Q 01/05

In which Canadian city did a student punch Houdini in the stomach, days before his death in 1926?

A) Toronto

B) Ottawa

C) Vancouver

D) Montreal

Answer · why

D) Montreal

Montreal: McGill student J. Gordon Whitehead struck him in his dressing room. Houdini performed on in pain and died days later in Detroit of a rupture...

Q 02/05

In which city was Houdini born?

A) Vienna

B) Budapest

C) Prague

D) New York

Answer · why

B) Budapest

Budapest, though as a star Houdini claimed he was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, where his family settled when he was four; his Hungarian birth was not ...

Q 03/05

What escape did Houdini introduce at the Circus Busch in Berlin in 1912?

A) The Milk Can Escape

B) The Overboard Box Escape

C) The Chinese Water Torture Cell

D) The Buried Alive stunt

Answer · why

C) The Chinese Water Torture Cell

The Chinese Water Torture Cell replaced his Milk Can act, which too many imitators had copied: with his ankles locked in stocks, he was lowered head-f...

Q 04/05

Which London newspaper challenged Houdini in 1904 with handcuffs said to have taken five years to make?

A) The Times

B) The Daily Mail

C) The Evening Standard

D) The Daily Mirror

Answer · why

D) The Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror said a Birmingham locksmith had spent five years on the cuffs. Houdini fought for over an hour before the crowd carried him off in tr...

Q 05/05

Houdini is often credited as the first person to do what in Australia, in 1910?

A) Escape from a prison

B) Fly a powered aircraft

C) Perform on radio

D) Drive a car across the outback

Answer · why

B) Fly a powered aircraft

Fly a powered aircraft: he coaxed a French Voisin biplane into three short flights at Diggers Rest, Victoria, though a brief hop by Colin Defries mont...