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