Q 01/05

Which fashion retailer sells a clothing label named John Galt, after the hero of Atlas Shrugged?

A) Urban Outfitters

B) Brandy Melville

C) American Eagle

D) Abercrombie & Fitch

Answer · why

B) Brandy Melville

Brandy Melville took the name because of its founder's libertarian ideals, and its stores are often decorated with signs bearing the character's name.

Q 02/05

Which acclaimed 2007 video game by Ken Levine is widely considered a response to Atlas Shrugged?

A) The Witcher

B) Mass Effect

C) Assassin's Creed

D) BioShock

Answer · why

D) BioShock

BioShock shows a society that has collapsed under Rand's philosophy, and several of its leading characters take their names from her work.

Q 03/05

In Atlas Shrugged, Dagny Taggart tracks down the vanished philosopher Hugh Akston doing which job?

A) Cooking in a diner

B) Driving a taxi

C) Sweeping a station

D) Selling newspapers

Answer · why

A) Cooking in a diner

Cooking in a diner suits Akston so well that Dagny, before she learns who he is, offers him a post running her dining cars. He turns her down.

Q 04/05

In which TV drama's first season does the lead's boss urge him to read Atlas Shrugged?

A) The Sopranos

B) The West Wing

C) Mad Men

D) Breaking Bad

Answer · why

C) Mad Men

Mad Men's Bert Cooper presses the book on Don Draper, and Don's later sales pitch to a client suggests the novel's strike plot has rubbed off on him.

Q 05/05

In a 1991 Library of Congress survey of life-changing books, Atlas Shrugged ranked second behind which work?

A) War and Peace

B) The Odyssey

C) Moby-Dick

D) The Bible

Answer · why

D) The Bible

The Bible came first among the Book-of-the-Month Club members who replied, with Rand's novel next and M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled third.