Q 01/05

Super Size Me follows Morgan Spurlock through 30 days of eating only food from which fast-food chain?

A) Burger King

B) McDonald's

C) Wendy's

D) Taco Bell

Answer · why

B) McDonald's

McDonald's dropped its Super Size portions six weeks after the film's debut, while insisting the decision had nothing to do with it.

Q 02/05

Morgan Freeman narrated the English release of which French nature documentary that won a 2006 Oscar?

A) Winged Migration

B) The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

C) March of the Penguins

D) The Story of the Weeping Camel

Answer · why

C) March of the Penguins

March of the Penguins had a very different French original, told in the first person as if the birds themselves were speaking. The English release swa...

Q 03/05

Which Netflix documentary series follows Joe Exotic, an Oklahoma man jailed over a plot to kill a rival?

A) Tiger King

B) Bad Vegan

C) Evil Genius

D) Dirty Money

Answer · why

A) Tiger King

Tiger King was watched by 34.3 million people in its first ten days, helped by a release in the early weeks of the pandemic.

Q 04/05

Which former US vice president's climate slide show became the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth?

A) Dan Quayle

B) Walter Mondale

C) Joe Biden

D) Al Gore

Answer · why

D) Al Gore

Al Gore reckoned he had presented the slide show more than 1,000 times around the world. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize the year after the film came ...

Q 05/05

The Last Dance follows Michael Jordan through 1997–98, his final championship season with which NBA team?

A) Chicago Bulls

B) Washington Wizards

C) Detroit Pistons

D) Los Angeles Lakers

Answer · why

A) Chicago Bulls

Chicago Bulls players had a film crew with an all-access pass beside them that season, which produced more than 500 hours of footage for the ten-part ...

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