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Quakemaster

Main article: Quakemaster

Quarmer

Main article: Quarmer

Quiz Kid

Quiz Kid is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

In his panel seen within the pages of "The New Golden Age" #1, Raghu Seetharaman is a child prodigy who has earned him the nickname "Quiz Kid". While partaking in a trivial competition, it was interrupted by the evil Spirit King who took everyone there hostage. Mister Terrific showed up where he rescued the hostages and defeated Spirit King. Then he stayed to help decide who would be the winner of the trivial competition. That ended up being Raghu. Impressed by his knowledge, Mister Terrific went up against him in a friendly competition. It lasted for 12 hours before the judges decided to call it a draw. Since that day, Quiz Kid became Mister Terrific's sidekick and helped him in his crimefighting. By 1946, Quiz Kid mysteriously vanished while Mister Terrific was investigating the mysterious disappearance of Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher which has been unsolved to this day. ^[1] By the final issue of "Flashpoint Beyond", Quiz Kid was among the thirteen missing Golden Age superheroes in the Time Masters' capsules. When those capsules have failed, they were all pulled back to their own time with history rebuilding around them. ^[2]

Quiz Kid was among the Lost Children on Orphan Island. He assumed that Stargirl was from the future until the information was cleared up upon the arrival of Corky Baxter of the Time Masters. ^[3] As Corky Baxter states that they will have to do what he says if they are to get off of Orphan Island, Quiz Kid claims that Orphan Island is cut off from the rest of the world and time. ^[4] Quiz Kid evaded getting "nested" by the Child Collectors. He was among the Lost Children that were subdued by the Hourman android. ^[5] After Boom frees everyone, Quiz Kid and Robbie the Robot Dog work on reprogramming the Hourman android's brain after it was removed from him by Boom. Following Time Master and Childminder's defeat and Wing being sent back to his own time, Quiz Kid is among the Lost Children that are brought to Stargirl's time by the Hourman android due to paradoxical reasons. ^[6]

Quiz Kid later met Michael Holt who moved him into his own place. He then proceed to pitch to Michael some ideas for his T-Spheres. ^[7]

Quiz Kid later meets with Mister Terrific and shows him a version of his T-Sphere called the Q-Sphere. Mister Terrific told him that Terry Sloane would be proud of his accomplishments. ^[8]

Quiz Kid was seen playing chess with Fairplay when Mister Terrific arrives with Flash, Boom, and Stargirl. He enlists Quiz Kid and Fairplay to help him create an invention that would help access the memory of when Boom saw Doctor Elemental unmasked. Upon the Memory Imager being created, they use it on Boom and learn that Doctor Elemental is Professor Hughes who Flash claims was responsible for him gaining his super-speed. ^[9]

Moira Queen

Moira Queen is the mother of Oliver Queen/the Green Arrow. She and her husband Robert were killed by lions during an African safari. ^[10]

Moira Queen in other media

Moira Queen was portrayed by Susanna Thompson in The CW's Arrow . ^[11] She was murdered by Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke, while her son (Oliver Queen) and his sister Thea watched. In the series finale sometime after the "Crisis on Infinite Earths", history was changed and Moira survived the attack. She later meets Emiko Adachi at Oliver's funeral.

• Thompson also voiced Wellenreiter's A.I. System in the crossover Crisis on Earth-X . She was Gideon's Earth-X equivalent aboard a timeship owned by the Dark Arrow and designed by Eobard Thawne.

Robert Queen

Robert Henry Queen is the father of Oliver Queen/Green Arrow. He was created by Chuck Dixon and Rick Burchett, first appearing in Green Arrow Annual (Volume 2) #7 (1995). He and his wife Moira were killed by lions during an African safari. ^[10]

Robert Queen in other media

• Robert was briefly seen in a flashback in Smallville Season 7, portrayed by Jonathan Scarfe. He and Moria are secretly also involved with the Veritas Society, but were murdered by fellow Veritas member Lionel Luthor.
• Robert Alan Queen was portrayed by Jamey Sheridan in The CW's Arrow. ^[12] He sacrificed himself and his bodyguard after making it to a life raft with his son (Oliver Queen) and said bodyguard, as there was not enough food or water for all three of them to survive.
• In Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham , Oliver's father, renamed Henry Queen, was one of the 4 founders of Gotham City, alongside Thomas Wayne, Bartley Langstrom and Oswald Cobblepot, where they discovered the Testament of Ghul in a cave and used its magic to gain longevity, with Oliver mentioning that his father lived to be 300 years old, and wealth. Oliver eventually confesses that his father was the one who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne, but Batman forgives him.

Keli Quintela

Main article: Teen Lantern

Qwsp

Main article: List of Aquaman enemies

References

1. The New Golden Age #1. DC Comics.
2. Flashpoint Beyond #6. DC Comics.
3. Stargirl: The Lost Children #3. DC Comics.
4. Stargirl: The Lost Children #4. DC Comics.
5. Stargirl: The Lost Children #5. DC Comics.
6. Stargirl: The Lost Children #6. DC Comics.
7. Justice Society of America Vol. 4 #6. DC Comics.
8. Justice Society of America Vol. 4 #9. DC Comics.
9. Jay Garrick: The Flash #3. DC Comics.
10. Goldberg, Lesley (October 3, 2012). "How Does The CW's 'Arrow' Compare to the DC Series? A Comic Book Expert Weighs In". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 2019-08-19.
11. Andreeva, Nellie (2012-02-14). "PILOT CASTINGS: Susanna Thompson Joins 'Arrow', 'Nashville' & 'County' Add Actors". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 2019-08-19.
12. Andreeva, Nellie (2012-03-02). "'The River's Paul Blackthorne Joins 'Arrow', Jamey Sheridan Set To Play Arrow's Dad". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 2019-08-19.