Q 01/05

Which 'Father of His Country' raised his wife Martha's two children but never had a child of his own?

A) George Washington

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) Alexander Hamilton

D) John Adams

Answer · why

A) George Washington

George Washington and Martha had no children together, so the man hailed as the nation's father was a stepfather, and later guardian to her grandchild...

Q 02/05

Martin Luther King Jr. and his father, 'Daddy King', were both born with which first name, changed in 1934?

A) Michael

B) Marcus

C) Matthew

D) Malcolm

Answer · why

A) Michael

Michael King became Martin Luther King that year, and the Ebenezer Baptist Church pastor renamed his eldest son too, after a gradual transition of his...

Q 03/05

Apple's 1983 Lisa, officially an acronym, was really named after whose daughter, as he later admitted?

A) Steve Wozniak

B) Steve Jobs

C) Mike Markkula

D) John Sculley

Answer · why

B) Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson 'Obviously it was named for my daughter', while Apple's marketing team reverse-engineered the acronym from ...

Q 04/05

Which king fathered three of the five Tudor monarchs, yet broke with Rome in his long hunt for a male heir?

A) Henry VII

B) Henry VIII

C) Edward IV

D) Richard III

Answer · why

B) Henry VIII

Henry VIII's children Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I reigned in turn, and when Elizabeth died childless in 1603 the crown passed to the Scottish St...

Q 05/05

A 2003 study tied a Y-chromosome lineage in some 16 million men, from China to Uzbekistan, to which ruler?

A) Tamerlane

B) Kublai Khan

C) Genghis Khan

D) Attila the Hun

Answer · why

C) Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan's male line was the authors' explanation for a haplogroup carried by about 8% of men across that belt of Asia, a pattern matching ethnic ...