Q 01/05

How was Matt Murdock blinded as a child?

A) A chemical accident

B) A boxing ring injury

C) A car crash on the way to school

D) A gunshot during a robbery

Answer · why

A) A chemical accident

In the 2003 film it is radioactive waste from a truck; either way his other senses were sharpened.

Q 02/05

What is Matt Murdock's day job?

A) Journalist

B) Boxer

C) Lawyer

D) Priest

Answer · why

C) Lawyer

He runs a firm with his college roommate.

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

The 2003 film ignored it and shot mostly on the West Coast.

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

Kirby had some input and co-designed the first costume; Everett had created Namor decades earlier.

Q 05/05

What real-life experience inspired Daredevil's heightened senses?

A) Stan Lee's blind uncle

B) A blind boxer Jack Kirby knew

C) A Vietnam veteran's memoir

D) Bill Everett's legally blind daughter

Answer · why

D) Bill Everett's legally blind daughter

Wendy Everett found her hearing was more acute; the blind-vigilante idea probably also drew on the symbol of blind justice.

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