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Boeing 747 | The executive Malcolm T. Stamper is best known for leading 50,000 people in a huge plant at Everett, Washington in the 1960s for the construction of what engineering marvel? |
Shanghai | If Manhattan is the financial hub of New York, the area of Pudong is the similar equivalent for which city? |
Walmart | What giant that operates as Asda in the United Kingdom, Seiyu in Japan and Best Price in India is also the biggest private employer in the world? |
Goodyear blimps | Since the 1960s, what advertising objects come in three models called GZ-19, GZ-20 and GZ-22? |
Napster | "The discovery of Metallica's song ""I Disappear"" on a file sharing network in 2000 started a chain of events that led to the demise of the original incarnation of what company?" |
Guinness | Arthur's Day refers to events first organised in 2009 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of what brewing company, the name Arthur being the first name of the founder? |
Facebook | In 2010, which company reportedly bought the domain name of a farm bureau for $8.5 million, clearly interested in the F and the B? |
Malcolm Forbes | Which American tycoon and publisher of a magazine was known for his lavish life-style that included a collection of special shape hot air balloons? |
Deepwater Horizon | What is the name of the oil rig that sank and caused the largest offshore oil spill in US history and gave BP a bad rep in 2010? |
Netscape | Which dot-com company that had its heyday in the 90s is credited with the development of the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol for secure online communication as well as with JavaScript? |
Volkswagen | Which company/product connected with transportation is associated with the immensely successful 'Think Small' ad campaign? |
Krupp family | Which 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen is known for the industrial production of steel and armaments and has been known as the 'Arsenal of the Reich'? |
Paul Samuelson | Which influential author of Economics: An Introductory Analysis, the largest-selling economics textbook of all time is also the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Economics? |
Pepsi Cola | In 1984, while filming a commercial for which company did Michael Jackson suffer second degree burns after pyrotechnics set his hair on fire? |
Sotheby's | Appropriately, which company's NYSE symbol is 'BID'? |
Puffin Books | The children's literature section of the publisher Penguin Books works under what name? |
Computer mouse | The American inventor Douglas Engelbart is best known for inventing which ubiquitous 'clicking' device? |
1984 | What is the title of the landmark television commercial that launched the Apple Macintosh in the US in January 1984? |
Union Carbide | Which company was responsible for the Bhopal disaster in 1984 that is frequently cited as the world's worst industrial disaster? |
Mazda | The name of which company is supposedly derived from the transcandental god of Zoraastrianism? |
Bluetooth | Harald ___ Gromson was the king of Denmark in the 10th century and is regarded as having united Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. How is his name popular in the technological world? |
Toyota Corolla | What is the all time bestselling car in the world? |
Augusto Pinochet | In the 1970s, 'The Chicago Boys' were a group of 25 economists working under which South American dictator's administration to create a free market economy? |
Wired | Marshall McLuhan was named as the 'patron saint' of which magazine that had his quote on its masthead for the first ten years of its publication? |
Neutron Jack | What 'nuclear' nickname was given to Jack Welch in the 1980s for eliminating employees while leaving the office buildings intact? |
Black mamba | The design of Nike's Air Jordan basketball shoe was reportedly inspired by which deadly African slithering creature? |
Frozen | Composer Frode Fjellheim was praised by Norway's president in a New Year's speech for his contribution to what 2013 hit film that amply features elements of the country's native culture? |
"""No Animals Were Harmed""" | If you see the name of the organization American Humane Association in the credits of a movie or a television show, what 4-word phrase are you also most likely to see? |
Live narration | Performers called benshi in Japan provided what service to film-goers particularly in the days of silent cinema? |
Love Me Tender | What 1956 film was to be called The Reno Brothers when a hit song passing the one million sales mark was noticed by the producers causing a change in the title? |
Twelve Angry Men | Reginald Rose was once part of a jury that debated a manslaughter case for eight hours. This incident inspired him to create what drama that has seen multiple adaptations? |
Tic-tac-toe | In the 1983 thriller WarGames, the protagonists prevent nuclear war by directing a computer to play what game against itself? |
Topaz | The Sapphire Affair of 1962 connected with the Cuban Missile Crisis was the basis of what similarly titled 1969 Hitchcock thriller? |
Saving Private Ryan | In what film does General George Marshall read the Bixby letter, a real-life missive sent by Abraham Lincoln to a bereaved mother of five sons, before flagging off the titular mission? |
Return of the King | Introducing what eventual Best Picture winner at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony in 2004 did host Billy Crystal quip that it received eleven nominations, one for each ending? |
Sword-and-sandal | What 3-word term is given to the genre of kitschy Italian films of the mid 20th century that sought to emulate the historic epics of Hollywood like Spartacus? |
Apollo 13 | The 1994 book Lost Moon is the basis of what subsequent year's Hollywood hit? |
Gran Torino | In which 2008 movie of Clint Eastwood are the Hmong people prominently featured? |
Cinderella | In Caddyshack, Bill Murray as Carl Spackler fantasizes winning the Masters golf tournament while comparing himself to which character in his monologue? |
Machu Picchu | In The Motorcycle Diaries, at what location does Che Guevera muse how a civilization capable of creating such beauty could be destroyed by the creators of the urban decay of a nearby city? |
3-D | "The 1952 movie Bwana Devil that had on its poster the lines ""A lion is in your lap!"" and ""A lover is in your arms!"" is known for sparking what craze?" |
Molokai | A 1999 movie starring Peter O'Toole as Father Damien had the name of what island of the Hawaiian archipelago as its title? |
Seeing pink elephants | What phrase used by Jack London in John Barleycorn to describe alcoholism was later referenced in Dumbo when the elephant hallucinates after drinking water spiked with champagne? |
Gangs of New York | What connects Martin Scorsese to the names The Dead Rabbits, The Daybreak Boys, and The Whyos (among others)? |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | A sword called Green Destiny occupies a prominent spot in the story of what 2000 world-wide hit movie? |
The Motorcycle Diaries | "The executive producer of what 2004 biopic stated that the main character in the movie ""is more akin to Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassady than Marx or Lenin""?" |
When Harry Met Sally | In 1995, two Stanford researchers came up with a selected list of film clips able to elicit a single emotion. What 1989 film's scene that takes place in Katz's Delicatessen was the top-rated clip for amusement? (hint: what was she really having?) |
Indonesia | If The Quiet American (2002) is to Vietnam, The Killing Fields (1984) is to Cambodia, then The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) is to what country? |
Steadicam | What invention of Garrett Brown that 'smoothens' movie viewing experience saw its debut in Bound for Glory and subsequently in the chase scenes of Marathon Man? |
Lady Godiva | "The English actress Diana Dors once called herself ""the only sex symbol Britain has produced since"" which person? No peeping or you'll go blind." |
Vertigo (1958) | What Hitchcock classic is said to use the Madonna-whore complex to represent a lead figure, the same woman simultaneously representing virtue and debasement? |
Ramen | The 1985 Japanese comedy Tampopo was publicized as not sphagetti, but what type of western? |
The Fugitive | Cheoah Dam in North Carolina was the real-life location of the 'dive scene' in what 1993 movie in which the protagonist is wrongly accused of murder? |
Wooden eye | Pintel and Ragetti are a recurring comedy pair in a 2000s adventure film franchise set on high seas. What possession of Ragetti that is repeatedly hit by a fork is he usually seen to be searching for? |
Death Wish | The producer of what 1970s film wanted to call it The Sidewalk Vigilante as he felt the title (which stayed) was too morbid? |
Caddyshack | For an American Express ad, Tiger Woods once donned the role of Carl Spackler, a character from what 1980 comedy set at the Bushwood Country Club? |
Magnificent Desolation | The 2-word title of what 2005 documentary about the moon landings comes from how Buzz Aldrin described the moonscape while conversing with Neil Armstrong? |
Burkina Faso | Called the biggest regular cultural event on the African continent, FESPACO, the largest African film festival takes place in the capital of which country? (hint: formerly Upper Volta) |
An American Werewolf in London | Rick Baker won the inaugural Oscar award for make-up for his showcasing of beastly transformation in which 1981 John Landis' cult classic? |
"""Shawshank""" | "After the duet ""Sull'aria...che soave zeffiretto"" from The Marriage of Figaro plays on loudspeakers in a film, a voice-over goes: ""I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. [...] I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. [...] It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in ___ felt free."" What is the missing word?" |
Martin Scorsese | Editor Thelma Schoonmaker's successful collaboration with which director fetched her three Oscars in 1980, 2004 and 2006? (hint: the director won only once till date in one of these years) |
Hollywood sign | In 1978 following a public campaign to restore it, the following nine gave $27,777 for each of its components: Terrence Donnelly, Giovanni Mazza (Italian movie producer), Les Kelley, Gene Autry, Hugh Hefner, Andy Williams, Warner Bros. Records, Alice Cooper and Thomas Pooley. It was a campaign to preserve what nine letter symbol? |
Alien | What frightening sci-fi film character, also called a xenomorph, was designed by H. R. Giger from a lithograph titled Necronom IV? |
Rififi | The set piece of what classic 1955 one-word French film is a 30-min heist scene filmed in near silence and which has inspired real crimes around the world? |
Snow White | In 1954 the British genius Alan Turing was found dead with a half-eaten apple next to his body. Although the apple was not tested for cyanide, the cause of his death was established as cyanide poisoning. It was suggested that Turing was re-enacting a scene from which 1937 film that was based on his favorite (and universally loved) fairy tale? |
The Lion King | The main setting in what 1994 classic is modeled after Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya where crew members of the film spent time to study on the film's setting and observe the animals? |
Romancing the Stone | According to imdb.com, the title of what Michael Douglas 1984 hit that is set in South America refers to a step in the preparation of a gem for use in jewelry? |
Cremona | The 1998 Canadian movie The Red Violin that traces the story of a mysterious violin across Vienna, Oxford, Shanghai, and Montreal starts off in what Italian location? |
Criterion Collection | What video-distribution company known for standardizing features like letterbox ratio, bonus features, and special editions started in 1984 with the releases of Citizen Kane and King Kong? |
The Departed | In June 2011, FBI arrested Boston mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger near Los Angeles after a 16 year manhunt. He was the inspiration behind the character of Frank Costello in which Oscar-winning film? |
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | What 1920 horror classic from Germany that tells the story of a doctor and his sidekick Cesare in the village of Holstenwall is said to have introduced the concept of twist ending in cinema? |
Hollywood Walk of Fame | What runs for about 1.3 miles on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles county and is said to attract 10 million tourists every year? |
Calcutta | The Bengali films Pratidwandi, Seemabaddha and Jana Aranya directed by the Oscar winning Satyajit Ray are known as the trilogy of what Indian city to which he was strongly associated? |
Das Boot | The authentic Nazi submarine used in Raiders of the Lost Ark was rented from the production of what 1981 epic war film that tells the fictional story of the crew of U-boat U-96? |
The Great Escape | Paul Brickhill, an Australian pilot during WWII was shot down over Tunisia and became a POW in Germany; his experiences at the camp, which not every Tom, Dick or Harry could have had were dramatized in what 1963 'break-out' drama? |
Kill Bill | The 1973 Japanese film Lady Snowblood that is about a woman seeking vengeance upon her parents' killers was the inspiration behind what 2000s 2-part blockbuster? |
The Last Picture Show | The title of what poignant 1971 drama film set in Anarene, Texas refers to the fact of the town's only cinema closing forever? |
The Bodyguard | "Which 1992 romantic-thriller that had two Oscar nominated songs in ""I Have Nothing"" and ""Run to You"" has spawned the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time?" |
The Social Network | "What Oscar nominated 2010 movie was adapted from the book The Accidental Billionaires and advertised with the tagline ""You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies""?" |
Terms of Endearment | The 1996 movie The Evening Star starring Shirley MacLaine who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway is a sequel to which Oscar-winning movie of the 1980s? |
Horror | Hammer Film Productions, the British company which made a series films from the mid-1950s until the 1970s is best known for which genre? |
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears | Which 1979 Russian movie that tells the story of three women who come to the titular city was watched by Ronald Reagan prior to his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev in order for him to gain a better understanding of the 'Russian soul'? |
Leo Tolstoy | The 2009 biographical film The Last Station starring Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren is about the last year in the life of which literary figure who died in 1910 at Astapovo train station? |
Gattaca | What 1997 science fiction drama that deals with eugenics takes its title from a combination of the initial letters of the four DNA bases of Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine? |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Which 2001 film is based on the story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss that deals with the age of machines where child creation is controlled? |
Jack Palance | If you are given the words - City Slickers and push-ups, can you name the person? |
The 400 Blows | The title of what classic 1959 French film that details the life of a troubled adolescent named Antoine Doinel refers to an expression 'faire les quatre cents coups' which means 'to raise hell'? |
Red Curtain trilogy | Directed by Baz Luhrmann, the three films Strictly Ballroom (1992), William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! are called as what type of trilogy referring to their theatrical motifs? |
Kind Hearts and Coronets | In what 1949 classic English comedy from Ealing Studios does Alec Guinness play 8 roles? |
France | With 11 wins and 34 nominations, which country holds the record for most honors in the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars (as of 2009)? |
Fernandel | Which French comedian is best known for his portrayal of an irascible Italian village priest at war with the town's Communist mayor in the Don Camillo series of motion pictures? |
The Battle of Algiers | Which classic 1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo was shown in the Pentagon in 2003 with the flyer reading as follows? How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film. |
Up Series | What series of documentary films directed by Michael Apted follow the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old? |
The Sopranos | David Chase, the creator of which super-hit TV series called the movie Goodfellas his inspiration? |
My Big Fat Greek Wedding | It's not just the title, even the profits were corpulent. What ethnic 2002 romantic comedy is the highest-grossing film to never have been number one on the weekly North American box-office charts? |
The Terminal | Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of the Charles de Gaulle Airport from 1988 until 2006 may have been the inspiration behind what 2004 movie? |
21 Grams | The title of which 2003 movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall who sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed it upon death? |
Nebuchadnezzar | In The Matrix films, the hovercraft of Morpheus is named after which ancient ruler of Babylon? |
Jackie Coogan | A landmark legislation in the 1930s in the US that is designed to protect a child actor's earnings by depositing some of them in trust funds was named after which 'kid'? |
The Chronicles of Riddick | What 2004 sci-fi film starring Vin Diesel that was a sequel to Pitch Black received poor reviews from critics who called it 'riddickulous'? |
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