Q 01/05

Daniel Barry took a copy of StarCraft with him in 1999 on which kind of journey, a first for the game?

A) An Antarctic expedition

B) A Space Shuttle mission

C) An Everest summit climb

D) A nuclear submarine patrol

Answer · why

B) A Space Shuttle mission

A Space Shuttle mission carried the game into orbit: astronaut Barry flew on STS-96, the first shuttle flight to dock at the International Space Stati...

Q 02/05

Sarah Kerrigan of StarCraft was named after a star of which Olympic sport, a dig at a rival game's heroine?

A) Gymnastics

B) Figure skating

C) Speed skating

D) Freestyle skiing

Answer · why

B) Figure skating

Figure skating's Nancy Kerrigan was known for her feud with Tonya Harding, so the name answered Tanya Adams, a character in Westwood's Command & Conqu...

Q 03/05

Which search engine added a 2012 Easter egg in which a StarCraft-style Zerg rush of letter O's destroyed the results?

A) Yahoo

B) Bing

C) Yandex

D) Google

Answer · why

D) Google

Google let users fight back by clicking the attacking letters before they chewed through the whole page. The joke shows how far the swarm tactic's nam...

Q 04/05

Which branch of the United States military used StarCraft to teach newly active officers crisis planning under stress?

A) The Air Force

B) The Navy

C) The Army

D) The Marine Corps

Answer · why

A) The Air Force

The Air Force built it into its Air and Space Basic Course, where the science fiction setting kept officers on tactics instead of nitpicking simulated...

Q 05/05

Which airline flew two planes painted with StarCraft II artwork of Jim Raynor to promote Wings of Liberty?

A) Asiana Airlines

B) Japan Airlines

C) Korean Air

D) Singapore Airlines

Answer · why

C) Korean Air

Korean Air carried the Raynor artwork on both domestic and international routes for six months under a co-marketing deal with Blizzard.