Question: In 2006, USA Today listed which advertising icon as no.1 on their list of 'Imaginary Luminaries: the 101 most influential people who never lived'?
Answer: Marlboro Man

Question: By repute, where is the largest gold repository in the world? (hint: not Fort Knox!)
Answer: Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Manhattan

Question: New York businessman Arnold Rothstein is widely reputed to have been behind what major sports scandal in the early part of the 20th century?
Answer: Baseball's Black Sox scandal

Question: What renowned company based out of California made significant contributions to modern-day computing by inventing laser printing, Ethernet, and the graphical user interface (GUI) paradigm, among other things?
Answer: PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.), formerly Xerox PARC

Question: In the 1970s, 'The Chicago Boys' were a group of 25 economists working under which South American dictator's administration to create a free market economy?
Answer: Augusto Pinochet

Question: What principle states that 'in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence'?
Answer: Peter principle

Question: Marshall McLuhan was named as the 'patron saint' of which magazine that had his quote on its masthead for the first ten years of its publication?
Answer: Wired

Question: In economics, what is a monopsony, as opposed to monopoly?
Answer: Market with one buyer

Question: What 'nuclear' nickname was given to Jack Welch in the 1980s for eliminating employees while leaving the office buildings intact?
Answer: Neutron Jack

Question: The design of Nike's Air Jordan basketball shoe was reportedly inspired by which deadly African slithering creature?
Answer: Black mamba

Question: Frequent travelers should know this. Which company's name comes from a song called "Space Captain" whose lyrics contain the words "Lovely ___" but the founder heard misheard the word "lovely" and decided to name the company thus?
Answer: Lonely Planet

Question: The success of what shoe brand has resulted from the aerobics fitness craze of the 80s?
Answer: Reebok

Question: Which online business was named for a word from Gulliver's Travels that meant 'rude, unsophisticated, uncouth'?
Answer: Yahoo!

Question: In a 2014 interview, Daniel Craig said that his James Bond characterization is darker in tone because who put paid to the zaniness that was earlier prevalent in the franchise?
Answer: Mike Myers (referring to Austin Powers' movies, of course)

Question: In the world of cinema, a Dutch angle is one where a camera is set at an angle and is usually used to film shots to convey a character's emotional angst. Because he employed this technique too many times during the shooting of The Third Man (1949), the crew allegedly presented the director Oliver Reed what object to encourage him to use more traditional shooting angles?
Answer: Spirit level!

Question: What is the name of the franchise created by Osman Sınav whose multiple iterations have achieved the highest box office in Turkish cinema, in addition to fanning anti-western sentiments?
Answer: Valley of the Wolves ((Turkish: Kurtlar Vadisi)

Question: Composer Frode Fjellheim was praised by Norway's president in a New Year's speech for his contribution to what 2013 hit film that amply features elements of the country's native culture?
Answer: Frozen

Question: What popular internet site known for its aggregated rating was criticized by a film critic as the internet's revenge on individual expression?
Answer: Rotten Tomatoes

Question: If you see the name of the organization American Humane Association in the credits of a movie or a television show, what 4-word phrase are you also most likely to see?
Answer: """No Animals Were Harmed"""

Question: Performers called benshi in Japan provided what service to film-goers particularly in the days of silent cinema?
Answer: Live narration

Question: What 1956 film was to be called The Reno Brothers when a hit song passing the one million sales mark was noticed by the producers causing a change in the title?
Answer: Love Me Tender

Question: Reginald Rose was once part of a jury that debated a manslaughter case for eight hours. This incident inspired him to create what drama that has seen multiple adaptations?
Answer: Twelve Angry Men

Question: In the 1983 thriller WarGames, the protagonists prevent nuclear war by directing a computer to play what game against itself?
Answer: Tic-tac-toe

Question: Producer Laurie David said that she created her well-recognized 2006 documentary after watching whose slideshow at a global warming town-hall meeting in 2004 in New York?
Answer: Al Gore's (An Inconvenient Truth)

Question: The Sapphire Affair of 1962 connected with the Cuban Missile Crisis was the basis of what similarly titled 1969 Hitchcock thriller?
Answer: Topaz

Question: In what film does General George Marshall read the Bixby letter, a real-life missive sent by Abraham Lincoln to a bereaved mother of five sons, before flagging off the titular mission?
Answer: Saving Private Ryan

Question: During the production of the 2004 movie Troy, Brad Pitt suffered an injury of what body part? Does the question feel random? Think!
Answer: Achilles tendon!

Question: Introducing what eventual Best Picture winner at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony in 2004 did host Billy Crystal quip that it received eleven nominations, one for each ending?
Answer: Return of the King

Question: What 3-word term is given to the genre of kitschy Italian films of the mid 20th century that sought to emulate the historic epics of Hollywood like Spartacus?
Answer: Sword-and-sandal

Question: Which nation launched the "Heart of Eurasia" campaign to counter the cultural learnings from a 2006 movie?
Answer: Kazakhstan (Borat)

Question: In 2013, in a gruesome incident in Italy, a mob boss was fed to pigs by a rival while he was still alive. Several newspapers reported this while evoking a scene from what 2001 movie?
Answer: Hannibal

Question: The 1994 book Lost Moon is the basis of what subsequent year's Hollywood hit?
Answer: Apollo 13

Question: Which British producer of newsreels and documentaries whose work is synonymous with footage of the World Wars released its entire collection on YouTube in April 2014?
Answer: Pathé News

Question: What actor is associated with the ad-line "Shrimp on the barbie" which he used to promote his country's tourism?
Answer: Paul Hogan (Australia)

Question: In which 2008 movie of Clint Eastwood are the Hmong people prominently featured?
Answer: Gran Torino

Question: In Caddyshack, Bill Murray as Carl Spackler fantasizes winning the Masters golf tournament while comparing himself to which character in his monologue?
Answer: Cinderella

Question: In The Motorcycle Diaries, at what location does Che Guevera muse how a civilization capable of creating such beauty could be destroyed by the creators of the urban decay of a nearby city?
Answer: Machu Picchu

Question: The 1952 movie Bwana Devil that had on its poster the lines "A lion is in your lap!" and "A lover is in your arms!" is known for sparking what craze?
Answer: 3-D

Question: The 1968 comedy short-film The Dove in which the protagonist plays a game of badminton with death is a parody of whose films?
Answer: Ingmar Bergmans'

Question: Writing about a 1980s Oscar snub, what two movies was Roger Ebert referring to when he mentioned the irony of a movie with white people in a land of blacks winning and one with black people in a white land losing?
Answer: Out of Africa and The Color Purple

Question: A 1999 movie starring Peter O'Toole as Father Damien had the name of what island of the Hawaiian archipelago as its title?
Answer: Molokai

Question: What phrase used by Jack London in John Barleycorn to describe alcoholism was later referenced in Dumbo when the elephant hallucinates after drinking water spiked with champagne?
Answer: Seeing pink elephants