The Wonderful "Messenger" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry is a prolific American author. She has written more than 20 children's books, including "The Giver Quartet", a four-part series made of the novels "The Giver", "Gathering Blue", "Messenger" and "Son". "The Giver" is one of Lowry's most successful works, since it got the Newbery Medal in 1994 for it, and it was made into a movie in 2014.

The third book in "The Giver" series, "Messenger", is about a village messenger called Matty, who has the unknown power of healing other people.

Answer: Receiver

"Receiver" is actually the opposite of "messenger", since it refers to someone that receives a message, not some who carries it. Couriers often deliver different types of messages, and there are many kinds of messengers. Since they also deliver packages, each has a different way of transportation, such as bicycles, railways and even by airplane.

Answer: Islam

Prophet Muhammad talked to an angel called Gabriel, who was supposedly sent by Muslim god Allah. Then he spread everything he learned through Arabia, managing to unite people as he taught the revelations he had been shown. Eventually, everyone who professed the teachings of Muhammad became known as Muslims, followers of Islam.

The religion of Islam follows the Qur'an, their sacred book, which among many things, says they should worship God above anything else. Muhammad is thought to be the prophet who started the religion.

Answer: Ben Foster

"The Messenger" was directed by Oren Moverman, an Israeli screenwriter who made his directorial debut with this movie, and premiered on November 2009. It shows the story of Will Montgomery, a Sergeant for the United States Army who, after returning from the Iraq War, is assigned with Captain Tony Stone (portrayed by Woody Harrelson) as a casualty notification officer, which means he must be the bearer of bad news to families of soldiers who die in battle.

Will Montgomery is played by American actor Ben Foster, who has also appeared in films like "The Punisher", "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "Kill Your Darlings".

Answer: Ribosome

Ribosomes are small, spherical structures located throughout eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, as well as inside the rough endoplasmic reticulum. Their main function is to participate in the synthesis process of proteins, which happens when mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) travels and transfers genetic information to ribosomes, which turn that into proteins.

Answer: Harlem Renaissance

In the decade of 1920, African-American art flourished in the neighborhood of Harlem, in New York City. A great number of important writers, like Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman spawned from this cultural movement. Artists such as musicians, dancers, authors and poets like Josephine Baker, Cyril Briggs, and Louis Armstrong are some of the figures that were part of the movement.

The magazine "The Messenger" was first published in 1917, in New York. It had many articles, mostly about culture. The works of people like Wallace Thurman and Langston Hughes were published in the magazine, which published its final issue in 1928.

Answer: Microsoft

Also known as MSN (Microsoft Network) Messenger, Windows Live Messenger was a program used to chat with whoever had an internet connection, anywhere in the world. It was released in 1999 by Microsoft, and was discontinued in 2012 after a merger with Skype.

Microsoft is one of the leading electronic companies worldwide, and was founded by billionaire Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The company, in addition to computer software, also makes cellphones, computer accessories and gaming consoles like the Xbox.

Answer: Mercury

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and because of this, orbits the sun faster than any other planet, in 88 days. The planet was named after the Roman messenger of the gods, Mercury, who is the equivalent to Greece's Hermes.

MESSENGER is an acronym for "Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging", which coincidentally refers to the fact that Mercury was a messenger. The probe, which was launched in 2004, reached Mercury four years later, in 2008.

Answer: Linkin Park

In 2010, an American rock band Linkin Park released their fourth studio album, "A Thousand Suns", which was preceded by "Meteora" and "Minutes to Midnight". These last two albums included successful hits like "Numb", "Bleed it Out" and "What I've Done".

Linkin Park was founded in 1996 by vocalist and guitarist Mike Shinoda, drummer Rob Bourdon and guitarist Brad Delson. The band won its first Grammy Award in 2002 for Best Hard Rock Performance, received by their song "Crawling". In 2006, their collaboration of "Numb" with Jay-Z won the Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.

Answer: Pigeon

The system of using pigeons to communicate messages is called pigeon post. The pigeons are trained to get a message from one place to another, and have been used for years, from the Persians to the times of both World Wars. Better known as war pigeons, the job of this birds was to pass along military messages.

Several pigeons have received the Dickin Medal, a British award for outstanding military duty.