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fantasticFour_quiz.sPubDate = "7/11/2005 1:44:02 AM GMT";
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fantasticFour_quiz.appDeck = new Array("Debuting in 1961, the superhero team of the Fantastic Four were the first major creations by comic-book legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics. The quartet, sometimes known by fans as simply the FF, was made up of brilliant scientist Reed Richards (also known as the super-elastic Mr. Fantastic), his girlfriend and eventual wife Sue Storm (the Invisible Girl, who eventually updated her name to the Invisible Woman), Sue’s brother Johnny (the flame-wielding Human Torch) and Reed’s friend Ben Grimm (who became the immensely strong, rocky, and orange Thing). Now the FF has hit the big screen in a feature film starring Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans. How much do you know about the Fantastic Four? Test yourself with our trivia quiz.","");
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fantasticFour_quiz[1] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[1][0] = new Array("What classic quartet are the FF’s powers based on? ");
fantasticFour_quiz[1].answer = "The correct answer is A. Creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby based the Fantastic Four’s mutated superhuman forms on the classical Greek elements of earth, fire, air and water—respectively, the rocky Thing, the blazing Human Torch, the imperceptible-as-air Invisible Woman, and the endlessly malleable Mr. Fantastic. ";
fantasticFour_quiz[1][1] = new Array("A. The ancient Greek concept of the elemental states of matter",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[1][2] = new Array("B. The Beatles",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[1][3] = new Array("C. The four winds",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[1][4] = new Array("D. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse",'',0);

fantasticFour_quiz[2] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[2][0] = new Array("What is The Thing’s well-known battle cry?");
fantasticFour_quiz[2].answer = "The correct answer is D, “It’s Clobberin’ Time!” Answer C is slightly altered, the Hulk’s battle cry. Answer B is the battle cry of the MSNBC.com trivia-quiz crew.";
fantasticFour_quiz[2][1] = new Array("A. “Don’t You Talk About My Mother!”",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[2][2] = new Array("B. “Help! Help! These Guys Are Hitting Me! Make Them Stop!”",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[2][3] = new Array("C. “Thing Smash!”",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[2][4] = new Array("D. “It’s Clobberin’ Time!”",'',1);

fantasticFour_quiz[3] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[3][0] = new Array("How did the Fantastic Four, in one of their early adventures, defeat the all-powerful Impossible Man?");
fantasticFour_quiz[3].answer = "The correct answer is C, they ignored him. The imp-like Impossible Man is a being from the planet Poppup, where the inhabitants had developed the ability to evolve into anything in microseconds. Bored, he visited Earth, where his attempts to learn human culture ranged from annoying to dangerous — but Mr. Fantastic deduced that all he really wanted was attention, and when everyone on Earth simply ignored him, he went home in a fit of pique.";
fantasticFour_quiz[3][1] = new Array("A. They didn’t — they lost",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[3][2] = new Array("B. They encased him in an unbreakable adamantium box",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[3][3] = new Array("C. They ignored him until he went away",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[3][4] = new Array("D. They lured him out to sea where they detonated a prototype oxygen destroyer, reducing him to radioactive bones",'',0);

fantasticFour_quiz[4] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[4][0] = new Array("When the FF starred in an animated TV cartoon series of their own in 1978, one of the members was replaced by a friendly robot named H.E.R.B.I.E. Who was it?");
fantasticFour_quiz[4].answer = "The correct answer is B. There was a longstanding rumor that the Torch was yanked out of network executives’ fears that children might go too far and set themselves on fire when pretending to be the character, but it’s apparently only an urban legend — in reality, the Torch was then unavailable because the character was under consideration for a movie.";
fantasticFour_quiz[4][1] = new Array("A. Mr. Fantastic",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[4][2] = new Array("B. The Human Torch",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[4][3] = new Array("C. The Invisible Woman",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[4][4] = new Array("D. The Thing",'',0);

fantasticFour_quiz[5] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[5][0] = new Array("Which of the following is not a location that the FF have used as their headquarters?");
fantasticFour_quiz[5].answer = "The correct answer is C. The Hall Of Justice was the headquarters of the Super Friends in the 1970s cartoon show.";
fantasticFour_quiz[5][1] = new Array("A. Pier Four",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[5][2] = new Array("B. The Baxter Building",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[5][3] = new Array("C. The Hall Of Justice",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[5][4] = new Array("D. Four Freedoms Plaza",'',0);

fantasticFour_quiz[6] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[6][0] = new Array("The FF’s mailman, Willie Lumpkin, once offered to join the group. What superpowers did he have that would benefit the FF in their fight for justice?");
fantasticFour_quiz[6].answer = "The correct answer is C. Willie’s main duties as a mailman were delivering giant sacks of fan mail to the FF’s headquarters. He jokingly suggested to Reed Richards that his ear-wiggling ability might be useful, and Reed promised to keep “Lumpy” in mind. It is our fervent hope that some future comic-book writer will write a storyline in which ear-wiggling ability is all that can stop Galactus The World Devourer from consuming the Earth.";
fantasticFour_quiz[6][1] = new Array("A. He can shoot laser beams out of his eyes and sonic blasts out of his ears",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[6][2] = new Array("B. After being bitten by a radioactive spider, he has the proportional strength of a mailman with radiation poisoning",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[6][3] = new Array("C. He can “wiggle my ears real good”",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[6][4] = new Array("D. He has not only all the five-digit ZIP codes memorized, but the nine-digit ones too",'',0);

fantasticFour_quiz[7] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[7][0] = new Array("An intriguing element of the Thing’s background was revealed for the first time in a 2002 storyline. What was it?");
fantasticFour_quiz[7].answer = "The correct answer is D. Many creators of superhero comics were Jewish, including Lee and Kirby (born Stanley Lieber and Jacob Kurtzberg, respectively), but even though the two thought of the Thing as being from a Jewish background, that had never explicitly been stated in the comics until 2002. And speaking of religious issues, in a recent FF storyline, the heroes traveled to Heaven and met God, who appeared to them in the form of Kirby";
fantasticFour_quiz[7][1] = new Array("A. The orange rocks that make up his body are solid gold",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[7][2] = new Array("B. He is actually a clone of Johnny Storm",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[7][3] = new Array("C. Before he became a superhero, he was a petty thief",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[7][4] = new Array("D. He is Jewish",'',1);

fantasticFour_quiz[8] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[8][0] = new Array("The world of comics is, well, not just one world—there have been dozens of stories that explore what might have happened to the Fantastic Four if circumstances in their lives had been different, sometimes wildly so. Which of the following is NOT a scenario taken from a real Marvel Comics “alternate universe” storyline featuring the FF?");
fantasticFour_quiz[8].answer = "The correct answer is B. The “official” version of reality for Marvel Comics characters is known as Earth-616.";
fantasticFour_quiz[8][1] = new Array("A. A world where dinosaurs evolved to intelligence instead of humans: Here, the “Fantastic Five” included Saur Fantastic, Dinotorch, Invisiguanodon, the Thing and Arachnosaur (an analogue of Spider-Man)",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[8][2] = new Array("B. A world where, instead of gaining superpowers, the Fantastic Four drove around in a van solving mysteries along with a talking Great Dane and a hippie in a green shirt",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[8][3] = new Array("C. A world where magic ruled instead of science: Here, the “Four Fates” were named Lord Nimbus, Count Crag, Lady Aqua and Prince Morningstar",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[8][4] = new Array("D. A world where demons took over the Earth and killed most of the population, including many of its heroes: The Fantastic Four were disbanded",'',0);

fantasticFour_quiz[9] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[9][0] = new Array("In the FF’s introductory origin story published in 1961, the team got their superpowers when their experimental spaceship was hit by a storm of cosmic rays. More recently, Marvel Comics began publishing updated and modernized “Ultimate” versions of its superheroes. How does the Ultimate Fantastic Four get their powers?");
fantasticFour_quiz[9].answer = "The correct answer is C, a teleportation accident. Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom were testing a machine they had built together by trying to teleport an apple from Nevada to Guantanamo Bay via another dimension. Instead, something went wrong and Doom and the FF were transported and mutated.";
fantasticFour_quiz[9][1] = new Array("A. Same as before, except instead of a spaceship it was an accident during an extreme snowboarding championship",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[9][2] = new Array("B. They are bitten by radioactive spiders",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[9][3] = new Array("C. Through a teleportation accident",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[9][4] = new Array("D. Though a mail-order correspondence course",'',0);

fantasticFour_quiz[10] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[10][0] = new Array("It happens often in comics that familiar characters and settings are radically revised, either to give the stories a fresh spin, or to iron out some previous plot incongruity, or because the character has been around so long that he or she begins to seem anachronistic. A good example is the Ultimate series mentioned in the previous question, in which the Marvel superheroes’ origins are all retold, and usually reset forward in time by several decades. What is the common shorthand term for this phenomenon?");
fantasticFour_quiz[10].answer = "The correct answer is C. A “retconning” is shorthand for a retroactive continuity change, in which you might declare that, for instance, Batman began fighting crime in the early 1990s instead of the 1930s. Though it serves a necessary purpose in comicdom — otherwise Batman would have to be well past retirement age — retconning can be confusing for the uninitiated.";
fantasticFour_quiz[10][1] = new Array("A. Backflipping",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[10][2] = new Array("B. Retroplotting",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[10][3] = new Array("C. Retconning",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[10][4] = new Array("D. Anachrofictionizing",'',0);

fantasticFour_quiz[11] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[11][0] = new Array("The nemesis of the Fantastic Four, Victor Von Doom, is the hereditary ruler of which fictional country?");
fantasticFour_quiz[11].answer = "The correct answer is A, Latveria. Wakanda, another fictional nation in the Marvel Universe, is ruled by T’Challa, also known as the Black Panther. Laputa is a floating island invented by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels. America doesn’t have hereditary rulers, especially not ones who are supervillains bent on world domination; of course, in a comic-book universe, anything is possible.";
fantasticFour_quiz[11][1] = new Array("A. Latveria",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[11][2] = new Array("B. Wakanda",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[11][3] = new Array("C. Laputa",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[11][4] = new Array("D. America",'',0);

fantasticFour_quiz[12] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[12][0] = new Array("Reed and Sue Richards have two children, Franklin and Valeria. Franklin inherited enormous mutant power from his parents and is one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe. Valeria, as yet, has not shown any supernormal abilities at all. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some uncanny things about her. For example: What was her first word?");
fantasticFour_quiz[12].answer = "The correct answer is D, “Doom!” In one of those complicated soap-opera comic-book plots we’re not going to take the time to fully recount here, the attending doctor at Valeria’s birth was none other than Dr. Doom, who was the only available person with the skills necessary to save Sue Richards from dangerous medical complications, and Valeria is actually named after his former lover. But the Richards suspected that Doom had ulterior motives for helping them, which seemed to be borne out when Valeria’s first word was his name.";
fantasticFour_quiz[12][1] = new Array("A. “Smash!”",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[12][2] = new Array("B. “Blood!”",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[12][3] = new Array("C. “e=mc2!”",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[12][4] = new Array("D. “Doom!”",'',1);

fantasticFour_quiz[13] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[13][0] = new Array("In an early FF comic, the team squared off against Russian agent Ivan Kragoff, also known as the Red Ghost, who shot himself and three assistants into space in a deliberate, and successful, attempt to gain superpowers in the same way the Fantastic Four did. What rather unlikely kind of assistants did Ivan Kragoff choose as his fellow astronauts?");
fantasticFour_quiz[13].answer = "The correct answer is D, gorillas. This led to the Torch’s unintentionally hilarious line of dialogue “They’ve got to be warned! We’re racing to the moon with a Communist and three super apes!” And people say comic books are unrealistic.";
fantasticFour_quiz[13][1] = new Array("A. Mafia hitmen",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[13][2] = new Array("B. His girlfriend, her 16-year-old brother, and his best friend from childhood",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[13][3] = new Array("C. Hairstylists",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[13][4] = new Array("D. Gorillas",'',1);

fantasticFour_quiz[14] = new Array();
fantasticFour_quiz[14][0] = new Array("Among Dr. Doom’s most useful inventions are the Doombots, which are robot duplicates of himself nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. We’ll give you an example of how perfectly his Doombots imitate him: One of the answers below is the real Dr. Doom. Which one?");
fantasticFour_quiz[14].answer = "The correct answer is A, “Dr. Doom.” The others were all Doombots. What’s that? You say there was no way for you to tell what the right answer was? Well, that’s just how fiendishly clever Victor Von Doom is!";
fantasticFour_quiz[14][1] = new Array("A. Dr. Doom",'',1);
fantasticFour_quiz[14][2] = new Array("B. Dr. Doom",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[14][3] = new Array("C. Dr. Doom",'',0);
fantasticFour_quiz[14][4] = new Array("D. Dr. Doom",'',0);

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fantasticFour_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(93,100,"<font color=#990000><b>Excellent. You have a pretty fantastic score. </b></font>");
fantasticFour_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(64,86,"<font color=#990000><b>Very Good. You got nearly as many questions right as super-genius Reed Richards would have. </b></font>");
fantasticFour_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(36,57,"<font color=#990000><b>Fair. You might get more answers right if you stretched yourself a little more. (Get it? It&#146;s a pun, 'cause Mr. Fantastic stretches too… ah, forget it.) </b></font>");
fantasticFour_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(7,29,"<font color=#990000><b>Not Very Good. OK, let&#146;s start from the beginning again. There&#146;s these four people and they all have superpowers, see? Well, maybe you should do some remedial reading on your own. </b></font>");
fantasticFour_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(0,6,"<font color=#990000><b>Terrible. You&#146;d better ask the Invisible Woman to put a force field around you so nobody sees how badly you did. </b></font>");

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