Theatre Tech History Quiz #1

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History of Purple, Plywood and Rolling Thunder

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When making plywood, logs are placed in water to: *

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Harden the wood

Soften the Wood

Clean the Wood

Remove Bugs, Pests, Animals, and Cody if he happens to be hiding on the log

When making plywood, bark is removed *

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Before rotary cutting

To see what species of tree it is

Because it's loud (woof woof... get it?)

to prepare for the table saw

A veneer is a.... *

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Long thick piece of wood

very thin piece of wood

a special type of nail used in making plywood

another name for the bark

Venners are cut from the logs using a ... *

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bandsaw

table saw

lathe

Chop Saw

For maximum strength, glued veneer layers are laid running *

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perpendicular to each other

parallel to each other

trick question, they are not glued

sometimes a 5k but often a marathon

Purple is the color of Royalty because... *

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It was very expensive and difficult to make

Royal people hate snails and like to see them hit with hammers

Purple just looks cooler on Royalty than other colors

Purple is just a fun color to say... "puuurple"

How many snails needed to be smashed to dye one cloak? *

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1000000

1000

768

How long does it take to ferment the snails to get the actual dye? *

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10 days

6 days

8 hrs

24 hrs

When making purple what would they add to the mixture to make it an alkaline solution? *

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Snails

wood ash

ritz dye

wood bark

What happens to the purple dye solution if it is not kept in the dark? *

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It takes the redness out

It ends up blue not purple

Both it removes the redness and ends up blue not purple

During the 19th Century how did Theater Technicians replicate thunder sound fx. *

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sound effects played over the speakers

Rolling a cannon ball down a wooden trough

Actors rumbling

holding shows only during storms

What has happened to most practical effects over the years? *

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the area they took up was often converted to storage space

sold on Ebay

they are still in use

there are no longer effects in theater

What are rolled down the "Thunder Roll"? *

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Golf Balls

Bowling Balls

Billard Balls

Cannon Balls

The existing Thunder Roll in North Carolina is currently used but *

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occasionally cannon balls fall from the sky

needs microphones because of a fire wall that has been added to the theatre

due to modern weather technology is often replaced by actual thunder

the balls now must roll uphill

Up untill recently there were two exisiting Thunder Rolls in the United States, North Carolina and... *

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South Carolina

Colorado

New York

Ohio

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