Totally Random Trivia - 2025

1. Bicycle

Answers to Tuesday, August 19, 2025

1. The Chinese government has produced more than 500 million Flying Pigeons, making it the single most popular vehicle on the planet. What type of vehicle is the Flying Pigeon?

Bicycle

2. What “Only Murders in the Building” star recorded the theme song for the Disney Channel series “Wizards of Waverly Place” in 2007, six years before she topped the charts with her album “Stars Dance”?

Selena Gomez

3. A 1982 U.S. postage stamp of Franklin D. Roosevelt was the last one to contain a depiction of what item, otherwise removed from photographs of Robert Johnson, Jackson Pollock, and James Dean that were turned into stamps?

Cigarette

4. A rowing crew can consist of two to eight rowers, plus an additional person who sits facing the rowers, setting the pace and giving commands. What is the title of this additional person?
 
Coxswain

5. Before Barack Obama became the first Black president of the United States, he had already been the first Black president of an influential publication dating back to 1887 from what university?

Harvard
(Harvard Law Review)

Questions for
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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

1. Hard Tack was a thoroughbred racehorse from the 1930s. He was named after the flavorless crackers eaten by Navy sailors, and he’s much more famous for siring another racehorse. Name his son.

2. What “C”-word describes an industry that thrives on small-scale production, with manufacturing often done from the owner’s house?

3. Subtract a vowel from the name of the fastest-ever commercial airliner and you’ll get the 260-year-old capital of which U.S. state?

4. What record label — the biggest music company in the world — is technically headquartered in the Netherlands, despite being largely associated with the Los Angeles/Hollywood area?

5. Four of the 13 most-visited UNESCO World Heritage Sites, based on the ultra-scientific “Instagram tags” method, can be found in what European country, which has 61 total sites, the most of any country?

2. Cottage?

3. New Hampshire (Concord/Concorde)

1. Seabiscuit

4. Universal Music Group

5 Italy

Answers to Wednesday, August 20, 2025

1. Hard Tack was a thoroughbred racehorse from the 1930s. He was named after the flavorless crackers eaten by Navy sailors, and he’s much more famous for siring another racehorse. Name his son.

Seabiscuit

2. What “C”-word describes an industry that thrives on small-scale production, with manufacturing often done from the owner’s house?

Cottage

3. Subtract a vowel from the name of the fastest-ever commercial airliner and you’ll get the 260-year-old capital of which U.S. state?

New Hampshire
(Concorde/Concord)

4. What record label — the biggest music company in the world — is technically headquartered in the Netherlands, despite being largely associated with the Los Angeles/Hollywood area?

Universal Music Group

5. Four of the 13 most-visited UNESCO World Heritage Sites, based on the ultra-scientific “Instagram tags” method, can be found in what European country, which has 61 total sites, the most of any country?

Italy

Questions for
Theme Thursday, August 21, 2025

First Pitch, Best Pitch: As baseball season heads into the home stretch, five questions about people who have thrown out the ceremonial first pitch in Major League Baseball games.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. Disability activist Tom Willis has used his feet to throw the opening pitch in all 30 Major League ballparks, starting in 2008 at Petco Park in what city, home to the most recently founded MLB team in California?

2. Anthony Gatto juggled baseballs while flanked by clowns and orange-cloaked dancers before throwing out the opening pitch of a 2011 Tampa Bay Rays game as a promotion for what sunny-sounding performance group?

3. What Australian actor inspired a lot of “Pitch Perfect” jokes when she opened a Mets vs. Marlins game from the mound in 2015?

4. The New York Mets linked success in their 2024 season to what mascot with a highly coveted McDonald’s menu item who threw an opening pitch in June that began a lengthy winning streak for the team?

5. Simu Liu threw a perfect strike and did a backflip on the mound at a San Francisco Giants game in 2021, a few days after he topped the box office as what title Marvel character?

1.  San Diego Padres

4.  Grimace 

3. Rebel Wilson

5. Shang-Chi

2. Cirque de Soleil?

Answers to Thursday, August 21, 2025

First Pitch, Best Pitch: As baseball season heads into the home stretch, five questions about people who have thrown out the ceremonial first pitch in Major League Baseball games.

1. Disability activist Tom Willis has used his feet to throw the opening pitch in all 30 Major League ballparks, starting in 2008 at Petco Park in what city, home to the most recently founded MLB team in California?

San Diego

2. Anthony Gatto juggled baseballs while flanked by clowns and orange-cloaked dancers before throwing out the opening pitch of a 2011 Tampa Bay Rays game as a promotion for what sunny-sounding performance group?

Cirque du Soleil
(“soleil” means sun)

3. What Australian actor inspired a lot of “Pitch Perfect” jokes when she opened a Mets vs. Marlins game from the mound in 2015?

Rebel Wilson

4. The New York Mets linked success in their 2024 season to what mascot with a highly coveted McDonald’s menu item who threw an opening pitch in June that began a lengthy winning streak for the team?

Grimace

5. Simu Liu threw a perfect strike and did a backflip on the mound at a San Francisco Giants game in 2021, a few days after he topped the box office as what title Marvel character?

Shang-Chi

Questions for
Friday, August 22, 2025

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five U.S. national parks whose names begin with either the word “grand” or “great.” Name as many of those parks as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1968, co-headlined the “Rumble in the Jungle” in 1974, became the oldest heavyweight world champion ever in 1994, and earned over $300 million outside the ring. Name that boxer!

3. In Texas slang, a person who adopts rancher styles but isn't an active rancher is described as “all BLANK, no cattle.” Fill in the blank!

4. What six-letter term can refer to a job an electrician could have, Sam Gamgee’s father, or a British soccer coach?

5. Today is August 22. During this week in 2017, the Lincoln Saltdogs hosted the Gary SouthShore RailCats in an independent league baseball game in Lincoln, Nebraska. That game paused for 26 minutes in the third inning so fans and players could watch… what?

3. Hat

2.  George Foreman

4.  Gaffer

5 Solar Eclipse

1. Great Smokey, Grand Teton,???

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1. Great Smokey, Grand Teton,???

Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Great Sand Dunes