Totally Random Trivia - 2026

3. Journey

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Questions for
Monday, March 9, 2026

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

1. "Strike Force Bandit" was the name of a New South Wales police investigation that revolved around Royal Australian Mint coins that featured characters from what lovable TV series?

2. Daffodils and jonquils are members of what genus of flower, which takes its name from a beauty-obsessed figure in Greek mythology?

3. What classic rock band recently kicked off their Final Frontier tour, after which they will be going their separate ways at the end of 2026?

4. Becoming "Where My Home Is" and "Lightning Over the Tatras," like the country, what former European nation split its national anthem in half when it became two separate countries in 1992?

5. The newest “Star Trek” series follows cadets at the United Federation of Planets school known by what name?

Reposting to get on new page

3. Journey

4.  Czechoslovakia

You zip in, you zip out....  

1 Bluey 

2) Narcissus

5 Starfleet Academy

Answers to Monday,
March 9, 2026

1. "Strike Force Bandit" was the name of a New South Wales police investigation that revolved around Royal Australian Mint coins that featured characters from what lovable TV series?

“Bluey”

2. Daffodils and jonquils are members of what genus of flower, which takes its name from a beauty-obsessed figure in Greek mythology?

Narcissus

3. What classic rock band recently kicked off their Final Frontier tour, after which they will be going their separate ways at the end of 2026?

Journey

4. Becoming "Where My Home Is" and "Lightning Over the Tatras," like the country, what former European nation split its national anthem in half when it became two separate countries in 1992?

Czechoslovakia

5. The newest “Star Trek” series follows cadets at the United Federation of Planets school known by what name?

Starfleet Academy

Questions for
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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

1. It takes only two hits to sink which Battleship vessel that shares its name with a 1976 KISS album?

2. What word is defined as a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful, and is derived from the Latin for “to breathe together”?

3. CONMEBOL is the FIFA confederation representing the countries of South America, including such heavy hitters as Brazil and reigning champs Argentina. Which of these 10 countries, a Bolivarian Republic by name, is the only member to never qualify for a FIFA men’s World Cup?

4. With stories like "Martin the Warrior" and the "The Sable Quean," Brian Jacques initially started what book series for children at a school for the blind?

5. Inventor Irving Naxon patented a kitchen apparatus known as the “Beanery” in 1940, inspired by a Jewish Sabbath stew called cholent. When he retired and sold the business in 1970, it was rebranded as what household name?

1. Destroyer

2. Conspiracy

5. Crock Pot

3. Venezuela

Answers to Tuesday,
March 10, 2026

1. It takes only two hits to sink which Battleship vessel that shares its name with a 1976 KISS album?

Destroyer

2. What word is defined as a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful, and is derived from the Latin for “to breathe together”?

Conspiracy

3. CONMEBOL is the FIFA confederation representing the countries of South America, including such heavy hitters as Brazil and reigning champs Argentina. Which of these 10 countries, a Bolivarian Republic by name, is the only member to never qualify for a FIFA men’s World Cup?

Venezuela

4. With stories like "Martin the Warrior" and the "The Sable Quean," Brian Jacques initially started what book series for children at a school for the blind?

“Redwall”

5. Inventor Irving Naxon patented a kitchen apparatus known as the “Beanery” in 1940, inspired by a Jewish Sabbath stew called cholent. When he retired and sold the business in 1970, it was rebranded as what household name?

Crock Pot

Questions for
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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

1. What jacket brand, heavily associated with early ’90s hip-hop, was popularized in the 1980s after it landed a contract to make the parkas worn on the sidelines by NFL coaches?

2. Which is the only U.S. state whose name can be written using one row of keys on a keyboard?

3. Prior to the 20th century, leprechauns were generally depicted wearing red, living alone, and engaging in what occupation — a smart job for someone who’s always running around?

4. “Purgatorio” and “Paradiso” are the titles of two-thirds of a poem written in the 14th century. What is the title of the first third of that poem?

5. In 2019, Mattel released a “no politics” version of what singular card game, replacing the red and blue cards with orange and purple ones, and adding a skip card you can play on anyone who starts talking politics?

1.  Starter

2.  Alaska

4. Divine Comedy (Inferno)

3 Cobbler/shoemaker 

5 Uno

Answers to Wednesday,
March 11, 2026

1. What jacket brand, heavily associated with early ’90s hip-hop, was popularized in the 1980s after it landed a contract to make the parkas worn on the sidelines by NFL coaches?

Starter

2. Which is the only U.S. state whose name can be written using one row of keys on a keyboard?

Alaska

3. Prior to the 20th century, leprechauns were generally depicted wearing red, living alone, and engaging in what occupation — a smart job for someone who’s always running around?

Cobbler

4. “Purgatorio” and “Paradiso” are the titles of two-thirds of a poem written in the 14th century. What is the title of the first third of that poem?

“Inferno”
(“The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri)

5. In 2019, Mattel released a “no politics” version of what singular card game, replacing the red and blue cards with orange and purple ones, and adding a skip card you can play on anyone who starts talking politics?

Uno

Questions for
Theme Thursday, March 12, 2026

The Final Five: Each answer begins with one of the last five letters of the alphabet, in alphabetical order.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. What actor completed her EGOT in 2023 with a Grammy for audiobook narration, following earlier acting wins for “King Hedley II,” “Fences,” and “How to Get Away With Murder”?

2. What activist, historian, and author published “The Souls of Black Folk” in 1903, and co-founded the NAACP in 1909?

3. The “Windows Entertainment Project” was a proposed name for a home entertainment system that was released in 2001 under what name?

4. What 1978 song, about an organization founded in London in 1844, has a section of its Wikipedia page headlined “Origin of Dance and Hand Movement”?

5. What Greek philosopher is famous for his paradoxes that argue that an arrow in flight never moves, and that a runner will never catch up with the tortoise they pursue?

1. Viola Davis

3. X Box

4. YMCA?

2. W.E.B. Du Bois

5 Zeno

Answers to Thursday,
March 12, 2026

The Final Five: Each answer begins with one of the last five letters of the alphabet, in alphabetical order.

1. What actor completed her EGOT in 2023 with a Grammy for audiobook narration, following earlier acting wins for “King Hedley II,” “Fences,” and “How to Get Away With Murder”?

Viola Davis

2. What activist, historian, and author published “The Souls of Black Folk” in 1903, and co-founded the NAACP in 1909?

W.E.B. Du Bois

3. The “Windows Entertainment Project” was a proposed name for a home entertainment system that was released in 2001 under what name?

Xbox

4. What 1978 song, about an organization founded in London in 1844, has a section of its Wikipedia page headlined “Origin of Dance and Hand Movement”?

“YMCA”
5. What Greek philosopher is famous for his paradoxes that argue that an arrow in flight never moves, and that a runner will never catch up with the tortoise they pursue?

Zeno (of Elea)

Questions for Friday,
March 13, 2026

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: In men’s hockey, members of the Triple Gold Club are those who have won the Stanley Cup as well as gold medals at the Olympics and World Championships. There are only five countries that have a member in the Triple Gold Club. Name as many of those countries as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. An HBO drama starring Dominic West and Lance Reddick and a 2013 single from Haim’s debut album both share what name?

3. The number 822.33 holds special significance as the Dewey Decimal assigned strictly to works by and biographies about what English writer?

4. There is only one pair of brothers who have both received Academy Award nominations for acting. The older brother was nominated once, in 1989. The younger brother has been nominated four times, winning once, in 2020. Name those brothers!

5. Today is March 13. Angie Xtravaganza, Willi Ninja, and Octavia St. Laurent were among the many New York performers featured in what ballroom documentary, which had its hometown premiere on this date in 1991?

2. The Wire

4.  River & Joaquin Phoenix 

3. William Shakespeare

1. Canada, Russia, Sweden

1. USA has got to be in there. Finland?

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1. USA has got to be in there. Finland?

Answers to Friday, March 13, 2026

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: In men’s hockey, members of the Triple Gold Club are those who have won the Stanley Cup as well as gold medals at the Olympics and World Championships. There are only five countries that have a member in the Triple Gold Club. Name as many of those countries as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

Canada, Czechia, Finland, Russia, Sweden

2. An HBO drama starring Dominic West and Lance Reddick and a 2013 single from Haim’s debut album both share what name?

“The Wire”

3. The number 822.33 holds special significance as the Dewey Decimal assigned strictly to works by and biographies about what English writer?

William Shakespeare

4. There is only one pair of brothers who have both received Academy Award nominations for acting. The older brother was nominated once, in 1989. The younger brother has been nominated four times, winning once, in 2020. Name those brothers!

River and Joaquin Phoenix

5. Today is March 13. Angie Xtravaganza, Willi Ninja, and Octavia St. Laurent were among the many New York performers featured in what ballroom documentary, which had its hometown premiere on this date in 1991?

“Paris Is Burning”

Questions for
Monday, March 16, 2026

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

1. What U.S. city is home to an international airport whose roof famously has over 30 peaks, to symbolize the nearby snow-covered mountains?

2. Commonly worn by skiers as face protection, what type of head covering gets its name from a Ukrainian village that was the site of a Crimean War battle?

3. What avian slang term can refer to an incarcerated person, a military recruit going through basic training, or a member of a ’60s hard rock group featuring Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page?

4. What 2000s band was recognized by Guinness World Records as “Most successful female group start in the United States,” since its first two albums — one self-titled, the other titled “Welcome to the Dollhouse” — both topped the Billboard charts?

5. Fleur du Lac, an estate on the crystal-blue waters of Lake Tahoe, served as the set for important scenes like a first communion celebration and Carmela Corleone’s funeral in what 1974 film sequel?

3.  Yardbird

5.  The Godfather Part II

(and one could argue it's an extension of the first film, not a sequel)

1. Denver 

2. Balaclava?

Answers to Monday,
March 16, 2026

1. What U.S. city is home to an international airport whose roof famously has over 30 peaks, to symbolize the nearby snow-covered mountains?

Denver 

2. Commonly worn by skiers as face protection, what type of head covering gets its name from a Ukrainian village that was the site of a Crimean War battle?

Balaclava

3. What avian slang term can refer to an incarcerated person, a military recruit going through basic training, or a member of a ’60s hard rock group featuring Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page?

Yardbird

4. What 2000s band was recognized by Guinness World Records as “Most successful female group start in the United States,” since its first two albums — one self-titled, the other titled “Welcome to the Dollhouse” — both topped the Billboard charts?

Danity Kane

5. Fleur du Lac, an estate on the crystal-blue waters of Lake Tahoe, served as the set for important scenes like a first communion celebration and Carmela Corleone’s funeral in what 1974 film sequel?

“The Godfather Part II”
 

Questions for
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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

1. ‘Iolani Palace in Honolulu is the only royal palace on U.S. soil. To see the country’s only corn palace, you’ll have to travel to which Midwestern state?

2. A brave and loyal horse named Maximus relentlessly hunts a handsome outlaw named Flynn Rider in what 2010 Disney movie?

3. When Pope Benedict XVI retired in 2013, one reporter got an early scoop because she was the only media representative in the press room who understood the language in which the pontiff delivered his announcement. What language was that?

4. “Sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh, “Basket of Fruit” by Caravaggio, and “Two Candles” by Gerhard Richter are three examples of what genre of work of art?

5. In the mid-1800s, a dry, flat, flavorless biscuit became a staple for followers of a preacher who denounced pleasure and stimulation. They’re still sold today, often sweetened with honey or cinnamon. What was that preacher’s surname?

1. South Dakota. 

1. South Dakota

5. Graham

2. Tangled

3. Latin

4.  Still Life

Answers to Tuesday,
March 17, 2026

1. ‘Iolani Palace in Honolulu is the only royal palace on U.S. soil. To see the country’s only corn palace, you’ll have to travel to which Midwestern state?

South Dakota

2. A brave and loyal horse named Maximus relentlessly hunts a handsome outlaw named Flynn Rider in what 2010 Disney movie?

“Tangled”

3. When Pope Benedict XVI retired in 2013, one reporter got an early scoop because she was the only media representative in the press room who understood the language in which the pontiff delivered his announcement. What language was that?

Latin

4. “Sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh, “Basket of Fruit” by Caravaggio, and “Two Candles” by Gerhard Richter are three examples of what genre of work of art?

Still life
 
5. In the mid-1800s, a dry, flat, flavorless biscuit became a staple for followers of a preacher who denounced pleasure and stimulation. They’re still sold today, often sweetened with honey or cinnamon. What was that preacher’s surname?

Graham

Questions for
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

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

1. What prototypical greaser character, who appeared on ABC from 1974 to 1984, was noted for his catchphrase, “Sit on it”?

2. In 2008, sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce became the first Caribbean woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter dash. She represented what island country, located 90 miles south of Cuba?

3. There were five Marx Brothers. If you listed their stage names in alphabetical order, which would come last? 

4. In 1881, three different people served as president of the United States within a single year. The first was Rutherford B. Hayes. The third was Chester Arthur. Who was the second? 

5. What eight-letter word is an expression of good wishes to a person starting a journey, though it sounds more like a description of divine velocity?

1.   The Fonz

3.  Zeppo

2. Jamaica

5. Godspeed

4 James Garfield

Answers to Wednesday,
March 18, 2026

1. What prototypical greaser character, who appeared on ABC from 1974 to 1984, was noted for his catchphrase, “Sit on it”?

Fonzie

2. In 2008, sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce became the first Caribbean woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter dash. She represented what island country, located 90 miles south of Cuba?

Jamaica

3. There were five Marx Brothers. If you listed their stage names in alphabetical order, which would come last?

Zeppo

4. In 1881, three different people served as president of the United States within a single year. The first was Rutherford B. Hayes. The third was Chester Arthur. Who was the second?

James Garfield

5. What eight-letter word is an expression of good wishes to a person starting a journey, though it sounds more like a description of divine velocity?

“Godspeed”