Quiz: Fantastic Four
Test your knowledge and learn things you might not have known about the Marvel comic heros.
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1. What relation is Johnny (Human Torch) to Sue (Invisible Woman)?
Johnny is Sue's younger brother.
2. What did Ben Grimm do before becoming the Thing?
He was a test pilot and astronaut.
3. How did Ben Grimm and Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) meet?
They were college roomates at State University.
4. Where do the Fantastic Four make their home base?
The Baxter Building in New York City.
5. How does the movie version of the Fantastic Four and the comic book differ in the origin of Dr. Doom's powers?
In the movie, Victor Von Doom is on the space ship with the other eventual Fantastic Four and gains powers the same way they do by getting blasted by radioactive cosmic rays. In the comics, he does not have super-human powers, but uses science and sorcery to help him with his plan of world domination.
6. Fantastic Four is a typical big-budget summer blockbuster movie. Ioan Gruffudd, who portrays Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, was in another summer blockbuster in 1997. What was the film?
Titanic. He played 5th Officer Lowe.
7. What two men are credited with creating the Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics?
Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
8. Who makes a cameo appearance in the film as mailman Willie Lumpkin?
Fantastic Four co-creator Stan Lee. Lee has made cameo appearances in other films based on comic book characters he created. In Spider-Man 2 he was the man outside the bank dodging debris. In The Hulk (2003) he was a security guard. He was an old man at a crossing in 2003's Daredevil and in X-Men (2000) he was a hot dog vendor.
9. Jessica Alba, who portrays Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman starred in a television series where she also had special powers. Can you name it?
Dark Angel. She played Max Guevara, a genetically enhanced woman who is the result of a secret government experiment to create an elite military squad. James Cameron of Titanic and Terminator fame was one of the show's creators and writers.
10. Spider-Man, X-Men, The Hulk, Blade, Daredevil, Elektra, Punisher and the Fantastic Four are Marvel comic creations that have ended up on the big screen. There are several more films in the works. Can you name at least three?
X-Men 3 (May 2006), Ghost Rider (Aug 2006), Spider-Man 3 (May 2007), Iron Man (2007). The following have not started filming and do not yet have release dates, but are said to be planned. Captain America, Silver Surfer, Punisher 2, Hulk 2, and Black Widow.
Sources: Internet Movie Database, Marvel Comics
