Q 01/05

Windows 95, released in August 1995, introduced which now-familiar feature to the desktop?

A) The Start button and taskbar

B) The two-button scroll mouse

C) The recycle bin desktop icon

D) Built-in Wi-Fi network settings

Answer · why

A) The Start button and taskbar

Microsoft paid the Rolling Stones $3 million to use 'Start Me Up' in the ads; a million copies shipped in four days.

Q 02/05

Toy Story, released in 1995, was the first feature film made how?

A) Entirely with computer animation

B) With full-body motion capture

C) In large-format IMAX 3D

D) With stop-motion clay puppets

Answer · why

A) Entirely with computer animation

It was also Pixar's first feature; Tom Hanks and Tim Allen voiced Woody and Buzz, and John Lasseter won a special Oscar for the technique.

Q 03/05

Which 1997 film was the first ever to gross $1 billion at the box office?

A) Jurassic Park

B) Independence Day

C) The Lion King

D) Titanic

Answer · why

D) Titanic

It also won 11 Oscars, tying Ben-Hur, and cost about $1 million per minute of screen time to make.

Q 04/05

Which 1993 film held the title of highest-grossing movie of all time until 1997?

A) Forrest Gump

B) Terminator 2

C) Home Alone

D) Jurassic Park

Answer · why

D) Jurassic Park

Spielberg's dinosaurs mixed ILM's computer graphics with Stan Winston's life-sized animatronics; the film took more than $914 million.

Q 05/05

The Matrix (1999) made famous a slow-motion camera trick known as what?

A) Freeze frame

B) Ghost cut

C) Dolly zoom

D) Bullet time

Answer · why

D) Bullet time

Cameras arranged in an arc fire in sequence so the shot appears to orbit a frozen moment; the film won four Oscars, all technical.