Totally Random Trivia: 2022

4. Shoulder

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Questions for
Monday, June 10, 2024

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. If you find yourself on the land that was once known as Tenochtitlán, what modern-day national capital are you in?

2. What actor was the first runner-up in the 1986 Miss USA pageant, and is also the only actor to appear in each of the “James Bond,” “Kingsman,” and “John Wick” film franchises?

3. The national liberation front that came to power in Nicaragua in 1979 took what name from a guerilla leader born in 1893?
4. Pork butt doesn’t come from a pig’s butt. It’s actually a thicker cut taken from which part of the body?

5. When Elmer Fudd sings “Kill the Wabbit,” he does so to the tune of what Wagner composition?

5.  Ride of the Valkyries

3. Sandinistas. 

(Augusto Sandino)

2) Hallie Berry

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2) Hallie Berry

I remember everything about the first Kingsmen.  I try to forget everything about the the sequels.

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2) Hallie Berry

 

I remember everything about the first Kingsmen.  I try to forget everything about the the sequels.

 

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The Golden Circle was decent. The prequel was horrid.

The prequel seemed like it was 4 hours long.  

Answers to Monday, June 10, 2024

1. If you find yourself on the land that was once known as Tenochtitlán, what modern-day national capital are you in?

Mexico City

2. What actor was the first runner-up in the 1986 Miss USA pageant, and is also the only actor to appear in each of the “James Bond,” “Kingsman,” and “John Wick” film franchises?

Halle Berry

3. The national liberation front that came to power in Nicaragua in 1979 took what name from a guerilla leader born in 1893?

Sandinistas

4. Pork butt doesn’t come from a pig’s butt. It’s actually a thicker cut taken from which part of the body?

Shoulder

5. When Elmer Fudd sings “Kill the Wabbit,” he does so to the tune of what Wagner composition?

“Ride of the Valkyries”

Questions for
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email. 
1. “Thieves in the Temple” was the biggest hit single from the soundtrack to the 1990 movie “Graffiti Bridge,” the less-successful sequel to what 1984 music movie?

2. The Reign of Terror ended in July of 1794 with the execution of what French statesman?

3. What dog breed, which surged in popularity in the U.S. after the 1985 re-release of a 1961 film, gets its name from the southern coastal region of Croatia?

4. Of the four U.S. state capitals that have the word “city” in their name, which comes first alphabetically?

5. The Orionid meteor shower is an annual phenomenon that is the product of what celestial body — last seen in 1986?

2 Robespierre 

5 Halley's Comet

1.  Purple Rain

4.  Carson City

3. Dalmation

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3. Dalmation

3. Dalmatian

I’m okay with only ~11% of the credit. 😆

@zwak must be away from his computer today so here goes....

Answers to Tuesday, June 11, 2024

1. “Thieves in the Temple” was the biggest hit single from the soundtrack to the 1990 movie “Graffiti Bridge,” the less-successful sequel to what 1984 music movie?

“Purple Rain”

2. The Reign of Terror ended in July of 1794 with the execution of what French statesman?

Maximilien Robespierre

3. What dog breed, which surged in popularity in the U.S. after the 1985 re-release of a 1961 film, gets its name from the southern coastal region of Croatia?

Dalmatian  (the movie was “One Hundred and One Dalmatians”)

4. Of the four U.S. state capitals that have the word “city” in their name, which comes first alphabetically?

Carson City (Nevada)

5. The Orionid meteor shower is an annual phenomenon that is the product of what celestial body — last seen in 1986?

Halley’s Comet

Questions for Wednesday, June 12, 2024

1. What British author invented such languages as Quenya, Sindarin, and the Black Speech?

2. The ninth-largest city in Kansas is nicknamed “The Little Apple.” Name that city!

3. What annual event, held on the mid-April holiday Patriots’ Day, includes a particularly challenging climb up Heartbreak Hill, next to the Charles River?

4. In human anatomy, the part of your body with your heart, lungs, and other sundry glands and organs is technically called the “BLANK cavity.” What eight-letter word fills in that blank?

5. What family of beverages — which all include rum, lime juice, and sugar — are named for a coastal village near Santiago, Cuba?

2.  Manhattan 

4. Thoracic

3. Boston Marathon

5. Daquiri

1 J.R.R. Tolkien 

Answers to Wednesday, June 12, 2024

1. What British author invented such languages as Quenya, Sindarin, and the Black Speech?

J.R.R. Tolkien

2. The ninth-largest city in Kansas is nicknamed “The Little Apple.” Name that city!

Manhattan

3. What annual event, held on the mid-April holiday Patriots’ Day, includes a particularly challenging climb up Heartbreak Hill, next to the Charles River?

Boston Marathon

4. In human anatomy, the part of your body with your heart, lungs, and other sundry glands and organs is technically called the “BLANK cavity.” What eight-letter word fills in that blank?

Thoracic

5. What family of beverages — which all include rum, lime juice, and sugar — are named for a coastal village near Santiago, Cuba?

Daiquiri

Questions for
Theme Thursday, June 13, 2024

By Any Other Name: Five questions about famous people who changed their given names.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. What British author, born Eric Blair in 1903, coined such terms as “Cold War” and “thoughtcrime”?

2. What comedian, born Caryn Johnson in 1955, put the “E” in “EGOT” by hosting the 2001 TV special “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel”?

3. Lev Bronstein was best known as a Marxist revolutionary and a founding leader of the Red Army. Today, you can visit his grave in Mexico City. By what name was he better known?

4. What actor, born Eric Bishop in 1967, won the “Best Actor” Academy Award in 2005 — the same year he was nominated for the “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar for his role in “Collateral”?

5. What Roman emperor, born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, was better known by a nickname meaning “little boot”?

1:  George Orwell

3: Leon Trotsky

2. Whoopie Goldberg

4. Jamie Foxx (great movie, too)

5) Caligula! 

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5) Caligula! 

Had a friend in college that we nicknamed Longinus because he never seemed to have fun. 

Answers to Thursday, June 13, 2024

By Any Other Name: Five questions about famous people who changed their given names.

1. What British author, born Eric Blair in 1903, coined such terms as “Cold War” and “thoughtcrime”?

George Orwell

2. What comedian, born Caryn Johnson in 1955, put the “E” in “EGOT” by hosting the 2001 TV special “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel”?

Whoopi Goldberg

3. Lev Bronstein was best known as a Marxist revolutionary and a founding leader of the Red Army. Today, you can visit his grave in Mexico City. By what name was he better known?

Leon Trotsky

4. What actor, born Eric Bishop in 1967, won the “Best Actor” Academy Award in 2005 — the same year he was nominated for the “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar for his role in “Collateral”?

Jamie Foxx

5. What Roman emperor, born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, was better known by a nickname meaning “little boot”?

Caligula

Zwak note:  I’ll be in the Smokey Mountains next week with possible spotty internet so GE will be posting the questions in my absence.  Thanks GE!!

Questions for
Friday, June 14, 2024

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four major tournaments in the tennis Grand Slam. Name as many of those tournaments as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.

2. What company got its start in 1969 when a man named Michael Kittredge melted down some crayons in his Massachusetts home to create an aromatic Christmas gift for his mother?

3. What is the only movie on IMDb.com whose rating is given out of a total of 11 stars, as opposed to the standard 10?

4. “Motel” is a portmanteau, which is a combination of “hotel” and what other word?

5. Today is June 14. On this day in 1928, what prominent Cuban Revolution figure and South American leader, seen on many t-shirts, was born?

@zwak - My pleasure!

1.  Australian, French, & US Opens + Wimbledon 

3.  This Is Spinal Tap

5. Che Guevara

2. Yankee Candle

4. Motor

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2. Yankee Candle

There was a recent SI story on the NY Yankees burning expensive candles in the club house.  They are certainly NOT burning YankeeCandle lol.  

Answers to Friday, June 14, 2024

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four major tournaments in the tennis Grand Slam. Name as many of those tournaments as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.

Australian Open, Roland Garros (French Open), Wimbledon, U.S. Open

2. What company got its start in 1969 when a man named Michael Kittredge melted down some crayons in his Massachusetts home to create an aromatic Christmas gift for his mother?

Yankee Candle

3. What is the only movie on IMDb.com whose rating is given out of a total of 11 stars, as opposed to the standard 10?

“This Is Spinal Tap”

4. “Motel” is a portmanteau, which is a combination of “hotel” and what other word?

“Motor”

5. Today is June 14. On this day in 1928, what prominent Cuban Revolution figure and South American leader, seen on many t-shirts, was born?

Che Guevara

Questions for  Monday, June 17, 2024

Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.

1. W Magazine labeled the romance between Sabrina Carpenter and what Irish actor as “Music Video Official” when his cameo was revealed in Carpenter’s new music video for “Please Please Please”?
2. In 2020, Kim Ng became the first Asian American and the first woman of any race to be the general manager of an MLB team. What team did she manage until 2023?
3. A statue of what influential Quaker can be found atop Philadelphia’s City Hall?
4. The Mesaba Transportation Company was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota, in 1915. In 1929, they changed their name to… what?
5. Of the five youngest vice presidents in U.S. history, three served during the 20th century. Name one of them.

4.  Greyhound

3. William Penn

5. Dan Quayle

2. Miami Marlins

5.Theodore Roosevelt

1) Barry Keoghan!  I know this not from the music video but because he walked the red carpet with her.

He's a freaky little fashionista.  

Answers to Monday, June 17, 2024

1. W Magazine labeled the romance between Sabrina Carpenter and what Irish actor as “Music Video Official” when his cameo was revealed in Carpenter’s new music video for “Please Please Please”?

Barry Keoghan

2. In 2020, Kim Ng became the first Asian American and the first woman of any race to be the general manager of an MLB team. What team did she manage until 2023?

Miami Marlins

3. A statue of what influential Quaker can be found atop Philadelphia’s City Hall?

William Penn

4. The Mesaba Transportation Company was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota, in 1915. In 1929, they changed their name to… what?

Greyhound

5. Of the five youngest vice presidents in U.S. history, three served during the 20th century. Name one of them.

Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Dan Quayle

Questions for Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Five questions to wake up your noodle.

1. Lieutenant Pete Mitchell is a character from a 1986 movie who is better known to his friends by what nickname?
2. Drum sets are often called “traps” or “trap sets,” especially in jazz circles. In this context, “trap” is short for what longer word?
3. From the Greek for “top of the city,” what ancient ruin is situated on a high hill overlooking the capital of Greece?
4. A 1935 football game marked the debut of a live husky mascot named Jonathan, the first of 15 dogs named after Jonathan Trumbull, the first governor of which state?
5. A 14-year-old lost “Star Search” in 1990, five years before releasing what was, for a time, the best-selling album ever by a Canadian artist. Who is she? You oughta know!

1.  Maverick - Goose talked to me about this question!  😎 

3 Acropolis 

2. Contraption

5. Alanis Morissette

4. Connecticut

Answers to Tuesday, June 18, 2024

1. Lieutenant Pete Mitchell is a character from a 1986 movie who is better known to his friends by what nickname?

Maverick   (“Top Gun”)

2. Drum sets are often called “traps” or “trap sets,” especially in jazz circles. In this context, “trap” is short for what longer word?

“Contraption”

3. From the Greek for “top of the city,” what ancient ruin is situated on a high hill overlooking the capital of Greece?

Acropolis (of Athens)

4. A 1935 football game marked the debut of a live husky mascot named Jonathan, the first of 15 dogs named after Jonathan Trumbull, the first governor of which state?

Connecticut

5. A 14-year-old lost “Star Search” in 1990, five years before releasing what was, for a time, the best-selling album ever by a Canadian artist. Who is she? You oughta know!

Alanis Morissette

Questions for Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Five questions to wake up your noodle.

1. Joan Rivers provided the voice of a robot named Dot Matrix in what 1987 Mel Brooks movie?
2. What geologic layer lies just below the Earth's crust, and shares its name with a garment traditionally worn by European kings and queens during their coronations?
3. What university's athletics program briefly adopted a live racoon named “Regdab” as its mascot, after its actual namesake animal proved too dangerous to keep on campus?
4. “The Butcher” was a short-lived ring name of wrestler Ed Leslie, aka “Brutus Beefcake,” who was much better known among wrestling fans for portraying what other sharp-edged profession?
5. The muffuletta is one of the signature sandwiches of what city?

1.  Spaceballs 

3. Wisconsin?

4.The Barber

5.New Orleans