Q 01/05

Julia, a four-year-old puppet with autism and a toy rabbit named Fluffster, joined which children's TV show in 2017?

A) Fraggle Rock

B) Sesame Street

C) The Muppet Show

D) Blue's Clues

Answer · why

B) Sesame Street

Sesame Street gave the part to puppeteer Stacey Gordon, whose own son is on the autism spectrum, so that Julia would feel true to life.

Q 02/05

Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar as Raymond Babbitt, an autistic savant who counts cards in Las Vegas, in which film?

A) Rain Man

B) Awakenings

C) Forrest Gump

D) Tootsie

Answer · why

A) Rain Man

Rain Man was the highest-grossing film of 1988, and Hoffman spent a year meeting autistic people to prepare for the role.

Q 03/05

Claire Danes won an Emmy playing which autistic professor, famous for redesigning how cattle are handled?

A) Jane Goodall

B) Dian Fossey

C) Temple Grandin

D) Rosalind Franklin

Answer · why

C) Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin built herself a squeeze machine, or hug box, at 18 and has been a professor of animal science at Colorado State University since 1990.

Q 04/05

Greta Thunberg has described her Asperger's diagnosis with which word, usually heard in comic-book films?

A) A sidekick

B) An origin story

C) A secret identity

D) A superpower

Answer · why

D) A superpower

A superpower is how Thunberg describes it, while also saying that Asperger's limited her before she began her school strike at 15.

Q 05/05

Autcraft, a server founded by a Canadian father in 2013 as a safe haven for autistic children, runs on which video game?

A) Minecraft

B) StarCraft

C) Fortnite

D) Animal Crossing

Answer · why

A) Minecraft

Minecraft was a favourite of many autistic children who met bullying on public servers, so web developer Stuart Duncan built them a moderated world of...