Up Close and Personal: The Ultimate Paparazzi Quiz

Frederico Fellini's 1960 film "La Dolce Vita" popularized the term paparazzi, derived from "Paparazzo," the name of a celebrity photographer character in the movie. Fellini said the sound of the name reminded him of "a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging."

In the 1950s, many movies were shot in Rome rather than Hollywood to save money. Unemployed Italian photographers would linger around celebrity hangouts to snap their pictures.

Although paparazzo Dano took the Ford Explorer off the auction before it was sold, the eBay price escalated to $30,000.

"TMZ" stands for the "30-mile zone," which denotes the greater Los Angeles area sprinkled with film and television studios.

In order to beat the paparazzi at their own game, the power couple sold photos of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt to People Magazine for reportedly $4 million, which they donated to charity.

Douglas and Zeta-Jones tried to cover all of their bases to keep their wedding completely private, but a paparazzo still managed to get inside and sell his photos to British tabloids.

In Italy, the early paparazzi brought in anywhere from $5 to $500 for celebrity photographs.

Many celebrity photo agencies send out teams of photographers, drivers and spotters, who keep their eyes peeled for celebrity targets.

In paparazzi parlance, intentionally posing for a notable shot is called "giving it up."

Celebrity photo agencies pay photographers about $60 a pop, in addition to maintaining photo licensing rights.

Photo agencies maximize their profits from photos by versioning, or reselling the same image in multiple sizes to multiple buyers. That way, media outlets must pay top dollar for exclusive rights to a photo.

For years, Galella obsessively stalked Jackie O. around New York and elsewhere, and finally, the former First Lady won a restraining order against him in 1973. Even after that, however, Galella continued to take her picture.

Many attribute the modern "stalkerazzi" to Bonnie Fuller, former editor of Us Weekly, who revitalized the flagging tabloid's sales with photos of celebrities in their day-to-day lives.

Fed up with harassment by hoards of photographers, Miller initially won $23,000 in damages from British tabloid The Sun in 2008, in addition to a restraining order against British photo agency Big Pictures.

Legally, celebrities are considered public figures, making it legal to take their pictures in public places and to sell those images, unless the photos are used to promote products or services.

According to reporting in "The Atlantic," the average paparazzo makes between $800 and $3,000 per week.

In 2009, the late Amy Winehouse won a restraining order against paparazzi "door-stepping," or camping outside of her home waiting for her to exit.

General snark won't land a publisher or blogger in court, but intentionally misleading or incriminating captions could be considered libelous and therefore not legally protected speech.

Of course the paps adored Loren and Bardot, but Swedish bombshell Anita Ekberg made her reputation by getting wild for the Italian cameras.

The pugnacious Sean Penn, who has physically confronted paparazzi on more than one occasion, faced battery charges for punching a pap in 2010. The judge sentenced the actor to community service and mandatory anger management counseling.