Q 01/05

Saint Nicholas, the bishop who inspired Santa Claus, served in the city of Myra in which modern country?

A) Greece

B) Italy

C) Turkey

D) Finland

Answer · why

C) Turkey

Turkey is home to Demre, the town that grew up over ancient Myra. Sailors from Bari carried off most of the saint's bones in 1087, and they are still ...

Q 02/05

English speakers have used the nickname Old Nick since the 1600s as a jocular name for which figure?

A) Santa Claus

B) The Devil

C) Father Time

D) Jack Frost

Answer · why

B) The Devil

The Devil has been called Old Nick since the 17th century. The origin is uncertain: it may be a joking use of the name Nicholas, or come from nicor, a...

Q 03/05

Which actor has played S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury in Marvel films since 2008's Iron Man?

A) Laurence Fishburne

B) Samuel L. Jackson

C) Denzel Washington

D) Wesley Snipes

Answer · why

B) Samuel L. Jackson

Marvel drew him before it cast him. Samuel L. Jackson was the model for a redrawn Nick Fury in the 2002 comic The Ultimates, years before he took the ...

Q 04/05

Stevie Nicks and her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham joined which British-American band together in 1975?

A) Fleetwood Mac

B) Jefferson Starship

C) Steely Dan

D) The Eagles

Answer · why

A) Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac earned Stevie Nicks her first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1998. A solo induction in 2019 made her the first woman to enter t...

Q 05/05

Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate who moves to Long Island to sell bonds, narrates which 1925 American novel?

A) The Age of Innocence

B) The Sun Also Rises

C) The Great Gatsby

D) Main Street

Answer · why

C) The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is told entirely by Nick Carraway, a World War I veteran from the Midwest who finds himself living next door to the mysterious millio...