Q 01/05

Which Star Trek actor directed the 1987 comedy Three Men and a Baby, starring Tom Selleck and Ted Danson?

A) William Shatner

B) Leonard Nimoy

C) George Takei

D) Patrick Stewart

Answer · why

B) Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy, far better known as Spock, steered it to become the first Walt Disney Studios production to gross more than $100 million in the US.

Q 02/05

Which of Christopher Columbus's three ships ran aground off Hispaniola on Christmas Day 1492 and never sailed home?

A) La Niña

B) La Pinta

C) Santa María

D) San Salvador

Answer · why

C) Santa María

Santa María was the largest of the three, and Columbus had her timbers stripped to build a fort he named La Navidad, Spanish for Christmas.

Q 03/05

Before Goldilocks was invented, which intruder ate the porridge in Robert Southey's version of The Three Bears?

A) An old woman

B) A sly fox

C) A lost boy

D) A wicked witch

Answer · why

A) An old woman

An old woman, described as insolent, ugly and dirty, was the first intruder, and the bears were three bachelors rather than a father, mother and baby.

Q 04/05

Which country shares the island of Great Britain with England and Scotland yet has no symbol on the Union Jack?

A) Ireland

B) Jersey

C) Guernsey

D) Wales

Answer · why

D) Wales

Wales is missing because it counted as part of the Kingdom of England when the first union flag was created in 1606. In 2007 an MP proposed adding the...

Q 05/05

Which Kellogg's cereal is promoted by the elf mascots Snap, Crackle and Pop, named for its noise in milk?

A) Frosted Flakes

B) Froot Loops

C) Apple Jacks

D) Rice Krispies

Answer · why

D) Rice Krispies

Rice Krispies went on sale in 1928, and illustrator Vernon Grant began drawing its elf mascots in 1933, long before they starred in television commerc...