ProCon’s Binge-Watching Quiz

Question: Streaming services began doing what between 2023 and 2025?

Answer: Between 2023 and 2025 streaming services began rationing episodes, releasing only a single episode each week. The development was dubbed “stinge-watching.”

Question: By 2025 how many episodes of a show were the majority of Americans watching in one binge-watching session?

Answer: By 2025 some 77 percent of Americans binge-watched monthly, spending on average in a single binge-watching session 4.1 hours on 5.5 episodes of a show.

Question: Binge-watching became a phenomenon when all of the episodes in a season of which hit show were released at one time?

Answer: In 2013 Netflix released at one time all 13 episodes in the first season of the hit political series House of Cards, ushering in the age of binge-watching.

Question: By 2025 which generation was binge-watching the most?

Answer: By 2025 the most binge-busy viewers were Gen Zers (born 1997–2012); 86 percent of them admitted to monthly binge-watching.

Question: Which event spurred a surge in binge-watching in 2020?

Answer: The COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns of 2020 led to a sharp increase in binge-watching.

Question: When did the Collins English Dictionary declare “binge-watch” the word of the year?

Answer: The Collins English Dictionary declared binge-watch the word of the year in 2015, reporting that use of the term had increased 200 percent over the prior year.

Question: Which of the following is not an argument in favor of binge-watching?

Answer: This is an argument against binge-watching.

Question: Which is the most common reason for ending a binge-watching session?

Answer: According to one study, the top reason for ending a binge-watching session was exhaustion and the need for sleep, followed by the completion of a season.