Q 01/05

Mike Judge was born in Guayaquil, a city in which South American country?

A) Peru

B) Ecuador

C) Colombia

D) Chile

Answer · why

B) Ecuador

Ecuador: his father, an archaeologist, was working there when Mike was born, and the family later moved to the American Southwest, where he grew up.

Q 02/05

In which city did Mike Judge grow up?

A) Albuquerque, New Mexico

B) Santa Fe, New Mexico

C) Roswell, New Mexico

D) Las Cruces, New Mexico

Answer · why

A) Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico: Butt-Head began as his botched sketch of a high-school classmate there, a straight-A student who went on to become a nuclear ...

Q 03/05

What subject did Mike Judge study for his degree at UC San Diego?

A) Computer science

B) Film

C) Mathematics

D) Physics

Answer · why

D) Physics

Physics: he went on to program test systems for the F-18 fighter jet, but found cubicle life mind-numbing and soon quit engineering out of boredom.

Q 04/05

Mike Judge joined a Silicon Valley startup in 1987 and soon quit, saying his colleagues were like what?

A) Stepford Wives

B) Pod people

C) Eagle Scouts

D) Lemmings

Answer · why

A) Stepford Wives

Stepford Wives: he called them 'true believers in something, and I don't know what it was', quit to join a blues band, and later turned the experience...

Q 05/05

Which instrument did Mike Judge play in a touring blues band after leaving engineering?

A) Saxophone

B) Drums

C) Bass

D) Harmonica

Answer · why

C) Bass

Bass: he went on to record and perform with Texas bluesman Doyle Bramhall for more than a decade, and even after two hit cartoons called that 'the bes...