[Closed] Totally Random Trivia: 2022

Answers to Thursday, January 16, 2025

“Hey, They Were On ‘Grey’s Anatomy’!”: Questions about notable guest stars on the show “Grey’s Anatomy.” No knowledge of the show is required!

1. The troubled teen played by Demi Lovato in Season 6 is misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, but Lovato scored a Top 10 hit with what song named for a cardiac, not psychological, ailment in 2013?

“Heart Attack”

2. As if her deaths in “A Walk to Remember” and “This Is Us” weren’t tragic enough, viewers also got a multi-episode arc from what actor, playing an even unluckier woman who survives a shooting only to die in low-risk surgery?

Mandy Moore

3. In a Season 6 flashback, Meredith’s mother treats an early AIDS patient. In that episode, she’s played by what actor known for her 13 different “American Horror Story” roles, which have earned her five acting Emmy nominations over the years?

Sarah Paulson

4. Eight years before playing a pregnant teen on “Grey’s Anatomy,” Keke Palmer got her breakthrough starring in the title role in what spelling-focused Laurence Fishburne film?

“Akeelah and the Bee”

5. When we see Christina Ricci featured in “Grey’s,” it’s as a paramedic treating a WWII reenactor who was accidentally shot with what sort of anti-tank weapon that isn’t quite as pink and sweet as its bubblegum namesake?

Bazooka
 

Questions for
Friday, January 17, 2025

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are seven teams in the English Premier League 2024/2025 season that are based out of London. Name as many of those football clubs as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. What movie star had a great 2021 when he was named an honorary Royal Navy commander in addition to going viral for saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd”?

3. Aquafaba is the liquid remaining after you drain a can of garbanzo beans. A French vegan discovered in 2014 that it’s almost a perfect one-to-one replacement for what animal-derived ingredient?

4. The Pritzker Prize is often described as the “Nobel Prize” of what field?

5. Today is January 17. On this date in 1962, Canadian actor Jim Carrey was born. He plays a character created by Japanese game designer Naoto Ohshima in a 2024 installment of what film and video game franchise?

1.  West Ham, Chelsea, Tottingham, Arsenal (?), Crystal Palace (?)

"Come on Richmond" 😎 

1. Fulham

5. Sonic

1. Brentford

2) Daniel Craig
3) Eggs

Answers to Friday, January 17, 2025

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are seven teams in the English Premier League 2024/2025 season that are based out of London. Name as many of those football clubs as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United

2. What movie star had a great 2021 when he was named an honorary Royal Navy commander, in addition to going viral for saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd”?

Daniel Craig

3. Aquafaba is the liquid remaining after you drain a can of garbanzo beans. A French vegan discovered in 2014 that it’s a perfect one-to-one replacement for what animal-derived ingredient?

Egg whites

4. The Pritzker Prize is often described as the “Nobel Prize” of what field?

Architecture

5. Today is January 17. On this date in 1962, Canadian actor Jim Carrey was born. He plays a character created by Japanese game designer Naoto Ohshima in a 2024 installment of what film and video game franchise?

“Sonic the Hedgehog”
(Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik)

Questions for
Monday, January 20, 2025

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

1. The FDA recently announced a ban on a certain color of food dye after it was linked to cancer in lab rats. What color is that food additive?

2. In what movie did the Disney character Jiminy Cricket make his screen debut?

3. A “cerevisaphile” is also known as someone with a devout love of what?

4. What European country is typically divided into four geographic regions, the largest of which are Lapland in the north and Lakeland in the south?

5. Sarah Silverman and her sister Laura provide the voices of twin brothers Andy and Ollie on what Fox series?

1. Red

4 Finland 

2. Pinocchio

5. Bob's Burgers

3. There’s a lot of them here. Beer. 

Answers to Monday, January 20, 2025

1. The FDA recently announced a ban on a certain color of food dye after it was linked to cancer in lab rats. What color is that food additive?

Red
(Red Dye No. 3)

2. In what movie did the Disney character Jiminy Cricket make his screen debut?

“Pinocchio”

3. A “cerevisaphile” is also known as someone with a devout love of what?

Beer

4. What European country is typically divided into four geographic regions, the largest of which are Lapland in the north and Lakeland in the south?

Finland  

5. Sarah Silverman and her sister Laura provide the voices of twin brothers Andy and Ollie on what Fox series?

“Bob's Burgers”

Questions for
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

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

1. Manx cats have a naturally occurring mutation that makes their tails small or nonexistent. From what island do Manx cats originate?

2. The best-selling pinball machine of all time is themed after a comics, TV, and movie franchise that made its debut in The New Yorker in 1938. Name that franchise.

3. The late Adam Yauch was one of the organizers of the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1996, and was better known by what stage name?

4. What musical based on a movie became the first show to gross $1 billion on Broadway?

5. One of the few U.S. state capitals with an Indigenous name translates to “sheltered harbor” in English. Name that capital city.

1. Isle of Man

2. Addams Family

4. Don't know but will guess Lion King.

Paging @greyeagle 

5) Honolulu

3. MCA

5. Honolulu

Answers to Tuesday, January 21, 2025
1. Manx cats have a naturally occurring mutation that makes their tails small or nonexistent. From what island do Manx cats originate?

The Isle of Man

2. The best-selling pinball machine of all time is themed after a comics, TV, and movie franchise that made its debut in The New Yorker in 1938. Name that franchise.

“The Addams Family”

3. The late Adam Yauch was one of the organizers of the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1996, and was better known by what stage name?

MCA

4. What musical based on a movie became the first show to gross $1 billion on Broadway?

“The Lion King”

5. One of the few U.S. state capitals with an Indigenous name translates to “sheltered harbor” in English. Name that capital city.

Honolulu (Hawai'i)

Questions for
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

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

1. Vibrissae can be used to detect nearly imperceptible changes in air pressure and water currents. What is the more common name for vibrissae?

2. Two Major League Baseball teams play home games in stadiums named for a brand of beer. Which of the two stadiums comes first alphabetically?

3. In North America, black diamonds indicate the hardest runs on a ski hill. What color and shape indicate the easiest?

4. A series of NBC promos called “An American Coach in London” garnered millions of views on YouTube in 2013 and eventually became the premise of what Emmy-nominated comedy series?

5. The joule is the SI unit of work or energy. One joule per second is called a… what?

2. Busch Stadium

4. Ted Lasso

5 Watt 

1.  Whiskers 

3. Green circle

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1.  Whiskers 

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1.  Whiskers 

Of course you knew that one! 😺

 

I look at these questions every day and probably can actually get about 1 out of 100.  I’m impressed how smart y’all are!  Every once in awhile I can pipe in. 😁

if was ever on that show I would def not be smarter than a fifth grader.  😂

Hey @zwak 

Can you create a NEW trivia thread? This one is just getting HUGE.

I am going to lock this one. Eventually delete it as well.