Q 01/05

Who created Magic: The Gathering?

A) Peter Adkison

B) Mark Rosewater

C) Richard Garfield

D) Gary Gygax

Answer · why

C) Richard Garfield

Garfield was a maths PhD student who pitched Wizards of the Coast founder Peter Adkison a fast game needing minimal equipment; the idea reportedly cam...

Q 02/05

In which year was Magic: The Gathering first released?

A) 1993

B) 1995

C) 1997

D) 1999

Answer · why

A) 1993

Limited Edition Alpha shipped on 5 August with 295 cards, and by the end of 1994 more than a billion cards had been printed.

Q 03/05

The game'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

His thesis at the University of Pennsylvania was titled On the Residue Classes of Combinatorial Families of Numbers; he later designed Netrunner, King...

Q 04/05

Which toy giant bought Wizards of the Coast in 1999 for about $325 million?

A) Mattel

B) Hasbro

C) Bandai

D) Spin Master

Answer · why

B) Hasbro

Two years earlier Wizards had bought TSR, the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons, for $25 million.

Q 05/05

Wizards of the Coast founder Peter Adkison named the company after what?

A) A Tolkien poem

B) A Seattle bookshop

C) A comic-book team

D) A guild in his D&D campaign

Answer · why

D) A guild in his D&D campaign

Adkison was a systems analyst at Boeing when he started the company near Seattle in 1990.