Q 01/05

Which Old West outlaw was long thought left-handed because his famous ferrotype portrait showed him in reverse?

A) Jesse James

B) Butch Cassidy

C) Billy the Kid

D) Doc Holliday

Answer · why

C) Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid wears his Colt on the left in the picture, but ferrotypes produce reversed images, and historians concluded in 1954 that he drew with hi...

Q 02/05

Most Muppets are left-handed because the performer's right hand is busy operating which part?

A) The head

B) The legs

C) The tail

D) The eyes

Answer · why

A) The head

The head is worked by the performer's right hand in a typical Muppet, leaving the left to move the arm, a design quirk that turns most of the cast int...

Q 03/05

Which left-handed Renaissance artist filled his notebooks with mirror-image script running right to left?

A) Michelangelo Buonarroti

B) Leonardo da Vinci

C) Sandro Botticelli

D) Albrecht Dürer

Answer · why

B) Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his private notes in mirror-image cursive, switching to standard script only when he meant other people to read them.

Q 04/05

Which Australian marsupials were found to favour the left hand for everyday tasks such as feeding and grooming?

A) Koalas

B) Wombats

C) Tasmanian devils

D) Kangaroos

Answer · why

D) Kangaroos

Kangaroos surprised researchers, because marsupials lack the corpus callosum that links the two halves of the brain in placental mammals such as human...

Q 05/05

Which English word for evil or threatening comes from the Latin for 'left' or 'on the left side'?

A) Sinister

B) Malicious

C) Ominous

D) Nefarious

Answer · why

A) Sinister

Sinister reached English in the 15th century through Old French, where the word could mean both 'unfavourable' and 'to the left'.