[Closed] 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

Answers to Friday, August 22, 2025

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.

Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Great Basin, Great Sand Dunes, Great Smoky Mountains

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!

George Foreman

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!

“Hat”

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

“Gaffer”

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?

Solar eclipse

Questions for
Monday, August 25, 2025

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

1. Cherries jubilee, bananas Foster, and mangos diablo are all desserts prepared with what French-named cooking procedure?

2. What Germanic tribe sacked Rome in 455, and had a name that lives on today as a word that describes people who participate in the destruction of property?

3. For decades, local burger chain George Webb offered free burgers if what team won 12 games in a row — a feat they recently achieved on August 13?

4. What nonbinary reality TV star and hairstylist completes this list: Jeremiah Brent, Antoni Porowski, Karamo Brown, Tan France, BLANK?

5. With a starting price of $13,600, the subcompact Spark topped Autotrader's 2022 list of the least expensive new cars in the U.S. What company produced the Spark?

2. Vandals

5.  GM / Chevrolet 

3) Milwaukee Brewers

It’s only happened 3 times. I saw this on the news when it happened. Though had to just now look up what years other than 2025. 1987 & 2018.

1. Flambe’

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3) Milwaukee Brewers

It’s only happened 3 times. I saw this on the news when it happened. Though had to just now look up what years other than 2025. 1987 & 2018.

But are you required to pee your pants to get the free burger?  😂

4. Jonathan Van Ness

Answers to Monday, August 25, 2025

1. Cherries jubilee, bananas Foster, and mangos diablo are all desserts prepared with what French-named cooking procedure?

Flambé

2. What Germanic tribe sacked Rome in 455, and had a name that lives on today as a word that describes people who participate in the destruction of property?

Vandals

3. For decades, local burger chain George Webb offered free burgers if what team won 12 games in a row — a feat they recently achieved on August 13?

Milwaukee Brewers

4. What nonbinary reality TV star and hairstylist completes this list: Jeremiah Brent, Antoni Porowski, Karamo Brown, Tan France, BLANK?

Jonathan Van Ness
(They're the cast of “Queer Eye”)

5. With a starting price of $13,600, the subcompact Spark topped Autotrader's 2022 list of the least expensive new cars in the U.S. What company produced the Spark?

Chevrolet
(manufactured by GM Korea)

Questions for
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

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

1. With its July concerts open to Puerto Rico residents only, No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí is the ongoing residency of what homegrown pop star?

2. Per their brand names, a coffee-brewing sibling duo and a child painter share what nationality?

3. Which New England state has the highest median age in the U.S., at nearly 45 years, although it was also the only state whose median age got younger, not older, in 2021?

4. Eliminate the last letter from a Hall of Fame city in Ohio, and you’ve got what poetic form most famously used by Dante in the Divine Comedy?

5. Allana Harkin, Mike Rubens, Amy Hoggart, and Ashley Nicole Black were the longest-running correspondents on “Full Frontal,” a show hosted by the longest-running correspondent in the history of “The Daily Show.” Name that correspondent-turned-host!

4.  Canto

5. Samantha Bee

3. Maine

Answers to Tuesday, August 26, 2025

1. With its July concerts open to Puerto Rico residents only, No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí is the ongoing residency of what homegrown pop star?

Bad Bunny

2. Per their brand names, a coffee-brewing sibling duo and a child painter share what nationality?

Dutch
(Dutch Bros. Coffee and Dutch Boy Paint)

3. Which New England state has the highest median age in the U.S., at nearly 45 years, although it was also the only state whose median age got younger, not older, in 2021?

Maine

4. Eliminate the last letter from a Hall of Fame city in Ohio, and you’ve got what poetic form most famously used by Dante in the Divine Comedy?

Canto
(Canton)

5. Allana Harkin, Mike Rubens, Amy Hoggart, and Ashley Nicole Black were the longest-running correspondents on “Full Frontal,” a show hosted by the longest-running correspondent in the history of “The Daily Show.” Name that correspondent-turned-host!

Samantha Bee

Questions for
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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

1. Which future U.S. president was recruited by several NFL teams after playing at the University of Michigan in the 1930s, later joking that he'd be a household name if he'd gone into football rather than politics?

2. Disney’s Bambi had two best friends, Thumper and Flower. Thumper was a rabbit. What was Flower?

3. “A different kind of car company” has a certain ring to it. Maybe that's because it was once the slogan for what General Motors subsidiary?

4. The adjective “vulpine” describes something reminiscent of what mammal?

5. Jordan Peele has said that the title of what 2022 film is intended as an answer to people who think they don’t like horror movies?

1. Gerald Ford

3. Saturn ??  (awful cars)

2) Skunk

4 Fox

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3. Saturn ??  (awful cars)

Saturn fleet of vehicles were still better than a Toyota Corolla or Ford Escort.

5. Nope

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3. Saturn ??  (awful cars)

Saturn fleet of vehicles were still better than a Toyota Corolla or Ford Escort.

 

With the Escort, doubtful but maybe. They both sucked.

The Toyota, not a chance in hell. They were both boring for sure, but those Corollas are still on the road and I very rarely see a Saturn.

Saturn was the Plymouth Horizon/Dodge Omni of the 90s.  

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3. Saturn ??  (awful cars)

Saturn fleet of vehicles were still better than a Toyota Corolla or Ford Escort.

 

Outside of the fact both carmakers existed in the 1990s there is no comparison between Toyota and Saturn.  That’s like comparing Minnesota to AIC.  

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With the Escort, doubtful but maybe. They both sucked.

The Toyota, not a chance in hell. They were both boring for sure, but those Corollas are still on the road and I very rarely see a Saturn.

 

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Outside of the fact both carmakers existed in the 1990s there is no comparison between Toyota and Saturn.  That’s like comparing Minnesota to AIC.  

I'll give you both the Corolla, but not the Escort. Saturn's were junk and they failed... reason why they are no longer made. Toyota and Ford are superior to Saturn. Just never like the Corolla and the Escort is a death trap... 😉

Answers to Wednesday, August 27, 2025

1. Which future U.S. president was recruited by several NFL teams after playing at the University of Michigan in the 1930s, later joking that he'd be a household name if he'd gone into football rather than politics?

Gerald Ford

2. Disney’s Bambi had two best friends, Thumper and Flower. Thumper was a rabbit. What was Flower?

A skunk

3. “A different kind of car company” has a certain ring to it. Maybe that's because it was once the slogan for what General Motors subsidiary?

Saturn

4. The adjective “vulpine” describes something reminiscent of what mammal?

Fox

5. Jordan Peele has said that the title of what 2022 film is intended as an answer to people who think they don’t like horror movies?

“Nope”

Questions for
Theme Thursday, August 28, 2025

All’s Fair!: The Minnesota State Fair started last week, and other state fairs are popping up all over the country. Anyway, this round is about non-state fairs.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. What doctrine within the United States legal system provides exceptions to a certain type of law for purposes such as parody, music sampling, and sometimes computer programming?

2. What two-word phrase, meaning “legitimate object of pursuit,” lends its name to outed CIA spy Valerie Plame’s memoir, as well as its 2010 adaptation starring Naomi Watts?

3. Audrey Hepburn took over the lead role from Julie Andrews when what musical, based on a George Bernard Shaw play, moved from stage to screen in 1964?

4. Timmy Turner tries to avoid the malevolence of his babysitter Vicky with the support of his magical friends, Wanda and Cosmo, in what 2000s-era NickToon?

5. An 1848 novel about Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley, set during the Napoleonic Wars, shares its name with an American magazine currently edited by Mark Guiducci. What is that name?

1. Exclusionary rule

3. "My Fair Lady"

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1. Exclusionary rule

2. Fair game

4. Fairly Odd Parents

4. Fairly Odd Parents

Answers to Thursday, August 28, 2025

All’s Fair!: The Minnesota State Fair started last week, and other state fairs are popping up all over the country. Anyway, this round is about non-state fairs.

1. What doctrine within the United States legal system provides exceptions to a certain type of law for purposes such as parody, music sampling, and sometimes computer programming?

Fair use
(provides exceptions to copyright law)

2. What two-word phrase, meaning “legitimate object of pursuit,” lends its name to outed CIA spy Valerie Plame’s memoir, as well as its 2010 adaptation starring Naomi Watts?

“Fair Game”

3. Audrey Hepburn took over the lead role from Julie Andrews when what musical, based on a George Bernard Shaw play, moved from stage to screen in 1964?

”My Fair Lady”        

4. Timmy Turner tries to avoid the malevolence of his babysitter Vicky with the support of his magical friends, Wanda and Cosmo, in what 2000s-era NickToon?

“The Fairly OddParents”        

5. An 1848 novel about Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley, set during the Napoleonic Wars, shares its name with an American magazine currently edited by Mark Guiducci. What is that name?

“Vanity Fair”