Q 01/05

Northwood Space, the startup Bridgit Mendler co-founded as chief executive, was set up to mass-produce what?

A) Rocket engines

B) Space telescopes

C) Ground stations

D) Lunar landers

Answer · why

C) Ground stations

Ground stations are the Earth-side links that send and receive satellite data, and Northwood wants to build them in bulk. The company launched with $6...

Q 02/05

Bridgit Mendler's aunt, Christine Blasey Ford, testified to the Senate in 2018 about which Supreme Court nominee?

A) Brett Kavanaugh

B) Neil Gorsuch

C) Amy Coney Barrett

D) Merrick Garland

Answer · why

A) Brett Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed the following month by a Senate vote of 50 to 48. Ford is a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University.

Q 03/05

After leaving show business, Bridgit Mendler earned a law degree in 2024 from which Ivy League university?

A) Yale

B) Columbia

C) Cornell

D) Harvard

Answer · why

D) Harvard

Harvard Law School awarded her a Juris Doctor in May 2024, the same year she went public as chief executive of a space startup.

Q 04/05

Bridgit Mendler's album Hello My Name Is... takes its title from a line in which of its songs?

A) City Lights

B) Ready or Not

C) Rocks at My Window

D) The Fall Song

Answer · why

B) Ready or Not

Ready or Not gave the album its name and was its lead single too. Mendler described it as a song about a lifelong wallflower who decides to take charg...

Q 05/05

Which 1960s folk songwriter has pop singer Bridgit Mendler named as her biggest musical influence?

A) Paul Simon

B) Neil Young

C) Johnny Cash

D) Bob Dylan

Answer · why

D) Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan was the first musician who made her pay attention to songwriting, she has said. Her favourite song of his is Don't Think Twice, It's All Rig...