Q 01/05

Iain McCaig, who illustrated Fighting Fantasy's City of Thieves, later designed which Star Wars villain?

A) General Grievous

B) Count Dooku

C) Darth Maul

D) Kylo Ren

Answer · why

C) Darth Maul

Darth Maul and Padmé Amidala were both his designs for The Phantom Menace, years after he painted covers for Ian Livingstone's gamebooks.

Q 02/05

Before Fighting Fantasy, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone won an exclusive deal to sell which game in Europe?

A) Dungeons & Dragons

B) Tunnels & Trolls

C) Chivalry & Sorcery

D) Empire of the Petal Throne

Answer · why

A) Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons reached them by chance: TSR's Brian Blume was sent their newsletter Owl and Weasel and posted back a copy of his firm's new game.

Q 03/05

Fighting Fantasy's Ian Livingstone later chaired Eidos, where he helped secure which video game franchise?

A) Resident Evil

B) Prince of Persia

C) Metal Gear

D) Tomb Raider

Answer · why

D) Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider was one of the major franchises he secured, along with Hitman, and he later contributed to the 2007 remake of the original game.

Q 04/05

During a moral panic over Fighting Fantasy, one mother reported that the books made her child do what?

A) Speak in tongues

B) Start to fly

C) Walk through walls

D) See the future

Answer · why

B) Start to fly

Start to fly was the claim, and the Evangelical Alliance warned that the books would lead players to the devil. Steve Jackson said the authors were gr...

Q 05/05

Fighting Fantasy's Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone co-founded which tabletop gaming firm in 1975?

A) Steve Jackson Games

B) Avalon Hill

C) Games Workshop

D) Waddingtons

Answer · why

C) Games Workshop

Games Workshop began as a mail-order business run from their flat, and their landlord evicted them in 1976 when customers kept turning up looking for ...