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 Program Manager shell

D) Built-in Wi-Fi network settings

Answer · why

A) The Start button and taskbar

The Start button and taskbar: Windows 95 introduced both, and Microsoft licensed the Rolling Stones' 'Start Me Up' for its launch ads; a million copie...

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

Entirely with computer animation: Toy Story was the first fully computer-animated feature film, and director John Lasseter received a Special Achievem...

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

Titanic: James Cameron's film became the first to pass $1 billion worldwide in 1998 and won 11 Oscars, equalling Ben-Hur's record.

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

Jurassic Park: Spielberg's 1993 film, mixing ILM computer graphics with Stan Winston's animatronics, grossed more than $900 million and held the all-t...

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

Bullet time: an arc of cameras fires in sequence so the shot seems to orbit a frozen moment; the film won four technical Oscars.