Totally Random Trivia: 2022

@norm Just saw this on Twitter.  Thought it was timely

3. Mars

Answers to Tuesday, October 31, 2023

1. Winston Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, Grace Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands are all reported to have seen a ghost in the White House. Who did they say this ghost resembled?
Abraham Lincoln

2. What 1975 film takes place on Amity Island, where the beaches stay open on the Fourth of July?
“Jaws”

3. Ares, the Greek god of war, had twin sons named Phobos and Deimos — the gods of panic and terror. Phobos and Deimos are also the names of the two moons orbiting what planet?
Mars

4. A film described by Entertainment Weekly as “a thriller in bright suburban sunlight” was adapted from a 1972 novel by Ira Levin. Nicole Kidman starred in a 2004 remake that reimagined the film as comedy rather than horror. What is it?
“The Stepford Wives”

5. Orphaned siblings Tia and Tony know they have psychic and telekinetic powers. What they didn’t know: They’re actually aliens. This is the plot of what 1975 Disney movie?
“Escape to Witch Mountain”

Questions for
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

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

1. What Midwestern state capital may have gotten its name from a French phrase meaning “of the monks”?

2. Which college football bowl game is played every December in Atlanta, and has been sponsored by Chick-fil-A since 1996?

3. The largest city in the country (by population) with a hyphen in its name is in the second-largest state (also by population) with a two-word name. Name that city.

4. November is known in creative writing circles as “NaNoWriMo.” What does that stand for?

5. In 2009, Ben and Jerry’s released an ice cream flavor called “Mission to BLANK.” What almond-meal confection fills that blank?

2. Peach Bowl

1. Des Moines

3. Winston-Salem

5. Marzipan

4. National Novel Writing Month

Answers to Wednesday, November 1, 2023

1. What Midwestern state capital may have gotten its name from a French phrase meaning “of the monks”?
Des Moines (Iowa)

2. Which college football bowl game is played every December in Atlanta, and has been sponsored by Chick-fil-A since 1996?
Peach Bowl

3. The largest city in the country (by population) with a hyphen in its name is in the second-largest state (also by population) with a two-word name. Name that city.
Winston-Salem (North Carolina)

4. November is known in creative writing circles as “NaNoWriMo.” What does that stand for?
“National Novel Writing Month”

5. In 2009, Ben and Jerry’s released an ice cream flavor called “Mission to BLANK.” What almond-meal confection fills that blank?
Marzipan

Questions for
Theme Thursday, November 2, 2023

Back in Time: Daylight saving time ends this weekend! Here’s a round about time travel.

Answers in tomorrow’s email.

1. Marty McFly traveled from 1985 to 1955, back to 1985, to 2015, back to 1985 again, and finally to 1885, where he adopted the name of what movie star?

2. In what novella does an inventor travel to the year 802,701 CE, only to discover that humanity has evolved into two different species, the Morlocks and the Eloi?

3. What Diana Gabaldon book series, which is now a TV series on Starz, focuses on a World War II vet who travels back to Scotland in the middle of a Jacobite rebellion?

4. Oh boy. Dr. Sam Beckett is guided through time by his holographic friend Al and his handheld computer Ziggy on what ’90s TV series?

5. What 1889 time travel novel contains the following lines of dialogue? “‘Bridgeport?’ said I, pointing. ‘Camelot,’ said he.”

1. Clint Eastwood

3. Outlander

Edit.  Guess I type and edit too slow. ?

2: The Time Machine

5: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

4. Quantum Leap

Answers to Thursday, November 2, 2023

Back in Time: Daylight saving time ends this weekend! Here’s a round about time travel.

1. Marty McFly traveled from 1985 to 1955, back to 1985, to 2015, back to 1985 again, and finally to 1885, where he adopted the name of what movie star?

Clint Eastwood

2. In what novella does an inventor travel to the year 802,701 CE, only to discover that humanity has evolved into two different species, the Morlocks and the Eloi?

“The Time Machine”

3. What Diana Gabaldon book series, which is now a TV series on Starz, focuses on a World War II vet who travels back to Scotland in the middle of a Jacobite rebellion?

“Outlander”

4. Oh boy. Dr. Sam Beckett is guided through time by his holographic friend Al and his handheld computer Ziggy on what ’90s TV series?

“Quantum Leap”

5. What 1889 time travel novel contains the following lines of dialogue? “‘Bridgeport?’ said I, pointing. ‘Camelot,’ said he.”

“A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”

Questions for
Friday, November 3, 2023

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Four Walt Disney Animation movies have won the Oscar for “Best Animated Feature” since the category was created in 2001. (This does not include Pixar movies, which are also produced by Disney and have won this award many times.) Name them for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.

2. What U.S. island, which gets its name from the Spanish word for “pelican,” was the site of a 19-month protest by a group called Indians of All Tribes beginning in 1969?

3. One of the most popular activities for tourists visiting Australia’s Rottnest Island has been to take selfies with the island’s adorable, smiling marsupials. Name that marsupial!

4. What instrument — which shares its name with a muse from Greek mythology and is closely associated with the circus — generates sound by sending steam or compressed air through locomotive whistles?

5. Today is November 3. On this day in 1992, politician Carol Moseley Braun became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Which Midwestern state did she represent?

5. Illinois

2. Alcatraz

3. Quokka

4. Calliope

1. Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Encanto

Answers to Friday, November 3, 2023

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Four Walt Disney Animation movies have won the Oscar for “Best Animated Feature” since the category was created in 2001. (This does not include Pixar movies, which are also produced by Disney and have won this award many times.) Name them for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.

“Frozen,” “Big Hero 6,” “Zootopia,” “Encanto”

2. What U.S. island, which gets its name from the Spanish word for “pelican,” was the site of a 19-month protest by a group called Indians of All Tribes beginning in 1969?

Alcatraz

3. One of the most popular activities for tourists visiting Australia’s Rottnest Island has been to take selfies with the island’s adorable, smiling marsupials. Name that marsupial!

Quokka

4. What instrument — which shares its name with a muse from Greek mythology and is closely associated with the circus — generates sound by sending steam or compressed air through locomotive whistles?

Calliope

5. Today is November 3. On this day in 1992, politician Carol Moseley Braun became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Which Midwestern state did she represent?

Illinois

Questions for
Monday, November 6, 2023

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

1. There is a street in Woodstock, Illinois, with an imprint of Bill Murray’s shoe and the words “Bill Murray stepped here.” This is because he famously stepped in a “doozy” of a puddle on that spot while filming what movie?

2. The largest city by area in the contiguous United States is also the most populous city in Florida. What is it?

3. What horse set the Kentucky Derby record of 1 minute, 59.4 seconds in 1973?

4. What author is best remembered for his fairy tales “The Snow Queen,” “The Ugly Duckling,” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?

5. What German city hosts an Oktoberfest that is also the world’s largest beer festival?

2. Jacksonville

3. Secretariat 

1: Groundhog Day

4. Hans Christian Andersen

5. Munich 

Answers to Monday, November 6, 2023

1. There is a street in Woodstock, Illinois, with an imprint of Bill Murray’s shoe and the words “Bill Murray stepped here.” This is because he famously stepped in a “doozy” of a puddle on that spot while filming what movie?

“Groundhog Day”

2. The largest city by area in the contiguous United States is also the most populous city in Florida. What is it?

Jacksonville

3. What horse set the Kentucky Derby record of 1 minute, 59.4 seconds in 1973?

Secretariat

4. What author is best remembered for his fairy tales “The Snow Queen,” “The Ugly Duckling,” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?

Hans Christian Andersen  

5. What German city hosts an Oktoberfest that is also the world’s largest beer festival?

Munich

Questions for
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

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

1. Ninety percent of Catalans voted for independence from Spain in a 2017 referendum. Most of them voted in the capital of Catalonia, which is what city?

2. The state fruit of Texas is what fruit, which traditionally came in white and pink varieties before a precious-sounding mutation was discovered on an orchard in McAllen, Texas, in 1929?

3. Child actor Marsai Martin became the youngest person ever to executive produce a movie when she produced the 2019 film “Little.” You may know her from her role as Diane on what sitcom?

4. The director of the Hayden Planetarium and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, both located at the American Museum of Natural History, got his undergraduate degree at Harvard in 1980. Name that astrophysicist.

5. What is the only U.S. state capital with a population over 1 million?

4: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

5. Phoenix 

2. Grapefruit

1. Barcelona

3. Black-ish

Answers to Tuesday, November 7, 2023

1. Ninety percent of Catalans voted for independence from Spain in a 2017 referendum. Most of them voted in the capital of Catalonia, which is what city?

Barcelona

2. The state fruit of Texas is what fruit, which traditionally came in white and pink varieties before a precious-sounding mutation was discovered on an orchard in McAllen, Texas, in 1929?

Ruby (or Texas) red grapefruit

3. Child actor Marsai Martin became the youngest person ever to executive produce a movie when she produced the 2019 film “Little.” You may know her from her role as Diane on what sitcom?

“Black-ish”

4. The director of the Hayden Planetarium and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, both located at the American Museum of Natural History, got his undergraduate degree at Harvard in 1980. Name that astrophysicist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

5. What is the only U.S. state capital with a population over 1 million?

Phoenix (Arizona)

Questions for
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

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

1. Despite an all-star cast led by Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, and Taylor Swift, what movie was littered with poor reviews ahead of its 2019 theatrical release?

2. What tiny, double-landlocked country, located on the Rhine River, is home to one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world, at just 1.6 percent?

3. There are two types of transport tissue in vascular plants. One is phloem. What is the other?

4. The highest point in the U.S. east of the Rockies was renamed Black Elk Peak in 2016, in honor of an Oglala Lakota leader who survived the Battle of Little Bighorn. In which state is that peak located?

5. What writer’s works include the nonfiction books “Between the World and Me” and “We Were Eight Years in Power,” and, from 2016 to 2018, the Black Panther comics?

2. Luxembourg

3. xylem

2.  I think it’s Liechtenstein as it and Uzbekistan are the only double landlocked countries in the world.

4. South Dakota

Posted by: @zwak

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2.  I think it’s Liechtenstein as it and Uzbekistan are the only double landlocked countries in the world.

Definitely not Luxembourg since it’s not on the Rhine River. The Mosel is its border with Germany. 

Posted by: @greyeagle

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Posted by: @zwak

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2.  I think it’s Liechtenstein as it and Uzbekistan are the only double landlocked countries in the world.

Definitely not Luxembourg since it’s not on the Rhine River. The Mosel is its border with Germany. 

 

The Rhine River forms the border between Liechtenstein and Switzerland. 

2) Isn't the lowest unemployment rates in the world Qater? But without looking at a map I wouldn't know the rivers travel and border. 

1. Cats. 

“The worst thing to happen to cats since dogs.”

1) Cats!  Excuse me I just threw up a little in my mouth.  

lol, time twinsies.  

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2) Isn't the lowest unemployment rates in the world Qater? But without looking at a map I wouldn't know the rivers travel and border. 

The wording says "one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world" which helps them to not pinpoint the country in the question.  

Answers to Wednesday, November 8, 2023

1. Despite an all-star cast led by Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, and Taylor Swift, what movie was littered with poor reviews ahead of its 2019 theatrical release?

“Cats”

2. What tiny, double-landlocked country, located on the Rhine River, is home to one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world, at just 1.6 percent?

Liechtenstein

3. There are two types of transport tissue in vascular plants. One is phloem. What is the other?

Xylem

4. The highest point in the U.S. east of the Rockies was renamed Black Elk Peak in 2016, in honor of an Oglala Lakota leader who survived the Battle of Little Bighorn. In which state is that peak located?

South Dakota

5. What writer’s works include the nonfiction books “Between the World and Me” and “We Were Eight Years in Power,” and, from 2016 to 2018, the Black Panther comics?

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Questions for
Theme Thursday, November 9, 2023

The Youngest Ever: Five questions about the youngest people to do a certain thing!

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. The youngest-ever Oscar winner in any category won for the 1973 movie “Paper Moon.” What is her name?

2. Who became the youngest player in NBA history to score 25,000 points in 2015, at age 30?

3. What popular Puerto Rican actor reportedly became the youngest person ever to play a Bond henchman in 1989, when he appeared as Dario in “License to Kill” at age 21?

4. Who became the youngest person ever to be named Time's “Person of the Year” when she was selected in 2019, at age 16?

5. At just a few hours old, what infant, born in January 2012 and credited as “B.I.C.,” became the youngest artist ever to appear on the Billboard charts, for her role in the song “Glory”?

2: LeBron James

1. Tatum O'Neil

3. Benicio del Toro

4) Greta Thurnberg

5) JayZs daughter Blue Ivy Carter (BIC)