Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Day 25). There’s a meta puzzle too, see if you can piece it together from the 3rd to the 22nd of April. All previous quizzes can be found here. Today it’s Sunday, so there’s a theme: Not Marvel.
- Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman was booked to be on what, before changing his plans at the last minute, and avoiding almost certain death on 6th May 1937?
- Sam Rami directed the first three modern Spiderman films, but what other series of films did he direct?
- Chris Pratt played Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy, but what TV comedy series was he a main character in before Guardians?
- Thor is from the planet Asgard, but which planet was Superman said to have come from?
- Alan Moore wrote V for Vendetta for Marvel. What wildly popular limited series did he write for DC?
- Fantastic Four issue 1 was first published in November 1961, but what groundbreaking novel by Joseph Heller was also published in that month?
- The Incredible Hulk originally debuted in a fetching shade of grey, but what colour are the cans and bottles of stevia-sweetened Coca Cola, branded as “Coca Cola Life”?
- Torrent is the daughter of X-Men Wolverine and Storm, but who is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and mother of Billie Lourd?
- Baron von Strucker is the arch nemisis of Nick Fury, but who is the arch nemisis of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
- Black Panther is from the fictional African nation of Wakanda. But how many fully UN recognised, non-fictional nations are there in Africa? 54, 84 or 104?
Answers for 19 April 2020
- Hindenburg Airship
- The Evil Dead
- Parks and Recreation
- Krypton
- Watchmen
- Catch-22
- Green
- Carrie Fisher
- I’d accept Shredder and/or Krang
- 54 (who are member of the UN, there’s more, but it’s complicated)
