Q 01/05

Which name does Mr. Utterson jokingly give himself while lying in wait for Mr. Hyde?

A) Mr. Find

B) Mr. Seek

C) Mr. Watch

D) Mr. Hunt

Answer · why

B) Mr. Seek

Mr. Seek is his pun on the quarry's name: 'If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek,' he thinks, haunting the by-street at all hours until a frosty nigh...

Q 02/05

In which city did Edinburgh-born Robert Louis Stevenson set the events of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

A) Edinburgh

B) Glasgow

C) London

D) Dublin

Answer · why

C) London

London is the setting, though some critics see the author's birthplace in it: Edinburgh also had a respectable new quarter beside dark, crowded slums ...

Q 03/05

What was Robert Louis Stevenson doing when key scenes of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde first came to him?

A) Dreaming

B) Sailing

C) Gardening

D) Hiking

Answer · why

A) Dreaming

Dreaming gave him the story, and he was cross to be woken: 'I was dreaming a fine bogey tale,' he told his wife Fanny, who had heard him cry out in ho...

Q 04/05

Which Marvel hero did Stan Lee say borrowed from both Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

A) Wolverine

B) Iron Man

C) Spider-Man

D) The Hulk

Answer · why

D) The Hulk

The Hulk was built to change 'from his normal identity to his superhuman alter ego and back again', as Lee put it, while keeping a misunderstood monst...

Q 05/05

Which real killer was the star of a Jekyll and Hyde play accused of being after terrifying audiences?

A) Dr. Crippen

B) Jack the Ripper

C) H. H. Holmes

D) Thomas Neill Cream

Answer · why

B) Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper was at large in 1888 while Richard Mansfield's on-stage transformation horrified theatregoers, and one of them wrote to the police acc...