Q 01/05

What did the five San Rafael high-schoolers credited with coining '420' in 1971 call themselves?

A) The Rafaels

B) The Bakers

C) The Waldos

D) The Growers

Answer · why

C) The Waldos

The Waldos, after the wall outside school where they hung out. High Times first passed on a flyer's claim that 420 began as a police code, and only in...

Q 02/05

The first '420' meet-ups were code-named '4:20 Louis' after a school statue of which famous Louis?

A) Louis Braille

B) Louis XIV

C) Louis Pasteur

D) Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer · why

C) Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur. The friends, all athletes, met at his statue once practice was over to hunt for an abandoned cannabis crop with a map from the man who ...

Q 03/05

The spread of '420' beyond San Rafael in the 1970s and 80s is credited to followers of which band?

A) Jefferson Airplane

B) The Doors

C) The Grateful Dead

D) The Beach Boys

Answer · why

C) The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead. One of the coiners worked as a roadie for bassist Phil Lesh, and the code went on tour: by 1990 Deadheads in Oakland were handing o...

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

Uruguay. President José Mujica sold the law as a way to take the trade from drug gangs, and it is strictly for locals: only registered residents may b...

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

Canada. The first legal sales were rung up on the stroke of midnight in Newfoundland, the country's easternmost province, and the government promised ...