Asterix quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What does Getafix harvest for the magic potion?

   Answer: mistletoe

   Why: Getafix cuts mistletoe with a golden sickle just as Pliny the Elder described real druids doing, high in a sacred oak.

2. 2 Medium

   What is Obelix's absolute favorite activity?

   Answer: Bashing Romans

   Why: Obelix fell into the potion cauldron as a baby, so his strength never fades, and he collects the helmets of the legionaries he flattens.

3. 3 Hard

   In Asterix and the Goths, what is the name of the Goth leader?

   Answer: Metric

   Why: Metric ruled the Visigoths until his own interpreter Rhetoric drank the magic potion, seized the throne and set off endless Gothic civil war.

4. 4 Easy

   What name suffix do male Gauls share?

   Answer: -ix.

   Why: The -ix copies real Gaulish names like Vercingetorix, where rix meant king, the Celtic cousin of the Latin rex.

5. 5 Medium

   Why do pirates in Asterix comics sink their own ship?

   Answer: To escape brutal beatings from Asterix and Obelix

   Why: The pirates have appeared in nearly every Asterix story since Asterix the Gladiator, and their ship sinks at almost every meeting.

6. 6 Hard

   Which Roman spy first discovers the magic potion's secret?

   Answer: Caligula Minus

   Why: Caligula Minus got in disguised as a rescued Gaulish prisoner; a dance shook his glued-on moustache loose, and the potion he drank let him escape.