Totally Random Trivia: 2022

5) Belief in Faith- Prayer- Charity or Alms- Fasting- Pilgrimage

There are 10 numbers that have NEVER been worn in the NBA. This is something I learned this weekend. Long story short, needed a 4-digit code (instead of a key) to get anywhere in the hotel area. So I associated the code with a jersey number/player. One half of the code coincided with one of the answers to this question. 😀 

Answers to Friday, July 12, 2024

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The Five Pillars of Islam form the foundation of Muslim life. Name as many of the five pillars as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.

(Profession of) Faith, Prayer, Almsgiving, Fasting, Pilgrimage
(or Shahada, Salah, Zakat, Sawm, Hajj)

2. What legendary Hollywood actor made his final on-screen feature film performance in Tim Burton’s “Edward Scissorhands” at age 79?

Vincent Price

3. Lucy Stone, Ida B. Wells, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Anna Howard Shaw could all be described using what 11-letter term that appears in the title of a 1972 David Bowie song?

Suffragette
(though some would more accurately be called “suffragists”; the song is “Suffragette City”)

4. The “20 Year Curse” supposedly fated every U.S. president elected in a year divisible by 20 to die in office. The curse held true from 1840 until what president beat it?

Ronald Reagan

5. Today is July 12. On this day in 1975, the second-smallest country in Africa by area gained its independence from Portugal. Name that country, located less than 200 miles off the coast of Gabon.

São Tomé and Príncipe

Questions for
Monday, July 15, 2024

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

1. According to its title, how old was Adele when she released her debut album in 2008?

2. The chemical compound whose formula is NH4NO3 is more commonly known as what?

3. In 2007, Robert Rodriguez made a movie called “Planet Terror” and Quentin Tarantino made a movie called “Death Proof.” When played back-to-back, those movies make up a double-feature known as… what?

4. Andy Warhol, Pontius Pilate, Nikola Tesla, and Jareth the Goblin King were all film characters played by whom?

5. The 1830 British novel “Paul Clifford” is about a gentleman in London who leads a double life as a criminal. The story begins, according to its opening line, on what sort of evening, which could also describe a famous cocktail?

2. Ammonium Nitrate

1. 19

3. Grindhouse

4. David Bowie

5. Dark and Stormy

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5. Dark and Stormy

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Answers to Monday, July 15, 2024

1. According to its title, how old was Adele when she released her debut album in 2008?

19

2. The chemical compound whose formula is NH4NO3 is more commonly known as what?

Ammonium nitrate

3. In 2007, Robert Rodriguez made a movie called “Planet Terror” and Quentin Tarantino made a movie called “Death Proof.” When played back-to-back, those movies make up a double-feature known as… what?

“Grindhouse”

4. Andy Warhol, Pontius Pilate, Nikola Tesla, and Jareth the Goblin King were all film characters played by whom?

David Bowie

5. The 1830 British novel “Paul Clifford” is about a gentleman in London who leads a double life as a criminal. The story begins, according to its opening line, on what sort of evening, which could also describe a famous cocktail?

“Dark and stormy”

Questions for
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

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

1. What 2016 American film was the first major release to be fully dubbed into Tahitian?

2. What character is described by Sherlock Holmes in the story “The Final Problem” as the “Napoleon of crime”?

3. What Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and guitarist for the fictional Louisiana Gator Boys is known for his signature rectangular guitar and namesake syncopated beat?

4. ​​California passed the Fair Pay to Play Act in 2019, becoming the first state to allow paid endorsement deals for whom?

5. In 1973, the Bahamas declared its independence. What is the official language of the Bahamas?

5.  English

4. College players

2 Moriarty

3. Bo Diddley

1.  I'm guessing Moana

Answers to Tuesday, July 16, 2024

1. What 2016 American film was the first major release to be fully dubbed into Tahitian?

“Moana”

2. What character is described by Sherlock Holmes in the story “The Final Problem” as the “Napoleon of crime”?

Professor Moriarty

3. What Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and guitarist for the fictional Louisiana Gator Boys is known for his signature rectangular guitar and namesake syncopated beat?

Bo Diddley

4. ​​California passed the Fair Pay to Play Act in 2019, becoming the first state to allow paid endorsement deals for whom?

College athletes

5. In 1973, the Bahamas declared its independence. What is the official language of the Bahamas?

English
(it was a British colony before that)

Questions for
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

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

1. There is one U.S. state capital named after a European princess, who later became the queen of England. Name that capital city.

2. What 1996 mockumentary directed by Christopher Guest has a title based on a 1955 Samuel Beckett play?

3. Peabody-winning ventriloquist Shari Lewis famously brought a sock puppet to life on “Captain Kangaroo” in 1956. What was the sock puppet’s name?

4. The Arab Spring was a wave of revolutions across the Arab world that began with demonstrations in which African country?

5. In “Dumb and Dumber,” Lloyd and Harry are seen tooling around town in a red 1993 Diablo, a car made by what Italian automaker?

3. Lamb Chop

2.  Waiting For Guffman

1. Annapolis

5. Lamborghini 

4. Tunisia

Answers to Wednesday, July 17, 2024

1. There is one U.S. state capital named after a European princess, who later became the queen of England. Name that capital city.

Annapolis (Maryland)
(named after Queen Anne)

2. What 1996 mockumentary directed by Christopher Guest has a title based on a 1955 Samuel Beckett play?

“Waiting for Guffman”
(“Waiting for Godot”)

3. Peabody-winning ventriloquist Shari Lewis famously brought a sock puppet to life on “Captain Kangaroo” in 1956. What was the sock puppet’s name?

Lamb Chop

4. The Arab Spring was a wave of revolutions across the Arab world that began with demonstrations in which African country?

Tunisia

5. In “Dumb and Dumber,” Lloyd and Harry are seen tooling around town in a red 1993 Diablo, a car made by what Italian automaker?

Lamborghini

Questions for
Theme Thursday, July 18, 2024

Good Bones: Five bony questions.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. What disease’s name derives from the Greek for “porous bones”?

2. If you’re battling a self-regenerating, reptilian skeleton called Dry Bones, you’re playing a video game from what franchise?

3. DeForest Kelley played Leonard “Bones” McCoy in the original “Star Trek” series. What actor took over the role for the 2009 reboot?

4. There are three major types of bones in the human hand. Name one of them.

5. Layzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone, and Wish Bone make up what Grammy-winning musical group?

1.Osteoporosis

4. Carpal, metacarpal, and phalanges

5. Bone Thugz N Harmony

3. In the movie it’s Karl Urban.

2. Super Mario Bros.

Answers to Thursday, July 18, 2024

Good Bones: Five bony questions.

1. What disease’s name derives from the Greek for “porous bones”?

Osteoporosis

2. If you’re battling a self-regenerating, reptilian skeleton called Dry Bones, you’re playing a video game from what franchise?

“Mario”

3. DeForest Kelley played Leonard “Bones” McCoy in the original “Star Trek” series. What actor took over the role for the 2009 reboot?

Karl Urban

4. There are three major types of bones in the human hand. Name one of them.

Carpals, metacarpals, phalanges

5. Layzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone, and Wish Bone make up what Grammy-winning musical group?

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Questions for
Friday, July 19, 2024

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Our Solar System has five dwarf planets that are officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union. Name as many of those dwarf planets as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. Rita Moreno, Mari Devon, and Gina Rodriguez have all voiced versions of what crimson-attired thief in various video games and TV series?

3. The musical “Love Never Dies” debuted on London’s West End in 2010 to mostly negative reviews. It was the long-awaited sequel to what other, much better musical?

4. What seven-letter Hebrew word literally means “commandment,” but is also used colloquially to mean “an act of kindness”?

5. Today is July 19. On this day in 2007, what AMC drama series created by Matthew Weiner debuted with an episode titled “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”?

5. Mad Men

2. Carmen Sandiego

4. Mitzvah

1. Pluto, Ceres, no clue on the other three.

3. The Phantom of the Opera. 

Answers to Friday, July 19, 2024

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Our Solar System has five dwarf planets that are officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union. Name as many of those dwarf planets as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris

2. Rita Moreno, Mari Devon, and Gina Rodriguez have all voiced versions of what crimson-attired thief in various video games and TV series?

Carmen Sandiego

3. The musical “Love Never Dies” debuted on London’s West End in 2010 to mostly negative reviews. It was the long-awaited sequel to what other, much better musical?

“The Phantom of the Opera”

4, What seven-letter Hebrew word literally means “commandment,” but is also used colloquially to mean “an act of kindness”?

Mitzvah

5. Today is July 19. On this day in 2007, what AMC drama series created by Matthew Weiner debuted with an episode titled “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”?

“Mad Men”

Questions for
Monday, July 22, 2024

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

1. “Torus” or “toroid” is the name for a 3D geometric shape that resembles what breakfast item?

2. What metal, if consumed in dangerously large quantities, has been known to turn people’s skin blue? Hint: This condition is known as “argyria.”

3. What entomologically nicknamed mobster — portrayed on film by Warren Beatty in 1991 — was a driving force in the development of the Las Vegas Strip?

4. What team sport — which lasts roughly two hours and is divided into periods called “chukkas” — was invented in ancient Persia and is nicknamed “The Sport of Kings”?

5. What is the medical term for your tailbone?

2.  (Colloidal) silver

3.  Bugsy Siegel

5. Coccyx

4. Polo

1 Donut

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5. Coccyx

Answers to Monday, July 22, 2024

1. “Torus” or “toroid” is the name for a 3D geometric shape that resembles what breakfast item?

Donut (or bagel)

2. What metal, if consumed in dangerously large quantities, has been known to turn people’s skin blue? Hint: This condition is known as “argyria.”

Silver
(“Argent” is an old term for silver)

3. What entomologically nicknamed mobster — portrayed on film by Warren Beatty in 1991 — was a driving force in the development of the Las Vegas Strip?

Bugsy Siegel

4. What team sport — which lasts roughly two hours and is divided into periods called “chukkas” — was invented in ancient Persia and is nicknamed “The Sport of Kings”?

Polo

5. What is the medical term for your tailbone?

Coccyx

Questions for
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

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

1. “Hoppin’ John” is a traditional New Year’s dish eaten in the South to represent frugality and increased wealth in the new year. What legume is the primary ingredient in Hoppin’ John?

2. “A plague on both your houses!” is one of the final lines spoken by which character in “Romeo and Juliet”? Hint: It’s neither Romeo nor Juliet.

3. Among math nerds, November 23 is a day to celebrate what mathematician, who was born in Pisa around 1175?

4. What type of fabric — made with thin ribbons of metallic fiber — is used not only in fashion but also in fencing, because its electrical conductivity allows “touches” to be scored?

5. Mozambique and Angola are two countries in Africa that have which Romance language as an official language?

5.  Guessing Portuguese  - I think Angola was a colony of Portugal at one point

3.Fibonacci

2. Mercutio 

1) black eyed peas

4) lame 

Answers to Tuesday, July 23, 2024

1. “Hoppin’ John” is a traditional New Year’s dish eaten in the South to represent frugality and increased wealth in the new year. What legume is the primary ingredient in Hoppin’ John?

Black-eyed peas (cowpeas)

2. “A plague on both your houses!” is one of the final lines spoken by which character in “Romeo and Juliet”? Hint: It’s neither Romeo nor Juliet.

Mercutio

3. Among math nerds, November 23 is a day to celebrate what mathematician, who was born in Pisa around 1175?

Fibonacci
(the Fibonacci sequence begins 1-1-2-3)

4. What type of fabric — made with thin ribbons of metallic fiber — is used not only in fashion but also in fencing, because its electrical conductivity allows “touches” to be scored?

Lamé

5. Mozambique and Angola are two countries in Africa that have which Romance language as an official language?

Portuguese

Questions for
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

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

1. Daryl Dragon sang such hits as “Love Will Keep Us Together” as one half of what married musical duo?

2. One of the most famous vomit scenes in movie history was filmed in 1973 using plastic tubing, a hand-cranked pump, and several quarts of pea soup-colored porridge. Name that movie.

3. What river flows through the Grand Canyon?

4. The predecessor to the German carmaker Audi was named Auto Union, because it was the result of a 1932 merger of how many previously existing car manufacturers?

5. The most commonly broken bone in the human body is the collarbone, which is better known among medical professionals by what eight-letter name?

1. The Captain & Tennille 

3. Colorado River