Q 01/05

Which Friends star worked briefly at Bethesda Softworks in the 1980s, before the sitcom made its cast famous?

A) Matthew Perry

B) Lisa Kudrow

C) Courteney Cox

D) David Schwimmer

Answer · why

C) Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox worked at the publisher for a short spell in the 1980s, when it was a small start-up begun on a kitchen table. She found fame as Monica ...

Q 02/05

Bethesda took the studio behind which hit game to court in 2011 over a card game called Scrolls?

A) Minecraft

B) Angry Birds

C) Terraria

D) RuneScape

Answer · why

A) Minecraft

Minecraft maker Mojang was sued because Bethesda argued the name Scrolls sat too close to its Elder Scrolls trademark. The two sides settled in 2012: ...

Q 03/05

Which film star voiced James, the scientist father who vanishes at the start of Bethesda's Fallout 3?

A) Gary Oldman

B) Jeff Bridges

C) Kiefer Sutherland

D) Liam Neeson

Answer · why

D) Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson played the father whose unexplained disappearance sends the player out into the wasteland. Bethesda also hired Malcolm McDowell, as the sc...

Q 04/05

Which Star Trek actor voiced Emperor Uriel Septim VII, who dies early in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?

A) Leonard Nimoy

B) Patrick Stewart

C) Benedict Cumberbatch

D) Jonathan Frakes

Answer · why

B) Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart recorded the doomed emperor, who is on the run from assassins who have already murdered his three sons. His death in the opening minut...

Q 05/05

Bethesda Softworks is named after the town where it was founded in 1986, in which US state?

A) Connecticut

B) Pennsylvania

C) Maryland

D) New Jersey

Answer · why

C) Maryland

Maryland's Bethesda is where the founder set the company up at his kitchen table. It moved to nearby Rockville in 1990 but kept the old town's name.