Q 01/05

Which German-born immigrant led the founding of Universal Pictures in 1912?

A) Carl Laemmle

B) Adolph Zukor

C) Louis B. Mayer

D) Jack Warner

Answer · why

A) Carl Laemmle

He had opened his first nickelodeon in Chicago in 1906 at the age of 39, after two decades as a bookkeeper.

Q 02/05

Universal holds what distinction among American film studios?

A) The first to make a talkie

B) The oldest surviving one

C) The first to win Best Picture

D) The largest by revenue

Answer · why

B) The oldest surviving one

It is also the fifth oldest in the world and one of the 'Big Five'.

Q 03/05

Universal City Studios, opened in 1915 on a converted 230-acre farm, was billed at the time as what?

A) The world's largest film production facility

B) America's first purpose-built sound stage

C) Hollywood's first standing backlot

D) The first studio with a private zoo

Answer · why

A) The world's largest film production facility

Visitors on the early studio tour paid five cents and got a boxed chicken lunch.

Q 04/05

The 1915 studio tour of Universal City cost visitors how much, lunch included?

A) Twenty-five cents

B) One dollar

C) Five cents

D) It was free

Answer · why

C) Five cents

The modern tram tour began on 15 July 1964, and still runs through the working backlot.

Q 05/05

Which 1930 Universal film became the studio's first winner of the Best Picture Oscar?

A) All Quiet on the Western Front

B) Dracula, with Bela Lugosi

C) The Phantom of the Opera

D) King of Jazz, in Technicolor

Answer · why

A) All Quiet on the Western Front

Lon Chaney's two biggest hits for the studio, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera, had come in the silent era.