Home: Quiz List: My Author's Challenge Titles, Part 12

Distilling the timeline of New York City to just fifteen significant events was not an easy task, considering the more than 500 years of recorded history since Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano first entered New York Harbor in 1524.

There are a wide variety of wild cats to be found around the globe. These amazing hunters are sleek and powerful... and beautiful! You should be able to size up your chances on whether you can figure out how to organize these felines into like groups.

These stories of interplanetary war are just a small selection of what you can find in movies, television, books, comics, and video games. Do you know them all?

Oftentimes, animals can have features that are reminiscent of more than one type of creature. A catfish with its 'whiskers' comes to mind as a prime example. Can you pick out the real animals from the imaginary ones in this quiz?

Test your reflexes and your retro racing smarts as you zip through memories of roaring engines, drifting turns, and blinking arcade marquees. Keep your momentum up - fall behind, and the pack might just leave you in a cloud of pixelated dust.

Just because I haven't made my coffee yet this morning, I can't really complain. It takes quite a bit of effort to get it from the field into my coffee mug. What do you know of the coffee-production process that results in my being able to function?

Do you remember your favourite toys from 'back in the day'? Were you able to get the latest fad while it was still in the stores? More importantly (for this quiz), do you know in which decade each of these toy fads appeared?

YES, all of the men in the left-hand column of this match quiz are known for being the first to achieve a great feat! AND... in the right-hand column are the names of all the women who were the first to achieve the same feats! Can you match them?

Comedy runs riot: farce, wordplay, mistaken identities, supernatural meddling, and operatic uproar abound. Match each joyous mess of a play to its creator and enjoy the tumble.

Each of these individuals is famous in their own right, but are also related to another famous personality. Can you match them according to the given relationship boxes?