Q 01/05

Which actor won a posthumous Academy Award for playing the Joker in The Dark Knight?

A) Jack Nicholson

B) Joaquin Phoenix

C) Heath Ledger

D) Jared Leto

Answer · why

C) Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger became only the second performer to win a posthumous acting Oscar, after fellow Australian Peter Finch. His family accepted the award on ...

Q 02/05

Which Superman archenemy, a wealthy businessman, was elected US President in a DC Comics storyline?

A) Lex Luthor

B) Metallo

C) The Toyman

D) The Prankster

Answer · why

A) Lex Luthor

Lex Luthor won the White House on a platform of technological progress. In his earliest comics he had a full head of hair, and went bald only through ...

Q 03/05

Which X-Men supervillain was given a backstory as a Holocaust survivor by writer Chris Claremont?

A) Cassandra Nova

B) Sebastian Shaw

C) Bolivar Trask

D) Magneto

Answer · why

D) Magneto

Magneto's extreme methods come from a vow made after living through one genocide: he is determined that mutants will never suffer the same fate.

Q 04/05

Which Marvel supervillain gathers the Infinity Gems and kills half the universe to woo Mistress Death?

A) Dormammu

B) Thanos

C) Annihilus

D) Mephisto

Answer · why

B) Thanos

Thanos was dreamed up by Jim Starlin during college psychology classes, inspired by Sigmund Freud's idea of a human death drive, which other psychoana...

Q 05/05

Which H. P. Lovecraft town gave its name to the Gotham asylum that holds Batman's mentally ill foes?

A) Arkham

B) Innsmouth

C) Dunwich

D) Kingsport

Answer · why

A) Arkham

Arkham, Massachusetts, was Lovecraft's invention. The Gotham asylum that borrowed its name first appeared in Batman #258 in 1974, where it was simply ...