Q 01/05

What did the five San Rafael high-schoolers who coined '420' in 1971 call themselves?

A) The Rafaels

B) The Bakers

C) The Waldos

D) The Growers

Answer · why

C) The Waldos

They named themselves for the wall outside school where they hung out. High Times later wrongly credited a police code before tracing the story back t...

Q 02/05

The originators of '420' agreed to meet at 4:20 p.m. by a school statue of which scientist?

A) Charles Darwin

B) Isaac Newton

C) Louis Pasteur

D) Thomas Edison

Answer · why

C) Louis Pasteur

Their code phrase was '4:20 Louis'. After repeated failures to find the crop, it shrank to '4:20' and came to mean smoking itself.

Q 03/05

Followers of which band spread the phrase '420' beyond its home town in the 1970s and 80s?

A) Jefferson Airplane

B) The Doors

C) The Grateful Dead

D) The Beach Boys

Answer · why

C) The Grateful Dead

One of the original group became a roadie for the band's bassist, Phil Lesh, and the term travelled with the tour.

Q 04/05

Which country became the first in the modern era to legalise recreational cannabis, in December 2013?

A) The Netherlands

B) Portugal

C) Uruguay

D) Jamaica

Answer · why

C) Uruguay

President José Mujica signed the law; the plan let citizens grow their own for non-commercial use and licensed farmers for larger production.

Q 05/05

On 17 October 2018 which nation became the first G7 country to legalise recreational cannabis nationwide?

A) Germany

B) Italy

C) France

D) Canada

Answer · why

D) Canada

The Cannabis Act made it only the second country in the world to do so. Its medical programme dated back to 2001, and prohibition to 1923.