Totally Random Trivia - 2025

Thursday questions (I’ll post the answers on Monday along with Friday answers)

Questions for
Theme Thursday, January 23, 2025

We're Off to See the Blizzard: Five questions about the nice kind of blizzard… from Dairy Queen! All answers this round will also be a current or former Blizzard flavor.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. What rough-sounding ice cream flavor was invented in 1929 by William Dreyer, who said he wanted to “give folks something to smile about in the face of the Great Depression”?

2. In 2008, Dairy Queen partnered with the Girl Scouts of America and introduced what limited-edition Blizzard flavor, which quickly became one of the most popular in DQ history?

3. What sweet treat, when it isn’t crushed up and incorporated into a Blizzard, has a Nabisco logo stamped into it?

4. The first actor to win an Oscar for a superhero movie shares a first name with what toffee-based Hershey's candy?

5. According to dozens of commercials that aired between 1988 and 2001, what is Bart Simpson’s favorite candy bar?

Thanks for starting a new thread @zwak 

Questions for
Friday, January 24, 2025

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five children that tour Willy Wonka’s factory in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” One, of course, is Charlie Bucket. Name as many of the other four children as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. Chicago’s Unity Temple, New York’s Guggenheim Museum, and Pennsylvania’s Fallingwater are all UNESCO World Heritage Sites because of their artistic contributions from… whom?

3. Ben-Day dots are a printing technique commonly used in newsprint and comic strips. What pop artist, who passed away in 1997, was famous for painting large-scale Ben-Day dots?

4. Only two Best Actor Oscar winners share a surname. The first won in 1980, and again in 1989. The second won in 2006. What is their shared surname?

5. Today is January 24. On this day in 2003, Tom Ridge was sworn in as the first secretary of what federal department, established in the aftermath of 9/11?
 

Thursday:

1. Rocky Road

3. Oreo

Friday:

5. Department of Homeland Security

T2. Thin Mint

T4. Heath ??

F2. Frank Lloyd Wright 

F4. Hoffman

Friday

1. Augustus Gloop, Mike Teevee, Violet Beauregard, Veruca Salt

Friday #3 Roy Lichtenstein

How to scroll up and down to see which ones were answered…

Thursday:

5) Butterfinger

I had to have my coffee before I could get questions/answers straight! 😜

Thursday and Friday answers.

Answers to Thursday, January 23, 2025

We're Off to See the Blizzard: Five questions about the nice kind of blizzard… from Dairy Queen! All answers this round will also be a current or former Blizzard flavor.

1. What rough-sounding ice cream flavor was invented in 1929 by William Dreyer, who said he wanted to “give folks something to smile about in the face of the Great Depression”?

Rocky Road

2. In 2008, Dairy Queen partnered with the Girl Scouts of America and introduced what limited-edition Blizzard flavor, which quickly became one of the most popular in DQ history?

Thin Mint

3. What sweet treat, when it isn’t crushed up and incorporated into a Blizzard, has a Nabisco logo stamped into it?

Oreo

4. The first actor to win an Oscar for a superhero movie shares a first name with what toffee-based Hershey's candy?

Heath
(Ledger)

5. According to dozens of commercials that aired between 1988 and 2001, what is Bart Simpson’s favorite candy bar?

Butterfinger

Answers to Friday, January 24, 2025

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five children that tour Willy Wonka’s factory in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” One, of course, is Charlie Bucket. Name as many of the other four children as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee

2. Chicago’s Unity Temple, New York’s Guggenheim Museum, and Pennsylvania’s Fallingwater are all UNESCO World Heritage Sites because of their artistic contributions from… whom?

Frank Lloyd Wright

3. Ben-Day dots are a printing technique commonly used in newsprint and comic strips. What pop artist, who passed away in 1997, was famous for painting large-scale Ben-Day dots?

Roy Lichtenstein

4. Only two Best Actor Oscar winners share a surname. The first won in 1980, and again in 1989. The second won in 2006. What is their shared surname?

Hoffman
(Dustin and Philip Seymour)

5. Today is January 24. On this day in 2003, Tom Ridge was sworn in as the first secretary of what federal department, established in the aftermath of 9/11?

Homeland Security

Questions for
Monday, January 27, 2025

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

1. Achilles was killed by an arrow to the heel. That arrow belonged to what Trojan prince, who, contrary to what you might think, is not the namesake of a French city?

2. Neil deGrasse Tyson once tweeted, “If your body were bolted to the ground when Earth stopped rotating, your head would snap off, and it would roll due BLANK.” In which direction would your head roll?

3. General Norman Schwarzkopf is best known as the commander of U.S. coalition forces in what 1990–91 conflict?

4. Colorado has the highest low point of any state in the U.S. Which Southern state has just the opposite: the lowest high point?

5. In physics, the first derivative of the position vector as it relates to time is velocity. The second is acceleration. The third is jerk. The fourth, fifth, and sixth are sometimes referred to using what names, which you may recognize from the cereal aisle?

1. Paris?

3. Operation Desert Storm

5 Snap, crackle and pop

4. Florida

2. East

2.  East

Answers to Monday, January 27, 2025

1. Achilles was killed by an arrow to the heel. That arrow belonged to what Trojan prince, who, contrary to what you might think, is not the namesake of a French city?

Paris

2. Neil DeGrasse Tyson once tweeted, “If your body were bolted to the ground when Earth stopped rotating, your head would snap off, and it would roll due BLANK.” In which direction would your head roll?

East

3. General Norman Schwarzkopf is best known as the commander of U.S. coalition forces in what 1990–91 conflict?

Gulf War
(or The First Gulf War, or Operation Desert Storm)

4. Colorado has the highest low point of any state in the U.S. Which Southern state has just the opposite: the lowest high point?

Florida
(Britton Hill, 345 feet above sea level)

5. In physics, the first derivative of the position vector as it relates to time is velocity. The second is acceleration. The third is jerk. The fourth, fifth, and sixth are sometimes referred to using what names, which you may recognize from the cereal aisle?

Snap, crackle, and pop
(fourth derivative is also called “jounce,” so “jounce, crackle, and pop” is also technically correct)

Questions for
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

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

1. The most populous borough of New York City would be the fourth-largest city in the U.S. if it were its own municipality. Name that borough!

2. Wrestler and restaurateur Hiroaki Aoki had two children that went on to be famous as a DJ and as a model/actor, respectively. He also founded what teppanyaki chain in New York in 1964?

3. From 1349 until the French Revolution, the heir to the throne of France was given a title that translated to English as what aquatic mammal?

4. Saxophonist Danny Flores was known as the “godfather of Latino rock.” His band The Champs had a huge hit in 1958, with a song whose only lyric was Flores growling the name of what liquor?

5. What organization, founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, describes its members as “Go-getters, Innovators, Risk-takers, and Leaders”?

4. Tequila

1. Brooklyn

3. Dolphin

5. Girl Scouts

3. Benihana

Answers to Tuesday, January 28, 2025

1. The most populous borough of New York City would be the fourth-largest city in the U.S. if it were its own municipality. Name that borough!

Brooklyn

2. Wrestler and restaurateur Hiroaki Aoki had two children that went on to be famous as a DJ and as a model/actor, respectively. He also founded what teppanyaki chain in New York in 1964?

Benihana

3. From 1349 until the French Revolution, the heir to the throne of France was given a title that translated to English as what aquatic mammal?

Dolphin
(the Dauphin of France)

4. Saxophonist Danny Flores was known as the “godfather of Latino rock.” His band The Champs had a huge hit in 1958, with a song whose only lyric was Flores growling the name of what liquor?

Tequila

5. What organization, founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, describes its members as “Go-getters, Innovators, Risk-takers, and Leaders”?

Girl Scouts
(it’s their trademarked acronym for “G.I.R.L.”)

Questions for
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

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

1. The “Stella and Stanley Shouting Contest” has historically been part of a New Orleans literary festival celebrating what playwright?

2. A Danish TV series called “Forsidefruer,” or “Front Page Ladies,” is loosely based on what American TV franchise, whose original incarnation is now in its 18th season?

3. BBC Radio Cymru is a station that broadcasts its original programming in what Celtic language?

4. What popular portmanteau menu item at Starbucks has come in such flavors as “Zombie,” “Christmas Tree,” and “Unicorn”?

5. Which Major League Baseball team’s mascot is an elephant named Stomper — a reference to a New York Giants manager remarking that the team’s owner had a “white elephant on his hands”?

1.  Tennessee Williams

5.  The Philadelphia/KC/Oalkand/Sacramento/Las Vegas A's

3. Welsh

2. The Real Housewives

4. Frappuccino

Answers to Wednesday, January 29, 2025

1. The “Stella and Stanley Shouting Contest” has historically been part of a New Orleans literary festival celebrating what playwright?

Tennessee Williams

2. A Danish TV series called “Forsidefruer,” or “Front Page Ladies,” is loosely based on what American TV franchise, whose original incarnation is now in its 18th season?

“The Real Housewives”

3. BBC Radio Cymru is a station that broadcasts its original programming in what Celtic language?

Welsh

4. What popular portmanteau menu item at Starbucks has come in such flavors as “Zombie,” “Christmas Tree,” and “Unicorn”?

Frappuccino

5. Which Major League Baseball team’s mascot is an elephant named Stomper — a reference to a New York Giants manager remarking that the team’s owner had a “white elephant on his hands”?

Athletics

Questions for
Theme Thursday, January 30, 2025

Married Into Royalty: Sometimes people who are famous for other reasons marry into royal or noble families. Five questions about these aristocratic celebrities!

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. Before her royal wedding to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle played a character named Rachel Zane for seven seasons on what USA Network legal drama?

2. In the U.K., director Christopher Guest can get dinner reservations more easily because he's the hereditary Baron Haden-Guest. In the U.S., his wife books the tables more easily because she's the original “scream queen.” Who is she?

3. A.J. Langer has been the Countess of Devon since her husband ascended to the earldom in 2015. She’s best known for appearing alongside Claire Danes and Wilson Cruz on what single-season ABC teen drama series?

4. The Yugoslavian monarchy was abolished in 1945. Casper Van Dien married the daughter of the last princess of Yugoslavia in 1999, two years after appearing in his most famous role as Johnny Rico in what science fiction film?

5. Grace Kelly retired from acting when she married Prince Rainier III in 1956 and became princess of what country?

1. Suits (she also was in the series "The League" for an episode or two)

2.  Jamie Lee Curtis

5. Monoco 

4 Starship Troopers

5 Monaco 

3. My So-Called Life

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4 Starship Troopers

Answers to Thursday, January 30, 2025

Married Into Royalty: Sometimes people who are famous for other reasons marry into royal or noble families. Five questions about these aristocratic celebrities!

1. Before her royal wedding to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle played a character named Rachel Zane for seven seasons on what USA Network legal drama?

“Suits”

2. In the U.K., director Christopher Guest can get dinner reservations more easily because he's the hereditary Baron Haden-Guest. In the U.S., his wife books the tables more easily because she's the original “scream queen.” Who is she?

Jamie Lee Curtis

3. A.J. Langer has been the Countess of Devon since her husband ascended to the earldom in 2015. She’s best known for appearing alongside Claire Danes and Wilson Cruz on what single-season ABC teen drama series?

“My So-Called Life”

4. The Yugoslavian monarchy was abolished in 1945. Casper Van Dien married the daughter of the last princess of Yugoslavia in 1999, two years after appearing in his most famous role as Johnny Rico in what science fiction film?

“Starship Troopers”

5. Grace Kelly retired from acting when she married Prince Rainier III in 1956 and became princess of what country?

Monaco

Questions for
Friday, January 31, 2025

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five islands in the Mediterranean Sea larger than 3,000 square miles. Name as many of those islands as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. “Cröonchy Stars” were a short-lived Post breakfast cereal from the late ’80s and early ’90s that were, ostensibly, prepared by what Muppet?

3. The name "Tonkin" historically refers to the Northern region of what Southeast Asian country?

4. If you know interstates 190, 290, and 55 as "The Kennedy," "The Eisenhower," and "The Stevenson," respectively, you probably drive regularly in what Midwestern city?

5. Today is January 31. On this day in 1797, what Austrian composer of “Ave Maria” was born?

3. Vietnam

3.  Vietnam

4.  Chicago

2. The Swedish Chef

5. Franz Schubert

1. Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus 

Answers to Friday, January 31, 2025

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five islands in the Mediterranean Sea larger than 3,000 square miles. Name as many of those islands as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete

2. “Cröonchy Stars” were a short-lived Post breakfast cereal from the late ’80s and early ’90s that were, ostensibly, prepared by what Muppet?

The Swedish Chef

3. The name "Tonkin" historically refers to the Northern region of what Southeast Asian country?

Vietnam

4. If you know interstates 190, 290, and 55 as "The Kennedy," "The Eisenhower," and "The Stevenson," respectively, you probably drive regularly in what Midwestern city?

Chicago

5. Today is January 31. On this day in 1797, what Austrian composer of “Ave Maria” was born?

Franz Schubert

Questions for
Monday, February 3, 2025

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

1. What board game, which entered the Toy Hall of Fame in 2021, had a special release in France in 1999 with the subtitle “Édition Napoléon”?

2. What West Coast island was once nicknamed “Devil's Island,” and gets its official name from a Spanish word for “pelican”?

3. In 2018, comedian Ego Nwodim became the first woman of Nigerian heritage to join the cast of what long-running TV show?

4. What band got their acronym name from a translated expression meaning “Bulletproof Boy Scouts,” although they adapted an English backronym when they got popular?

5. In the 1870s, a U.S. Army officer was put in charge of a meeting at his church. The meeting went so poorly that he decided to write a book to ensure that it never happened again. His first name was Henry. What was his surname?

1. Risk

2. Alcatraz 

5 Robert 

3. SNL

4) BTS

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3. SNL