Major Companies and their foundings
What company started as a small online bookstore in 1994?
Amazon
What 1979 science fiction horror film was directed by Ridley Scott and features the spaceship Nostromo?
Alien
What 1990s animated series features anthropomorphic turtles named Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael?
TMNT
Leader of the Manhattan Project
Robert Oppenheimer
In 1985, which massive charity concert took place simultaneously in London and Philadelphia to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia?
Live Aid
In 2006, Google acquired a fledgling video site for $1.65 billion. What was the name of that site?
YouTube
Which 2019 film made history by becoming the first non-English language movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Parasite
Who won the first season of American Idol in 2002?
Kelly Clarkson
First female appointed to the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor
This composer wrote The Four Seasons during the Baroque period
Vivaldi
Which streaming giant started in 1997 as a mail-order DVD service to compete with Blockbuster?
Netflix
In The Godfather Part II, what actor plays the young Vito Corleone
Robert De Niro
The “Ice Bucket Challenge” in 2014 helped raise awareness for what disease?
ALS
4th leader of the soviet union
Nikita Khrushchev
Which 1980s invention by Sony and Philips revolutionized the music industry by allowing for 74 minutes of digital audio?
The CD
First company to create and introduce the cell phone
Motorola
Which 1994 film is the only movie to win the "Big Five" Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay) in the last 40 years?
Home alone was the highest grossing live action comedy movie until it was taken over by this film, a part of a trio, in 2012. The films feature "the wolfpack", a group of four middle aged, crazy men
The hangover (II)
Abraham Lincolns second vice president
Andrew Johnson
What 1997 hip-hop song by Puff Daddy samples “Every Breath You Take” by The Police?
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