Q 01/05

Who created Magic: The Gathering?

A) Reiner Knizia

B) Klaus Teuber

C) Richard Garfield

D) Gary Gygax

Answer · why

C) Richard Garfield

Richard Garfield reportedly hit on the idea while hiking near Multnomah Falls, after Wizards of the Coast's Peter Adkison asked him for a quick, porta...

Q 02/05

Magic: The Gathering sold out at which August 1993 convention?

A) Dragon Con

B) Gen Con

C) Comic-Con

D) Essen Spiel

Answer · why

B) Gen Con

Gen Con, in Milwaukee. Wizards sold every one of the 2.5 million cards it brought, and its founder Peter Adkison went on to buy the convention itself ...

Q 03/05

Magic's creator completed his doctorate in 1993 in which subject?

A) Combinatorial mathematics

B) Computer science

C) Medieval history

D) Theoretical physics

Answer · why

A) Combinatorial mathematics

Combinatorial mathematics. He was teaching maths at Whitman College when Magic launched, and its success led him to quit academia in 1994 for full-tim...

Q 04/05

Which toy giant bought Wizards of the Coast in 1999?

A) Mattel

B) Hasbro

C) Bandai

D) Spin Master

Answer · why

B) Hasbro

Hasbro. Coverage of the deal billed Wizards as the 'Pokemon card maker', because it had launched the Pokémon trading card game in America earlier that...

Q 05/05

Wizards of the Coast took its name from one of founder Peter Adkison's sessions of which role-playing game?

A) Call of Cthulhu

B) Vampire: The Masquerade

C) Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

D) Dungeons & Dragons

Answer · why

D) Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons. Adkison borrowed the name from a session he had played in the early 1980s, and in 1997 his company bought the game's publisher, TS...