven Soderbergh, a Hollywood A-Lister and vice-president of the directors guild of America, say that he wished Al Gore hadn't invented the internet.
- During his 1988 presidential campaign Al Gore had bragged that he had invented the internet.
- Because Al Gore had helped the U.S. Defense Department invent the first networks.
- Because Al Gore invented the internet with Bill Gates.
- How much money per year is Hollywood losing at the Box Office because of piracy according to Steven Soderbergh?
- $3 Billion
- $6 Billion
- $9 Billion
- A fancy overpaid movie star who can well afford it. What does "to afford" mean?
- to be able to pay for something
- to be able to find a job
- to be able to borrow money
- The camcorder recorded movies are creating all the havoc. What is havoc?
- enthusiasm
- worry
- chaos
- How much can you be fined now in France for downloading illegally a movie?
- $1,500,000
- $1,000,000
- $500,000
- There is reluctance in the US to pass a similar law? What is the best synonmy of "reluctance"?
- unwillingness
- fear
- hesitation
- What do some moviegoers in Los Angeles have to do before entering the premiere of a movie?
- take off their clothes
- get a special invitation
- Check their cellphones
- How are dogs helping in the search for illegal DVDs?
- They are trained to dig them up.
- They are trained to sniff for them.
- They are trained to download them.
- What are some movie producers doing to trace the origin of DVDs?
- They're putting special logos on the frames of movies.
- They're marking the cover of DVDs to trace their origin.
- They're placing a watermark on one frame of the movie which is naked to the human eye to trace it back to the theater which showed it.
- How was movie pirate Erardo Ariano caught?
- He talked too much.
- A family member gave him in.
- The watermark on a movie led to his arrest.
- How many arrests have the movie theater chain AMC helped police to make?
- 55 arrests.
- 65 arrests.
- 45 arrests.
- How much progress have police made in cracking down on movie piracy?
- They've hardly lent their hand at reducing this crime.
- They've substantially bent the curb thereby reducing slightly the number of copies.
- They've barely made a dent.
- According to.Richard Cotton, an executive vice president with NBC Universal Studios, how many movies are released every year in the U.S. and how many are pirated?
- Between 400 and 500 movies per year and every one of them is pirated winding up on the internet.
- Between 400 and 500 movies per year and half of them is pirated.
- Between 400 and 500 movies per year and three out of four films is pirated.
- How long did it take pirates to copy the movie 'The Dark Knight'?
- 24 hours
- 12 hours
- 36 hours
- What effects does this piracy have on Hollywood?
- It is only investing in independent films.
- It is investing in 3-D movies which can't be hacked.
- It is less likely to invest in a risky venture.
- What conclusion does the younger generation draw from downloading movies from the internet?
- It's a sport.
- They know they're doing something wrong but they do it anyway.
- If it's so easy, it can't be wrong.