Question: In what city and state are its production studios located?
Answer: Universal City, California

Question: In what city are Universal Studios' corporate offices located?
Answer: New York City

Question: What rank does Universal Studios have in terms of age?
Answer: fourth

Question: Which film studio from Denmark is older than Universal?
Answer: Nordisk

Question: Which French companies are older than Universal?
Answer: Gaumont Film Company and Pathé

Question: What is the nationality of Pathé?
Answer: French

Question: Along with Pathé and the Gaumont Film Company, what major film studio is older then Universal Studios?
Answer: Nordisk Film company

Question: Among major film studies, where does Universal Studios rank in terms of age?
Answer: fourth

Question: After a trip to what city did Carl Laemmle leave the dry goods business?
Answer: Chicago

Question: In what year was the Motion Picture Trust created?
Answer: 1908

Question: What notable historical figure was involved in the Motion Picture Trust?
Answer: Edison

Question: For what part of a motion picture projector did the Motion Picture Trust hold a patent?
Answer: the Latham Loop

Question: What company did Laemmle found in June 1909?
Answer: Yankee Film Company

Question: Who were Laemmle's business partners in the Yankee Film Company?
Answer: Abe Stern and Julius Stern

Question: In what city and state was the Independent Moving Pictures Company based?
Answer: Fort Lee, New Jersey

Question: What was a nickname of Florence Lawrence?
Answer: The Biograph Girl

Question: What actor did Laemmle promote?
Answer: King Baggot

Question: On what date was the incorporation of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company?
Answer: April 30, 1912

Question: In what state was the Universal Film Manufacturing Company incorporated?
Answer: New York

Question: Who was the president of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company circa July 1912?
Answer: Laemmle

Question: What was the fate of the other partners of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company?
Answer: bought out by Laemmle

Question: Along with exhibition and distribution, what business did the Universal Film Manufacturing Company engage in?
Answer: movie production

Question: On what date did Universal City Studios open?
Answer: March 15, 1915

Question: In square kilometers, what was the size of Universal City Studios?
Answer: 0.9

Question: What geographical feature separated Universal City Studios from Hollywood?
Answer: Cahuenga Pass

Question: What was the biggest Hollywood studio during this period?
Answer: Universal

Question: What sort of films were produced by Red Feather?
Answer: low-budget programmers

Question: What type of movies came out of Bluebird?
Answer: more ambitious productions

Question: What motion pictures were made by Jewel?
Answer: prestige motion pictures

Question: What was the profession of George Marshall?
Answer: Directors

Question: Who was one of the few female Hollywood directors in this era?
Answer: Lois Weber

Question: Who directed Blind Husbands?
Answer: Erich von Stroheim

Question: In what year was Foolish Wives produced?
Answer: 1922

Question: Who starred in The Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: Lon Chaney

Question: What year saw a film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Answer: 1923

Question: Who was at one time Laemmle's personal secretary?
Answer: Irving Thalberg

Question: What was the name of Universal's German production unit?
Answer: Deutsche Universal-Film AG

Question: Who ran Universal's German production unit?
Answer: Joe Pasternak

Question: In what year did Deutsche Universal-Film AG open?
Answer: 1926

Question: How many films did Universal's German subsidiary make yearly?
Answer: three to four

Question: Along with Germany and Austria, where was Deutsche Universal-Film AG at one time based?
Answer: Hungary

Question: what was the policy that Universal followed in its early years?
Answer: "clean picture"

Question: By what month and year did Laemmle change his opinion on "unclean pictures"?
Answer: April 1927

Question: Why did Laemmle change his position on "unclean pictures"?
Answer: Universal was losing money

Question: Along with Walt Disney, who created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?
Answer: Ub Iwerks

Question: Who owned the rights to Oswald?
Answer: Universal

Question: Who produced an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit motion picture?
Answer: Charles Mintz

Question: What character did Walt Disney create in 1928?
Answer: Mickey Mouse

Question: What was the first animated short with synchronized sound?
Answer: Steamboat Willie

Question: Who bought the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons in 2006?
Answer: Disney

Question: Who was 2006 seller of the Oswald cartoons?
Answer: NBC Universal

Question: What notable figure worked as a sportscaster for ABC?
Answer: Al Michaels

Question: Who began producing Oswald cartoons for Universal in 1929?
Answer: Walter Lantz

Question: In what year did Walter Lantz cease producing Oswald cartoons for Universal?
Answer: 1943

Question: How many of Carl Laemmle, Sr.'s relatives were working for Universal as of 1928?
Answer: 70

Question: What was Carl Laemmle, Sr.'s nickname at Universal?
Answer: Uncle Carl

Question: What poet wrote a notable rhyme about Laemmle?
Answer: Ogden Nash

Question: At what age did Carl Laemmle, Jr. become president of Universal?
Answer: 21

Question: What Academy Award-winning director was a relative of Carl Laemmle's?
Answer: William Wyler

Question: What was Carl Laemmle Jr.'s nickname?
Answer: Junior

Question: What movie was based on an Edna Ferber novel?
Answer: Show Boat

Question: In what year was the musical Broadway produced?
Answer: 1929

Question: What movie won the 1930 Academy Award for Best Picture?
Answer: All Quiet on the Western Front

Question: What all-color musical did Universal make in 1930?
Answer: King of Jazz

Question: In what year did Universal make a film version of Dracula?
Answer: 1931

Question: In what year was The Invisible Man made?
Answer: 1933

Question: What film was produced by Laemmle in 1934?
Answer: Imitation of Life

Question: In what year did My Man Godfrey premiere?
Answer: 1936

Question: When was Universal's version of Frankenstein made?
Answer: 1931

Question: What part of Universal's business was terminated while it was in bankruptcy?
Answer: The theater chain

Question: Along with distribution and studio operations, what part of Universal was retained by Carl Laemmle, Jr. during bankruptcy?
Answer: production operations

Question: In what year was Universal's ill-fated film version of Show Boat released?
Answer: 1936

Question: In what year had Universal previously made a version of Show Boat?
Answer: 1929

Question: What was the amount of the production loan Universal sought to complete Show Boat?
Answer: $750,000

Question: Who granted Universal the production loan?
Answer: the Standard Capital Corporation

Question: When did the Standard Capital Corporation take control of Universal?
Answer: April 2, 1936

Question: Who became president of Universal after the Standard Capital takeover?
Answer: J. Cheever Cowdin

Question: What notable female star left Universal after the Standard Capital takeover?
Answer: Margaret Sullavan

Question: Who was Universal's chairman of the board of directors after the Standard Captial takeover?
Answer: J. Cheever Cowdin

Question: Along with Margaret Sullavan, what notable film talent left Universal after the Standard Capital takeover?
Answer: William Wyler

Question: In what year was Show Boat released?
Answer: 1936

Question: Who produced the film Three Smart Girls?
Answer: Joe Pasternak

Question: Who starred in the film Three Smart Girls?
Answer: Deanna Durbin

Question: In what year was Three Smart Girls made?
Answer: 1936

Question: Prior to his work in America, where was Joe Pasternak employed?
Answer: Universal's German subsidiary

Question: What type of films did Joe Pasternak produce in Germany?
Answer: light musicals