Q 01/05

Which company bought Minecraft developer Mojang in 2014 in a deal worth $2.5 billion?

A) Google

B) Microsoft

C) Activision

D) Facebook

Answer · why

B) Microsoft

Microsoft announced the deal in September 2014, and Minecraft went on to become the best-selling video game of all time.

Q 02/05

Which fictional city, modelled on the real home of Hollywood, do players roam in Grand Theft Auto V?

A) Liberty City

B) Vice City

C) Los Santos

D) San Fierro

Answer · why

C) Los Santos

Los Santos sits in the fictional state of San Andreas, which is based on Southern California and adds open countryside beyond the city limits.

Q 03/05

Which studio, also the maker of the Unreal Engine, developed and released the online hit Fortnite?

A) Epic Games

B) Riot Games

C) Blizzard

D) Ubisoft

Answer · why

A) Epic Games

Epic Games released Fortnite in 2017, and its Battle Royale mode drew more than 125 million players in less than a year.

Q 04/05

Which studio, founded as a startup inside Google, originally developed the 2016 mobile hit Pokémon Go?

A) Game Freak

B) Zynga

C) Rovio

D) Niantic

Answer · why

D) Niantic

Niantic had already built the location game Ingress, and many of Pokémon Go's real-world stops were adapted from places mapped for Ingress.

Q 05/05

The Last of Us imagines a pandemic caused by a mutated form of which real genus of fungus?

A) Cordyceps

B) Aspergillus

C) Penicillium

D) Candida

Answer · why

A) Cordyceps

Cordyceps is the fungus behind the outbreak, which has ravaged the United States for twenty years by the time Joel escorts the immune teenager Ellie a...