Totally Random Trivia - 2025

4. Hurling

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Questions for
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

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

1. Which U.S. state has a name that means “friends” — which explains why its state motto is “Friendship”?

2. “Atlantis,” “Infinity,” and “Universe” are all spin-offs of what science fiction TV franchise?

3. The Beatles made five movies together, all named after their albums. The one with the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score was inspired by a type of field trip British schoolchildren take, and was described by reviewers at the time as “plotless and confusing.” Name that movie.

4. Camogie is a prehistoric stick-and-ball game played by roughly 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide. What is the men’s version of camogie called?

5. A 2016 Vanity Fair profile bestowed the ever-shifting title of “the internet's boyfriend” on what Guatemala-born actor, who has played key roles in the “Star Wars,” “X-Men,” and “Dune” franchises?

1.  Texas

Quoted since today's questions were the last post on the previous page - at least for me.

2 Stargate SG1

3. Magical Mystery Tour?

5. Oscar Isaac

4. Bandy?

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4. Bandy?

The quoted questions were after my answer for 4, but it's hurling. 

Answers to Wednesday, April 16, 2025

1. Which U.S. state has a name that means “friends” — which explains why its state motto is “Friendship”?

Texas

2. “Atlantis,” “Infinity,” and “Universe” are all spin-offs of what science fiction TV franchise?

“Stargate”

3. The Beatles made five movies together, all named after their albums. The one with the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score was inspired by a type of field trip British schoolchildren take, and was described by reviewers at the time as “plotless and confusing.” Name that movie.

“Magical Mystery Tour”

4. Camogie is a prehistoric stick-and-ball game played by roughly 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide. What is the men’s version of camogie called?

Hurling

5. A 2016 Vanity Fair profile bestowed the ever-shifting title of “the internet's boyfriend” on what Guatemala-born actor, who has played key roles in the “Star Wars,” “X-Men,” and “Dune” franchises?

Oscar Isaac

Questions for
Theme Thursday, April 17, 2025

This Round Is Not About Hockey: It's almost the end of the regular NHL season, and hockey fans may or may not know the answers to these questions. For example, If I said, “How do you say “brown” in Dutch?” you would answer “Bruin,” because that is both the Dutch for “brown” and an NHL team.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. What type of natural disaster takes its name from an old Swiss word meaning "descent"?

2. What animal appears in the title of a Top 40 hit song produced by Pinkfong, which later became the first YouTube video to top 10 billion views?

3. What citrusy cocktail was supposedly invented by New Orleans tavern owner Pat O'Brien as a way to get rid of an overstock of rum forced on him by liquor distributors?

4. What state law enforcement agency was created in 1823 by Stephen F. Austin, and has famously tracked down such outlaws as John Wesley Hardin and Bonnie and Clyde?

5. What premium cable network is the home of such shows as “Outlander,” “Party Down,” and “Blindspotting”?

3. Hurricane

1. I assume avalanche 

4 Texas Rangers

2. Baby Shark

5. Starz

Answers to Thursday, April 17, 2025

This Round Is Not About Hockey: It's almost the end of the regular NHL season, and hockey fans may or may not know the answers to these questions. For example, If I said,“How do you say “brown” in Dutch?” you would say “Bruin,” because that is both the Dutch for “brown” and an NHL team.

1. What type of natural disaster takes its name from an old Swiss word meaning "descent"?

Avalanche

2. What animal appears in the title of a Top 40 hit song produced by Pinkfong, which later became the first YouTube video to top 10 billion views?

Shark
(“Baby Shark”)

3. What citrusy cocktail was supposedly invented by New Orleans tavern owner Pat O'Brien as a way to get rid of an overstock of rum forced on him by liquor distributors?

Hurricane

4. What state law enforcement agency was created in 1823 by Stephen F. Austin, and has famously tracked down such outlaws as John Wesley Hardin and Bonnie and Clyde?

(Texas) Rangers
(the team is the New York Rangers)

5. What premium cable network is the home of such shows as “Outlander,” “Party Down,” and “Blindspotting”?

Starz

Questions for
Friday, April 18, 2025

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Michael B. Jordan has appeared in all five feature films directed by Ryan Coogler, including one that opens in theaters this weekend. Name as many of those five films as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. In 1964, Patti McGee set a world record by riding a BunBuster at 47 miles per hour. That led to a sponsorship deal with the Hobie company, making her the first professional female athlete in what sport?

3. The palmier is a pastry whose name means “palm tree” in French, because it kind of looks like a palm tree. In the U.S., we give it a more zoological name. What do we call it?

4. A British man whose given name is Edward started his career by climbing Mount Everest, circumnavigating the British Isles on jet ski, and holding the highest-altitude formal dinner party in a hot air balloon. He eventually became a reality TV star with what much cooler first name?

5. Today is April 18. On this day in 1506, Pope Julius II laid the first stone of the new St. Peter's Basilica in what city-state?

3.  Bear Claw ??

5.  Vatican City

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3.  Bear Claw ??

Huckleberry Bear Claws at the Mercantile in Polebridge, Mt are the best. One of the last remote off the grid places in the lower 48. Just with social media and the recent increase off vacations to Nat’l Parks has made Polebridge more off a tourist trap.

2 Surfing

1. Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, Sinners. I don’t know the 5th. 

4. Bear Grylls?

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1. Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, Sinners. I don’t know the 5th. 

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3.  Bear Claw ??

Huckleberry Bear Claws at the Mercantile in Polebridge, Mt are the best. One of the last remote off the grid places in the lower 48. Just with social media and the recent increase off vacations to Nat’l Parks has made Polebridge more off a tourist trap.

 

@youngeagle - If you end up near Glacier this summer....

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3.  Bear Claw ??

Huckleberry Bear Claws at the Mercantile in Polebridge, Mt are the best. One of the last remote off the grid places in the lower 48. Just with social media and the recent increase off vacations to Nat’l Parks has made Polebridge more off a tourist trap.

 

@youngeagle - If you end up near Glacier this summer....

 

unfortunately, we probably won’t be out to Montana this summer. With my wife having surgery today, everything for the next six weeks to three months is put on hold. Though if you are going to Montana in Glacier… Let me know and I can give you some local advice.

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3.  Bear Claw ??

Huckleberry Bear Claws at the Mercantile in Polebridge, Mt are the best. One of the last remote off the grid places in the lower 48. Just with social media and the recent increase off vacations to Nat’l Parks has made Polebridge more off a tourist trap.

 

@youngeagle - If you end up near Glacier this summer....

 

unfortunately, we probably won’t be out to Montana this summer. With my wife having surgery today, everything for the next six weeks to three months is put on hold. Though if you are going to Montana in Glacier… Let me know and I can give you some local advice.

 

Not sure we will be in MT this summer either, heading more towards Seattle and Victoria.  I really want to do Glacier the year after.  It looks so beautiful from the photos. 

Answers to Friday, April 18, 2025

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: Michael B. Jordan has appeared in all five feature films directed by Ryan Coogler, including one that opens in theaters this weekend. Name as many of those five films as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

“Fruitvale Station,” “Creed,” “Black Panther,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Sinners”

2. In 1964, Patti McGee set a world record by riding a BunBuster at 47 miles per hour. That led to a sponsorship deal with the Hobie company, making her the first professional female athlete in what sport?

Skateboarding  

3. The palmier is a pastry whose name means “palm tree” in French, because it kind of looks like a palm tree. In the U.S., we give it a more zoological name. What do we call it?

Elephant ear
(or pig ear, or beaver tail)

4. A British man whose given name is Edward started his career by climbing Mount Everest, circumnavigating the British Isles on jet ski, and holding the highest-altitude formal dinner party in a hot air balloon. He eventually became a reality TV star with what much cooler first name?

Bear
(Grylls)

5. Today is April 18. On this day in 1506, Pope Julius II laid the first stone of the new St. Peter's Basilica in what city-state?

Vatican City

Questions for
Monday, April 21, 2025

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

1. What C.S. Lewis book begins, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy"?

2. Pinetop Perkins, Tony Bennett, and George Burns are the three oldest people ever to have won which entertainment industry award?

3. Seattle sports fans know that what six-letter word originates from a Norwegian term meaning “crooked tree”?

4. The man who served as Joseph Stalin's second-in-command and Soviet commissar of foreign affairs throughout the 1930s and '40s was, according to reports, a staunch teetotaler. So it's a little ironic that there's a cocktail named after him. What was his surname?

5. Early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” in 1792. She was the mother of what famous horror novelist?

1. The Chronicles of Narnia (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)

3. Kraken?

5. Mary Shelley

If I recall correctly. 

4. lol, Molotov

2) a Grammy

Answers to Monday, April 21, 2025

1. What C.S. Lewis book begins, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy"?

“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”

2. Pinetop Perkins, Tony Bennett, and George Burns are the three oldest people ever to have won which entertainment industry award?

Grammy

3. Seattle sports fans know that what six-letter word originates from a Norwegian term meaning “crooked tree”?

Kraken
(The Seattle Kraken is a hockey team)

4. The man who served as Joseph Stalin's second-in-command and Soviet commissar of foreign affairs throughout the 1930s and '40s was, according to reports, a staunch teetotaler. So it's a little ironic that there's a cocktail named after him. What was his surname?

Molotov

5. Early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” in 1792. She was the mother of what famous horror novelist?

Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley

Questions for
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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

1. What online search engine, which peaked in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s, took its name from a valet character created by author P.G. Wodehouse?

2. Prior to the Civil War, pro-slavery guerilla fighters from Missouri were called “Border Ruffians,” because they crossed the border into Kansas to incite violence. What were the anti-slavery Kansans who fought them off known as?

3. What do the letters “SPF” stand for on a bottle of sunscreen?

4. Eminem released what critically acclaimed LP in 2000 as his follow-up to "The Slim Shady LP"?

5. “Throw it around indoors; you can't damage lamps or break windows. You can't hurt babies or old people.” This was an early slogan for what toy brand, introduced in 1969?

1.  Ask Jeeves

5.  Nerf

3. Sun Protection Factor.

Also one of my favorite Gopher off the ice moments 

4. The Marshall Mathers LP

I knew my history degree would pay off!

2) the Free Soilers

Answers to Tuesday, April 22, 2025

1. What online search engine, which peaked in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s, took its name from a valet character created by author P.G. Wodehouse?

Ask Jeeves

2. Prior to the Civil War, pro-slavery guerilla fighters from Missouri were called “Border Ruffians,” because they crossed the border into Kansas to incite violence. What were the anti-slavery Kansans who fought them off known as?

Jayhawkers (or Jayhawks)

3. What do the letters “SPF” stand for on a bottle of sunscreen?

“Sun Protection Factor”

4. Eminem released what critically acclaimed LP in 2000 as his follow-up to "The Slim Shady LP"?

“The Marshall Mathers LP”

5. “Throw it around indoors; you can't damage lamps or break windows. You can't hurt babies or old people.” This was an early slogan for what toy brand, introduced in 1969?

Nerf

Questions for
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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

1. Who was the last world leader to hold the office previously held by Konstantin Chernenko, Yuri Andropov, and Leonid Brezhnev?

2. Of South America’s national capitals, which has the shortest name?

3. Every episode of the TV series “Fargo” opens with the same five words on the screen. They also appear, along with other text, at the beginning of the 1996 film of the same name. What are those five words?

4. However you pronounce it, what food item gets its name from the Greek for “turning”?

5. The smallest denomination of Canadian coinage currently in production has a beaver on it. Name that coin!

1. Mikhail Gorbachev?

3) This is a true story…

5) Nickel

2. Lima

4. Mmmmm… gyros

Answers to Wednesday, April 23, 2025

1. Who was the last world leader to hold the office previously held by Konstantin Chernenko, Yuri Andropov, and Leonid Brezhnev?

Mikhail Gorbachev
(General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)

2. Of South America’s national capitals, which has the shortest name?

Lima
(Peru)

3. Every episode of the TV series “Fargo” opens with the same five words on the screen. They also appear, along with other text, at the beginning of the 1996 film of the same name. What are those five words?

“This is a true story.”

4. However you pronounce it, what food item gets its name from the Greek for “turning”?

Gyro
 
5. The smallest denomination of Canadian coinage currently in production has a beaver on it. Name that coin!

Nickel
(they discontinued the penny in 2013)

Questions for
Theme Thursday, April 24, 2025

Urban Anthems: I’ll describe three songs about a specific U.S. city. You name the city. For example: Taylor Swift says “it's been waiting for you.” Frank Sinatra wants to be a part of it. Alicia Keys declares it a “concrete jungle where dreams are made of.” Name the city! Answer: New York.

Answers in tomorrow’s email.

1. Fats Domino is “going to need two pair of shoes” for walking there. The Animals found a house there that’s “been the ruin of many a poor boy.” Billie Holiday knows what it means to miss its “moss-covered vines” and “tall sugar pines.” Name the city!

2. Will Smith calls it “the city that keeps the roof blazin'.” LMFAO “drink all day, play all night” when they visit. Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes say it had “Sweat dripping off me before I even knew her name.” Name the city!

3. Sufjan Stevens says it's where “all things go, all things go.” Jim Croce says its South Side is “the baddest part of town.” Robert Johnson declares it a “sweet home.” Name the city!

4. Tony Bennett left his heart there. Scott McKenzie says if you're going there, “be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.” Arctic Monkeys say fake tales of it “echo through the air.” Name the city!

5. Beyoncé says it's where she's “coming down, dripping candy on the ground.” Lead Belly says if you're ever there “you better walk right.” Luke Combs has a problem with it because he feels like he “landed on the moon.” Name the city!

1  New Orleans

4.  San Francisco  

2. Miami

 3. Chicago

5 Houston

Answers to Thursday, April 24, 2025

Urban Anthems: I’ll describe three songs about a specific U.S. city. You name the city. For example: “Taylor Swift says ‘it's been waitin' for you.’ Frank Sinatra wants to be a part of it. Alicia Keys declared it a ‘concrete jungle where dreams are made of.’ Name the city!” Answer: New York City.

1. Fats Domino is “going to need two pair of shoes” for walking there. The Animals found a house there that’s “been the ruin of many a poor boy.” Billie Holiday knows what it means to miss its “moss-covered vines” and “tall sugar pines.” Name the city!

New Orleans
(“I’m Walking to New Orleans,” “The House of the Rising Sun,” “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?”)

2. Will Smith calls it “the city that keeps the roof blazin'.” LMFAO “drink all day, play all night” when they visit. Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes say it had “Sweat dripping off me before I even knew her name.” Name the city!

Miami
(“Miami,” “I’m in Miami Bitch,” “Señorita”)

3. Sufjan Stevens says it's where “all things go, all things go.” Jim Croce says its South Side is “the baddest part of town.” Robert Johnson declares it a “sweet home.” Name the city!

Chicago
(“Chicago,” “Bad Bad Leroy Brown,” “Sweet Home Chicago”)

4. Tony Bennett left his heart there. Scott McKenzie says if you're going there, “be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.” Arctic Monkeys say fake tales of it “echo through the air.” Name the city!

San Francisco
(“I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair),” “Fake Tales of San Francisco”)

5. Beyoncé says it's where she's “coming down, dripping candy on the ground.” Lead Belly says if you're ever there “you better walk right.” Luke Combs has a problem with it because he feels like he “landed on the moon.” Name the city!

Houston
(or H-Town; “***Flawless,” “The Midnight Special,” “Houston, We Have a Problem”)

Questions for
Friday, April 25, 2025

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: According to IMDb, six characters on “The Office” appeared in more episodes than any other characters, at 188 episodes. Name as many of those characters as you can for one point each (just first name is fine). Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. The last week of April is Sky Awareness Week. Which layer of atmosphere is located between the troposphere and the mesosphere?

3. If you've just purchased a house using red, orange, and white currency called "Simoleons" that sometimes literally grows on trees, you're probably playing what video game franchise?

4. Ontario borders two Canadian provinces. Name both of them!

5. Today is April 25. On this day in 1944, activists and education professionals Frederick Patterson, William J. Trent, and Mary McLeod Bethune founded what organization to benefit students attending institutions such as Howard, Spelman, and Morehouse?

4.  Manitoba & Quebec

5.  United Negro College Fund  ??

2. Stratosphere

3 The Sims