Q 01/05

Which river did US Airways Flight 1549 ditch in after geese disabled both engines over New York?

A) Hudson

B) Potomac

C) Delaware

D) Charles

Answer · why

A) Hudson

All 155 people aboard survived the Hudson River ditching and were rescued by nearby boats, a glide soon dubbed the 'Miracle on the Hudson'. The plane ...

Q 02/05

Which Charlie's Angels star died hours before Michael Jackson on 25 June, her death overshadowed by his?

A) Tanya Roberts

B) Farrah Fawcett

C) Kate Jackson

D) Cheryl Ladd

Answer · why

B) Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett, who played private investigator Jill Munroe in Charlie's Angels, died of cancer at 62 in Santa Monica that morning; Jackson died a few...

Q 03/05

Stephen Colbert won NASA's poll to name a space station module, but what did NASA name after him instead?

A) A toilet

B) A robot arm

C) A treadmill

D) A solar panel

Answer · why

C) A treadmill

A treadmill became COLBERT, the Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, while the module itself was named Tranquility, only t...

Q 04/05

Which country suspended its own dollar in April, months after printing a 100 trillion dollar banknote?

A) Venezuela

B) Argentina

C) Zambia

D) Zimbabwe

Answer · why

D) Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's shoppers switched to the US dollar, the neighbouring rand and other foreign currencies once hyperinflation had made the local notes worthle...

Q 05/05

Which company announced on 31 August that it would buy Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion?

A) Disney

B) Warner Bros.

C) Sony

D) Universal

Answer · why

A) Disney

Disney paid Marvel shareholders $30 plus roughly 0.745 of a Disney share for each Marvel share, and the deal closed on the last day of the year.