question: David Niver, Jr. produced a movie in 1979 that was set during which world war ?
answer: the Second World War
context: Title: David Niven Jr.
  Passage: David Niven Jr. (born 15 December 1942), is a British film producer and film actor, with stints as an executive at Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures.  He is the son of Oscar-winning actor David Niven and his wife Primula Rollo.  His credits include "Rush Hour 3", "The Cool Surface", "Psycho Cop Returns", and "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes".  In 1976, he produced "The Eagle Has Landed", and in 1979, he produced "Escape to Athena", which starred his father.  He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1987.  Niven divorced his first wife, Barbara Lee Buholz (1993–98), and remarried Beatrice Anne Reed, daughter of Annette de la Renta.
  Title: Wonder Woman (TV series)
  Passage: Wonder Woman, known from seasons 2-3 as The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, is an American television series based on the DC Comics comic book superhero of the same name.  The show stars Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince and Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor Sr. & Jr.  It originally aired for three seasons from 1975 to 1979.  The show's first season aired on ABC and is set in the 1940s during World War II.  The second and third seasons aired on CBS and are set in the 1970s, with the title changed to "The New Adventures of Wonder Woman", and a complete change of cast other than Carter and Waggoner.  Waggoner's character was changed to Steve Trevor Jr., the son of his original character.
  Title: Victory at Sea (game)
  Passage: Victory at Sea (abbreviated to "VAS") is a set of World War II naval wargaming rules published by Mongoose Publishing.  They were a development of Mongoose's "" SF starship combat rules written by Matthew Sprange, with assistance from David Manley, Richard Bax, Erik Nicely and Agis Neugebauer, having been initially released through a series of articles in the Mongoose house journal "Signs and Portents".  A supplement to the rules entitled "Victory At Sea - Order of Battle", including expanded ship lists and new rules, was written during 2007.  It was rushed into print, unreviewed and with a large number of errors left uncorrected - an unofficial 28 page errata was available several days after its release was announced.  The rules have spawned a number of unofficial period and scale variants including ironclad actions and World War II destroyer actions.  An official World War I variant entitled Victory at Sea - Age of Dreadnoughts, written by David Manley was published in 2008.
  Title: World War II Online
  Passage: World War II Online is a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS) video game.  It was released on June 6, 2001, for Microsoft Windows, with a Mac OS version being released in 3Q 2002.  The game is set in 1940–1943 World War II Europe.  It is a virtual battlefield, a combined arms war simulation.  A player can command or crew a variety of accurately modeled aircraft, armored fighting vehicles, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft artillery, and three naval vessels, or fight as a foot-soldier with a variety of infantry weapons.  The game is played in real time alongside or against other players as German, US, British and French forces in a persistent world.  Command structures and missions provide strategic and tactical layers while ranks provide a RPG layer by demonstrating leadership roles.  WWIIOL online uses a ½ scale map of Western Europe with 52000 km² of accurate terrain (800 m resolution satellite data).  It is commonly recognized as the first MMOFPS.  "World War II Online" was re-released in 2006 under the new name of "World War II Online: Battleground Europe".
  Title: Patlabor 2: The Movie
  Passage: Patlabor 2: The Movie (機動警察パトレイバー 2 the Movie , "Kidō keisatsu patoreibā the movie 2" ) is a 1993 Japanese anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii, who also directed "".  It was produced by Production I.G, Bandai Visual and Tohokushinsha.  The movie has taken some liberties from being a mecha-themed movie in theme to a political-themed one with domestic and international issues that the Japanese government had faced during the 20th century.  The main theme of the movie is mainly based on the status of Japan, which had been economically, politically and technologically progressing under prosperous years without being involved in another war after the nation's defeat and occupation by the Allied Forces after the end of World War II.
  Title: Otto Richard Skopil Jr.
  Passage: Otto Richard Skopil Jr. (June 3, 1919 - October 18, 2012), was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon.  The native Oregonian actively served on the court from 1979 to 1986.  Previously, Skopil served on the federal district court in Oregon from 1972 to 1979, and was the chief judge of that court from 1976 to 1979.  Of German ancestry, he was a veteran of World War II and received both his undergraduate education and law degree from Willamette University.
  Title: Hubba Bubba
  Passage: Hubba Bubba is a brand of bubble gum originally produced by Wm. Wrigley Jr.  Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated, in the United States in 1979 but more recently produced in countries around the world.  The bubble gum got its name from the phrase "Hubba Hubba" that military personnel in World War II used to express approval.  The main gimmick used to promote the gum is that Hubba Bubba is less sticky than other brands of bubble gum and so burst bubbles are easier to peel from your skin.  The first portions of Hubba Bubba were produced in the traditional bubble gum flavor often referred to as Original, but different flavors of gum have been produced all around the world.  Many, but not all, of these flavors are based on fruit.  Hubba Bubba products also include many flavors of soda, bubble gum and squeeze pouches.
  Title: Escape to Athena
  Passage: Escape to Athena is a 1979 British war adventure film directed by George P. Cosmatos.  It starred Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Roundtree, Sonny Bono and Elliott Gould.  The film is set during the Second World War on a German-occupied Greek island.  The music was composed by Lalo Schifrin.  According to the film's credits, it was filmed on the island of Rhodes.
  Title: Frederick Kroesen
  Passage: Frederick James Kroesen, Jr. (born February 11, 1923) is a United States Army four-star general and was the Commanding General of the Seventh United States Army and the commander of NATO Central Army Group from 1979 to 1983, and Commanding General, United States Army Forces Command from 1976 to 1978.  He also served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army from 1978 to 1979.  He commanded troops in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, enabling him to be one of the very small number who ever was entitled to wear the Combat Infantryman Badge with two Stars, denoting active combat in three wars.
  Title: General Quarters (rules)
  Passage: General Quarters is a set of naval wargaming rules written by Lonnie Gill.  Quick and easy to play they have become one of the most popular series of World War I and World War II era naval rules (they topped the poll of popular wargames rules amongst the Naval Wargames Society.  There are currently three versions available.  GQ1 covered World War II and used a d6 based system.  GQ2 expanded coverage to World War I whilst also introducing new rules for World War II games; it also introduced a revised combat system that used a d10 in addition to d6.  GQ3 was a complete revision published in 2006.  A revised World War I version was announced for release in September 2007, and published as Fleet Action Imminent . There are a number of campaign supplements for GQ3.  First is The Solomons Campaign about the World War II Guadalcanal battles.  Next is Sudden Storm a hypothetical campaign dealing with a war, between Japan and the US in 1937.  A surprisingly possible occurrence, and one that yields a lot of big gun battles as the US fights its way back across the Pacific to the Philippines.  All in a very smooth and playable format.
citations: David Niven Jr. Escape to Athena