Totally Random Trivia - 2025

Questions for
Friday, July 18, 2025

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Janet Jackson has technically released four studio albums that feature her name in their titles. Name as many of those albums as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. In the "Archie" comics, Archie is frequently depicted wearing a sweater with what letter on it? Hint: It’s not an “A.”

3. If a hockey player scores a “Gordie Howe Hat Trick,” that means they have scored a goal, recorded an assist, and done what else, all in one game?

4. The Bible is the most-translated book of all time. “The Little Prince” is second. What is the third-most translated book from the original Italian, whose name today serves as a unit of measurement for fact-checkers?

5. Today is July 18. On this date in 1976, who became the first gymnast to receive a perfect-10 score at the Olympic games?

3. A fight

5. Nadia Comenici

2.  R for Riverdale if I recall correctly

4. The Adventures of Pinocchio

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2.  R for Riverdale if I recall correctly

 

Correct. Now, the “S” on Jughead’s? That’s one of the best-kept secrets in the series. Never explained. There are a lot of guesses, but nothing concrete. My guess is they just wanted something that made it very easy to tell them apart in black and white strips. 

1.  Janet Jackson was her first album. 

I only know that one and Control so ya’ll do the rest! 😆

1 Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814, Janet

Answers to Friday, July 18, 2025

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Janet Jackson has technically released four studio albums that feature her name in their titles. Name as many of those albums as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

“Janet Jackson,” “Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814,” “Janet,” “Damita Jo” (her middle name)

2. In the "Archie" comics, Archie is frequently depicted wearing a sweater with what letter on it? Hint: It’s not an “A.”

“R”
(for “Riverdale”)

3. If a hockey player scores a “Gordie Howe Hat Trick,” that means they have scored a goal, recorded an assist, and done what else, all in one game?

Gotten into a fight

4. The Bible is the most-translated book of all time. “The Little Prince” is second. What is the third-most translated book from the original Italian, whose name today serves as a unit of measurement for fact-checkers?

“Pinocchio”

5. Today is July 18. On this date in 1976, who became the first gymnast to receive a perfect-10 score at the Olympic games?

Nadia Comăneci

Questions for
Monday, July 21, 2025

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

1. Dogs are the most popular pet in the U.S. on a per-household basis. But when you count the number of individual animals owned, what animal becomes the most popular pet in America?  

2. The four-dimensional analogue of a cube is known by what nine-letter word, which may sound familiar to fans of Marvel movies or Madeleine L’Engle novels?

3. What musical artist, who had hits with “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” and “100 Years,” took their name from a hockey penalty?

4. “Steptoe and Son” was a popular sitcom of the 1960s and '70s set in a British junkyard. In 1972 it was remade as what American series, starring Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson?

5. In Major League Baseball, the annual award given to the outstanding defensive player at each position is called the Gold Glove. What is the award for the outstanding offensive player at each position called?

4. Sanford and Son

1. Cats

5. Silver Slugger

2. Tesseract

3. Five for Fighting

2 Tesseract 

3 Five for Fighting 

Answers to Monday, July 21, 2025

1. Dogs are the most popular pet in the U.S. on a per-household basis. But when you count the number of individual animals owned, what animal becomes the most popular pet in America?

Fish
(because people who own fish typically own many fish)

2. The four-dimensional analogue of a cube is known by what nine-letter word, which may sound familiar to fans of Marvel movies or Madeleine L’Engle novels?

“Tesseract”

3. What musical artist, who had hits with “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” and “100 Years,” took their name from a hockey penalty?

Five for Fighting
(Players who fight have to sit in the penalty box for five game minutes)

4. “Steptoe and Son” was a popular sitcom of the 1960s and '70s set in a British junkyard. In 1972 it was remade as what American series, starring Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson?

“Sanford and Son”

5. In Major League Baseball, the annual award given to the outstanding defensive player at each position is called the Gold Glove. What is the award for the outstanding offensive player at each position called?

Silver Slugger

Questions for
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

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

1. Bislama is an English-based creole language and one of the official languages of which archipelagic country in the South Pacific that may sound familiar to fans of the TV show “Survivor”?

2. Sue the T. rex is among the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever found. In which U.S. state was Sue discovered?

3. “Theater at the stairway” is the English translation for the name of what famous Milan opera house?

4. The Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival was founded in 2002, one year after it was mentioned as a joke in what half-animated film, starring Bill Murray and Chris Rock?

5. Although no relation to the 19th-century author, Richard Melville Hall pioneered the ’90s electronic music scene under what stage name?

5. Moby 

2.  South Dakota 

(no word if she was heading to Sturgis……😆)

3. La Scala

1. Vanuatu

4. Osmosis Jones

Answers to Tuesday, July 22, 2025

1. Bislama is an English-based creole language and one of the official languages of which archipelagic country in the South Pacific that may sound familiar to fans of the TV show “Survivor”?

Vanuatu

2. Sue the T. rex is among the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever found. In which U.S. state was Sue discovered?

South Dakota

3. “Theater at the stairway” is the English translation for the name of what famous Milan opera house?

La Scala
(Teatro alla Scala)

4. The Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival was founded in 2002, one year after it was mentioned as a joke in what half-animated film, starring Bill Murray and Chris Rock?

“Osmosis Jones”    

5. Although no relation to the 19th-century author, Richard Melville Hall pioneered the ’90s electronic music scene under what stage name?

Moby

Questions for
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

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

1. Mostly known for syndicated shows until they picked up the broadcasting rights to the WNBA and NWSL, what TV network formerly known as PAX gets its name from a type of electrically charged atom?

2. In 2002, “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker” was released exclusively for what gaming console?

3. What show following the story of Player No. 456 recently aired its final season on Netflix?

4. What most common style of written language becomes the Latin phrase for representing oneself in court when the word is split in two?

5. Flattop, The Mole, and 88 Keyes are all nemeses of what comic strip hero, who's been played onscreen by Ralph Byrd, Morgan Conway, and Warren Beatty?

4. Prose (pro se)

5. Dick Tracy

1. ION Television 

2. Nintendo Game Cube

3. Squid Game

Answers to Wednesday, July 23, 2025

1. Mostly known for syndicated shows until they picked up the broadcasting rights to the WNBA and NWSL, what TV network formerly known as PAX gets its name from a type of electrically charged atom?

Ion

2. In 2002, “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker” was released exclusively for what gaming console?

Nintendo GameCube

3. What show following the story of Player No. 456 recently aired its final season on Netflix?

“Squid Game”

4. What most common style of written language becomes the Latin phrase for representing oneself in court when the word is split in two?

Prose
(Pro se)

5. Flattop, The Mole, and 88 Keyes are all nemeses of what comic strip hero, who's been played onscreen by Ralph Byrd, Morgan Conway, and Warren Beatty?

Dick Tracy

Questions for
Theme Thursday, July 24, 2025

The Game of Love: Five questions about athletes dating each other.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. Triple jump gold medalist Al Joyner was married to the woman considered by many to be the fastest woman of all time. She still holds the world record for the women’s 100-meter dash, which she set in 1988. Who was she?

2. Sue Bird played 19 seasons with the Seattle Storm. In 2018, she and her partner became the first same-gender couple on the cover of ESPN The Magazine. Who is her partner?

3. Former catcher Matt Treanor married Misty May-Treanor in 2004. She’s a triple gold medalist in what sport?

4. Soccer midfielder Kealia Ohai married what defensive end in 2020, just before he started hosting the show “Ultimate Tag” with his brothers T.J. and Derek?

5. Only one tennis player has won a Grand Slam and an Olympic Gold medal in the same year — known as the Golden Slam. She’s married to another tennis player who did both, but not in the same year. Name them both.

1 Florence Griffith Joyner

3. Beach Volleyball

4. JJ Watt?

3.  Beach Volleyball

5. Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi

2) Megan Rapinoe 

Answers to Thursday, July 24, 2025

The Game of Love: Five questions about athletes dating each other.

1. Triple jump gold medalist Al Joyner was married to the woman considered by many to be the fastest woman of all time. She still holds the world record for the women’s 100-meter dash, which she set in 1988. Who was she?

Florence Griffith Joyner (Flo-Jo)

2. Sue Bird played 19 seasons with the Seattle Storm. In 2018, she and her partner became the first same-gender couple on the cover of ESPN The Magazine. Who is her partner?

Megan Rapinoe  

3. Former catcher Matt Treanor married Misty May-Treanor in 2004. She’s a triple gold medalist in what sport?

Beach volleyball

4. Soccer midfielder Kealia Ohai married what defensive end in 2020, just before he started hosting the show “Ultimate Tag” with his brothers T.J. and Derek?

J.J. Watt    

5. Only one tennis player has won a Grand Slam and an Olympic Gold medal in the same year — known as the Golden Slam. She’s married to another tennis player who did both, but not in the same year. Name them both.

Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi

Questions for
Friday, July 25, 2025

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There have been six movies with one-word titles beginning with the letter “C” that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Name as many of those movies as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. In the term “20/20 Vision,” what unit of measurement do the “20s” refer to?

3. Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson, Philip Fry, Bullwinkle Moose, Rocky Squirrel, and Elmer Fudd all share the same middle initial. What is it?

4. The Roman goddess of wisdom is the counterpart of the Greek goddess Athena, and is commonly pictured with her pet owl. Name that Roman goddess.

5. Today is July 25. On this date in 1965, Bob Dylan infamously “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival in what state?

3. J. 
5. Rhode Island

2 Feet 

4 Minerva

1. Casablanca. Chicago

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Questions for
Friday, July 25, 2025

3. Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson, Philip Fry, Bullwinkle Moose, Rocky Squirrel, and Elmer Fudd all share the same middle initial. What is it?

The "J" middle initial for Rocky & Bullwinkle are usually attributed to this genius - Jay Ward their creator.  It's also believed the  Phillip, Homer and Bart have J initials as a nod to the great Jay Ward.

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1. Casablanca. Chicago

Crash

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1. Casablanca. Chicago

Crash

 CODA

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1. Casablanca. Chicago

Crash

 CODA

 

Cimarron

(My grandfather LOVED westerns)

Reposted from the Movies Thread:

5. Hepatitis 

2. Sinew?

3. Meatloaf (His name is actual Marvin, not Michael)

Answers to Monday, July 28, 2025

1. Prior to the Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990, a separate box, made by Sanyo, was required to display something on your TV screen. What did that box display?

Closed captioning
(not subtitles, that’s different)

2. Tendons and ligaments are both sometimes known by what five-letter word, which comes from a Proto-Indo-European root for “to tie” or “bind”?

“Sinew”

3. The late singer Michael Lee Aday became the celebrity spokesperson for A.1. steak sauce in 2009 because the sauce “Makes BLANK sing.” Fill in that blank.

Meat Loaf
(His real name was Michael Lee Aday)

4. When the Supreme Court ruled on “Brown v. the Board of Education,” it overruled a precedent set by what 1896 case?

Plessy v. Ferguson

5. What disease, whose name comes from the Greek for "inflammation of the liver," includes fatigue and jaundice among its symptoms?

Hepatitis

Questions for
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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

1. What Greek muse of history is the namesake for awards given to exceptional design in the field of advertising?

2. “The Secret of Secrets” is an upcoming book by Dan Brown in the same series as “Angels and Demons” and “The Da Vinci Code,” featuring what fictional Harvard symbologist?

3. Even the filmmakers acknowledged the “serious departure from scientific veracity” in adding an expanding neck frill and the ability to spit venom at Newman in their fanciful depiction of which original “Jurassic Park” dinosaur, whose name comes from the Greek for “two-crested lizard”?

4. When the first U.S. Census was taken in 1790, the towns of Northern Liberties and Southwark ranked among the 10 most populous municipalities. They’ve since been absorbed into the city that ranked second at the time. Name that city.

5. What Italian dish is made from veal or chicken wrapped in prosciutto, and has a name that means “leaps in the mouth”?

1. Clio

3 Dilophosaurus