Q 01/05

Which rival's $150 million stake in a struggling Apple did Steve Jobs announce at a Macworld Expo keynote?

A) Microsoft

B) IBM

C) Oracle

D) Sun Microsystems

Answer · why

A) Microsoft

Microsoft put $150 million into Apple and pledged to keep making Office for the Mac, and Jobs told the Macworld crowd to stop treating the two compani...

Q 02/05

Which DVD-by-post start-up did Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph found in Scotts Valley, California, that August?

A) Blockbuster

B) Netflix

C) Redbox

D) GameFly

Answer · why

B) Netflix

Netflix offered itself to Blockbuster for $50 million in 2000 and, its finance chief later said, was laughed out of the office; Blockbuster filed for ...

Q 03/05

Jeanne Calment, who died that August at a record 122, said she had met which painter as a girl?

A) Cézanne

B) Van Gogh

C) Monet

D) Renoir

Answer · why

B) Van Gogh

Van Gogh lived and painted in Arles, where she was born. She later outlived the man who agreed, when she was 90, to pay her a monthly sum for her flat...

Q 04/05

Which comedy about six jobless Sheffield men forming a striptease act briefly became Britain's highest-grossing film of all time?

A) Trainspotting

B) Billy Elliot

C) Brassed Off

D) The Full Monty

Answer · why

D) The Full Monty

The Full Monty cost about $3.5 million, took $257 million worldwide and beat Titanic to the BAFTA for Best Film, though Titanic soon took its British ...

Q 05/05

Who replaced Val Kilmer as Batman opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze in the summer's Batman & Robin?

A) George Clooney

B) Ben Affleck

C) Michael Keaton

D) Christian Bale

Answer · why

A) George Clooney

George Clooney later said of Batman & Robin "I think we might have killed the franchise", and Warner Bros. made no Batman film until Batman Begins in ...