Q 01/05

Which Japanese sportswear brand is named from the initials of a Latin phrase meaning 'a sound mind in a sound body'?

A) Mizuno

B) Yonex

C) Asics

D) Descente

Answer · why

C) Asics

Asics stands for 'anima sana in corpore sano'. The company grew out of a sports-shoe business that Kihachiro Onitsuka set up in Kobe in 1949, and it t...

Q 02/05

Which tyre company's mascot is called Bibendum, after the Latin toast 'Nunc est bibendum' on an 1898 poster?

A) Pirelli

B) Bridgestone

C) Dunlop

D) Michelin

Answer · why

D) Michelin

Michelin's stacked-tyre man was drawn by the cartoonist O'Galop proposing a toast that means 'now is the time to drink'. The joke was that the tyre dr...

Q 03/05

The nation of Panem in The Hunger Games is named after a Latin phrase by the satirist Juvenal meaning what?

A) Blood and sand

B) Wine and gladiators

C) Bread and circuses

D) Bread and water

Answer · why

C) Bread and circuses

Bread and circuses, 'panem et circenses', was Juvenal's jibe at a public kept quiet with food and entertainment. Suzanne Collins has said her dystopia...

Q 04/05

Which action franchise subtitled its third film 'Parabellum', after the Latin adage 'Si vis pacem, para bellum'?

A) John Wick

B) The Expendables

C) Jason Bourne

D) The Equalizer

Answer · why

A) John Wick

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum borrows an adage that means 'if you want peace, prepare for war'. The same words gave the German Parabellum pistol c...

Q 05/05

Which US state's one-word Latin motto, 'Excelsior', did Marvel's Stan Lee adopt as his trademark sign-off?

A) California

B) New York

C) Massachusetts

D) Pennsylvania

Answer · why

B) New York

New York carries 'Excelsior' on a banner under its coat of arms, where it is usually translated 'ever upward'. Stan Lee ended his Marvel columns with ...