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In early 2009, Spielberg shot the first film in a planned trilogy of motion capture films based on The Adventures of Tintin, written by Belgian artist Hergé, with Peter Jackson. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, was not released until October 2011, due to the complexity of the computer animation involved. The world premiere took place on October 22, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. The film was released in North American theaters on December 21, 2011, in Digital 3D and IMAX. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and grossed over $373 million worldwide. The Adventures of Tintin won the award for Best Animated Feature Film at the Golden Globe Awards that year. It is the first non-Pixar film to win the award since the category was first introduced. Jackson has been announced to direct the second film.

Question: What was the first non-Pixar movie to win the Best Animated Feature Film award?
Answer: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Question: Where did Adventures of Tintin debut?
Answer: Brussels, Belgium

Question: When did Adventures of Tintin debut?
Answer: October 22, 2011

Question: When was Adventures of Tintin released in the US?
Answer: December 21, 2011

Question: How much did Adventures of Tintin earn?
Answer: over $373 million worldwide

Question: What was one of the cities that The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn took place in?

Question: How much did The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn make in the United States?

Question: How much did The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn earn overseas?

Question: When was it announced that Peter Jackson would direct the next The Adventures of Tintin movie?

Question: What will be the name of the next Tintin movie?
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Spielberg followed with War Horse, shot in England in the summer of 2010. It was released just four days after The Adventures of Tintin, on December 25, 2011. The film, based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Morpurgo and published in 1982, follows the long friendship between a British boy and his horse Joey before and during World War I – the novel was also adapted into a hit play in London which is still running there, as well as on Broadway. The film was released and distributed by Disney, with whom DreamWorks made a distribution deal in 2009. War Horse received generally positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Question: Where was 'War Horse' filmed?
Answer: England

Question: When did 'War Horse' come out?
Answer: December 25, 2011

Question: Who wrote the 'War Horse' book?
Answer: Michael Morpurgo

Question: When did the 'War Horse' book come out?
Answer: 1982

Question: Who distributed 'War Horse'?
Answer: Disney

Question: Which movie earned more, The Adventures of Tintin or War Horse?

Question: Where was The Adventures of Tintin mostly made?

Question: In what year was War Horse made into a play in London?

Question: Who released The Adventures of Tintin?

Question: How many Academy Award nominations did The Adventures of Tintin receive?
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Spielberg next directed the historical drama film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, the film covered the final four months of Lincoln's life. Written by Tony Kushner, the film was shot in Richmond, Virginia, in late 2011, and was released in the United States by Disney in November 2012. The film's international distribution was handled by 20th Century Fox. Upon release, Lincoln received widespread critical acclaim, and was nominated for twelve Academy Awards (the most of any film that year) including Best Picture and Best Director for Spielberg. It won the award for Best Production Design and Day-Lewis won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Lincoln, becoming the first three time winner in that category as well as the first to win for a performance directed by Spielberg.

Question: Who starred in 'Lincoln' as Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis

Question: What book was 'Lincoln' based on?
Answer: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Question: What part of Lincoln's life did the film cover?
Answer: the final four months

Question: Where was 'Lincoln' filmed?
Answer: Richmond, Virginia

Question: Who played Mary Todd Lincoln in 'Lincoln'?
Answer: Sally Field

Question: In what year did Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln get released?

Question: How many times has Spielberg been nominated for Best Director?

Question: How many times has Daniel Day-Lewis been nominated for Best Actor?

Question: In what year did Doris Kearns Goodwin release her first book?

Question: What movie has covered the start of Lincoln's presidency?
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Spielberg directed 2015's Bridge of Spies, a Cold War thriller based on the 1960 U-2 incident, and focusing on James B. Donovan's negotiations with the Soviets for the release of pilot Gary Powers after his aircraft was shot down over Soviet territory. The film starred Tom Hanks as Donovan, as well as Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda, with a script by the Coen brothers. The film was shot from September to December 2014 on location in New York City, Berlin and Wroclaw, Poland (which doubled for East Berlin), and was released by Disney on October 16, 2015. Bridge of Spies received positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Question: When was 'Bridge of Spies' released?
Answer: October 16, 2015

Question: How many Oscar nominations did 'Bridge of Spies' get?
Answer: six

Question: When was 'Bridge of Spies' set?
Answer: 1960

Question: Who played Donovan in 'Bridge of Spies'?
Answer: Tom Hanks

Question: Where was 'Bridge of Spies' filmed?
Answer: New York City, Berlin and Wroclaw, Poland

Question: Who played Gary Powers in Bridge of Spies?

Question: Where was most of Bridge of Spies shot?

Question: How many times has Spielberg won Best Director?

Question: How many times has Tom Hanks been nominated for Best Actor?

Question: How many movies has Tom Hanks been in that have won Best Picture?
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Since the mid-1980s, Spielberg has increased his role as a film producer. He headed up the production team for several cartoons, including the Warner Bros. hits Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Toonsylvania, and Freakazoid!, for which he collaborated with Jean MacCurdy and Tom Ruegger. Due to his work on these series, in the official titles, most of them say, "Steven Spielberg presents" as well as making numerous cameos on the shows. Spielberg also produced the Don Bluth animated features, An American Tail and The Land Before Time, which were released by Universal Studios. He also served as one of the executive producers of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its three related shorts (Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, Trail Mix-Up), which were all released by Disney, under both the Walt Disney Pictures and the Touchstone Pictures banners. He was furthermore, for a short time, the executive producer of the long-running medical drama ER. In 1989, he brought the concept of The Dig to LucasArts. He contributed to the project from that time until 1995 when the game was released. He also collaborated with software publishers Knowledge Adventure on the multimedia game Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, which was released in 1996. Spielberg appears, as himself, in the game to direct the player. The Spielberg name provided branding for a Lego Moviemaker kit, the proceeds of which went to the Starbright Foundation.

Question: Which Warner Bros. cartoons did Spielberg produce?
Answer: Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Toonsylvania, and Freakazoid!

Question: What films did Spielberg produce for Don Bluth?
Answer: An American Tail and The Land Before Time

Question: What video game did Spielberg come up with the concept for?
Answer: The Dig

Question: When was 'The Dig' released?
Answer: 1995

Question: What charity did Spielberg's 'Lego Moviemaker' kit fund?
Answer: Starbright Foundation

Question: Who did one of the voices in Tiny Toon Adventures?

Question: Who did one of the voices in Pinky and the Brain?

Question: In what year did Tiny Toon Adventures debut?

Question: In what year was the Starbright Foundation launched?

Question: Who was one of the voices in Toonsylvania?
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Spielberg served as an uncredited executive producer on The Haunting, The Prince of Egypt, Just Like Heaven, Shrek, Road to Perdition, and Evolution. He served as an executive producer for the 1997 film Men in Black, and its sequels, Men in Black II and Men in Black III. In 2005, he served as a producer of Memoirs of a Geisha, an adaptation of the novel by Arthur Golden, a film to which he was previously attached as director. In 2006, Spielberg co-executive produced with famed filmmaker Robert Zemeckis a CGI children's film called Monster House, marking their eighth collaboration since 1990's Back to the Future Part III. He also teamed with Clint Eastwood for the first time in their careers, co-producing Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima with Robert Lorenz and Eastwood himself. He earned his twelfth Academy Award nomination for the latter film as it was nominated for Best Picture. Spielberg served as executive producer for Disturbia and the Transformers live action film with Brian Goldner, an employee of Hasbro. The film was directed by Michael Bay and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and Spielberg continued to collaborate on the sequels, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. In 2011, he produced the J. J. Abrams science fiction thriller film Super 8 for Paramount Pictures.

Question: When was 'Men In Black' released?
Answer: 1997

Question: Who wrote the book 'Memoirs of a Geisha' is based on?
Answer: Arthur Golden

Question: Who did Spielberg collaborate with in 2006?
Answer: Robert Zemeckis

Question: What film did Spielberg first collaborate with Zemeckis on?
Answer: Back to the Future Part III

Question: Which studio produced 'Super 8'?
Answer: Paramount Pictures

Question: In what year did the book Memoirs of a Geisha get released?

Question: Who directed Back to the Future?

Question: In what year did Brian Goldner join Hasbro?

Question: Who wrote Men in Black?

Question: Who wrote Just Like Heaven?
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Other major television series Spielberg produced were Band of Brothers, Taken and The Pacific. He was an executive producer on the critically acclaimed 2005 TV miniseries Into the West which won two Emmy awards, including one for Geoff Zanelli's score. For his 2010 miniseries The Pacific he teamed up once again with co-producer Tom Hanks, with Gary Goetzman also co-producing'. The miniseries is believed to have cost $250 million and is a 10-part war miniseries centered on the battles in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Writer Bruce McKenna, who penned several installments of (Band of Brothers), was the head writer.

Question: When did 'Into the West' air?
Answer: 2005

Question: How many Emmys did 'Into the West' win?
Answer: two

Question: Who wrote the music for 'Into the West'?
Answer: Geoff Zanelli

Question: When was 'The Pacific' released?
Answer: 2010

Question: How much did 'The Pacific' cost?
Answer: $250 million

Question: In what year did Band of Brother debut on tv?

Question: In what year did Geoff Zanelli start to score movies?

Question: What was the first tv show Gary Goetzman co-produced?

Question: What was the first tv shows writer Bruce McKenna has worked on?

Question: In what year did Bruce McKenna become a writer?
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In 2011, Spielberg launched Falling Skies, a science fiction television series, on the TNT network. He developed the series with Robert Rodat and is credited as an executive producer. Spielberg is also producing the Fox TV series Terra Nova. Terra Nova begins in the year 2149 when all life on the planet Earth is threatened with extinction resulting in scientists opening a door that allows people to travel back 85 million years to prehistoric times. Spielberg also produced The River, Smash, Under the Dome, Extant and The Whispers, as well as a TV adaptation of Minority Report.

Question: Which channel aired 'Falling Skies'?
Answer: TNT

Question: In what year does 'Terra Nova' begin?
Answer: 2149

Question: How far back in time do people in 'Terra Nova' travel?
Answer: 85 million years

Question: Which channel aired 'Terra Nova'?
Answer: Fox

Question: What show did Spielberg work with Rodat on?
Answer: Falling Skies

Question: In what year did Under the Dome premiere?

Question: What was the first original show on the TNT network?

Question: In what year does Smash take place?

Question: In what year does Minority Report take place?

Question: In what year did the movie Minority Report get released?
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Apart from being an ardent gamer Spielberg has had a long history of involvement in video games. He has been giving thanks to his games of his division DreamWorks Interactive most notable as Someone's in the Kitchen with script written by Animaniacs' Paul Rugg, Goosebumps: Escape from HorrorLand, The Neverhood (all in 1996), Skullmonkeys, Dilbert's Desktop Games, Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant (all 1997), Boombots (1999), T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger (1999), and Clive Barker's Undying (2001). In 2005 the director signed with Electronic Arts to collaborate on three games including an action game and an award winning puzzle game for the Wii called Boom Blox (and its 2009 sequel: Boom Blox Bash Party). Previously, he was involved in creating the scenario for the adventure game The Dig. In 1996, Spielberg worked on and shot original footage for a movie-making simulation game called Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair. He is the creator of the Medal of Honor series by Electronic Arts. He is credited in the special thanks section of the 1998 video game Trespasser. In 2013, Spielberg has announced he is collaborating with 343 Industries for a live-action TV show of Halo.

Question: Who wrote the script for 'Someone's in the Kitchen'?
Answer: Paul Rugg

Question: When was 'Skullmonkeys' released?
Answer: 1997

Question: When was Boombots released?
Answer: 1999

Question: When was The Neverhood released?
Answer: 1996

Question: What video game did Spielberg say in 2013 he's working on a TV show based on?
Answer: Halo

Question: Who wrote the script for Boombots?

Question: In what year did Boom Blox get released on the Wii?

Question: In what year did The Dig get released?

Question: In what year did the first EA Medal of Honor game get released?

Question: Who is one of the writers for the upcoming Halo tv show?
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Spielberg has filmed and is currently in post-production on an adaptation of Roald Dahl's celebrated children's story The BFG. Spielberg's DreamWorks bought the rights in 2010, originally intending John Madden to direct. The film was written by E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison and is co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures, marking the first Disney-branded film to be directed by Spielberg. The BFG is set to premiere out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016, before its wide release in the US on July 1, 2016.

Question: Who wrote 'The BFG'?
Answer: Roald Dahl

Question: Who wrote E.T.'s script?
Answer: Melissa Mathison

Question: What film festival will first air 'The BFG'?
Answer: Cannes Film Festival

Question: In what month is Cannes held?
Answer: May

Question: When will 'The BFG' be in most theaters?
Answer: July 1, 2016

Question: In what month in 2010 did Dreamworks buy the rights to The BFG?

Question: In what year was John Madden dropped from directing The BFG?

Question: What was the first movie written by Melissa Mathison?

Question: In what year did Spielberg become the director of The BFG?
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After completing filming on Ready Player One, while it is in its lengthy, effects-heavy post-production, he will film his long-planned adaptation of David Kertzer's acclaimed The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. The book follows the true story of a young Jewish boy in 1858 Italy who was secretly baptized by a family servant and then kidnapped from his family by the Papal States, where he was raised and trained as a priest, causing international outrage and becoming a media sensation. First announced in 2014, the book has been adapted by Tony Kushner and the film will again star Mark Rylance, as Pope Pius IX. It will be filmed in early 2017 for release at the end of that year, before Ready Player One is completed and released in 2018.

Question: Who wrote 'The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara'?
Answer: David Kertzer

Question: When does 'The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara' take place?
Answer: 1858

Question: Where does 'The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara' take place?
Answer: Italy

Question: Who plays Pope Pius IX in 'The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara'?
Answer: Mark Rylance

Question: When is 'Ready Player One' planned to be released?
Answer: 2018

Question: In what year did The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara book get published?

Question: In what year does most of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara take place?

Question: Who will play the family servant in The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara?

Question: In what year did David Kertzer become a writer?

Question: What was the first movie adapted by Tony Kushner?
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Spielberg was scheduled to shoot a $200 million adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's novel Robopocalypse, adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard. The film would follow a global human war against a robot uprising about 15–20 years in the future. Like Lincoln, it was to be released by Disney in the United States and Fox overseas. It was set for release on April 25, 2014, with Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth set to star, but Spielberg postponed production indefinitely in January 2013, just before it had been set to begin.

Question: When was 'Robopocalypse' scheduled for release?
Answer: April 25, 2014

Question: Who was going to star in 'Robopocalypse'?
Answer: Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth

Question: How far in the future was 'Robopocalypse' set?
Answer: 15–20 years

Question: Who wrote the book 'Robopocalypse' is based on?
Answer: Daniel H. Wilson

Question: What was the budget for 'Robopocalypse'?
Answer: $200 million

Question: How much did Anne Hathaway's last movie earn?

Question: What was the first movie Drew Goddard has adapted?

Question: In what year was the novel Robopocalypse released?

Question: In what year was Lincoln released?

Question: In what month was Lincoln released?
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Spielberg's films often deal with several recurring themes. Most of his films deal with ordinary characters searching for or coming in contact with extraordinary beings or finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances. In an AFI interview in August 2000 Spielberg commented on his interest in the possibility of extra terrestrial life and how it has influenced some of his films. Spielberg described himself as feeling like an alien during childhood, and his interest came from his father, a science fiction fan, and his opinion that aliens would not travel light years for conquest, but instead curiosity and sharing of knowledge.

Question: What theme is common to Spielberg's films?
Answer: ordinary characters searching for or coming in contact with extraordinary beings or finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances

Question: When in his life did Spielberg 'feel like an alien'?
Answer: during childhood

Question: When did Spielberg give an interview saying he had 'felt like an alien'?
Answer: August 2000

Question: Why does Spielberg think aliens would visit?
Answer: curiosity and sharing of knowledge

Question: Which of Spielberg's parents liked sci-fi?
Answer: his father

Question: In what interview was it the first time that Spielberg talked about extra terrestrials?

Question: What does Spielberg say he might have saw in his childhood?

Question: What type of films did Spielberg's father enjoy?

Question: What do most people think aliens would visit Earth for?
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A strong consistent theme in his family-friendly work is a childlike, even naïve, sense of wonder and faith, as attested by works such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and The BFG. According to Warren Buckland, these themes are portrayed through the use of low height camera tracking shots, which have become one of Spielberg's directing trademarks. In the cases when his films include children (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, etc.), this type of shot is more apparent, but it is also used in films like Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Terminal, Minority Report, and Amistad. If one views each of his films, one will see this shot utilized by the director, notably the water scenes in Jaws are filmed from the low-angle perspective of someone swimming. Another child oriented theme in Spielberg's films is that of loss of innocence and coming-of-age. In Empire of the Sun, Jim, a well-groomed and spoiled English youth, loses his innocence as he suffers through World War II China. Similarly, in Catch Me If You Can, Frank naively and foolishly believes that he can reclaim his shattered family if he accumulates enough money to support them.

Question: Which Spielberg films are examples of a childlike sense of wonder?
Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and The BFG

Question: What camera style does Spielberg often use?
Answer: low height camera tracking shots

Question: What are some Spielberg films that included kids?
Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park

Question: How were the water scenes in Jaws filmed?
Answer: from the low-angle perspective of someone swimming

Question: Who is naive in 'Catch Me if You Can'?
Answer: Frank

Question: What is one of the countries in which Catch Me if You Can takes place?

Question: Who wrote the book Amistad is based on?

Question: Who wrote the novel Catch Me if You Can is based on?

Question: Who wrote Empire of the Sun?

Question: Who wrote A.I. Artificial Intelligence?
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The most persistent theme throughout his films is tension in parent-child relationships. Parents (often fathers) are reluctant, absent or ignorant. Peter Banning in Hook starts off in the beginning of the film as a reluctant married-to-his-work parent who through the course of the film regains the respect of his children. The notable absence of Elliott's father in E.T., is the most famous example of this theme. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it is revealed that Indy has always had a very strained relationship with his father, who is a professor of medieval literature, as his father always seemed more interested in his work, specifically in his studies of the Holy Grail, than in his own son, although his father does not seem to realize or understand the negative effect that his aloof nature had on Indy (he even believes he was a good father in the sense that he taught his son "self reliance," which is not how Indy saw it). Even Oskar Schindler, from Schindler's List, is reluctant to have a child with his wife. Munich depicts Avner as a man away from his wife and newborn daughter. There are of course exceptions; Brody in Jaws is a committed family man, while John Anderton in Minority Report is a shattered man after the disappearance of his son. This theme is arguably the most autobiographical aspect of Spielberg's films, since Spielberg himself was affected by his parents' divorce as a child and by the absence of his father. Furthermore, to this theme, protagonists in his films often come from families with divorced parents, most notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (protagonist Elliot's mother is divorced) and Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale's mother and father split early on in the film). Little known also is Tim in Jurassic Park (early in the film, another secondary character mentions Tim and Lex's parents' divorce). The family often shown divided is often resolved in the ending as well. Following this theme of reluctant fathers and father figures, Tim looks to Dr. Alan Grant as a father figure. Initially, Dr. Grant is reluctant to return those paternal feelings to Tim. However, by the end of the film, he has changed, and the kids even fall asleep with their heads on his shoulders.

Question: What was Indy's father's career?
Answer: professor of medieval literature

Question: What artifact did Indy's father focus on?
Answer: the Holy Grail

Question: What is Spielberg's most common theme?
Answer: tension in parent-child relationships

Question: Whose son disappeared in 'Minority Report'?
Answer: John Anderton

Question: Whose parents divorced in 'Catch Me If You Can'?
Answer: Frank Abagnale

Question: Who is one of the main characters of Jurassic Park?

Question: What was Oskar Schindler in real life?

Question: What did Indiana Jones do for a living?

Question: What occupation was Avner in Munich?
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In terms of casting and production itself, Spielberg has a known penchant for working with actors and production members from his previous films. For instance, he has cast Richard Dreyfuss in several films: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Always. Aside from his role as Indiana Jones, Spielberg also cast Harrison Ford as a headteacher in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (though the scene was ultimately cut). Although Spielberg directed veteran voice actor Frank Welker only once (in Raiders of the Lost Ark, for which he voiced many of the animals), Welker has lent his voice in a number of productions Spielberg has executive produced from Gremlins to its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch, as well as The Land Before Time, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and television shows such as Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and SeaQuest DSV. Spielberg has used Tom Hanks on several occasions and has cast him in Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, and Bridge of Spies. Spielberg has collaborated with Tom Cruise twice on Minority Report and War of the Worlds, and cast Shia LaBeouf in five films: Transformers, Eagle Eye, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Question: Which Spielberg films has Dreyfuss been in?
Answer: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Always

Question: Who was Ford going to play in E.T., until the scene was removed?
Answer: a headteacher

Question: Which Spielberg TV shows has Frank Welker been a voice actor for?
Answer: Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and SeaQuest DSV

Question: Which Spielberg films has Tom Hanks been in?
Answer: Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, and Bridge of Spies

Question: Which Spielberg films has Tom Cruise been in?
Answer: Minority Report and War of the Worlds

Question: What was Shia LaBeouf's first film?

Question: What movie was Frank Welker's first voicework?

Question: What was Richard Dreyfuss' first film?

Question: Who made a cameo in the finished version of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
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Spielberg prefers working with production members with whom he has developed an existing working relationship. An example of this is his production relationship with Kathleen Kennedy who has served as producer on all his major films from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to the recent Lincoln. For cinematography, Allen Daviau, a childhood friend and cinematographer, shot the early Spielberg film Amblin and most of his films up to Empire of the Sun; Janusz Kamiński who has shot every Spielberg film since Schindler's List (see List of film director and cinematographer collaborations); and the film editor Michael Kahn who has edited every film directed by Spielberg from Close Encounters to Munich (except E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial). Most of the DVDs of Spielberg's films have documentaries by Laurent Bouzereau.

Question: Which film did Kathleen Kennedy first work with Spielberg on?
Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Question: Which childhood friend worked on Spielberg's films?
Answer: Allen Daviau

Question: Which film did Kaminski first work with Spielberg on?
Answer: Schindler's List

Question: Which film did Daviau first work with Spielberg on?
Answer: Amblin

Question: Which film did Kahn first work with Spielberg on?
Answer: Close Encounters

Question: What was the first movie Kathleen Kennedy produced?

Question: What movie did Allen Daviau first work on as a cinematographer?

Question: What was the first movie Janusz Kaminski ever shot?

Question: What was the first film Michael Kahn ever edited?

Question: For what movie did Laurent Bouzereau complete his first documentary?
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A famous example of Spielberg working with the same professionals is his long-time collaboration with John Williams and the use of his musical scores in all of his films since The Sugarland Express (except Bridge of Spies, The Color Purple and Twilight Zone: The Movie). One of Spielberg's trademarks is his use of music by Williams to add to the visual impact of his scenes and to try and create a lasting picture and sound of the film in the memories of the film audience. These visual scenes often uses images of the sun (e.g. Empire of the Sun, Saving Private Ryan, the final scene of Jurassic Park, and the end credits of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (where they ride into the sunset)), of which the last two feature a Williams score at that end scene. Spielberg is a contemporary of filmmakers George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, John Milius, and Brian De Palma, collectively known as the "Movie Brats". Aside from his principal role as a director, Spielberg has acted as a producer for a considerable number of films, including early hits for Joe Dante and Robert Zemeckis. Spielberg has often never worked with the same screenwriter in his films, beside Tony Kushner and David Koepp, who have written a few of his films more than once.

Question: What are the only Spielberg films since Sugarland Express to not have music by John Williams?
Answer: Bridge of Spies, The Color Purple and Twilight Zone: The Movie

Question: What happens at the end of 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'?
Answer: they ride into the sunset

Question: Who are the 'Movie Brats', besides Spielberg?
Answer: George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, John Milius, and Brian De Palma

Question: Who are the only screenwriters Spielberg has worked with on more than one film?
Answer: Tony Kushner and David Koepp

Question: What was the first movie John Williams ever scored?

Question: Who scored The Color Purple?

Question: Who wrote Bridge of Spies?

Question: Who wrote Twilight Zone: The Movie?

Question: Who wrote Saving Private Ryan?
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Spielberg first met actress Amy Irving in 1976 at the suggestion of director Brian De Palma, who knew he was looking for an actress to play in Close Encounters. After meeting her, Spielberg told his co-producer Julia Phillips, "I met a real heartbreaker last night.":293 Although she was too young for the role, she and Spielberg began dating and she eventually moved in to what she described as his "bachelor funky" house.:294 They lived together for four years, but the stresses of their professional careers took a toll on their relationship. Irving wanted to be certain that whatever success she attained as an actress would be her own: "I don't want to be known as Steven's girlfriend," she said, and chose not to be in any of his films during those years.:295

Question: Who did Spielberg begin dating in 1976?
Answer: Amy Irving

Question: What was Amy Irving's career?
Answer: actress

Question: Who introduced Irving to Spielberg?
Answer: Brian De Palma

Question: How did Irving describe Spielberg's house?
Answer: "bachelor funky"

Question: Why did Irving not want to be in Spielberg's films while dating?
Answer: "I don't want to be known as Steven's girlfriend,"

Question: In what year did Brian de Palma direct his first film?

Question: What was the first movie Julie Phillips ever co-produced?

Question: In what year did Amy Irving move into Spielberg's home?

Question: Who was one of the actresses in Close Encounters?

Question: In what year did Amy Irving move out of Spielberg's home?
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As a result, they broke up in 1979, but remained close friends. Then in 1984 they renewed their romance, and in November 1985, they married, already having had a son, Max Samuel. After three and a half years of marriage, however, many of the same competing stresses of their careers caused them to divorce in 1989. They agreed to maintain homes near each other as to facilitate the shared custody and parenting of their son.:403 Their divorce was recorded as the third most costly celebrity divorce in history.

Question: When did Spielberg and Irving initially break up?
Answer: 1979

Question: When did Spielberg and Irving get back together?
Answer: 1984

Question: When did Spielberg and Irving marry?
Answer: November 1985

Question: When did Spielberg and Irving divorce?
Answer: 1989

Question: How expensive was Spielberg and Irving's divorce?
Answer: third most costly celebrity divorce in history

Question: Who broke up with his girlfriend in 1979?

Question: Who got back together with his girlfriend in 1984?

Question: Which celebrity got divorced in 1989?

Question: Who was the husband in the most costly celebrity divorce in history?
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In 2002, Spielberg was one of eight flagbearers who carried the Olympic Flag into Rice-Eccles Stadium at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. In 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. Time listed him as one of the 100 Most Important People of the Century. At the end of the 20th century, Life named him the most influential person of his generation. In 2009, Boston University presented him an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Question: In which Olympics was Spielberg a flagbearer?
Answer: 2002 Winter Olympic Games

Question: Where was Spielberg an Olympic flagbearer?
Answer: Salt Lake City

Question: How did Time Magazine recognize Spielberg?
Answer: one of the 100 Most Important People of the Century

Question: How did Life Magazine recognize Spielberg?
Answer: the most influential person of his generation

Question: What honorary degree did Spielberg receive from Boston University?
Answer: Doctor of Humane Letters

Question: Where were the 2006 Winter Olympics held?

Question: Where is Rice-Eccles Stadium?

Question: Where did Spielberg attend college?

Question: Who did Time list as the most important person of the century?
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According to Forbes' Most Influential Celebrities 2014 list, Spielberg was listed as the most influential celebrity in America. The annual list is conducted by E-Poll Market Research and it gave more than 6,600 celebrities on 46 different personality attributes a score representing "how that person is perceived as influencing the public, their peers, or both." Spielberg received a score of 47, meaning 47% of the US believes he is influential. Gerry Philpott, president of E-Poll Market Research, supported Spielberg's score by stating, "If anyone doubts that Steven Spielberg has greatly influenced the public, think about how many will think for a second before going into the water this summer."

Question: When was Spielberg named the 'most influential celebrity in America'?
Answer: 2014

Question: How much of the US believes Spielberg is influential?
Answer: 47%

Question: Who is Gerry Philpott?
Answer: president of E-Poll Market Research

Question: How did Spielberg influence the public's behavior?
Answer: many will think for a second before going into the water this summer

Question: Who did Forbes' list in 2014 as the most influential celebrity in the world?

Question: In what year was E-Poll Market Research founded?

Question: When did Gerry Philpott become president of E-Poll Market Research?

Question: In what year did Forbes' publish their first Most Influential Celebrities list?
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A collector of film memorabilia, Spielberg purchased a balsa Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane (1941) in 1982. He bought Orson Welles's own directorial copy of the script for the radio broadcast The War of the Worlds (1938) in 1994. Spielberg has purchased Academy Award statuettes being sold on the open market and donated them to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to prevent their further commercial exploitation. His donations include the Oscars that Bette Davis received for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938), and Clark Gable's Oscar for It Happened One Night (1934).

Question: When was Citizen Kane released?
Answer: 1941

Question: When was 'The War of the Worlds' radio broadcast?
Answer: 1938

Question: When did Spielberg buy a sled from Citizen Kane?
Answer: 1982

Question: When did Spielberg buy Orson Welles' personal script copy from 'The War of the Worlds'?
Answer: 1994

Question: What does Spielberg do with Academy Awards he buys?
Answer: donated them to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to prevent their further commercial exploitation

Question: Who directed Citizen Kane?

Question: Who wrote The War of the Worlds (1938 version)?

Question: In what year did Spielberg buy his first open market Academy Award?

Question: In what year was the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences established?

Question: Who directed the 1935 movie Dangerous?
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Since playing Pong while filming Jaws in 1974, Spielberg has been an avid video gamer. Spielberg played many of LucasArts adventure games, including the first Monkey Island games. He owns a Wii, a PlayStation 3, a PSP, and Xbox 360, and enjoys playing first-person shooters such as the Medal of Honor series and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He has also criticized the use of cut scenes in games, calling them intrusive, and feels making story flow naturally into the gameplay is a challenge for future game developers.

Question: What was the first video game Spielberg played?
Answer: Pong

Question: When did Spielberg first play a video game?
Answer: 1974

Question: What movie was Spielberg working on when he first played Pong?
Answer: Jaws

Question: What game consoles does Spielberg own?
Answer: a Wii, a PlayStation 3, a PSP, and Xbox 360

Question: How does Spielberg feel about cutscenes in games?
Answer: intrusive

Question: In what year was Pong released?

Question: On what console did a video game come out about Jaws?

Question: On what console can one buy a modern version of Pong?

Question: Who thinks video game cut scenes are great?

Question: What console features an updated version of the first Monkey Island game?
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Drawing from his own experiences in Scouting, Spielberg helped the Boy Scouts of America develop a merit badge in cinematography in order to help promote filmmaking as a marketable skill. The badge was launched at the 1989 National Scout Jamboree, which Spielberg attended, and where he personally counseled many boys in their work on requirements. That same year, 1989, saw the release of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The opening scene shows a teenage Indiana Jones in scout uniform bearing the rank of a Life Scout. Spielberg stated he made Indiana Jones a Boy Scout in honor of his experience in Scouting. For his career accomplishments, service to others, and dedication to a new merit badge Spielberg was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.

Question: What Boy Scout merit badge did Spielberg help develop?
Answer: cinematography

Question: When was Spielberg's merit badge launched?
Answer: 1989

Question: Which major Spielberg movie character was a Boy Scout?
Answer: Indiana Jones

Question: Which Spielberg movie showed its main character was a Boy Scout?
Answer: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Question: What was Indy's rank in Boy Scouts when shown in a movie?
Answer: Life Scout

Question: What was the highest rank Indiana Jones made in his youth?

Question: In what year did Spielberg start helping the Boy Scouts of America out?

Question: In what year did the Boy Scouts give Spielberg their Distinguished Eagle Scout Award?

Question: In what year did the second Indiana Jones movie come out?
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In 2004 he was admitted as knight of the Légion d'honneur by president Jacques Chirac. On July 15, 2006, Spielberg was also awarded the Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award at the Summer Gala of the Chicago International Film Festival, and also was awarded a Kennedy Center honour on December 3. The tribute to Spielberg featured a short, filmed biography narrated by Tom Hanks and included thank-yous from World War II veterans for Saving Private Ryan, as well as a performance of the finale to Leonard Bernstein's Candide, conducted by John Williams (Spielberg's frequent composer).[citation needed]

Question: Who made Spielberg a knight?
Answer: Jacques Chirac

Question: What award did Spielberg receive on Jul 15, 2006?
Answer: Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award

Question: Where was Spielberg honored on Dec 3, 2006?
Answer: Kennedy Center

Question: Who narrated a short Spielberg bio at the Kennedy Center?
Answer: Tom Hanks

Question: In what year did Jacques Chirac become president?

Question: In what year was the Chicago International Film Festival first established?

Question: In what year was Candide released?

Question: In what year was the first Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award first handed out?

Question: Who was the first winner of the Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award?
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Spielberg in 2005, the first year it considered non-literary contributors. In November 2007, he was chosen for a Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented at the sixth annual Visual Effects Society Awards in February 2009. He was set to be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the January 2008 Golden Globes; however, the new, watered-down format of the ceremony resulting from conflicts in the 2007–08 writers strike, the HFPA postponed his honor to the 2009 ceremony. In 2008, Spielberg was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

Question: When was Spielberg added to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame?
Answer: 2005

Question: When did the Visual Effects Society give Spielberg a Lifetime Achievement Award?
Answer: February 2009

Question: When did Spielberg win the Cecil B. DeMille Award?
Answer: 2009

Question: Why was Spielberg's Cecil B. DeMille Award postponed from 2008?
Answer: watered-down format of the ceremony resulting from conflicts in the 2007–08 writers strike

Question: In what year was the Science Fiction Hall of Fame created?

Question: In what year was the first Cecil B. DeMille award handed out?

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Elevator

The first elevator shaft preceded the first elevator by four years. Construction for Peter Cooper's Cooper Union Foundation building in New York began in 1853. An elevator shaft was included in the design, because Cooper was confident that a safe passenger elevator would soon be invented. The shaft was cylindrical because Cooper thought it was the most efficient design. Later, Otis designed a special elevator for the building. Today the Otis Elevator Company, now a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, is the world's largest manufacturer of vertical transport systems.

Question: What year did constructrion begin for the Cooper Union Foundation?
Answer: 1853

Question: Which was built first, the first elevator shaft or the first elevator?
Answer: first elevator shaft

Question: What design did Peter Cooper feel was the most efficient?
Answer: cylindrical

Question: The Otis Elevator Company is today a subsidiary of what major corporation?
Answer: United Technologies Corporation

Question: What title does United Technologies Corporation hold?
Answer: world's largest manufacturer of vertical transport systems
Elevator

The first electric elevator was built by Werner von Siemens in 1880 in Germany. The inventor Anton Freissler developed the ideas of von Siemens and built up a successful enterprise in Austria-Hungary. The safety and speed of electric elevators were significantly enhanced by Frank Sprague who added floor control, automatic elevators, acceleration control of cars, and safeties. His elevator ran faster and with larger loads than hydraulic or steam elevators, and 584 electric elevators were installed before Sprague sold his company to the Otis Elevator Company in 1895. Sprague also developed the idea and technology for multiple elevators in a single shaft.

Question: Who built the first electric elevator?
Answer: Werner von Siemens

Question: The first electric elevator, built in 1880, was in what Country?
Answer: Germany

Question: Who ultilized von Siemens ideas to build a succesful business?
Answer: Anton Freissler

Question: Who is credited with increasing the safety and speed of electric elevators?
Answer: Frank Sprague

Question: To whom did Frank Sprague sell his company to in 1895?
Answer: Otis Elevator Company
Elevator

Elevator doors protect riders from falling into the shaft. The most common configuration is to have two panels that meet in the middle, and slide open laterally. In a cascading telescopic configuration (potentially allowing wider entryways within limited space), the doors roll on independent tracks so that while open, they are tucked behind one another, and while closed, they form cascading layers on one side. This can be configured so that two sets of such cascading doors operate like the center opening doors described above, allowing for a very wide elevator cab. In less expensive installations the elevator can also use one large "slab" door: a single panel door the width of the doorway that opens to the left or right laterally. Some buildings have elevators with the single door on the shaft way, and double cascading doors on the cab.

Question: How do most elevator doors work?
Answer: have two panels that meet in the middle, and slide open laterally

Question: What design allows wider entryways within limited space?
Answer: a cascading telescopic configuration

Question: What is a single panel door referred to as?
Answer: "slab" door

Question: The single door is sometimes located where?
Answer: on the shaft way

Question: What do elevator doors protect riders from?
Answer: falling into the shaft
Elevator

Elevators with more than 30 m (98 ft) of travel have a system called compensation. This is a separate set of cables or a chain attached to the bottom of the counterweight and the bottom of the elevator cab. This makes it easier to control the elevator, as it compensates for the differing weight of cable between the hoist and the cab. If the elevator cab is at the top of the hoist-way, there is a short length of hoist cable above the car and a long length of compensating cable below the car and vice versa for the counterweight. If the compensation system uses cables, there will be an additional sheave in the pit below the elevator, to guide the cables. If the compensation system uses chains, the chain is guided by a bar mounted between the counterweight railway lines.

Question: "Compensation" is the name of the system used for what type of elevators?
Answer: Elevators with more than 30 m (98 ft) of travel

Question: "Compensation" consists of what?
Answer: a separate set of cables or a chain attached to the bottom of the counterweight and the bottom of the elevator cab

Question: What exactly does this system compensate for?
Answer: the differing weight of cable between the hoist and the cab

Question: What is the chain guided by in a compensation system that uses chains?
Answer: a bar mounted between the counterweight railway lines