Mythology Quiz

Suzanne Collins was a writer for children's television shows in the nineties. She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America in animation for co-writing a critically acclaimed Christmas special called Santa, Baby! She then went on to write The Underland Chronicles.

What’s the first and only band to play on all seven continents? If you guessed Metallica, you’re right! The heavy metal band set this record after they performed at Argentina’s Carlini Station in Antarctica. They played before an audience of 120 scientists inside a small dome.

The first ever science documentary got stuck straight into the most important topic – cheese. Made in 1903, Cheese Mites showed audiences what a piece of stilton looked like beneath a microscope. The scientist reveals a veritable smorgasbord of mites, in his words “crawling and creeping about in all directions, looking like great uncanny crabs, bristling with long spiny hairs and legs”. The year was 1903, and early cinema goers were shocked and thrilled by the images, stilton manufacturers were appalled, and sales of cheap microscopes soared.