Q 01/05

Which author wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his editor bet him $50 he couldn't use just 50 words?

A) Roald Dahl

B) Maurice Sendak

C) Dr. Seuss

D) Shel Silverstein

Answer · why

C) Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss won the bet with a book built from exactly 50 different words. The challenge followed his earlier hit The Cat in the Hat, which had needed 2...

Q 02/05

Which country star mails free books to children in honor of her father, who could not read?

A) Dolly Parton

B) Loretta Lynn

C) Reba McEntire

D) Shania Twain

Answer · why

A) Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton launched her Imagination Library in 1995 in Sevier County, Tennessee. Each enrolled child gets a free book every month from birth until a...

Q 03/05

Which girls' schooling campaigner, shot by the Taliban on a bus, won the Nobel Peace Prize at 17?

A) Greta Thunberg

B) Rigoberta Menchú Tum

C) Nadia Murad

D) Malala Yousafzai

Answer · why

D) Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai survived the 2012 attack in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where she was riding home after an exam. She shared the 2014 prize with Kailash S...

Q 04/05

Which Frenchman, blinded by an awl in his father's workshop, devised a raised-dot reading system?

A) Valentin Haüy

B) Louis Braille

C) Charles Barbier

D) Louis Daguerre

Answer · why

B) Louis Braille

Louis Braille was inspired by a system that Charles Barbier had invented, and made his own more compact. It went unused by most educators until years ...

Q 05/05

Which slab, found by a French army officer in Egypt in 1799, became the key to reading hieroglyphs?

A) Rosetta Stone

B) Behistun Inscription

C) Moabite Stone

D) Narmer Palette

Answer · why

A) Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone carries the same decree in three versions, which let Jean-François Champollion announce his breakthrough in 1822. It is the most vis...