Q 01/05

Which viral YouTube clip was found among the files on Osama bin Laden's computer?

A) David After Dentist

B) Charlie Bit My Finger

C) The Sneezing Baby Panda

D) Evolution of Dance

Answer · why

B) Charlie Bit My Finger

Charlie Bit My Finger, a clip of two English brothers, sat on the seized hard drive alongside Tom and Jerry cartoons, the animated film Antz and sever...

Q 02/05

Which kind of rogue animal, blamed for at least 27 deaths in Assam, India, was nicknamed Osama bin Laden?

A) An elephant

B) A tiger

C) A leopard

D) A rhinoceros

Answer · why

A) An elephant

An elephant, a bull that raided villages near Tezpur between 2004 and 2006, was given the militant's name. It was eventually shot, though some doubted...

Q 03/05

Osama bin Laden's father Muhammad and eldest half-brother Salem both died in which kind of accident, decades apart?

A) A car crash

B) A building collapse

C) A shipwreck

D) A plane crash

Answer · why

D) A plane crash

A plane crash killed Muhammad bin Ladin in Saudi Arabia in 1967, and Salem died in 1988 when the ultralight he was flying hit power lines in Texas.

Q 04/05

A letter by Osama bin Laden, released after his death, urged Americans to help prevent which global problem?

A) Nuclear weapons

B) Climate change

C) World hunger

D) Overpopulation

Answer · why

B) Climate change

Climate change worried bin Laden enough that he drafted a letter asking Americans to save humanity from greenhouse gas emissions. His 2002 letter had ...

Q 05/05

Which Kathryn Bigelow film, a Best Picture Oscar nominee, dramatises the CIA's long hunt for Osama bin Laden?

A) Zero Dark Thirty

B) The Hurt Locker

C) In the Valley of Elah

D) Lone Survivor

Answer · why

A) Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty shared the Oscar for sound editing in a rare tie with Skyfall. Its working title, For God and Country, echoed words radioed from the ...