Q 01/05

How was Matt Murdock, the future Daredevil, blinded as a child?

A) A chemical accident

B) A boxing ring injury

C) A lightning strike

D) A gunshot during a robbery

Answer · why

A) A chemical accident

A chemical accident: he shoved a pedestrian out of a runaway truck's path, and radioactive liquid from its load splashed his eyes, blinding him but sh...

Q 02/05

Why is Matt Murdock's father, a boxer, murdered in Daredevil's origin story?

A) He reported a fixed fight

B) He refused to throw a fight

C) He quit before a title bout

D) He lost a bout mobsters backed

Answer · why

B) He refused to throw a fight

He refused to throw a fight because Matt was watching from the crowd, so the gangster who managed him had him killed soon after; avenging him becomes ...

Q 03/05

Which New York neighbourhood is Daredevil's home turf?

A) Washington Heights

B) Hell's Kitchen

C) The Lower East Side

D) Morningside Heights

Answer · why

B) Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen is a real Manhattan district, also called Clinton; Matt's father pushed him to study so he could escape it, and he grew up to protect i...

Q 04/05

Who created Daredevil in 1964?

A) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

B) Stan Lee and Steve Ditko

C) Frank Miller and Klaus Janson

D) Stan Lee and Bill Everett

Answer · why

D) Stan Lee and Bill Everett

Stan Lee and Bill Everett are the credited creators, though Jack Kirby had already drawn the first cover and seems to have helped design the first cos...

Q 05/05

Daredevil's heightened senses were inspired by a co-creator's legally blind daughter, who found which of her own senses sharper?

A) Smell

B) Touch

C) Hearing

D) Taste

Answer · why

C) Hearing

Hearing: she said she could tell who was approaching by sound alone, and she and her father 'took that and played with it' while inventing the hero.

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