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1. Abin Sur was the Green Lantern for space sector 2814, and crash landed on Earth. As he lay dying, he commanded his ring to seek out someone without fear as his replacement in the Corps. The ring brought Hal Jordan, taking him directly from his job. What was Hal's occupation?
2. The Guardians of the Universe created the Green Lantern Corps - 3,600 cosmic cops armed with rings whose only limitations were their will-power and...
3. Hal Jordan's boss was also his girlfriend, Carol Ferris, which you know is going to cause problems. To make matters worse, she also had an obligitory crush on Green Lantern. To top things off, she even had an alternate identity as a super-villian. What was it?
4. Hal's sidekick was his mechanic, Pieface, the only one who knew his true identity. Why on earth did Hal call the guy Pieface?
5. Hal had a secret identity so secret even he didn't know about it! What was it?
6. Hal's greatest enemy was Sinestro, a rogue Green Lantern who now had a yellow ring to use against his former comrades. Who created the ring for him?
7. Green Lantern and this hero would team up many times over the years. At the end of their first team-up, readers were asked if they liked the story, and if they would want to see more team-ups between the two characters. Who was Hal's buddy?
8. Sonar had a tuning fork gun as a weapon, but still managed to cause problems for Green Lantern. Sonar was seeking to promote his country, so small that it was left off of most maps. What was his country called?
9. This Green Lantern villian would become the leader of the Injustice Gang and do a stint with the Suicide Squad before being drafted into the JLA by Batman.
10. Green Lantern also fought a mutated shark, who cleverly called himself The Shark. So he wasn't a deep thinker, he was still a deadly foe. The Shark fought a number of other heroes in the DC universe. Which of the following did the Shark NEVER go one-on-one with?
11. Hal left his job at Ferris Aircraft after Carol decided to marry someone else. He moved to the Pacific Northwest and got a job as what?
12. Well, that job didn't pan out, so he became a toy salesman (I'm not making this up), and promptly fell for rival toy saleswoman Olivia Reynolds. She had no interest in Green Lantern, but he had a professional interest in her. Why?
13. Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams completely reviltalized Green Lantern in 1969, having him go on a leave of absence from the Corps, and travelling across the States in search of America. What was the title of the story that marked this change?
14. Green Lantern had his comic cancelled in 1972. It would be revived in 1976. In that four year period, where could one find regular Green Lantern solo stories?
15. Green Lantern got kind of lonely wandering in space, and so he picked up a quivering, starfish-like creature and carried it on his shoulder on his journeys. What did he decide to call the creature?
16. 1980 saw Green Lantern take solo control of his comic, just in time to learn that Carol Ferris' father had cheated his former partner out of his half of Ferris Aircraft. This cheated partner had a son who became a congressman and used his influence to try to put Ferris out of business. What was the name of this vengeance-bent family?
17. Hal and Carol went on vacation in Newfoundland, and stumbled across this super-hero group, who were making their very first appearance anywhere. The group would eventually graduate into their own comic. Who were they?
18. In "Green Lantern" 181, October 1984, Hal quit the Green Lantern Corps, though he would rejoin in just over a year. What prompted this resignation?
19. After commiting genocide on an unprecendented scale, Sinestro was finally apprehended and executed by the Corps. What did this result in?
20. Following the events in "Millenium", Hal would once again lose a series, and this one he was already sharing, under the name "Green Lantern Corps". In this second interim period between books, where could Hal be found in solo stories on a regular basis?
21. Hal was off in space with the Darkstars and L.E.G.I.O.N. when his home of Coast City was destroyed, along with its inhabitants. The destruction of Coast City was part of a storyline running in a different comic entirely. What storyline was it part of?
22. In the storyline "Emerald Twilight" Hal tries to resurect Coast City, but the Guardians prevent him. In desperation, he turns against them and winds up in an assault on Oa. The Guardians call in the new Corps, and even resurect Sinestro in a failed attempt to stop him from consuming the Central Power Battery, thus killing the Guardians. As well as the Guardians of the Universe and Sinestro, who does Hal Jordan kill?
23. Now with unlimited power, Hal adopted the name Parallax and set out to undo time, and re-make the universe in such a way that Coast City would not get destroyed. What was this major crossover?
24. When a nasty thing called the Sun-Eater ate the sun (and who would have guessed it would do something like that?), Hal sacrificed himself to re-ignite the sun and save all life on earth. What major crossover was this?
25. The Spectre is a supernatural being comprised of the manifestation of the Wrath of God combined witha human soul. For many years Jim Corrigan was the mortal bonded with the Spectre, but when Corrigan finally went to eternal rest, Hal's spirit was chosen to bond and become the new Spectre. In what major crossover did this occur?
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