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Comics and books trivia questions
Comics and books mixes dated and undated questions: 6 of its 18 have a year, between 1818 and 1963, and 12 do not. The Pop culture group of the picker lists it as “Heroes, villains and famous pages”.
Comics and books: how the questions fall by date
Split by decade, the questions look like this, earliest year 1818, latest 1963:
- 1810s: 1 question
- 1930s: 1 question
- 1940s: 1 question
- 1950s: 1 question
- 1960s: 2 questions
What a Comics and books card looks like
Four choices, one answer. The first words of the questions break down as follows: 11 start with “Which”, 2 start with “In”, 2 start with “What”. Each answer is followed by a fact of up to 20 words. 5 of the answers are a single word.
Every question was checked against a written source, and the source is kept with it.
Comics and books samples and their answers
Here are two questions from the Comics and books bank, taken from the older end of the branch and clear of the daily ten for the weeks around the day this page was built.
Question (1941): Which comics hero was created by William Moulton Marston, a psychologist behind an early lie detector?
Answer: Wonder Woman. Her Lasso of Truth makes anyone tied up in it answer honestly, which is a polygraph with better styling.
The wrong choices on the card were Batman, Captain America, and Black Widow.
Checked against Wonder Woman (Wikipedia).
Question: In "Calvin and Hobbes", what kind of animal is Hobbes?
Answer: A tiger. He is a living tiger to Calvin and a stuffed toy to everyone else, and the strip never settles it.
The wrong choices on the card were A bear, A lion, and A dog.
Checked against Calvin and Hobbes (Wikipedia).
Keep going with Comics and books
These come from the same bank. Their answers are left for you to find in the game.
- Which fictional detective lives at 221B Baker Street?
How to choose Comics and books in the game
Rewind lets you narrow the day to what you like. Here that means opening Branches, ticking Comics and books with the other Pop culture branches, and pressing Play these. A day needs ten questions in the selection, and this branch has 18 of its own.
Scoring and the clock are in How to play Rewind.
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