Q 01/05

The word origami combines two Japanese words meaning what?

A) Art and paper

B) Art and shape

C) Fold and paper

D) Fold and shape

Answer · why

C) Fold and paper

Fold and paper: ori is from oru, 'to fold'; the word once named a folded certificate, and in Edo-period Japan the pastime itself went by other names.

Q 02/05

Which molecule did Caltech's Paul Rothemund fold into tiny stars and discs, a method now called origami?

A) DNA

B) Insulin

C) Starch

D) Sugar

Answer · why

A) DNA

DNA: he showed that one long strand, pinned by some 200 short 'staple' strands, folds itself into flat shapes only about 100 nanometres across.

Q 03/05

Origami folders use which Japanese term for designs that involve cutting the paper?

A) Orikata

B) Chiyogami

C) Tatogami

D) Kirigami

Answer · why

D) Kirigami

Kirigami: kiri means 'to cut', and the word spread in the West through a best-selling 1960s paper-cutting set by the author Florence Temko.

Q 04/05

Which Nintendo hero battles an army of Folded Soldiers in the 2020 game subtitled The Origami King?

A) Kirby

B) Link

C) Mario

D) Yoshi

Answer · why

C) Mario

Mario: in Paper Mario: The Origami King he teams up with Olivia, sister of the villain King Olly, who has folded Princess Peach into origami and bound...

Q 05/05

Folding a thousand paper cranes, senbazuru, is said to grant the folder what?

A) A visit from the gods

B) One wish

C) Great wealth

D) A safe journey

Answer · why

B) One wish

One wish: the number echoes the thousand years a crane was said to live, and strings of a thousand are now given to the seriously ill as a wish for th...