Question: How old was Gloria Jean in 1939?
Answer: 13

Question: Along with Donald O'Connor and Bing Crosby, with whom did Gloria Jean star?
Answer: Bing Crosby

Question: Who played Destry in Destry Rides Again?
Answer: James Stewart

Question: Prior to working at Universal, what studio employed Marlene Dietrich?
Answer: Paramount Studios

Question: In what year was Destry Rides again produced?
Answer: 1939

Question: During what period were the Little Tough Guys films produced?
Answer: 1938–43

Question: Over what span were the Baby Sandy films made?
Answer: 1938–41

Question: In what period did Universal produce Hugh Herbert comedies?
Answer: 1938–42

Question: When did Universal make Tom Mix westerns?
Answer: 1932–33

Question: In what span did Universal produce westerns with Kirby Grant?
Answer: 1946–47

Question: What two performers were known as the team Abbott and Costello?
Answer: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Question: What military comedy did Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in?
Answer: Buck Privates

Question: Along with Abbott and Costello and Edgar Bergen, what radio star appeared in Universal films?
Answer: W. C. Fields

Question: Who was the directorial partner of Walter Wanger?
Answer: Fritz Lang

Question: In what period did Basil Rathbone star in a series of Sherlock Holmes films?
Answer: 1942–46

Question: In what period did film versions of Inner Sanctum Mysteries appear?
Answer: 1943–45

Question: What was the studio that Alfred Hitchcock normally worked for?
Answer: Selznick International Pictures

Question: In what year was Shadow of a Doubt produced?
Answer: 1943

Question: What was the first Universal film to use the three-strip Technicolor process?
Answer: Arabian Nights

Question: What actress starred in Arabian Nights?
Answer: Maria Montez

Question: Along with Nelson Eddy, who starred in the Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: Claude Rains

Question: When was Universal's first version of the Phantom of the Opera made?
Answer: 1925

Question: In what year was Arabian Nights produced?
Answer: 1942

Question: In what year was United World Pictures founded?
Answer: 1945

Question: What producer was involved in the founding of United World Pictures?
Answer: Kenneth Young

Question: How long did United World Pictures last?
Answer: one year

Question: Who was the head of production at Universal-International Pictures?
Answer: William Goetz

Question: Who was William Goetz's father-in-law?
Answer: Louis B. Mayer

Question: In what year was the Olivier version of Hamlet made?
Answer: 1948

Question: Who directed 1946's Great Expectations?
Answer: David Lean

Question: In 1947, what company did Universal buy a stake in?
Answer: Castle Films

Question: Who ran Realart Pictures?
Answer: Jack Broeder

Question: In what year did Universal-International take over Castle Films?
Answer: 1951

Question: In what year was The Killers produced?
Answer: 1946

Question: What Universal-International film was about a talking mule?
Answer: Francis

Question: In what year was Ma and Pa Kettle made?
Answer: 1949

Question: What Abbott and Costello film was released in 1948?
Answer: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Question: Who bought Rank's share of Universal-International?
Answer: Milton Rackmil

Question: Who did many of Universal-International's Arabian Nights films feature?
Answer: Tony Curtis

Question: Who notably produced monster and science fiction films for Universal?
Answer: William Alland

Question: What Universal director was known for his melodramas?
Answer: Douglas Sirk

Question: Who directed monster movies for Universal?
Answer: Jack Arnold

Question: Who produced melodramas for Universal?
Answer: Ross Hunter

Question: Who was a notable talent agent circa 1950?
Answer: Lew Wasserman

Question: What star did Lew Wasserman represent?
Answer: James Stewart

Question: What actor featured in Winchester '73?
Answer: James Stewart

Question: What legal decision resulted in movie studios letting their contract actors go?
Answer: U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures, et al.

Question: What acronym was the Music Corporation of America known by?
Answer: MCA

Question: Where did MCA's Revue Productions subsidiary rent space?
Answer: Republic Studios

Question: In square kilometers, how large was the lot Universal sold to MCA?
Answer: 1.5

Question: In what year did Universal sell its 360-acre lot to MCA?
Answer: 1958

Question: How much did MCA pay for Universal's 360-acre lot?
Answer: $11 million

Question: In what year did MCA take over Universal?
Answer: 1962

Question: What company did MCA create in 1964?
Answer: Universal City Studios, Inc.

Question: What new name was given to Revue Productions in 1966?
Answer: Universal Television

Question: What was the company formed by the merger of Universal and NBC?
Answer: NBC Universal

Question: When did Universal inaugurate its studio tour subsidiary?
Answer: 1964

Question: Who produced Anne of the Thousand Days?
Answer: Hal B. Wallis

Question: Who wrote the original work that the film version of Anne of the Thousand Days was based on?
Answer: Maxwell Anderson

Question: In what year was the film version of Mary, Queen of Scots made?
Answer: 1971

Question: Whose performance in Anne of the Thousand Days garnered a Best Actor nod?
Answer: Richard Burton

Question: What was the name of the sequel to True Grit produced by Universal?
Answer: Rooster Cogburn

Question: Who partnered with Universal in the creation of Cinema International Corporation?
Answer: Paramount Pictures

Question: In what year was the film Airport made?
Answer: 1970s

Question: What Universal hit film was produced in 1974?
Answer: Earthquake

Question: What company was purchased by MGM in 1981?
Answer: United Artists

Question: When did United International Pictures start distributing films for DreamWorks?
Answer: 1997

Question: Who was the head of MCA in 1990?
Answer: Lew Wasserman

Question: What is the current name of the company that was called Matsushita Electric in 1990?
Answer: Panasonic

Question: How much did Matsushita Electric pay for MCA?
Answer: $6.6 billion

Question: In what year was MCA/Universal Home Video Inc. created?
Answer: 1990

Question: What was the nationality of Matsushita Electric?
Answer: Japanese

Question: What percentage of MCA/Universal did Matsushita Electric sell five years after acquiring the company?
Answer: 80%

Question: To whom did Matsushita sell a large share of MCA/Universal?
Answer: Seagram

Question: How much did Seagram pay to buy a large share of MCA/Universal?
Answer: $5.7 billion

Question: What did Seagram sell to finance their purchase of a share in MCA/Universal?
Answer: its stake in DuPont

Question: What company did Seagram buy in 1999?
Answer: PolyGram

Question: Who was the head of Seagram?
Answer: Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Question: Who bought the USA cable network from Seagram?
Answer: Barry Diller

Question: Who bought Seagram in June 2000?
Answer: Vivendi

Question: What was the budget of the film Love Actually?
Answer: $40 million

Question: What StudioCanal film received an Academy Award nomination?
Answer: Mulholland Drive

Question: Who bought 80% of Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2004?
Answer: General Electric

Question: What percentage of NBC Universal was owned by Vivendi until 2011?
Answer: 20%

Question: Who bought 51% of NBC Universal in 2011?
Answer: Comcast

Question: In what month and year did Comcast buy 49% of NBCUniversal?
Answer: March 2013

Question: How much did Comcast pay for 49% of NBCUniversal in 2013?
Answer: $16.7 billion

Question: In what year did Paramount Pictures purchase DreamWorks?
Answer: 2005

Question: What Universal chairperson headed DreamWorks as of 2006?
Answer: Stacey Snider

Question: Who became the chairperson in late 2009?
Answer: Adam Fogelson

Question: Who was the founder of Universal Partnerships & Licensing?
Answer: Stephanie Sperber