Q 01/05

What colour is Matilda, the bird that drops an explosive egg?

A) White

B) Pink

C) Purple

D) Brown

Answer · why

A) White

White: Matilda, the plump white bird, lays an explosive egg when tapped and then rockets upward; in the films she is voiced by Maya Rudolph.

Q 02/05

What have the green pigs stolen from the birds in the original game?

A) Their nests

B) Their eggs

C) Their feathers

D) Their seeds

Answer · why

B) Their eggs

Their eggs: the pigs steal the birds' eggs to eat, which is why the flock hurls itself at the pigs' forts of wood, glass and stone.

Q 03/05

What device do players use to launch the birds?

A) A cannon

B) A trebuchet

C) A catapult

D) A slingshot

Answer · why

D) A slingshot

A slingshot: each bird is pulled back in the slingshot and released, and its flight depends on how far and at what angle the band is stretched.

Q 04/05

In which year was the original Angry Birds released for mobile devices?

A) 2009

B) 2012

C) 2010

D) 2011

Answer · why

A) 2009

2009: Angry Birds reached the iOS App Store in December 2009, with the Android version following in October 2010.

Q 05/05

Which Flash game inspired the physics-based gameplay of Angry Birds?

A) Boom Blox

B) Crush the Castle

C) Bloons

D) Fantastic Contraption

Answer · why

B) Crush the Castle

Crush the Castle, an Armor Games browser title with a trebuchet hurling stones at castles, was the gameplay model; the birds' look came first, from a ...