MediaBreak - We'll Give You the World Quiz

Answer: Pretoria

In "RoboCop", Pretoria is named as a "city-state" with a ruling white military government, suggesting that South Africa itself has broken apart into a group of smaller, independent statelets. The city is "besieged" and, as part of its defence, has procured a three megaton low-yield thermonuclear weapon, described as a "neutron bomb", from France.

Pretoria is one of the three named capital cities in South Africa, serving as the location of the executive branch of government. Straddling the Apies River in the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountain range, the city was established in 1855 and named for Andries Pretorius, the late father of its founder, Marthinus Pretorius. Upon its foundation, Pretoria was named as the capital of the South African Republic, one of two independent states set up in the mid-19th century by Afrikaans speaking settlers who chose to form their own nation separate from the Cape Colony, which was ruled by the British. Pretoria's metropolitan area has a population of around 3 million, with the city itself, excluding surrounding townships, being one of the few in South Africa to have a white-majority.

Answer: Yamaha

"RoboCop" introduces the Family Heart Center, a specialist clinic offering cardiac replacement using artificial hearts. The advertisement shows some of the products on offer, including one from Yamaha, as well as the "Series 7 Sports Heart" by Jensen, and the complete Jarvik Line, named after Robert Jarvik, who designed the Jarvik-7, the first clinically approved permanent artificial heart.

The Yamaha Corporation was originally founded by Torakusu Yamaha in 1887 as a manufacturer of reed organs, expanding into other musical instruments, including pianos, from 1900, remaining so until after Japan's defeat in the Second World War. At that time, the company's remaining manufacturing plant and expertise in metallurgy were turned to the production of motorcycles, with the first, the Yamaha YA-1, entering production in 1955. the success of the YA-1 led to the foundation of the Yamaha Motor Company as an offshoot of the original Yamaha Corporation. Today, Yamaha Corporation remains primarily involved in the manufacture of audio equipment and musical instruments, while the separate Yamaha Motor Company is a producer of motorcycles, boats, engines and other products related to transportation.

Answer: Henry Ford

In "RoboCop", Henry Ford Memorial Hospital is a major hospital in the city, to which Detroit Police officer Frank Fredrickson is taken after being seriously injured in an attack that sees his colleagues Connors, Alcott and Duffy killed by the Boddicker Gang. There is a real Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, which was founded in 1915 through a major donation by Henry Ford. Today it is the centrepiece of Henry Ford Health, a health care organisation serving Detroit's metropolitan region.

Henry Ford was born in Springwells Township, a small community in Wayne County, Michigan. At the age of 16, he left home to take a job in Detroit, where he began to gain experience around motor vehicles. During the latter half of the 1880s, he worked repairing, and then building engines, eventually going on to found his own company, the Ford Motor Company, in 1903. In 1908, Ford introduced the Model T, generally regarded as the first car that was affordable to a majority of the purchasing public. The Model T was also the first Ford product to be produced on an assembly line with interchangeable parts, and is seen as the beginning of the concept of "Fordism", which Henry Ford introduced as the idea of relatively high wages for workers mass-producing affordable goods. Ford is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the five-day working week.

Answer: Lee Iacocca

After RoboCop's successful first night patrolling the city, in which he prevents an armed robbery, foils an attempted rape, and ends the hostage crisis at City Hall, he is publicly introduced to the city and the world by OCP with a visit to Lee Iacocca Elementary School in Detroit, an event captured by the cameras of MediaBreak. During the visit, while interacting with the school's children, he is asked for a message for children watching, at which he simply tells them to "stay out of trouble".

Lee Iacocca graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1945 with a degree in industrial engineering, following that up with a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Princeton in 1946, from where he got a job with the Ford Motor Company. However, although initially employed as an engineer, he quickly asked to be moved to sales and marketing. In 1956, while working as a sales manager in Philadelphia, he devised the "56 for 56" marketing campaign, which quickly went national, and led to his moving through the ranks of the company's management. He was named vice-president of the car and truck division in 1965, executive vice-president in 1967 and finally company president in 1970. However, despite being involved in the design and introduction of a number of notable models, Iacocca clashed with the company chairman, Henry Ford II, and was eventually fired in 1978. However, the same year he was appointed as president and CEO of Ford's rival, Chrysler, with whom he remained until retiring in 1992.

Answer: Acapulco

In "RoboCop", although there are few details given of the ongoing crisis in Mexico, it is indicated to be a civil war scenario that the United States has become involved in, on the side of the Mexican government. Despite this, those on the opposing side are well equipped, as they are described as having significant firepower in the form of missiles, and are capable of putting Acapulco's airport out of action.

Acapulco is a major seaport city in the state of Guerrero on Mexico's Pacific coast. The city's location on the deep, semi-circular Acapulco Bay has seen it used as a major port since its foundation in the 16th century. However, in the 1940s the port began to be developed as a major commercial area, with new wharves and warehouses constructed, with major infrastructure improvements that connected it to Mexico City constructed in the 1950s. It was around this time that Acapulco started to also become known as a tourist destination, particularly for Americans, with new hotel resorts, and an expansion of the port to allow cruise ships to stop there. But, starting in the 21st century the city's status has declined as a result of the Mexican Drug War, that has led to Acapulco becoming one of the world's most dangerous cities, with one of the highest murder rates anywhere.

Answer: Butler Brothers

"Nukem" is an electronic game intended to simulate the deterioration of world affairs between different countries. In playing the game, participants invade their opponents' countries, impose sanctions and try to influence regime change, until someone decides to launch nuclear weapons. This has the effect of causing a small simulated explosion and holographic mushroom cloud to appear from the top of the game.

Butler Brothers was a company engaged in both wholesale supply and retail. Initially founded in 1877 as a mail-order company by brothers Charles, George and Edward Butler, by the 1920s the company had significantly expanded beyond its origins to become a major retailer, with stores under the names Scott, and LC Burr. During the 1930s, Butler Brothers entered the so-called 'five-and-dime' market, launching the Ben Franklin Stores and Federated Stores franchise chains in small towns across the United States. This allowed Butler Brothers to expand its wholesale business, which it used to supply its five-and-dime franchises. The company also expanded into the department store area, building four new department stores in the Los Angeles area. However, in 1960, Butler Brothers was purchased by City Products Corporation.

Answer: "An American Tradition"

The 6000 SUX is a four-door executive saloon car with a hatchback rear, that is regarded as a status symbol. For the production of "RoboCop", two complete cars were constructed using the body of the 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, with new front and rear pieces constructed from fiberglass to make it appear more futuristic - there are rear mounted air intakes and a large, three part exhaust installed within the boot lid. The engine, chassis and interior of the original Oldsmobile were left unchanged. The name, 6000 SUX, was chosen as a dig, specifically at the Pontiac 6000, a mid-sized saloon, as well as other American cars in production when the film was made ("6000 sucks").

The 6000 SUX is first mentioned as the preference of Ron Miller, the former city councilman who takes the city's mayor hostage in an effort to regain his position, where it is described as having reclining leather seats, along with poor fuel economy. This is shown in the subsequent advert, where it is described as "An American Tradition", being able to reach just 8.2 miles per gallon.

Answer: Santa Barbara

"RoboCop" mentions the "Star Wars orbiting peace platform", a manned orbital space station that is utilised as part of the country's programme of missile defence, twice - first, during the visit of the President of the United States to inaugurate the space station, where a power failure causes him to experience weightlessness, and second when the station's laser cannon misfires during testing. This leads to wildfires in the area of Santa Barbara, and causes the deaths of 113 people, including two former US presidents.

Santa Barbara is a coastal city in Southern California, lying between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Situated on the longest portion of south-facing coastline on the West Coast, the city's Mediterranean style climate has led to it being described as "The American Riviera", as it is a popular resort and tourist destination. However, Santa Barbara is a diverse area - initially, oil was a major industry, with offshore oil fields discovered along the coast in the 1920s, before "clean" industries were attracted during the 1970s, with a number of aerospace and defence companies based there. Additionally, four higher education institutions are based in the city, including the University of California, Santa Barbara, which forms part of the University of California system.

Answer: Lexington

In "RoboCop", Lexington is a part of Old Detroit that has a major crime problem, which is likely to only get worse when the police force, which is suffering from a severe lack of resources following its privatisation by OCP, announces that it is going on strike. While some of the residents interviewed disapprove, suggesting that because members of the police force are public servants with job security, they shouldn't strike, and others claiming that it is a free society.

While there is no area of Detroit called Lexington, there is a Lexington Township located in Sanilac County, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Huron, which contains a village called Lexington. Lexington Township was originally organised in 1837, the same year Michigan was admitted to the union. In 1848, Sanilac County was officially recognised, incorporating Lexington as the county seat. Initially a major area for lumber, two major fires in 1871 and 1881 ended this as an economic activity for the township, while a great storm of 1913 destroyed the docks in and around Lexington. Subsequently, sugar and canning became major industries for Lexington, with agriculture and commercial fishing also significant areas of the local economy during the 20th century.

Answer: Leeza Gibbons

Leeza Gibbons began her television career in her native South Carolina working for WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, before moving to a number of different TV stations in Texas. In 1983, she then moved to New York City to become co-host of "Two on the Town" for WCBS-TV, which she co-hosted with Robb Weller. The following year, both Gibbons and Weller were recruited to join the entertainment news program "Entertainment Tonight", with Gibbons serving both as a reporter and the regular weekend co-anchor, as well as a regular relief anchor during the week. She remained with the show for a decade, while her own talk show, "Leeza" was launched in 1993 and ran until 2000. Since then, she has continued to work in the entertainment industry, winning an Emmy for her PBS talk show, "My Generation", and receiving awards for her work raising awareness about Alzheimer's Disease.

Leeza Gibbons played MediaBreak co-anchor Jess Perkins in both "RoboCop" and "RoboCop 2". In the first film, she reports on a number of stories, including the power failure on the Strategic Defense Peace Platform, and its subsequent laser cannon misfiring, RoboCop's introduction to the public, and the upcoming police strike.