Looking for the answers to the CIO IT Trivia Quiz: Lights, Camera, Technology? The envelope, please….
1. In Firewall, what three items did Harrison Ford’s bank security manager use to crack into the bank’s data center?
A: Fax machine modem card, an iPod and some computer cables
2. What brand of PDA did master spy Robert Hanssen use for his espionage activities in the film Breach?
C: Palm Pilot
3. In the thriller The Saint, actor Val Kilmer made calls, got his e-mail and surfed the Web using a…
B: Nokia 9000 Communicator
4. What is the name of the fictional software company in the comedy Office Space?
D: Initech
5. The HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey was voiced by which actor?
B: Douglas Rain
6. Which chat client did Bridget Jones and her boss Daniel Cleaver use to flirt online in the chick flick Bridget Jones’ Diary?
A: MSN Messenger
7. Name the famous computer scientist who served as a consultant on the Tom Cruise sci-fi movie Minority Report.
C: Jaron Lanier
8. What was the operating system used on the computers in the James Bond spy thriller GoldenEye?
D: IBM’s OS/2
9. Biometric authentication was used as the primary security/ID mechanism in which of these movies?
A: Gattaca
10. In Legally Blonde, what color was actress Reese Witherspoon’s iBook?
B: Tangerine
11. What media does actor Matthew Broderick use to copy data from the defense systems he hacks in War Games?
B: 8-inch floppy
12. Name the food that actress Sandra Bullock seems to exist solely on (and orders online) in The Net.
C: Pizza Sources: CIO research, Warner Bros., Microsoft, Nokia, Macobserver.com, TheFeature.com Archives and Wikipedia.
