What is “America's Got Talent”?
A: America's Got Talent is a televised American talent show competition.
It is part of the global Got Talent franchise created
by whom?
A: Simon Cowell.
When did It premiere?
A: On June 21, 2006.
Each season is mainly run during the network's what?
A: Summer schedule and has featured various hosts over the course of the
program's history.
Who is the current host?
A: Terry Crews.
The program attracts a variety of participants from
across the United States and abroad, who possess some form of what?
A: Talents.
Participants making it into the live episodes, compete
against each other for what?
A: Both the judges' and public's vote, in order to reach the live final.
The winner receives what?
A: A large cash prize, and since the third season, a chance to headline a
show on the Las Vegas Strip.
The show itself has been a rating success for NBC,
drawing in on average how many viewers per season?
A: Around 10 million
In 2013, a book titled Inside AGT: The Untold Stories
of America's Got Talent was released, providing what?
A: A description of the seasons, contestants, judges and production
techniques of the show.
Since July 2021, the program has run for a total of how
many seasons?
A: Sixteen seasons.
The seventeenth season of the main series premiered
when?
A: In May 2022.
Simon Cowell, creator of America's Got Talent and the
Got Talent franchise, is primarily a what?
A: A judge on the British international version of the franchise.
He has operated as a judge on AGT since when?
A: May 2016.
Each year's competition begins with a set of audition
stages, the first being the "Producers' Auditions", is conducted where?
A: Across various cities in the United States.
Upon being called before the judges, the participant is
given how long to demonstrate their act?
A: 90 seconds.
Each judge is given a buzzer and may use it during a
performance if they are what?
A: Unimpressed, dislike what is being performed, or feel the act is a waste
of their time.
If a participant is buzzed by all judges, their
performance is what?
A: Automatically over.
A participant requires a majority vote approving their
performance to proceed to the next stage, otherwise they are what?
A: Eliminated from the program at that stage.
From the fifth to seventh seasons, acts who did not
attend live auditions could instead do what?
A: Submit a taped audition online via YouTube.
In the ninth season, the show added what new format to
the auditions?
A: The "Golden Buzzer", which began to make appearances within the Got
Talent franchise, since it was first introduced on
Germany's Got Talent.
During auditions, each judge is allowed to use the
Golden Buzzer to do what?
A: To send an act automatically into the live shows, regardless of the
opinion of the other judges.
When it was initially used, the buzzer did what?
A: Saved an act from elimination.
The only rule to the buzzer was what?
A: That a judge could use it only once per season.
Between the fourth and ninth season, the format was
changed to do what?
A: To match that used in Britain's Got Talent.