Q 01/05

In Ready Player One, where is the secret hideout Wade uses to log in to the OASIS?

A) A shipping container

B) An abandoned van

C) A storm drain

D) A derelict subway car

Answer · why

B) An abandoned van

An abandoned van is his private place to log in, and being there instead of at home is what later keeps him alive when IOI comes after him.

Q 02/05

Which disaster grips the novel Ready Player One's world?

A) Asteroid strike

B) Robot uprising

C) Energy crisis

D) Supervolcano

Answer · why

C) Energy crisis

An energy crisis hangs over the 2040s along with overpopulation and mass unemployment, which is why nearly everyone logs in daily to get away from rea...

Q 03/05

Who plays Art3mis in the 2018 film Ready Player One?

A) Elle Fanning

B) Hailee Steinfeld

C) Lola Kirke

D) Olivia Cooke

Answer · why

D) Olivia Cooke

Olivia Cooke beat Elle Fanning and Lola Kirke to the part, and she was signed about five months before the film had found its hero.

Q 04/05

What is Wade Watts's avatar called?

A) Daito

B) Parzival

C) Aech

D) Art3mis

Answer · why

B) Parzival

Parzival is his respelling of Percival, the Arthurian knight famed for seeking the Holy Grail; the usual spelling had already gone to players with the...

Q 05/05

Ernest Cline says which fictional character first inspired James Halliday, the eccentric game designer in Ready Player One?

A) Jay Gatsby

B) Tony Stark

C) Charles Foster Kane

D) Willy Wonka

Answer · why

D) Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka gave him the idea of a rich eccentric holding a fantastic contest; for the man's personality he crossed Howard Hughes with Ultima creator ...

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