Q 01/05

Which US president was born on 12 February 1809, the very same day as naturalist Charles Darwin?

A) Andrew Johnson

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) Franklin Pierce

Answer · why

B) Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room Kentucky log cabin on the day Darwin was born at his family's comfortable home in Shrewsbury, England.

Q 02/05

Which English mathematician, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under a pen name?

A) Edward Lear

B) J. M. Barrie

C) Kenneth Grahame

D) Lewis Carroll

Answer · why

D) Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll is his real name in disguise: he turned Charles Lutwidge into the Latin Carolus Ludovicus, swapped the order and translated it back into...

Q 03/05

Chuck E. Cheese pizza arcades were started in 1977 by Nolan Bushnell, founder of which video game company?

A) Atari

B) Nintendo

C) Sega

D) Namco

Answer · why

A) Atari

Atari made its name with Pong, and Bushnell wanted arcade machines out of pool halls and in front of families, so he built a restaurant around them.

Q 04/05

Basketball salesman Chuck Taylor's signature sits on the ankle patch of which brand's canvas high-top sneakers?

A) Pro-Keds

B) Converse

C) Adidas

D) PF Flyers

Answer · why

B) Converse

Converse took Taylor on as a travelling salesman, adopted his ideas for the design and added his name to the All Star, the first celebrity-endorsed at...

Q 05/05

In the film Cast Away, stranded FedEx employee Chuck Noland gives which name to the volleyball he befriends?

A) Spalding

B) Rawlings

C) Wilson

D) Mikasa

Answer · why

C) Wilson

Wilson gets a face when Chuck cuts his hand trying to start a fire and leaves a bloody print on the ball. It is his only companion for four years on t...