Q 01/05

Homer Simpson works as a safety inspector at what kind of facility?

A) A nuclear power plant

B) A doughnut factory

C) A brewery bottling line

D) A tyre recycling yard

Answer · why

A) A nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant fired Homer for causing an accident, then hired him back as safety inspector to end the safety protests he had begun leading.

Q 02/05

Homer Simpson's catchphrase 'D'oh!' was added to which reference work in 2001?

A) Encyclopaedia Britannica

B) The Oxford English Dictionary

C) Roget's Thesaurus

D) Webster's Third New International

Answer · why

B) The Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary was honouring an ad-lib: the script asked only for an annoyed grunt, and Dan Castellaneta clipped an old Laurel and Hard...

Q 03/05

In The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader's famous line to Luke Skywalker begins with which two words?

A) Luke, I

B) No, I

C) Son, I

D) Yes, I

Answer · why

B) No, I

'No, I am your father' was kept so secret that the actor in the Vader suit was given a decoy line on set; only the director, the producers and Mark Ha...

Q 04/05

Which actor provided the voice of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy?

A) Morgan Freeman

B) David Prowse

C) James Earl Jones

D) Christopher Lee

Answer · why

C) James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones turned down a screen credit for the first two films; his name first appeared on Return of the Jedi.

Q 05/05

Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird is a lawyer in which fictional Alabama county?

A) Maycomb

B) Yoknapatawpha

C) Monroe

D) Macon

Answer · why

A) Maycomb

Maycomb is a thin disguise for Monroeville, Harper Lee's hometown in the real Monroe County, whose old courthouse now hosts stagings of the story.