Q 01/05

Nintendo's president reportedly used a stack of which household items as his target for the Wii's final size?

A) Two hardback novels

B) Three DVD cases

C) A pair of shoeboxes

D) Four VHS tapes

Answer · why

B) Three DVD cases

Three DVD cases was the reference, and the finished Wii came out only slightly larger than that stack, small enough for the president to hold above hi...

Q 02/05

According to Nintendo, the two lowercase letters in the Wii name were styled to look like what?

A) A pair of burning candles

B) Two television aerials

C) Twin exclamation marks

D) Two people side by side

Answer · why

D) Two people side by side

Two people side by side is what the pair of i's depicts, and the name was chosen to sound like the word we, signalling a console meant for everyone.

Q 03/05

Which South Park boy freezes himself in 2006 rather than wait three weeks for the Wii to go on sale?

A) Eric Cartman

B) Stan Marsh

C) Kyle Broflovski

D) Butters Stotch

Answer · why

A) Eric Cartman

Eric Cartman overshoots badly and wakes in the year 2546. Nintendo later played a clip of his pleading for the console at its own E3 2007 press confer...

Q 04/05

The Wii's motion-sensing controller won Nintendo which award normally associated with the television industry?

A) A Peabody

B) A Grammy

C) An Emmy

D) A BAFTA

Answer · why

C) An Emmy

An Emmy for game controller innovation came from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, joining a Golden Joystick on the console's trop...

Q 05/05

Which Wii accessory, placed above or below the television, simply shines infrared light for the Remote to detect?

A) Wii Speak

B) Sensor Bar

C) Wii MotionPlus

D) Wii LAN Adapter

Answer · why

B) Sensor Bar

Sensor Bar is a misnomer: it holds ten infrared LEDs and the Remote does the sensing, which is why a pair of candles can stand in for it.