Bonus QuestionComic-con cosplay quiz!

Best crossover ever.

This weekend the doctor and I got our geek on and headed to Montreal Comiccon. One of the best things about conventions are all the cosplayers - attendees who put together often incredible costumes of their favourite people/characters from movies, TV, music, video games and, of course, comics. Naturally, we took a bunch of photos, and what better way to share them than through a picture quiz?

Here, then, are 22 questions about or inspired by what we saw at the con. Suffice to say this will be on the slightly nerdy side, but I've tried to keep things reasonably accessible. Sincere thanks and credit to all those pictured, some of the efforts on display were truly stunning.

Don't forget to click on an image for a larger version - but be careful: it brings up a slideshow and if you scroll too far you might be spoiled for the answers!

Questions 1-4

1) Which fictional team drive this car?
2) What is the alpha-numeric designation of this dog (hint: he has nothing to do with Star Trek).
3) In the middle here is an excellent portrayal of Rainbow Dash from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series, but from which British TV show do the couple flanking her take inspiration?
4) Name the actor on the left and the (fictional) species portrayed on the right. (1 point for each)

Questions 5-8

5) This cosplay is of an operatic character from which 1997 film directed by Luc Besson?
6) Who is this chap?
7) Which Doctor Who 'doctor' has been shopping? I want the name of the relevant actor, please.
8) On which fictional space station might you find this staff member?

Questions 9-12

9)  (Top left) Which musician is currently in a legal battle with Disney over attempts to trademark the emblem worn here?
10) (Top right) Which character is this? He was played in a 1992 movie by Danny DeVito.
11) (Bottom left) Rocking some appropriate plaid, which Canadian superhero is this?
12) (Bottom right) This is the lead character from which critically acclaimed American crime drama which ended a year ago this month?

Questions 13-16

13) Looking a little bit lonely, this bad guy is from which comic, television and movie franchise? Its cartoon's first arrival in the UK was marked by the change of one word in its title - considered too violent for children - to 'hero'.
14) Which musician is this?
15) Real name Arthur Curry, which superhero (and founding member of Detective Comics' Justice League of America) is this?
16) Hopefully all of us can recognize a Spock at a hundred paces, but which actor played him in Star Trek?

Questions 17-20

17) (Top left) Which two characters are these? (1 point for each)
18) (Top right) Name any two of the five characters here. (1 point for each)
19) (Bottom left) Ignore what I think is a steampunk zombie and instead check out Thor. What is the name of his hammer?
20) (Two pictures in bottom right) These are two characters from which major fantasy TV series?

21) One of the pictures (and questions) above features precisely one real-life celebrity famous person. Which question/who?

And finally...

22) Where's Wally? :D

Once you've had enough of staring at that little lot, check below for the answers, tally up your score then let the world know how you got on with the poll!
The answers

The (real) IT Crowd

1) The Ghostbusters
2) K-9 (from Doctor Who)
3) The IT Crowd (it's Roy and a gender-swapped, race-swapped Moss!)
4) 2-pointer: Jim Carrey (portraying Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) and a Predator (from Predator)
5) The Fifth Element (the alien Diva Plavalaguna, played by Maïwenn Le Besco, pictured, and voiced by Inva Mula)
6) Hulk Hogan
7) David Tennant (complete with 3D glasses)
8) The Death Star (it's an Imperial gunner, in case you were wondering)
9) deadmau5 ('dead mouse' or similar is fine)

Diva Plavalaguna

10) The Penguin
11) Wolverine (James Howlett and Logan also acceptable)
12) Breaking Bad (it's Walter White)
13) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (it's Shredder)
14) Slash from Guns N' Roses
15) Aquaman
16) Leonard Nimoy
17) 2-pointer: Virginia "Pepper" Potts and Tony Stark (from the Iron Man series; pseudonyms also acceptable)

Walter White

18) 2-pointer: Standing up from left to right: Elsa (from Disney's Frozen), Mr. Freeze (from the Batman comics, perhaps most notably played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1997 film Batman & Robin), Emma Frost (from the X-Men), Ice King (from Adventure Time), kneeling is Captain Cold (from the Flash comics). Only two points available but if you knew all five please fill out an application to be friends with the doctor.
19) Mjölnir
20) Game of Thrones (it's Daenerys Targaryen - also know as Mother of Dragons among many others - and Hodor)
21) Hulk Hogan in question six is the real deal :D
22) Right at the back, just to the right of the blue door (circled here)

The latest in computerized identification.

Don't forget the two-point questions: the total score is out of 25!

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