Q 01/05

In the film Avatar, what are the tall blue-skinned natives of the moon Pandora called?

A) The Ikran

B) The Na'vi

C) The Tulkun

D) The Thanators

Answer · why

B) The Na'vi

The Na'vi. They stand about ten feet tall, and human scientists walk among them by remotely piloting lab-grown bodies, the avatars of the title.

Q 02/05

In the 1929 silent film Pandora's Box, Lulu ends up destitute in London and is killed by whom?

A) Sweeney Todd

B) Doctor Crippen

C) Jack the Ripper

D) Edward Hyde

Answer · why

C) Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper. At Christmas Lulu invites him up to her garret even though he says he has no money, and the film ends with her death.

Q 03/05

Which Greek philosopher famously made his home in a pithos, the kind of huge jar Pandora opened?

A) Socrates

B) Diogenes

C) Epicurus

D) Pythagoras

Answer · why

B) Diogenes

Diogenes. The Cynic lived by begging and sheltered in a big clay storage jar in Athens, which is why he is so often pictured sitting in a tub or barre...

Q 04/05

Which 16th-century humanist is usually blamed for mistranslating Pandora's jar as a box?

A) Petrarch

B) Martin Luther

C) Erasmus

D) Thomas More

Answer · why

C) Erasmus

Erasmus. Retelling the story in Latin in his collection of proverbs, he gave her a box instead of Hesiod's big storage jar, and the slip has stuck eve...

Q 05/05

Which looter-shooter video game series is mostly set on a lawless planet called Pandora?

A) Mass Effect

B) Destiny

C) Halo

D) Borderlands

Answer · why

D) Borderlands

Borderlands. Players are Vault Hunters, fortune seekers drawn to Pandora by rumours of alien riches sealed inside its hidden Vaults.