Men and Women of Iron Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lou Gehrig

This one should be a gimme for most people. While those that aren't sports fans may not recognize the player for being a baseball player, the disease that is now associated with Mr. Gehrig, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), should have helped you find the right answer. If you answered too quickly, you may have selected one of the other famous Lou's.
For those that don't know, Lou Brock was another famous baseball player (but was never associated with an "iron man" streak).
Lou Reed, at least the one the quiz author was thinking of, was not associated with baseball. Rather, he was/is a musician.
Lou Rawls was/is also a famous musician.
It should be noted the Mr. Gehrig's nickname was not that of the man that followed him and earned the title of (modern era MLB) Iron Man. Instead, Mr. Gehrig's nickname was that of "Iron Horse". While the title involved the animal, it was a man, so we'll rule this question and answer "in" for this category (Men and Women of Iron).

Answer: Everett Scott

Everett Scott established a streak of 1,307 consecutive games. He was a shortstop with the Red Sox and Yankees whose streak ended in 1925. Ironically enough, that streak ended less than a month before a streak of over 2,000 games began by another famous Yankee.
Willard Scott was a famous weatherman on NBC's "Today" show. He was also a famous clown earlier in his career. Sorry, not a famous baseball player, though he was born near the end of 1920's-1930's "iron man" streak.
Jim Everett was a famous football player.
Jack Scott was a long time baseball player, but was a pitcher, not a position player, and did not set the streak discussed in the question.

Answer: Cal Ripken, Jr.

The modern era baseball "Iron Man" is none other than Cal Ripken, Jr.
Cal Ripken, Jr., and his brother Bill Ripken followed their father Cal Ripken, Sr., into the world of baseball.
Cal Ripken, Sr., was a player in the Baltimore Orioles farm system in the 1950's. He later went on to become a coach (and even later a manager for the team) working under Earl Weaver for the Baltimore Orioles. When Weaver retired for the second (and final) time, Cal Ripken, Sr., got the job as the manager of the Baltimore Orioles.
Ripken Sr. was the manager when Ripken Jr. broke one part of his own amazing streaks - consecutive innings played. While establishing the record for games played, he had been building an unbelievable record of consecutive innings played in those games. That consecutive innings streak was over 8,200 innings (depending on whose count is used). The next closest consecutive innings streak had been established nearly 100 years before that streak ended. That particular streak, by George Pinkney was over 5,100 innings in length (again depending on who is counting).

Answer: 17 seasons

The modern MLB "Iron Man" record took 17 seasons to be established. The old record was broken in the same number of seasons (14 seasons) that it had taken to establish that record by the "Iron Horse" of 1920's-1930's baseball. That was despite the additional games played in the modern era compared to seasons of old. The new record (over 2,600 games) took an extra three seasons to extend beyond the old record of 2,130 games.

The modern era streak was affected by a work stoppage that wiped out the world series in 1994 and threatened to stop the streak entirely in 1995 -- if MLB had used replacement players as they had seen their counterparts in the NFL do previously (in 1987).

Answer: Tony Stark

Tony Stark, son of Howard Stark, is "Marvel Comic's" "Iron Man".
Clark Kent is otherwise known as Kal El, or also known by a more famous alter ego - Superman. (He is a man of steel, and steel is made from iron, so he does fit in the quiz but isn't the answer here.)
Slade Wilson is the name of a character otherwise known as Deathstroke. Deathstroke was later a source to be parodied in the form of Deadpool - Mr. Wade Wilson. Sorry, neither of those characters are "Iron men".

Answer: War Machine

Character War Machine, normally "Marvel Comic's" "Iron Man" compatriot James "Rhodey" Rhodes, uses the Iron Patriot armor in his heroic role.

In film, that character has been played by Don Cheadle who replaced actor Terrence Howard after the first "Iron Man" film. Mr. Howard later went on to star in the hit Fox Television TV series Empire, though he was reportedly disappointed at being replaced in the "Iron Man" films.

Answer: J.P. Morgan and Elbert H. Gary

This one is a bit tough (intentionally so, sorry!). U.S. Steel was created by J.P. Morgan and Elbert H. Gary, though the creation of U.S. Steel involved Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel company (and Mr. Gary's Federated Steel and another steel company, William Henry "Judge" Moore's National Steel Company).

Mr. Schwab and Mr. Wharton founded a major U.S. Steel competitor - Bethlehem Steel.

Answer: A player that plays both Offense and Defense

In U.S. Football (not soccer, otherwise known as football in other parts of the world), an Iron Man was a player that played in a single platoon system - in other words a player that played both Offense and Defense (basically never leaving the field).
This style of play was used in years gone by, but has fallen by the wayside due to rules changes that made substituting players easier. There have also, of course, been issues with injuries to players, player fatigue, and poor performance of players that don't get to take enough of a break while playing.
U.S. Football (National Football League) does have its own version of what others may think of as an Iron Man, but that isn't what this question was asking about.

Answer: True

While books and films have immortalized a "Man in the Iron Mask" the truth is that an unidentified prisoner was kept in the Bastille and other French prisons, but the man's identity was hidden behind a black velvet mask, not a mask made of iron.
Historians have yet to conclude who that unidentified prisoner actually was, so we have to live with the fictional creations and characters on film where an iron mask actually was used to temporarily conceal the identity of the hero of the tale ("The Man in the Iron Mask").

Answer: Ironman Triathlon

While weightlifting is often known as "pumping iron", the correct answer here is pretty much a gift to quiz takers - the Ironman Triathlon.
Ironman Triathlon's consist of segments of swimming, bicycling, and running. Normally the segments are 2.4 miles (3.86km) of swimming, 112 miles (180.25km) of biking and 26.22 miles (42.20km) of running. It really does take an Iron man (or Iron woman) to complete these events, and the competitors must complete the tasks in under 17 total hours in order to earn the awarded title of "Ironman".
The Ultramarathon is an event that also takes a lot of endurance. Ultramarathon's typically involve run lengths of 50 miles (80.467km), or possibly 100 miles (160.934km). Lengths of 100km (62.137 miles) and 50km (31.069 miles) have also been used for such events.