Totally Random Trivia - 2026

Questions for
Theme Thursday, March 19, 2026

Horsin’: A Round: It’s the Year of the Horse! Let’s celebrate with five equine questions.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. The thoroughbred who won American Horse of the Year in 1938 was mostly forgotten by 1999, when he became the subject of a bestseller by Laura Hillenbrand that was later made into a film. Name that horse!

2. “Stallion of the Cimarron” is the subtitle of what 2002 animated film, produced by DreamWorks Animation?

3. Khartoum is the capital of Sudan, where, in 1885, a British commander named Charles Gordon was overthrown by a local revolt and, according to some accounts, beheaded. Fittingly, Khartoum is also the name of a horse from what 1972 movie?

4. Gunpowder is the name of a horse in an 1820 short story by Washington Irving, though it’s not the horse ridden by the story’s spooky title character. Who rides Gunpowder?

5. “His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse” is the subtitle of what 1877 novel, written by English author Anna Sewell?

1. Seabiscuit

4, Ichibod Crane

3.  The Godfather Part I

2) Spirit

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3.  The Godfather Part I

One of my all time favorite Super Bowl ads!  Filmed in the same location, same music, same actor.  This was the talk for days among my film friends.

5. Black Beauty 

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3.  The Godfather Part I

One of my all time favorite Super Bowl ads!  Filmed in the same location, same music, same actor.  This was the talk for days among my film friends.

 

I completely forgot about that ad!

@youngeagle 

I did not realize the name of the movie was The Godfather Part 1.

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I did not realize the name of the movie was The Godfather Part 1.

It was billed as "The Godfather" when it was released but often is referred to as Part 1.  Probably because Part II is the 2nd half of the novel and continuation of the story.  That and (what we can all agree on) I'm odd.  🤣 

Answers to Thursday,
March 19, 2026

Horsin’: A Round: It’s the Year of the Horse! Let’s celebrate with five equine questions.

1. The thoroughbred who won American Horse of the Year in 1938 was mostly forgotten by 1999, when he became the subject of a bestseller by Laura Hillenbrand that was later made into a film. Name that horse!

Seabiscuit

2. “Stallion of the Cimarron” is the subtitle of what 2002 animated film, produced by DreamWorks Animation?

“Spirit”

3. Khartoum is the capital of Sudan, where, in 1885, a British commander named Charles Gordon was overthrown by a local revolt and, according to some accounts, beheaded. Fittingly, Khartoum is also the name of a horse from what 1972 movie?

“The Godfather”

4. Gunpowder is the name of a horse in an 1820 short story by Washington Irving, though it’s not the horse ridden by the story’s spooky title character. Who rides Gunpowder?

Ichabod Crane
(“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”)

5. “His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse” is the subtitle of what 1877 novel, written by English author Anna Sewell?

“Black Beauty”

Questions for
Friday, March 20, 2026

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The cranium, which houses the brain, comprises six different types of bones in the skull. Name as many of those bones as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. Of the world's three longest rivers, only one is completely contained within one country. Name that river!

3. Most soy sauces are made with fermented wheat. If you want a gluten-free option, you'll most likely be buying what popular Japanese variety of soy sauce, created in the process of making miso paste?

4. The North Pole has no defined longitude. Its latitude is how many degrees north?

5. Friday is March 20. On this day in 1934, Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitched a hitless inning for the Philadelphia Athletics in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against the Dodgers, back when they represented what locale?

3) Kikomen 
5) Brooklyn

2. Yangtze River (China)

4. 90 degrees North

1. I found this question to be a bit misleading - and maybe an MD here can chime in? All semantics I suppose but I have a medical and fitness background and below is how I would interpret:

There are six “bones” of the cranium (well technically 8 as two are paired). But I would argue there are two “types of bones:”

Flat bones: temporal, occipital, partial, frontal. 

Irregular bones: ethmoid, sphenoid. 

🤷‍♀️

Answers to Friday, March 20, 2026

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: The cranium, which houses the brain, comprises six different types of bones in the skull. Name as many of those bones as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

Ethmoid, frontal, occipital, parietal, sphenoid, temporal

2. Of the world's three longest rivers, only one is completely contained within one country. Name that river!

Yangtze
(China; the Nile and the Amazon are the two longest rivers)

3. Most soy sauces are made with fermented wheat. If you want a gluten-free option, you'll most likely be buying what popular Japanese variety of soy sauce, created in the process of making miso paste?

Tamari

4. The North Pole has no defined longitude. Its latitude is how many degrees north?

90

5. Friday is March 20. On this day in 1934, Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitched a hitless inning for the Philadelphia Athletics in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against the Dodgers, back when they represented what locale?

Brooklyn

Questions for
Monday, March 23, 2026

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

1. The largest island in Canada is also the world's fifth-largest island. It is home to 13,000 people, many of whom live above the Arctic Circle. What is that island called?

2. Athletes often tear their ACLs. This ligament connects which two bones?

3. In 2003, Majestic beat out Russell Athletic for the contract to manufacture what for professional athletes in Major League Baseball?

4. Gizmodo, Jezebel, Kotaku, and Lifehacker were all blogs under the umbrella of a media company named after what controversial gossip blog, which was founded in 2002, shuttered in 2016, and relaunched in 2021, before ending for good in 2023?

5. Filmmaker Zach Cregger has said that 2:17, the time of a mysterious disappearance in his 2025 film “Weapons,” is probably a subconscious reference to what Stephen King novel?

1. Baffin Island 

2. Femur and tibia

5. The Shining

3. Uniforms

4. Gawker

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3.  The Godfather Part I

One of my all time favorite Super Bowl ads!  Filmed in the same location, same music, same actor.  This was the talk for days among my film friends.

 

I completely forgot about that ad!

@youngeagle 

 

oh I do like that ad

That was a great ad, and if SOMEHOW you didn't know, in the original movie, that was a real horse's head, and the actor did not know that, so the reaction was 100% real. 

Answers to Monday,
March 23, 2026

1. The largest island in Canada is also the world's fifth-largest island. It is home to 13,000 people, many of whom live above the Arctic Circle. What is that island called?

Baffin Island

2. Athletes often tear their ACLs. This ligament connects which two bones?

Femur, tibia (or thigh bone and shin bone)

3. In 2003, Majestic beat out Russell Athletic for the contract to manufacture what for professional athletes in Major League Baseball?

Baseball jerseys (or uniforms)

4. Gizmodo, Jezebel, Kotaku, and Lifehacker were all blogs under the umbrella of a media company named after what controversial gossip blog, which was founded in 2002, shuttered in 2016, and relaunched in 2021, before ending for good in 2023?

Gawker

5. Filmmaker Zach Cregger has said that 2:17, the time of a mysterious disappearance in his 2025 film “Weapons,” is probably a subconscious reference to what Stephen King novel?

“The Shining”

Questions for
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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

1. The Hindi word for “twenty-five,” the highest throw you can make with the game’s cowrie-shell dice, is the source of the name of what centuries-old board game?

2. Fetty Wap says “1738,” a reference to Remy Martin cognac, at the beginning of what 2014 song, his highest-ranking hit to date on the Billboard charts?

3. The erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil was once marketed under what brand name, notably using commercials with a couple in side-by-side bathtubs?

4. From the summer of 1984 through early 1985, the No. 1 album on the Billboard charts was the soundtrack to what Prince movie?

5. The Rialto Bridge was completed in 1591, and is the oldest of four famous bridges in the heart of what city?

4.  Purple Rain

5.  Venice, Italy

2. Trap queen

1. Parcheesi

3. Cialis

Answers to Tuesday,
March 24, 2026

1. The Hindi word for “twenty-five,” the highest throw you can make with the game’s cowrie-shell dice, is the source of the name of what centuries-old board game?

Pachisi/Parcheesi

2. Fetty Wap says “1738,” a reference to Remy Martin cognac, at the beginning of what 2014 song, his highest-ranking hit to date on the Billboard charts?

“Trap Queen”

3. The erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil was once marketed under what brand name, notably using commercials with a couple in side-by-side bathtubs?

Cialis

4. From the summer of 1984 through early 1985, the No. 1 album on the Billboard charts was the soundtrack to what Prince movie?

“Purple Rain”

5. The Rialto Bridge was completed in 1591, and is the oldest of four famous bridges in the heart of what city?

Venice

Questions for
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

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

1. Jimmie Johnson is one of two living drivers to hold seven NASCAR championships. He currently co-owns Legacy Motor Club along with the other seven-time champion. Name that 88-year-old racer!

2. The first national issue of TV Guide was published in 1953. It had a newborn on its cover. His parents were the stars of what sitcom?

3. In the 1976 Olympics, Nadia Comăneci became the first gymnast to earn a perfect 10. Which country did she represent?

4. What confectionery product is manufactured by a company called Just Born, and adopted the marketing slogan “Always in Season” when it expanded its previously annual offerings? 

5. In 1986, the first class was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Of those 10 inductees, only one was a group — a duo who are also in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Who are they?

1. "The King" Richard Petty

2. "I Love Lucy"?

3.  Romania

4.  Peeps (?)

5. Everly Brothers

Answers to Wednesday,
March 25, 2026

1. Jimmie Johnson is one of two living drivers to hold seven NASCAR championships. He currently co-owns Legacy Motor Club along with the other seven-time champion. Name that 88-year-old racer!

Richard Petty

2. The first national issue of TV Guide was published in 1953. It had a newborn on its cover. His parents were the stars of what sitcom?

“I Love Lucy”

3. In the 1976 Olympics, Nadia Comăneci became the first gymnast to earn a perfect 10. Which country did she represent?

Romania

4. What confectionery product is manufactured by a company called Just Born, and adopted the marketing slogan “Always in Season” when it expanded its previously annual offerings? 

Peeps

5. In 1986, the first class was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Of those 10 inductees, only one was a group — a duo who are also in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Who are they?

The Everly Brothers

Questions for
Theme Thursday, March 26, 2026

Under Where?: Every answer in this round will also be a type of underwear.

Answers in tomorrow’s email. 

1. A raised donut, multiple baseball players, at least one professional golfer, and the one-legged cook aboard the fictional ship Hispaniola all share what two-word nickname?

2. If you know atolls at all, you'll know that what atoll, located in the Marshall Islands archipelago, was the site of 23 nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958?

3. Some cabinets have them. Some bureaus have them. And some animation studios have them. What are they?

4. According to a 2009 Medical Journal of Australia study, “offshore fisherman” is the riskiest profession. What type of athlete comes in second on that list? They have a higher concussion rate than American football players, and in the United Arab Emirates they're being replaced by five-pound robots.

5. Speaking of sports: Before they became famous, Dean Martin, Nelson Mandela, Billy Joel, Bob Hope, and Liam Neeson all found various levels of success as what sort of athlete?

2. Bikini Atoll

3. Drawers

5.  Boxing

1. Long John

4. Jockey

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4. Jockey

I had to look this up; in the UAE it is specifically camel jockeys they are using the robots for - replacing children whom they starved to keep at low weight. ☹️

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4. Jockey

 

I had to look this up; in the UAE it is specifically camel jockeys they are using the robots for - replacing children whom they starved to keep at low weight. ☹️

 

That was a tough question, because soccer players have higher concussion rates than football players, and gymnasts have more injuries overall, but those athletes made no sense as answers. So the only athlete left is jockeys, logically.

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4. Jockey

 

I had to look this up; in the UAE it is specifically camel jockeys they are using the robots for - replacing children whom they starved to keep at low weight. ☹️

 

That was a tough question, because soccer players have higher concussion rates than football players, and gymnasts have more injuries overall, but those athletes made no sense as answers. So the only athlete left is jockeys, logically.

 

it’s also referencing stats from 2009 so I wouldn’t doubt stats are different now.  

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4. Jockey

 

I had to look this up; in the UAE it is specifically camel jockeys they are using the robots for - replacing children whom they starved to keep at low weight. ☹️

 

”We’re using five-pound robots as jockeys now.”

- Oh nice, to help the horses?

”……… yeah.”

Answers to Thursday,
March 26, 2026

Under Where?: Every answer in this round will also be a type of underwear.

1. A raised donut, multiple baseball players, at least one professional golfer, and the one-legged cook aboard the fictional ship Hispaniola all share what two-word nickname?

Long John

2. If you know atolls at all, you'll know that what atoll, located in the Marshall Islands archipelago, was the site of 23 nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958?

Bikini

3. Some cabinets have them. Some bureaus have them. And some animation studios have them. What are they?

Drawers

4. According to a 2009 Medical Journal of Australia study, “offshore fisherman” is the riskiest profession. What type of athlete comes in second on that list? They have a higher concussion rate than American football players, and in the United Arab Emirates they're being replaced by five-pound robots.

Jockey

5. Speaking of sports: Before they became famous, Dean Martin, Nelson Mandela, Billy Joel, Bob Hope, and Liam Neeson all found various levels of success as what sort of athlete?

Boxer

Questions for Friday,
March 27, 2026

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

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five African countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

2. In 2015, Tic Tacs released a limited-edition banana flavor, with such names as “Kevin,” “Bob,” and “Stuart” printed on the box. This was a promotion for what movie? 

3. Grain that’s been separated from chaff before being ground in a mill is known as what five-letter word, often used as a metaphor for something useful?

4. In Polynesian cuisine, a sweet, creamy food made from taro root and traditionally eaten by scooping it with one's fingers is known by what three-letter name?

5. Today is March 27. Happy birthday to Dominican American author Julia Alvarez, who rose to prominence with her novel about four sisters who move from the Caribbean to New York City in 1960 and lose what, per the book’s title?

3. Grist

4. Poi

2. Minions

1.  Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Algeria 

Answers to Friday, March 27, 2026

1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five African countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any incorrect.

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt

2. In 2015, Tic Tacs released a limited-edition banana flavor, with such names as “Kevin,” “Bob,” and “Stuart” printed on the box. This was a promotion for what movie? 

“Minions”

3. Grain that’s been separated from chaff before being ground in a mill is known as what five-letter word, often used as a metaphor for something useful?

Grist

4. In Polynesian cuisine, a sweet, creamy food made from taro root and traditionally eaten by scooping it with one's fingers is known by what three-letter name?

Poi

5. Today is March 27. Happy birthday to Dominican American author Julia Alvarez, who rose to prominence with her novel about four sisters who move from the Caribbean to New York City in 1960 and lose what, per the book’s title?

Their accents
(“How the García Girls Lost Their Accents”)