Pre-Crisis Superman Family Quiz (tougher)

1.)     Who played the voice of Superman on the original radio show?

2.)    Which of the following items and characters made their FIRST appearance on the Superman radio show?

a.)     Jimmy Olsen        

b.)     Supergirl

c.)     Perry White          

d.)     Krypto

e.)     Kryptonite                       

3.)    Name the five actors who have played Superman (not Superboy) on TV or in the movies.

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4.)    Name six of the seven actresses who have played Lois Lane on TV or in the movies

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5.)    Where does Mr. Mxyzptlk come from?

6.)    What was the original name of the Daily Planet in the Superman comic book?

7.)    What was the original name of the newspaper’s managing editor in Action Comics?

8.)     Which of Superman’s childhood friends discovered his secret identity on a camping trip?

9.)     How did Lex Luthor lose his hair?

10.)   What is Clark Kent’s middle name?

11.)    What animal did Jor-El use to test the rocket ship he designed to escape Krypton?

12.)    Who created the first Bizarro Superman?

13.)    Who created the first Bizarro Lois?

14.)    How did Superboy leave and enter his parents’ house in Smallville?

15.)    What Kryptonian city did Supergirl live in?

16.)    What’s the name of Jimmy Olsen’s (sometimes) girlfriend?

17.)    Where did Superman first meet Lori Lemaris?

18.)    Who is Lena Thorul?

19.)    What musical artist made a big hit with his song “Sunshine Superman” in the 1960s?

20.)    What song includes the lyric “…you don’t tug on Superman’s cape,” and who performed it?

21.)    What phrase is Perry White known for shouting when he’s upset?

22.)    What club of superpowered teens was Superboy a member of?

23.)   What planet reveres Luthor as a hero and sees Superman as a villain?

24.)  Who was the primary artist for Superman stories in the 1930s and early 40s?

25.)  Who was the primary artist for Superman stories in the late 1940s and 1950s?

26.)   Who was the primary artist for Superman stories in the 1960s?

27.)  Who edited the Superman titles between 1941 and 1970?

28.)   Who edited the Superman titles between 1971 and 1985?

29.)   What “superheroes” did Superman and Jimmy Olsen become in Kandor?

30.)    Who comprised the “Superman Emergency Squad”?

31.)    What Earth city did Supergirl live and go to high school in?

32.)    Supergirl had three competing boyfriends as a teenager; what are their names?

33.)   When Jimmy Olsen drank a special potion, what superhero did he become?

34.)   What sound did Jimmy Olsen’s signal watch make?

35.)   What comic book had the first appearance of Superman and Batman together on the cover?

36.)    What was the most obvious symptom of “severe Kryptonite poisoning”?

37.)    Besides affecting Kryptonians in bizarre ways, what was the other unusual feature of red kryptonite?

38.)   What was silver kryptonite?

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