Q 01/05

Steve Austin's 'Stone Cold' name came from his then-wife warning him that which drink was going cold?

A) Tea

B) Coffee

C) Soup

D) Cocoa

Answer · why

A) Tea

Tea was the unlikely source of the name. His then-wife Jeanie told him to drink a cup before it went stone cold, just as he was looking to replace a g...

Q 02/05

Steve Austin's 'Austin 3:16' catchphrase from the 1996 King of the Ring mocks a verse in which Bible book?

A) Book of Psalms

B) Gospel of John

C) Gospel of Matthew

D) Book of Revelation

Answer · why

B) Gospel of John

Gospel of John 3:16 was the target because the man he had just beaten was playing a born-again Christian. Austin ad-libbed the parody during his coron...

Q 03/05

Which boxer was the special enforcer when Steve Austin won the WWF title at WrestleMania XIV?

A) Evander Holyfield

B) George Foreman

C) Mike Tyson

D) Lennox Lewis

Answer · why

C) Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson had sided with the champion's group, D-Generation X, then turned on them. He made the deciding three-count for Austin and knocked the beate...

Q 04/05

Composer Jim Johnston built Steve Austin's entrance theme around a car crash and which other sound effect?

A) A police siren

B) A revving engine

C) A gunshot

D) Smashing glass

Answer · why

D) Smashing glass

Smashing glass suited a character who, Johnston said, did not enter a room with subtlety. He felt at once that it sounded as if it had been Austin's t...

Q 05/05

Steve Austin won which annual WWF match a record three times, in 1997, 1998 and 2001?

A) Royal Rumble

B) King of the Ring

C) Survivor Series

D) Hell in a Cell

Answer · why

A) Royal Rumble

Royal Rumble wins put him in Guinness World Records. In 1997 Bret Hart actually threw him out first, but the officials missed it, so Austin slipped ba...