Q 01/05

Which colour lightsaber did Samuel L. Jackson request for Mace Windu so he would stand out in Star Wars battle scenes?

A) Yellow

B) White

C) Purple

D) Orange

Answer · why

C) Purple

Purple made Mace Windu's blade unique among the Jedi on screen. Jackson asked the director for it while filming Attack of the Clones, so he could pick...

Q 02/05

The suit of Swords in tarot and Italian card decks corresponds to which suit in a standard pack of playing cards?

A) Spades

B) Clubs

C) Hearts

D) Diamonds

Answer · why

A) Spades

Spades are the French-suited match for Swords. The English name itself probably comes from spada, a southern European word for a sword, while the Fren...

Q 03/05

Which future American general, an Olympic pentathlete in Stockholm, designed the Model 1913 sword for US cavalry?

A) Douglas MacArthur

B) George S. Patton

C) John J. Pershing

D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer · why

B) George S. Patton

George S. Patton designed it as a young lieutenant and the Army's Master of the Sword, replacing a curved slashing blade with a straight thrusting one...

Q 04/05

Sabrage is the showy ceremony of opening a bottle of which drink by sliding a sword along its neck?

A) Chartreuse

B) Armagnac

C) Calvados

D) Champagne

Answer · why

D) Champagne

Champagne is the drink, and the blade does not cut: it strikes the lip so the glass collar snaps off with the cork inside it. Legend credits the trick...

Q 05/05

In an ancient Greek tale retold by Cicero, a sword hangs by a single horsehair above which seated courtier?

A) Damocles

B) Dionysius

C) Diogenes

D) Demosthenes

Answer · why

A) Damocles

Damocles had gushed about how lucky his king was, so the ruler of Syracuse let him sit on the throne for a day, with a blade dangling overhead to show...