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spiderman_quiz.navsectionID = ""
spiderman_quiz.sPubDate = "6/24/2004 3:09:10 AM GMT";
spiderman_quiz.quiztype = 1;
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spiderman_quiz.appWidth = 460;
spiderman_quiz.appDeck = new Array("Peter Parker, better known as Spider-Man, returns to movie theaters on June 30, but of course his life story has always been told most fully in the comics. Spidey's status as Marvel's most popular hero has made for some remarkable twists in his storyline, as writers have raced to keep one step ahead of the readership (and to keep that readership interested in \"Spider-Man\" titles). How well do you know the tangled web they weaved? Take our trivia quiz and find out how powerful your own spider-sense is.","");
spiderman_quiz.headHeight = 40;
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spiderman_quiz[1] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[1][0] = new Array("An easy one to start you off: At which New York newspaper does Peter Parker work as a photographer for the demanding and Spidey-hating editor J. Jonah Jameson?");
spiderman_quiz[1].answer = "Answer: The Daily Bugle";
spiderman_quiz[1][1] = new Array("The Daily Planet",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[1][2] = new Array("The New York Post",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[1][3] = new Array("The Daily Bugle",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[1][4] = new Array("The Weekly Inquirer",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[2] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[2][0] = new Array("How did Spider-Man get his powers, in the original comic book?");
spiderman_quiz[2].answer = "The first answer was the correct one. The other origin stories were Superman, Swamp Thing and Abraham Lincoln, respectively, except for the part where they get bitten by a radioactive spider. Superman and Swamp Thing were, to our knowledge, never bitten by a radioactive spider. If Lincoln was, he didn’t get any superpowers from it—at least, none he ever revealed to the world.";
spiderman_quiz[2][1] = new Array("He was bitten by a radioactive spider",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[2][2] = new Array("He was sent here from the dying planet of Krypton, was raised by a Kansas farm family, moved to the big city and became a reporter, where he was bitten by a radioactive spider.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[2][3] = new Array("A scientist working on a top-secret plant regeneration formula, he was killed by a bomb in his lab left by his enemies; later, his body rose from the Louisiana swamp changed into a horrific being made of plant tissue, whereupon he was bitten by a radioactive spider.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[2][4] = new Array("Born in a log cabin in Kentucky, he rose to political power in Illinois and later was elected President of the United States, guiding the Union through the dark years of the Civil War. In 1865, at Ford’s Theater, he was bitten by a radioactive spider.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[3] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[3][0] = new Array("What nefarious act did Dr. Octopus commit against Peter's Aunt May in \"Amazing Spider-Man #131\"? ");
spiderman_quiz[3].answer = "All of the above. You see, May Parker had somehow inherited a nuclear reactor, located deep in northern Canada, which Dr. Octopus wanted for himself so he could create powerful weapons of his own. So, naturally, as so often happens in these situations, he proposed a secret marriage ceremony, and May, apparently swept off her feet by his bowl haircut and megalomaniacal dreams of conquest, agreed. ";
spiderman_quiz[3][1] = new Array("He attempted to marry her.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[3][2] = new Array("He kidnapped her and took her to a cold, remote Canadian island.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[3][3] = new Array("He tried to steal her nuclear reactor.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[3][4] = new Array("All of the above",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[4] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[4][0] = new Array("Mary-Jane Watson is firmly established now as the love of Peter Parker’s life, but during the early years of the series creator Stan Lee teased readers for many issues before finally revealing what she looked like in \"Amazing Spider-Man #42.\" Peter had avoided meeting her for fear that his Aunt May was trying to set him up on a pity date, but was stunned to discover that Mary-Jane was, well, a stunner. What was her now-immortal first line?");
spiderman_quiz[4].answer = "\"Face it, Tiger, you just hit the jackpot.\" For nerdy, love-troubled Peter Parker, that was putting it mildly. \"Tiger\" is still MJ’s pet name of choice for Peter.";
spiderman_quiz[4][1] = new Array("\"So I hear you like to dress up in tights.\"",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[4][2] = new Array("\"Does this look infected?\"",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[4][3] = new Array("\"Face it, Tiger, you just hit the jackpot.\"",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[4][4] = new Array("\"I hope your strength and speed is the only thing about you that's proportional to a spider.\"",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[5] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[5][0] = new Array("Remember the scene in the first Spider-Man film when the Green Goblin threw Mary Jane off the Brooklyn Bridge, and Spider-Man saved her life? Well, that scene was taken directly out of \"Amazing Spider-Man #121\" — but with two very significant changes. One was that instead of Mary Jane, the lady in question was Peter Parker’s then-girlfriend Gwen Stacey. What was the other change?");
spiderman_quiz[5].answer = "Peter catches Gwen, but doesn’t save her—the shock of the fall has already broken her neck. In the early 1960s, this kind of plot twist was unheard-of. Never before had a villain actually succeeded in killing a major secondary character. ";
spiderman_quiz[5][1] = new Array("The Goblin changes his mind and doesn’t throw her off the bridge.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[5][2] = new Array("The villain is actually Dr. Octopus, not the Goblin.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[5][3] = new Array("Gwen is killed.",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[5][4] = new Array("Gwen is saved at the last moment by a surprise appearance by the Incredible Hulk.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[6] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[6][0] = new Array("What jaw-dropping twist was revealed in \"Spectacular Spider-Man #226\"?");
spiderman_quiz[6].answer = "This is complicated, but briefly: In a 1975 storyline, a mad scientist calling himself the Jackal created a clone of Spider-Man and spurred the two of them in a fight to the death—and the real Spidey, so everyone thought, won. But in the mid-1990s, the “clone” popped up again, and genetic testing eventually revealed that the wrong Peter Parker had been living Spider-Man’s life—and starring in his comic books—for two decades. ";
spiderman_quiz[6][1] = new Array("Aunt May was really a figment of Peter’s imagination!",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[6][2] = new Array("Spider-Man had been unknowingly replaced by his own clone impostor some twenty years earlier!",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[6][3] = new Array("J. Jonah Jameson’s flat-top haircut was a wig!",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[6][4] = new Array("Dr. Octopus was really Spider-Man’s father!",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[7] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[7][0] = new Array("Peter Parker is an orphan, raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. How did his parents die? ");
spiderman_quiz[7].answer = "Richard and Mary Parker, we discovered in \"Untold Tales of Spider-Man #1,\" were American government agents. It was later revealed that they were killed in a plane explosion by the Red Skull, best known as Captain America’s Nazi nemesis. ";
spiderman_quiz[7][1] = new Array("They were shot by a burglar who Peter had failed to apprehend only hours earlier.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[7][2] = new Array("Their car went out of control on an icy road and plunged over a bridge.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[7][3] = new Array("They were killed by Nazis.",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[7][4] = new Array("They both died peacefully after long illnesses.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[8] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[8][0] = new Array("Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can. Like what, specifically? Which of the following is NOT a real lyric from the hummable theme to the 1970s animated series? ");
spiderman_quiz[8].answer = "There has never been any great confusion in the public mind between Spider-Man and Lou Rawls, which is very likely why a lyric explaining the difference between them was not written into the song.";
spiderman_quiz[8][1] = new Array("Spins a web any size, catches thieves just like flies!",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[8][2] = new Array("Who’s that up there scaling walls? I’ll bet it’s not soul singer Lou Rawls!",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[8][3] = new Array("Is he strong? Listen bud — he’s got radioactive blood!",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[8][4] = new Array("Wealth and fame, he's ignored — action is his reward!",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[9] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[9][0] = new Array("One of Spidey’s most persistent villains was a big-game hunter with a name that belied his ferocity and courage. What was it?");
spiderman_quiz[9].answer = "Kraven the Hunter, real name Sergei Kravinoff, was the descendant of Russian nobility who trained himself to become the world’s greatest hunter of live game. He eventually decided that there was only one remaining prey worthy of his skills, namely Spider-Man.";
spiderman_quiz[9][1] = new Array("Kowardly",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[9][2] = new Array("Kraven",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[9][3] = new Array("Skaredy-Kat",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[9][4] = new Array("Yellowbelly",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[10] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[10][0] = new Array("With what unlikely group of heroes did Spider-Man join forces in the October 1978 issue of \"Marvel Team-Up\"?");
spiderman_quiz[10].answer = "Spider-Man saves John Belushi, who’s in character as his samurai parody, from a supervillain named the Silver Samurai who Belushi doesn’t know is the real thing. It wasn’t the first time real TV actors showed up in Spidey’s world — J. Jonah Jameson once went on Johnny Carson’s show to gloat (prematurely, of course) that Spider-Man was all washed up.";
spiderman_quiz[10][1] = new Array("The Keystone Kops",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[10][2] = new Array("Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[10][3] = new Array("The American Red Cross",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[10][4] = new Array("The cast of \"Saturday Night Live\"",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[11] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[11][0] = new Array("The roster of supervillains who count Spider-Man as their most hated enemy is perhaps the most interesting in the genre, rivalled only by Batman’s legion of costumed foes. Place the following characters in chronological order based on their debut in the Spider-Man comic books.");
spiderman_quiz[11].answer = "Vulture, Dr. Octopus, Sandman, Lizard, Electro, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Kraven, Scorpion, Rhino, Kingpin, Venom, Carnage";
spiderman_quiz[11][1] = new Array("Venom, Dr. Octopus, Sandman, Green Goblin, Mysterio, Scorpion, Kraven, Rhino, Lizard, Kingpin, Vulture, Electro, Carnage",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[11][2] = new Array("Green Goblin, Mysterio, Kraven, Dr. Octopus, Kingpin, Sandman, Venom, Scorpion, Carnage, Lizard, Vulture, Electro, Rhino",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[11][3] = new Array("Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus, Lizard, Kingpin, Kraven, Sandman, Vulture, Electro, Mysterio, Scorpion, Rhino, Venom, Carnage",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[11][4] = new Array("Vulture, Dr. Octopus, Sandman, Lizard, Electro, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Kraven, Scorpion, Rhino, Kingpin, Venom, Carnage",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[12] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[12][0] = new Array("Before he took over as webmaster for the current series of \"Amazing Spider-Man\" comic books, writer J. Michael Straczynski was already a hero to science-fiction fandom. Why?");
spiderman_quiz[12].answer = "After his groundbreaking television series was cancelled, Straczynski signed up as the creative lead for Marvel’s most popular character.";
spiderman_quiz[12][1] = new Array("He designed the giant spider in \"Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.\"",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[12][2] = new Array("He personally saved William Shatner from drowning — though he wasn't able to stop him from singing.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[12][3] = new Array("He was the executive producer of the TV series \"Babylon 5.\"",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[12][4] = new Array("He built a working TARDIS out of spare parts in his garage.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[13] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[13][0] = new Array("What is Dr. Octopus' real name?");
spiderman_quiz[13].answer = "Dr. Octopus' real name is Otto Octavius.";
spiderman_quiz[13][1] = new Array("Othmar Ogbertson",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[13][2] = new Array("Otto Octavius",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[13][3] = new Array("Octavius Orbison",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[13][4] = new Array("Oliver Oxenfree",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[14] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[14][0] = new Array("What two things are true about J. Jonah Jameson's son John, either one of which would be remarkable by itself?");
spiderman_quiz[14].answer = "He's an astronaut and a werewolf. You see, when he was on the moon he picked up a strange gemstone which grafted itself onto his body and caused a transformation into a wolflike being known as Man-Wolf during the fiull moon. Let this be a lesson to you to avoid souvenirs next time you visirt the moon.";
spiderman_quiz[14][1] = new Array("He's an astronaut and a werewolf.",'',1);
spiderman_quiz[14][2] = new Array("He’s a deep-sea diver and the husband of a mermaid.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[14][3] = new Array("He’s secretly the villain Mysterio, and also the best friend of Mary-Jane Watson.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[14][4] = new Array("He’s a very fashionable man, yet he still insists on wearing socks with sandals.",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[15] = new Array();
spiderman_quiz[15][0] = new Array("Who is Pavitr Prabhakar?");
spiderman_quiz[15].answer = "In June of this year, Marvel announced that they’d be launching a reinvented Spider-Man character who would fight crime in the Indian city of Mumbai instead of New York. His chief nemesis will be a new version of Green Goblin changed into a mythic demon known as a rakshasa. ";
spiderman_quiz[15][1] = new Array("Electro",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[15][2] = new Array("The Blue Raja",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[15][3] = new Array("Dr. Strange",'',0);
spiderman_quiz[15][4] = new Array("Spider-Man",'',1);
spiderman_quiz.profiles = new Array();var i=0;
spiderman_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(100,100,"Spider-Fanatic. Your head must be full of webbing for all that trivia to stick up there so well, and we mean that as a compliment. ");
spiderman_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(67,93,"You are a regular wall-crawler, and have reached heights that the average human cannot dream of achieving without the use of elevators. ");
spiderman_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(33,60,"Not bad, but the next time your spider-sense tingles, don’t be surprised if it’s a false alarm. ");
spiderman_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(7,27,"You can probably catch more flies with honey than you can with your spider-derived superpowers. ");
spiderman_quiz.profiles[i++]= new Array(0,1,"Sadly, you are tangled in a web of ignorance. ");
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