Q 01/05

Who created Futurama?

A) Matt Groening

B) Mike Judge

C) Trey Parker

D) Seth MacFarlane

Answer · why

A) Matt Groening

He dreamed it up in the mid-1990s while working on The Simpsons and brought in Simpsons writer David X. Cohen to develop it.

Q 02/05

On what date is Fry revived from cryogenic sleep?

A) December 31, 2999 at noon

B) March 28, 2999

C) January 1, 3000

D) December 31, 2999

Answer · why

D) December 31, 2999

He fell into the tube just after midnight on January 1, 2000, and the show's writers later revealed that Nibbler pushed him.

Q 03/05

What was Fry's job in 1999 before he was frozen?

A) Bike messenger

B) Pizza delivery boy

C) Video-store clerk

D) Cab driver

Answer · why

B) Pizza delivery boy

He worked at Panucci's Pizza and was delivering to Applied Cryogenics on a prank order when he fell into the tube.

Q 04/05

Where does Futurama take its name from?

A) A short-lived 1950s pulp science-fiction magazine

B) A 1930s Buck Rogers radio serial

C) A pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair

D) A retired Tomorrowland ride at Disneyland

Answer · why

C) A pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair

General Motors' exhibit promised "The World of Tomorrow," a slogan the pilot episode mocks.

Q 05/05

What is Bender originally programmed to do?

A) Assemble suicide booths

B) Fly starships

C) Cook

D) Bend girders

Answer · why

D) Bend girders

His girders were used to build suicide booths, which is why he tries to kill himself in one when Fry first meets him.