Q 01/05

What was Stan Lee's birth name?

A) Stanley Martin Lieber

B) Samuel Lee Lieberman

C) Stanford Lee Liebowitz

D) Stanley Morris Levy

Answer · why

A) Stanley Martin Lieber

He legally adopted the pen name years after first using it in 1941.

Q 02/05

From which country had Lee's Jewish immigrant parents come?

A) Romania

B) Hungary

C) Russia

D) Poland

Answer · why

A) Romania

He never visited it and did not speak Romanian, since his parents never taught him.

Q 03/05

Which fictional character did Lee call 'the first superhero I had read about'?

A) Tarzan of the Apes

B) The Count of Monte Cristo

C) The Scarlet Pimpernel

D) Zorro of Old California

Answer · why

C) The Scarlet Pimpernel

He was also influenced by Errol Flynn's heroic film roles.

Q 04/05

Where in the Bronx did Lee go to school?

A) Bronx Science

B) Stuyvesant

C) DeWitt Clinton

D) Evander Childs

Answer · why

C) DeWitt Clinton

He graduated early, at sixteen and a half, in 1939.

Q 05/05

Lee claimed three straight Herald Tribune essay contest wins; what did he more likely win?

A) First prize, but only once

B) A year's subscription to the paper

C) Nothing at all, despite entering

D) A seventh-place prize of $2.50

Answer · why

D) A seventh-place prize of $2.50

The story that the paper begged him to let someone else win is apocryphal, as is the editor's life-changing plea.