Q 01/05

In Pixar's Inside Out 2, which colour is Anxiety, the frazzled new emotion voiced by Maya Hawke?

A) Purple

B) Orange

C) Teal

D) Pink

Answer · why

B) Orange

Orange Anxiety catastrophizes every situation in 13-year-old Riley's head, all with the stated aim of saving her from bad outcomes.

Q 02/05

A tongue-in-cheek Canadian medical paper diagnosed which Winnie-the-Pooh character with generalized anxiety disorder?

A) Piglet

B) Eeyore

C) Tigger

D) Rabbit

Answer · why

A) Piglet

Piglet, the doctors joked, could have been spared his heffalump-trapping trauma had he been given an antipanic medicine when young.

Q 03/05

Which Peanuts character popularised the term security blanket by clutching one through Charles M. Schulz's comic strip?

A) Schroeder

B) Charlie Brown

C) Linus

D) Pig-Pen

Answer · why

C) Linus

Linus made the phrase famous in the 1950s, although children were soothing themselves with comfort blankets long before Peanuts.

Q 04/05

Tiny handmade worry dolls, tucked under a pillow to carry off a child's fears overnight, come from which country?

A) El Salvador

B) Honduras

C) Nicaragua

D) Guatemala

Answer · why

D) Guatemala

Guatemala's highland legend says a Maya princess, Ixmucane, received a gift from the sun god that let her solve any human problem.

Q 05/05

Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky's popular book on stress explains why which African animals do not get ulcers?

A) Giraffes

B) Zebras

C) Hippos

D) Gazelles

Answer · why

B) Zebras

Zebras face stress in short bursts, such as running from a lion, while humans keep the same alarm ringing for months over things like losing a job.