Q 01/05

Jane Goodall, who arrived at Gombe in 1960 with no degree, watched chimpanzees do what supposedly human-only thing?

A) Make tools

B) Bury their dead

C) Plant seeds

D) Build fires

Answer · why

A) Make tools

Make tools is exactly what she saw them do, stripping leaves from twigs to fish termites out of a mound. Her mentor Louis Leakey said science must now...

Q 02/05

Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma was loosely reworked into which 1995 teen comedy set in Beverly Hills?

A) Mean Girls

B) Clueless

C) She's All That

D) Cruel Intentions

Answer · why

B) Clueless

Clueless turns matchmaker Emma Woodhouse into Cher Horowitz, a wealthy and popular teenager played by Alicia Silverstone. Director Amy Heckerling had ...

Q 03/05

Jane Fonda starred in both the 1980 comedy 9 to 5 and Netflix's Grace and Frankie alongside which comedian?

A) Dolly Parton

B) Bette Midler

C) Lily Tomlin

D) Goldie Hawn

Answer · why

C) Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin and Fonda play women whose husbands reveal they are in love with each other in Grace and Frankie. Back in 9 to 5, the third star beside th...

Q 04/05

Which Brontë sister wrote Jane Eyre, first published in 1847 under the male-sounding pen name Currer Bell?

A) Emily

B) Maria

C) Elizabeth

D) Charlotte

Answer · why

D) Charlotte

Charlotte picked Currer Bell to keep her own initials, just as her sisters became Ellis and Acton Bell. Her first novel, The Professor, had been rejec...

Q 05/05

Calamity Jane, the frontierswoman born Martha Jane Canary, is buried in Deadwood beside which gunfighter?

A) Wyatt Earp

B) Wild Bill Hickok

C) Doc Holliday

D) John Wesley Hardin

Answer · why

B) Wild Bill Hickok

Wild Bill Hickok had been shot dead at a Deadwood poker table in 1876. Men who planned her funeral later said he had no use for her, so burying her at...