Totally Random Trivia: 2022

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In any language, goat cheese is still one of the most disgusting foods that exist.  🤢🤮

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In any language, goat cheese is still one of the most disgusting foods that exist.  🤢🤮

Answers to Friday, August 2, 2024

1. William Shakespeare wrote six tragic plays set in Italy. Name as many of those tragedies (as classified by the Royal Shakespeare Company) as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

“Coriolanus,” “Cymbeline,” “Julius Caesar,” “Othello,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Titus Andronicus”

2. August is National Goat Cheese Month. How do you say “goat” in French?

Chèvre

3. Owen Wilson played one in a 2006 movie. You might have played as one the last time you played Monopoly. What is it?

Racecar

4. Known as the father of genetics, what monk and biologist discovered through his experiments with different pea plants that genes passed down could be recessive or dominant?

Gregor Mendel

5. Today is August 2. On this day in 1992, American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee became the first person to win the gold medal in what event in consecutive Summer Olympic Games?

Heptathlon

Questions for
Monday, August 5, 2024

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

1. Actor Cate Blanchett is a master of the American accent, which is why many of her own fans don’t know that she’s actually from what country?

2. A metal sculpture by Gerald P. Sawyer on Milwaukee's Riverwalk honors Henry Winkler's iconic character from the TV show "Happy Days." That statue is known by what rhyming name?

3. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story published in 1924 about a big-game hunter who hunts humans for sport. In 1981, author and outdoorsman Charles Gaines, along with several friends, invented a game that was inspired by this story. What game did they invent?

4. The demographic cohort of people born between 2010 and 2024, succeeding Generation Z, is named after which Greek letter?

5. A pale root vegetable known as a “swede” in the U.K. is primarily called what name in the U.S.?

1. Australia

2.  Guessing The Bronze Fonze 

4. Alpha

5. Rutabaga

3. (Guess) Paintball?

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Answers to Friday, August 2, 2024

1. William Shakespeare wrote six tragic plays set in Italy. Name as many of those tragedies (as classified by the Royal Shakespeare Company) as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

“Coriolanus,” “Cymbeline,” “Julius Caesar,” “Othello,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Titus Andronicus”

2. August is National Goat Cheese Month. How do you say “goat” in French?

Chèvre

3. Owen Wilson played one in a 2006 movie. You might have played as one the last time you played Monopoly. What is it?

Racecar

4. Known as the father of genetics, what monk and biologist discovered through his experiments with different pea plants that genes passed down could be recessive or dominant?

Gregor Mendel

5. Today is August 2. On this day in 1992, American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee became the first person to win the gold medal in what event in consecutive Summer Olympic Games?

Heptathlon

Answers to Monday, August 5, 2024

1. Actor Cate Blanchett is a master of the American accent, which is why many of her own fans don’t know that she’s actually from what country?

Australia

2. A metal sculpture by Gerald P. Sawyer on Milwaukee's Riverwalk honors Henry Winkler's iconic character from the TV show "Happy Days." That statue is known by what rhyming name?

Bronze Fonz

3. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story published in 1924 about a big-game hunter who hunts humans for sport. In 1981, author and outdoorsman Charles Gaines, along with several friends, invented a game that was inspired by this story. What game did they invent?

Paintball

4. The demographic cohort of people born between 2010 and 2024, succeeding Generation Z, is named after which Greek letter?

Alpha

5. A pale root vegetable known as a “swede” in the U.K. is primarily called what name in the U.S.?

Rutabaga

Questions for
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

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

1. Volcán Barú is the highest point of which country in Central America?

2. Soaking lemon zest in alcohol and adding sugar will give you what refreshing Italian dessert drink?

3. Tammy Duckworth is the only Asian American senator ever to represent a state east of the Rocky Mountains. She represents which state, the most populous on the Mississippi River? 

4. What comic strip introduced the band Deathtöngue, featuring a rabbit named Hodge Podge on drums, a cat named Bill as “lead tongue,” and a penguin on rhythm tuba?

5. The original source of the pigment known as ultramarine is from a deep blue rock that has what alliterative name?

2: Limoncello

4: Bloom County

3. Illinois

1. Panama

5) Lapis 

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2: Limoncello

4: Bloom County

I'll serve any suspension deemed for invoking politics; it worth it for Bloom County.

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5) Lapis 

Lapis lazuli

Answers to Tuesday, August 6, 2024

1. Volcán Barú is the highest point of which country in Central America?

Panama

2. Soaking lemon zest in alcohol and adding sugar will give you what refreshing Italian dessert drink?

Limoncello

3. Tammy Duckworth is the only Asian American senator ever to represent a state east of the Rocky Mountains. She represents which state, the most populous on the Mississippi River?

Illinois  

4. What comic strip introduced the band Deathtöngue, featuring a rabbit named Hodge Podge on drums, a cat named Bill as “lead tongue,” and a penguin on rhythm tuba?

“Bloom County”

5. The original source of the pigment known as ultramarine is from a deep blue rock that has what alliterative name?

Lapis lazuli

Questions for
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

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

1. The formal version of the singular “you” in Spanish is “usted.” What is the formal version of “you” in French?

2. “Cygnet” is a name for the young version of what bird?

3. “Find your magic” and “Spray more, get more” were campaign slogans for what “outdoorsy” brand of deodorant?

4. “Kramer vs. Kramer” won “Best Picture” at the 1979 Academy Awards, beating out what epic war film from Francis Ford Coppola, set during the Vietnam War?

5. What popular pastry, originating in the 1850s from Chef Sanzian at the Parker House Hotel, is referred to as a pie, but is in fact a cake?

4. Apocalypse Now

2. Swan

5.  Boston Cream Pie

1. “Vous”

3. Axe

Answers to Wednesday, August 7, 2024

1. The formal version of the singular “you” in Spanish is “usted.” What is the formal version of “you” in French?

“Vous”

2. “Cygnet” is a name for the young version of what bird?

Swan

3. “Find your magic” and “Spray more, get more” were campaign slogans for what “outdoorsy” brand of deodorant?

Axe

4. “Kramer vs. Kramer” won “Best Picture” at the 1979 Academy Awards, beating out what epic war film from Francis Ford Coppola, set during the Vietnam War?

“Apocalypse Now”

5. What popular pastry, originating in the 1850s from Chef Sanzian at the Parker House Hotel, is referred to as a pie, but is in fact a cake?

Boston Cream Pie

Questions for
Theme Thursday, August 8, 2024

Furiosa!: “Furiosa” was a box office hit earlier this summer, so here’s a round about fury.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. The Furies, Greco-Roman goddesses of vengeance, confront what Italian poet and his guide Virgil as they travel through hell in “Inferno”?

2. Not even Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu could save “Fury of the Gods,” a 2023 box-office bomb starring Zachary Levi in his second outing as what DC Comics superhero?

3. Produced from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, the Fury was a model name for both muscle cars and family sedans used by what Chrysler-produced automotive brand?

4. In 1978, Brian de Palma gave us “The Fury,” a horror movie about teens with telekinetic powers, two years after he directed what better-known horror movie about… a teen with telekinetic powers?

5. William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury” gets its title from a soliloquy by the murderous title character of which Shakespeare tragedy?

3. Plymouth

1: Dante

4.  Carrie

2. Shazam

5. Macbeth

Answers to Thursday, August 8, 2024

Furiosa!: “Furiosa” was a box office hit earlier this summer, so here’s a round about fury.

1. The Furies, Greco-Roman goddesses of vengeance, confront what Italian poet and his guide Virgil as they travel through hell in “The Inferno”?

Dante (Alighieri)

2. Not even Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu could save “Fury of the Gods,” a 2023 box-office bomb starring Zachary Levi in his second outing as what DC Comics superhero?

Shazam
(Captain Marvel)

3. Produced from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, the Fury was a model name for both muscle cars and family sedans used by what Chrysler-produced automotive brand?

Plymouth

4. In 1978, Brian de Palma gave us “The Fury,” a horror movie about teens with telekinetic powers, two years after he directed what better-known horror movie about … a teen with telekinetic powers?

“Carrie”

5. William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury” gets its title from a soliloquy by the murderous title character of which Shakespeare tragedy?

“Macbeth”

Questions for
Friday, August 9, 2024

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: TNT has aired five original TV programs that contain an ampersand (&). Name as many of those shows as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. One of the world’s oldest dog breeds was first bred more than 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty. It is noted for its unusual blue tongue and repetitive name. Name that breed.

3. Esotropia is derived from ancient Greek, where "eso" means "within" and "tropia" means "a turn." The term describes a medical condition that affects which part of the body?

4. Although she had nine children, Queen Victoria was the last monarch of what royal house?

5. Today is August 9. On this day in 1995, musician and hippie counterculture icon Jerry Garcia died of a heart attack at age 53. He was the lead guitarist for what band?

2. Chow chow 

4 Hanover 

5 Grateful Dead 

3. Eyes

1) I can only think of one Rizzoli & Isles.  

Answers to Friday, August 9, 2024

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: TNT has aired five original TV programs that contain an ampersand (&). Name as many of those shows as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

“Nightmares & Dreamscapes,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” “Franklin & Bash,” “King & Maxwell,” “Rich & Shameless”

2. One of the world’s oldest dog breeds was first bred more than 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty. It is noted for its unusual blue tongue and repetitive name. Name that breed.

Chow Chow

3. Esotropia is derived from ancient Greek, where "eso" means "within" and "tropia" means "a turn." The term describes a medical condition that affects which part of the body?

Eyes
(Crossed eyes)

4. Although she had nine children, Queen Victoria was the last monarch of what royal house?

Hanover

5. Today is August 9. On this day in 1995, musician and hippie counterculture icon Jerry Garcia died of a heart attack at age 53. He was the lead guitarist for what band?

Grateful Dead

Questions for
Monday, August 12, 2024

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

1. Broadway icon Richard Rodgers composed the music for a 1943 musical that is also the source of the official song of which U.S. state?

2. The unit of measurement typically used to verify the height of a horse is named after what human body part?

3. Like her Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery spent much of her childhood on which smallest Canadian Maritime province?

4. What type of flat-folding military garment is known by the names “side,” “garrison,” “flight,” or “wedge,” depending on what country you’re in?

5. In the third season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Manila Luzon portrays what former first lady, who along with her husband holds the Guinness World Record for “Greatest Robbery of a Government”

1.  Oklahoma

2. Hand

3. Prince Edward Island

4. Hat

4 Cap

I notice no one wants to answer #5 or admit they know the answer... lol!!!

After reading the whole question:    5 -  Imelda Marcos

I did not know #4 and would have guessed handkerchief.  

Answers to Monday, August 12, 2024

1. Broadway icon Richard Rodgers composed the music for a 1943 musical that is also the source of the official song of which U.S. state?

Oklahoma

2. The unit of measurement typically used to verify the height of a horse is named after what human body part?

Hand

3. Like her Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery spent much of her childhood on which smallest Canadian Maritime province?

Prince Edward Island

4. What type of flat-folding military garment is known by the names “side,” “garrison,” “flight,” or “wedge,” depending on what country you’re in?

Cap (or hat)

5. In the third season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Manila Luzon portrays what former first lady, who along with her husband holds the Guinness World Record for “Greatest Robbery of a Government”?

Imelda Marcos

Questions for
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

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

1. The Cockpit-in-Court was a theater built in London in the 16th century. The baize wall treatments in its backstage area are one possible origin of what two-word show business term?

2. “im at BLANK n my butts 2 big 2 fit in da seats on ride. ahhhhhh (dats me yellin)” was penned by Shaq in 2009. Fill in the blank with the name of the theme park he Tweeted from, which celebrates its annual Boysenberry Festival every spring.

3. “Early life,” “Private and political life,” and “Manhattan Project” are three section titles from the Wikipedia page of what physicist and subject of a 2023 film?

4. What herbaceous perennial vegetable was brought to America by European settlers, who called it “pie plant”?

5. Once it has lost all of its radioactivity, uranium becomes what metal element, with an atomic number of 82?

3: Robert Oppenheimer

5: Lead (Edit:  It takes a lot of steps through other elements and about 4.5 billion years to get there)

1. A wild guess: Green Room

2.  (Wild guess) Knott's Berry Farm