Movies
This holiday film features a fictional 1930s gangster movie created solely for the plot.
What is Home Alone?
This holiday song was originally released in 1994 but became a chart-topper decades later.
What is All I Want for Christmas Is You?
This invention separated information replication from human transcription speed.
What is the printing press?
This 2007 product launch eliminated physical keyboards for an entire generation.
What is the iPhone?
This company started in Seattle in 1971, and makes more from custom drinks than coffee beans.
What is Starbucks?
In this film, system access is restored by exploiting a hardcoded backdoor belonging to a disgruntled engineer.
What is Jurassic Park?
This band’s most famous song never explicitly states the phrase most people sing along to.
Who is Rage Against the Machine?
This period redefined labor by replacing artisanal skill with machine repeatability.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This 1995 operating system launch included a $3 million TV ad featuring The Rolling Stones.
What is Windows 95?
This membership-based retailer makes most of its profit from annual fees, not product margins.
What is Costco?
This movie’s central crime depends on floating-point rounding errors accumulating unnoticed.
What is Office Space?
This artist used a literal Toronto basement studio as a metaphor for early career obscurity.
Who is Drake?
This inventor’s company, not the man himself, produced most credited innovations.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This cloud service, launched in 2006, quietly became the backbone of the modern internet.
What is Amazon Web Services?
This company began as an online bookstore in 1994 and later monetized its internal infrastructure as a product.
What is Amazon?
This film’s villain is described as learning from human behavior through a neural-net CPU.
What is The Terminator?
This song’s lyrics reference starting over after abandoning commercial success.
What is Here I Go Again?
This war directly accelerated the development of programmable computing machines.
What is World War II?
This 2010 product launch turned “there’s an app for that” into a viable business model.
What is the App Store?
This software company grew rapidly by selling CRM tools directly to sales teams instead of CIOs.
What is Salesforce?
This movie’s plot begins with a failed weapons demonstration that indirectly funds the hero’s first prototype.
What is Iron Man?
This band’s name references a blues musician nicknamed after a geological feature.
Who are The Rolling Stones?
This document formalized the idea of due process centuries before modern constitutions.
What is the Magna Carta?
This product saw explosive growth in 2020 due to a global externality.
What is Zoom?
This company disrupted video rentals by eliminating late fees.
What is Netflix?