Question: What is a reason a DJ would prefer vinyl to CD?
Answer: direct manipulation

Question: In what techniques would a DJ require a vinyl record?
Answer: slip-cueing, beatmatching, and scratching

Question: Are all turn tables capable of DJ manipulation of vinyl records?
Answer: provided the stylus, record player, and record itself are built to withstand it

Question: What is commonly preferred by DJs vinyl or CD?
Answer: any electronic dance music and hip hop releases today are still preferred on vinyl

Question: Had vinyl technology ceased expanding?
Answer: However, many CDJ and DJ advances, such as DJ software and time-encoded vinyl, now have these capabilities and more.

Question: Whom set the most recent sales record of vinyl records since 1991?
Answer: Jack White

Question: What medium has seen the biggest fall in sales as of late?
Answer: compact discs

Question: What was unique to vinyl sales in 2014?
Answer: was the only physical music medium with increasing sales with relation to the previous year

Question: Who sold 34,000 vinyl records in 1994?
Answer: Pearl Jam

Question: Prior to 2014 when was the most recent large sale of vinyl records?
Answer: 1991

Question: Warner Bros. pictures before what year are part of the Turner Entertainment library?
Answer: 1950

Question: Up until what month and year of release are films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer part of the Turner Entertainment library?
Answer: May 1986

Question: What company owns TCM and Warner Bros.?
Answer: Time Warner

Question: What is Turner Classic Movies called in France?
Answer: TCM Cinéma

Question: What is the Spanish version of Turner Classic Movies?
Answer: TCM España

Question: How much did Ted Turner pay for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer?
Answer: $1.5 billion

Question: In what year did Ted Turner buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer?
Answer: 1986

Question: Who did Ted Turner sell Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to?
Answer: Kirk Kerkorian

Question: Who did Ted Turner buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from?
Answer: Kirk Kerkorian

Question: Up to what date of release did Turner retain ownership of the MGM film library?
Answer: May 9, 1986

Question: On what network did Turner Entertainment's film library air prior to the creation of TCM?
Answer: TNT

Question: What was a notable film that Turner colorized?
Answer: The Maltese Falcon

Question: Who did Turner ink a deal with to distribute Warner Bros. films from before 1950?
Answer: MGM/UA

Question: The MGM/UA-Turner deal concerned MGM films released prior to what date?
Answer: May 1986

Question: How many subscribers had access to TCM upon it launch?
Answer: one million

Question: When TCM premiered, what was AMC called?
Answer: American Movie Classics

Question: What sorts of films did American Movie Classics primarily show?
Answer: released prior to 1970

Question: By what year was AMC showing commercials?
Answer: 2002

Question: With what company did Turner Broadcasting Systems merge in 1996?
Answer: Time Warner

Question: Along with Lorimar and National General Pictures, what library was included in the Warner Bros. library?
Answer: Saul Zaentz

Question: When did MGM give Warner Home Video the rights to MGM/UA's films on home video?
Answer: March 1999

Question: In what year did TCM begin the Young Composers Film Competition?
Answer: 2000

Question: How often is the Young Composers Film Competition?
Answer: annual

Question: What is the grand prize in the Young Composers Film Competition?
Answer: score a restored, feature-length silent film

Question: In what year was Laugh, Clown, Laugh released?
Answer: 1928

Question: Who starred in The Temptress?
Answer: Greta Garbo

Question: In what year did TCM receive a Peabody Award?
Answer: 2008

Question: For what reason is a Peabody Award granted?
Answer: excellence in broadcasting

Question: When did the inaugural TCM Classic Film Festival take place?
Answer: April 2010

Question: In addition to the Grauman's Chinese Theater, where did the first TCM Classic Film Festival take place?
Answer: Grauman's Egyptian Theater

Question: Where is Grauman's Chinese Theater located?
Answer: Hollywood

Question: What were TCM Extras previously known as?
Answer: One Reel Wonders

Question: When did short films from TCM begin to stream on TCM's website?
Answer: 2007

Question: Along with The Passing Parade, Crime Does Not Pay and Pete Smith Specialties, what short subjects feature on TCM?
Answer: Robert Benchley

Question: Along with :45, :30 and :15 past the hour, at what time do TCM features begin?
Answer: top of the hour

Question: In what year did the Motion Picture Association of America introduce its rating system?
Answer: 1968

Question: In what year did the Motion Picture Production Code cease?
Answer: 1968

Question: What rating system is often used by TCM?
Answer: TV Parental Guidelines

Question: What retrospective of the Oscars is shown yearly on TCM?
Answer: 31 Days of Oscar

Question: When does TCM's programming season begin?
Answer: February

Question: On its standard definition broadcast, what format does TCM use to preserve the original aspect ratio?
Answer: letterboxed

Question: Along with Cary Grant, who is a notable actor whose career a viewer might follow on TCM?
Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Question: Who owns the Selznick International Pictures library?
Answer: Walt Disney Studios

Question: Who is the owner of Columbia Pictures content?
Answer: Sony Pictures Entertainment

Question: How many films are present in the TCM library?
Answer: thousands

Question: Who owns the majority of pre-1950 Paramount sound releases?
Answer: EMKA, Ltd./NBCUniversal Television Distribution

Question: Who owns Paramount?
Answer: Viacom

Question: Who holds TV distribution rights to Paramount's post-1949 releases?
Answer: Trifecta Entertainment & Media

Question: Who owns Walt Disney Studios?
Answer: The Walt Disney Company

Question: Who manages the TV distribution of Walt Disney Studios?
Answer: Disney-ABC Domestic Television

Question: Who presents films on TCM on Wednesday nights?
Answer: Robert Osborne

Question: What is Robert Osborne by profession?
Answer: film historian

Question: Why did Robert Osborne stop presenting films on TCM for several months?
Answer: medical leave

Question: Who presents Silent Sunday Nights?
Answer: Ben Mankiewicz

Question: What is the time period covered by prime time and the early overnight?
Answer: 8:00 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Eastern Time

Question: On what day of the week are Star of the Month films aired?
Answer: Wednesdays

Question: Who hosts the Star of the Month films?
Answer: Robert Osbourne

Question: During what month and year did TCM Guest Programmer feature TCM employees as guests?
Answer: February 2011

Question: In what year did Spike Lee appear as a TCM Guest Programmer?
Answer: 2012

Question: When does 31 Days of Oscar occur?
Answer: month preceding the Academy Awards

Question: When does the Summer Under the Stars event take place?
Answer: August

Question: As of 2015, who hosted The Essentials along with Robert Osborne?
Answer: Sally Field

Question: On what day does The Essentials have its first airing each week?
Answer: Saturday

Question: On what day are repeats of The Essentials shown?
Answer: Sunday

Question: What movie block shows silent films?
Answer: Silent Sunday Nights

Question: What movie block shows foreign films?
Answer: TCM Imports

Question: When did TCM Underground first appear?
Answer: October 2006

Question: On what day is TCM Underground shown?
Answer: Friday

Question: Who was the first host of TCM Underground?
Answer: Rob Zombie

Question: In what month does the Summer Under the Stars event take place?
Answer: August

Question: Who hosted Funday Night at the Movies?
Answer: Tom Kenny

Question: What character was Tom Kenny best known for portraying?
Answer: SpongeBob SquarePants

Question: In what year did Funday Night at the Movies first appear?
Answer: 2007

Question: What series replaced Funday Night at the Movies?
Answer: Essentials Jr.