From Eriador to Mordor & the 'Middle' In-between
It's the setting of "The Hobbit" & "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
What is Middle Earth?
He's the creator of "The Star Wars Universe."
Who is George Lucas?
The Dragon Ball Z protagonist, and easily the most recognizable anime character of all time, often called the anime Superman.
Who is Goku?
The Titan of tabletop games that was first published in 1974 and created the genre of RPGs, along with a now commonly used D20 dice system.
What is D & D (Dungeons & Dragons)?
The simple shape stacking game where all you have to do is make lines, and which remains the best-selling game of all times, with over 500,000,000 sales and counting.
What is Tetris?
The first super-hero, debuting in 1938 in Action Comics #1, this invulnerable protagonist's only kryptonite...is kryptonite!
It's the name of the warp-speed, phaser-armed starship that explores the cosmos under the flag of The Federation & is the primary setting of the Star Trek series.
What is the Enterprise?
He's "the boy who lived."
Who is Harry Potter?
He's the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
It's the number of "Episodes" in the main series saga.
What is 9?
Not all, but most Anime start as these Japanese graphic novels or comic books.
What are Manga?
The game that first came out in 1993 and in doing so created the genre of TCGs (Trading Card Games), which today command two-thirds of the entire multibillion dollar hobby-gaming market and boast over 50,000,000 active players globally.
What is Magic the Gathering (MTG)?
It's the highest grossing media franchise in history, spawning multiple hit TV series, a modern mobile game that broke records and became a global obsession, a table-top card game that has set world-wide auction records for sales; but it all started as a simple Nintendo Game-boy game back in 1996.
What is Pokémon?
Stan Lee's 1962 creation, and mainstay of Marvel Comics, whose multi-franchised sales including everything from merchandise and video games to film and TV franchises makes him the most financially successful superhero of all time, grossing over $30 billion...I guess you could say with great creative genius comes great financial gain!
Who is Spiderman?
In the original Star Trek series, which first aired in 1966, he's the character who led the crew of the Starship Enterprise?
Who is Captain Kirk?
It's the most prestigious school of witchcraft and wizardry in all of the wizarding world.
What is Hogwarts?
The real name of the character also known as Strider, the Dunadan and Elessar by the elves.
Who is Aragorn?
The subtitle of the one that began it all back in 1977, it was originally just called "Star Wars," and in chronological story order it's episode IV.
What is "A New Hope?"
It's the best-selling manga of all time, after more than 25 yeas of continuing saga and over 1000 episodes it remains one of the most popular and watched anime of all time, and it's hit Netflix live action version has boosted the popularity of the already famous franchise.
What is "One Piece?"
In terms of trading cards, a card featuring this character currently holds the record for being the most valuable of all trading cards; recently selling at an auction for more than 16 million US dollars.
What is Pikachu?
It's the title of the first game in the franchise that takes place in The Kingdom of Hyrule, and that was the first ever consul video game to allow you to save progress, literally a game changer.
What is "The Legend of Zelda?"
The 2nd most comercially succsessful superheor of all time, debuting in Detective Comics #27 in 1939, it's Gotham City's nocturnal hero's daytime name and alter ego.
Who is Bruce Wayne?
He led the Next Generation crew of the Enterprise, and his friends just called him Jean-Luc.
Who is Captain Picard?
The headmaster of Hogwarts.
Who is Albus Dumbledore?
He's actually an elvan price from the woodland realms, and he's a dead-shot with a bow and arrow.
Who is Legolas?
One never talks and the other never shuts up, and they are the only two characters who physically appear in all of the core-saga films, Episodes I-IX.
Who are R2-D2 & C-3PO?
It's the name of the one referred to as JJK.
What is Jujutsu Kaisen?
It's a common term today used in video games the world over to describe when your character gets better or stronger or learns a new skill of sorts, but that never existed until the release of Dungeons & Dragons.
What is Level(ing)-Up?
He's the antagonist of the Mario Bros. franchise and King of the Koopas.
Who is Bowser?
Billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, and... yea, he's also Ironman.
Who is Tony Stark?
He's the ever logical, pointy eared, Vulcan who is 2nd in command of the Enterprise under Captain Kirk.
Who is (Commander) Spock?
She's the author of the best-selling book series of all time, selling over 600,000,000 copies worldwide.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
Who is Gimli?
The full title of the first film of the main saga not written by George Lucas himself; Lucas even gave the production company and writers the original story he'd written, but they rejected it entirely, keeping only already established characters.
What is Episode VII: The Force Awakens?
It's the name of the one that's referred to as MHA.
What is My Hero Academia?
It's how many sides the biggest die commonly used in table-top games has (biggest as in the die with the most sides).
What is 20 (or a d20)?
It's the best-selling individual release game in history, with over 425 million individual units sold, and remains among the most played games today.
What is Minecraft?
The real name of the soldier who underwent a super-human-serum treatment and became Captain America.
Who is Steve Rogers.
He's the 3rd ranking officer aboard the Enterprise under Captain Picard & he's an emotionless android.
Who is (Lt. Commander) Data?
He's the martyred house-elf who formerly served the Malfoy family until Harry freed him.
Who is Dobby?
It's the race of being/creature Gollum is (underneath all of the one ring's corruption).
What is a hobbit?
They hail from the arboreal planet of Kashyyyk, and are a proud race of large hairy warriors.
What are Wookiees?
Osamu Tezuka, often called the "God of Manga" in Japan, first published the forerunner of all modern-day manga in 1952 with the release of this series.
What is Astro Boy?
It's the number of sides and the shape of the smallest die in a classic D20 table-top dice set.
What is a 4-sided pyramid?
He's the knight errant of the land of Hyrule and protector of the Princess Zelda.
Who is Link?
It's the alter-ego or vigilante name of NYC lawyer Mattew Murdock.
Who is Daredevil?
It's the name of the Scottish brogued Chief Engineer of the original Enterprise crew.
What is Scotty?
It's what Professor McGonagall and Rita Skeeter have in common, both of them are one of these.
What is an Animagus?
Prior to any places or characters, Tolkien created more than 20 of these and then built all of Middle Earth around them.
What are languages?
They're the little furry creatures who reside in treehouses on the Forest Moon of Endor.
What are Ewoks?
What is Demon Slayer-The Movie: Infinity Castle?
Released in 1987, it wasn't the first Miniature driven Table-top game, but it certainly is the most popular today with world-wide tournaments where two persons or two teams are pitted against each other, each with armies of 50-100 miniatures per side--each usually hand assembled, glued and painted.
What is Warhammer?
It's easily the most popular and commercially successful arcade game of all time.
What is Pac-Man?
It's the name of Batman nemesis The Riddler, before he was known as such.
Who is Edward Nigma?
It's what Jim calls his ship's Doctor.
What is Bones?
They are the incantations for the 3 unforgivable curses.
What is Imperio, Crucio & Avada Kedavra?
He's the baddy that's even more villainous than Sauron, the epitome of evil and corruption in Middle Earth.
Who is Morgoth?
When Lucas' first idea for Master Yoda--a real monkey in a mask and cloak holding a cane--wasn't working out so well, the famed director turned to this master puppeteer to bring the Jedi Master to life, both puppeteering and providing the voice for him (he was already Miss Piggy and Fozzy Bear).
Who is Frank Oz?
Due to the extreme popularity of Manga in Japan, a statistic common to those living there shows that more paper is used to print Manga than is used by the entire country yearly for this common household paper commodity.
What is Toilet Paper?
It's the most popular edition/setting, both in terms of active players and sales for D & D, including places like Baudlers Gate and Waters Deep.
What is Forgotten Realms?
It's the game that is the record holder for being the fastest selling media product of all time, selling over a billion dollars in revenue its first 3 days being released.
What is GTA V (Grand Theft Auto 5)?
(in any order) Who are Reed Richards, Sue Storm (Richards), Johnny Storm & Ben Grimm?
He's the creator of the Star Trek universe.
Who is Gene Roddenberry?
Riddikulus is a spell that exists exclusively for defeating this dark shape-shifting creature.
What is a Boggart?
The only character living in all of Middle Earth completely and utterly immune to the power or temptations of The Ring of Power (it doesn't even turn him invisible when worn).
Who is Tom Bombadil?
According to George Lucas himself, along with the cinematic universe of his favorite screenwriter & director, this book by Joseph Campbell, describing a Monomyth, was the other half of his inspiration in creating the Star Wars Universe.
What is "The Hero with a Thousand Faces?"
Osamu Tezuka, God of Manga, got the idea for the modern aesthetic that is most synonymous (not to mention instantly recognizable) with Manga and Anime characters of today, the oversized ultra expressive eyes, from this Walt Disney classic.
What is Bambi?
In MTG, it's what the acronym WUBRG represents.
What are The 5 Colors of Mana?
It was the very first home video game consul, hitting the market in 1972.
What is the (Magnavox) Odyssey?
It's the only comic/graphic-novel to be included on Time Magazine's list of the 100 greatest English novels and is generally considered the greatest graphic novel of ever.
What is Watchmen?
They are the actors who portrayed the beloved television captains of the Enterprise, Kirk & Picard.
Who are William Shatner & Patrick Stewart?
They are the true identities of Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, the creators of The Marauder's Map.
Who is Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black & James Potter?
The omnipotent, omniscient and ultimate source of good, presiding over all the ages of Middle Earth.
Who is Eru Ilúvatar?
Along with Campbell's tale of the Monomyth, Lucas directly credits the cinematic universe and world structure of this, his favorite writer and director, even going so far as to say that the entire DNA of Star Wars is based off of this director's film, "The Hidden Fortress."
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
They are the names of the 10 Straw Hat Pirates, beginning with their captain and then listed in order of joining the crew.
Who are Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usoop, Sanji, Chopper, Nico Robin, Franky, Brook and Jinbe.
What are White-Plains, Blue-Island, Black-Swamp, Red-Mountain, & Green-Forest?
Created and released in 1971, it's the very first arcade game ever.
What is Computer Space?
An avatar of winter, this was the name of legendary comic book creator Stan Lee's very first superhero, published in 1941.
Who is Jack Frost?
He's the actor who played the role of Geordi La Forge, the Chief Engineer of the crew of the Next Generation Enterprise, but before that he worked his way into our hearts by reading us children's stories on PBS's Reading Rainbow.
Who is LeVar Burton?
He's the first werewolf in the whole history of the Wizarding World to be awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class (the highest honor that the Ministry of Magic can award), even though it was awarded to him posthumously.
Who is Remus Lupin?