Q 01/05

In which city was Elon Musk born?

A) Pretoria

B) Johannesburg

C) Cape Town

D) Durban

Answer · why

A) Pretoria

He was born on June 28, 1971, into a wealthy family in South Africa's administrative capital.

Q 02/05

Musk holds Canadian citizenship from birth because of which relative?

A) His father, born in Alberta

B) His mother, born in Saskatchewan

C) His grandfather, born in Ontario

D) His grandmother, born in Quebec

Answer · why

B) His mother, born in Saskatchewan

His mother Maye is a model and dietitian; her father moved the family to South Africa in 1950.

Q 03/05

What BASIC video game did 12-year-old Musk sell to a magazine for about $500?

A) Cosmic Raider

B) Star Battle

C) Blastar

D) Rocketeer

Answer · why

C) Blastar

He had taught himself to program from the manual of a Commodore VIC-20.

Q 04/05

Which Canadian university did Musk attend for two years before transferring to Penn?

A) McGill

B) Toronto

C) Waterloo

D) Queen's

Answer · why

D) Queen's

He arrived in Canada in June 1989 and worked on a farm and in a lumber mill before enrolling.

Q 05/05

Musk was accepted to a graduate programme at which university in 1995 but never enrolled?

A) Stanford

B) Princeton

C) Caltech

D) Harvard

Answer · why

A) Stanford

He dropped the materials-science plan to start his first company during the dot-com boom.