Q 01/05

Mark Twain, the creator of Huckleberry Finn, was born and died in years when which celestial visitor returned?

A) Comet Swift-Tuttle

B) Halley's Comet

C) Biela's Comet

D) Donati's Comet

Answer · why

B) Halley's Comet

Halley's Comet was at its closest to the Sun the day before Twain died in April 1910, a timing he had predicted the previous year.

Q 02/05

Mark Hamill, famous as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, first voiced which Batman villain in a 1992 animated series?

A) The Riddler

B) The Penguin

C) The Joker

D) Two-Face

Answer · why

C) The Joker

The Joker became Hamill's best-known voice role and followed him from television into video games, where it won him a BAFTA award.

Q 03/05

Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook with his roommates in February 2004 while he was a student at which university?

A) Harvard

B) Stanford

C) Princeton

D) Columbia

Answer · why

A) Harvard

Harvard lost Zuckerberg as a dropout in his second year, then welcomed him back in 2017 to give the commencement speech and collect an honorary degree...

Q 04/05

Mark Ruffalo took over from Edward Norton in 2012 to play which Marvel hero in The Avengers?

A) Thor

B) Hawkeye

C) Ant-Man

D) Hulk

Answer · why

D) Hulk

Hulk stayed with Ruffalo for years: he returned as the scientist Bruce Banner and his green alter ego in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

Q 05/05

Mark Antony, the Roman general beaten at the Battle of Actium, had three children with which queen of Egypt?

A) Nefertiti

B) Cleopatra

C) Hatshepsut

D) Berenice

Answer · why

B) Cleopatra

Cleopatra and Antony fled to Egypt after Actium, where he stabbed himself in the mistaken belief that she was already dead.