NEW and not nearly as GOOD TRIVIA thread -- 2021

[bbg95]

Jun 11, 2024 7:19:39 GMT -5 mln59 said:

Tuesday's questions:

1. “Thieves in the Temple” was the biggest hit single from the soundtrack to the 1990 movie “Graffiti Bridge,” the less-successful sequel to what 1984 music movie?

2. The Reign of Terror ended in July of 1794 with the execution of what French statesman?

3. What dog breed, which surged in popularity in the U.S. after the 1985 re-release of a 1961 film, gets its name from the southern coastal region of Croatia?

4. Of the four U.S. state capitals that have the word “city” in their name, which comes first alphabetically?

5. The Orionid meteor shower is an annual phenomenon that is the product of what celestial body — last seen in 1986?

2. Robespierre
4. Carson City
5. Halley's Comet

[bbg95]

Jun 12, 2024 7:33:14 GMT -5 mln59 said:

Wednesday's questions:

1. What British author invented such languages as Quenya, Sindarin, and the Black Speech?

2. The ninth-largest city in Kansas is nicknamed “The Little Apple.” Name that city.

3. What annual event, held on the mid-April holiday Patriots’ Day, includes a particularly challenging climb up Heartbreak Hill, next to the Charles River?

4. In human anatomy, the part of your body with your heart, lungs, and other sundry glands and organs is technically called the “BLANK cavity.” What eight-letter word fills in that blank?

5. What family of beverages — which all include rum, lime juice, and sugar — are named for a coastal village near Santiago, Cuba?

1. Tolkien? 
2. Manhattan
3. Boston Marathon?

[mln59]

Wednesday's answers:

1. What British author invented such languages as Quenya, Sindarin, and the Black Speech?

J.R.R. Tolkien

2. The ninth-largest city in Kansas is nicknamed “The Little Apple.” Name that city.

Manhattan

3. What annual event, held on the mid-April holiday Patriots’ Day, includes a particularly challenging climb up Heartbreak Hill, next to the Charles River?

Boston Marathon

4. In human anatomy, the part of your body with your heart, lungs, and other sundry glands and organs is technically called the “BLANK cavity.” What eight-letter word fills in that blank?

Thoracic

5. What family of beverages — which all include rum, lime juice, and sugar — are named for a coastal village near Santiago, Cuba?

Daiquiri

[mln59]

Thursday's questions:

By Any Other Name: Five questions about famous people who changed their given names.

1. What British author, born Eric Blair in 1903, coined such terms as “Cold War” and “thoughtcrime”?

2. What comedian, born Caryn Johnson in 1955, put the “E” in “EGOT” by hosting the 2001 TV special “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel”?

3. Lev Bronstein was best known as a Marxist revolutionary and a founding leader of the Red Army. Today, you can visit his grave in Mexico City. By what name was he better known?

4. What actor, born Eric Bishop in 1967, won the “Best Actor” Academy Award in 2005 — the same year he was nominated for the “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar for his role in “Collateral”?

5. What Roman emperor, born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, was better known by a nickname meaning “little boot”?

[coahc21]

1. George Orwell
2. Whoopie Goldberg
3.
4. Jamie Foxx
5.

[usdfan2.0]

Thursday's questions:
1. Ian Fleming
2. Whoopi
3. Trotsky
4. Jamie Foxx
5. Caligula

[cindra]

Jun 13, 2024 8:29:48 GMT -5 mln59 said:

Thursday's questions:

By Any Other Name: Five questions about famous people who changed their given names.

1. What British author, born Eric Blair in 1903, coined such terms as “Cold War” and “thoughtcrime”?

2. What comedian, born Caryn Johnson in 1955, put the “E” in “EGOT” by hosting the 2001 TV special “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel”?

3. Lev Bronstein was best known as a Marxist revolutionary and a founding leader of the Red Army. Today, you can visit his grave in Mexico City. By what name was he better known?

4. What actor, born Eric Bishop in 1967, won the “Best Actor” Academy Award in 2005 — the same year he was nominated for the “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar for his role in “Collateral”?

5. What Roman emperor, born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, was better known by a nickname meaning “little boot”?

1. Orwell
2.
3. Trotsky
4.
5.

[nowhereman]

Jun 13, 2024 8:29:48 GMT -5 mln59 said:

Thursday's questions:

By Any Other Name: Five questions about famous people who changed their given names.

1. What British author, born Eric Blair in 1903, coined such terms as “Cold War” and “thoughtcrime”?

2. What comedian, born Caryn Johnson in 1955, put the “E” in “EGOT” by hosting the 2001 TV special “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel”?

3. Lev Bronstein was best known as a Marxist revolutionary and a founding leader of the Red Army. Today, you can visit his grave in Mexico City. By what name was he better known?

4. What actor, born Eric Bishop in 1967, won the “Best Actor” Academy Award in 2005 — the same year he was nominated for the “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar for his role in “Collateral”?

5. What Roman emperor, born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, was better known by a nickname meaning “little boot”?

1. George Orwell
3. Leon Trotsky

[bbg95]

Jun 13, 2024 8:29:48 GMT -5 mln59 said:

Thursday's questions:

By Any Other Name: Five questions about famous people who changed their given names.

1. What British author, born Eric Blair in 1903, coined such terms as “Cold War” and “thoughtcrime”?

2. What comedian, born Caryn Johnson in 1955, put the “E” in “EGOT” by hosting the 2001 TV special “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel”?

3. Lev Bronstein was best known as a Marxist revolutionary and a founding leader of the Red Army. Today, you can visit his grave in Mexico City. By what name was he better known?

4. What actor, born Eric Bishop in 1967, won the “Best Actor” Academy Award in 2005 — the same year he was nominated for the “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar for his role in “Collateral”?

5. What Roman emperor, born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, was better known by a nickname meaning “little boot”?

1. George Orwell
4. Jamie Foxx

[mikegarrison]

1. George Orwell
2. Emmy someone? Oh, I see. The clue was that this is what she received her Emmy for. Oh well. I don't generally get these questions anyway.
3. Leon Trotsky?
4.
5. Caligula

[geddyleeridesagain]

Jun 13, 2024 8:29:48 GMT -5 mln59 said:

Thursday's questions:

By Any Other Name: Five questions about famous people who changed their given names.

1. What British author, born Eric Blair in 1903, coined such terms as “Cold War” and “thoughtcrime”?

2. What comedian, born Caryn Johnson in 1955, put the “E” in “EGOT” by hosting the 2001 TV special “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel”?

3. Lev Bronstein was best known as a Marxist revolutionary and a founding leader of the Red Army. Today, you can visit his grave in Mexico City. By what name was he better known?

4. What actor, born Eric Bishop in 1967, won the “Best Actor” Academy Award in 2005 — the same year he was nominated for the “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar for his role in “Collateral”?

5. What Roman emperor, born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, was better known by a nickname meaning “little boot”?

1. George Orwell
2. Whoopi
3. Trotsky
4. Jamie Foxx
5.

[mln59]

Thursday's answers:

1. What British author, born Eric Blair in 1903, coined such terms as “Cold War” and “thoughtcrime”?

George Orwell

2. What comedian, born Caryn Johnson in 1955, put the “E” in “EGOT” by hosting the 2001 TV special “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel”?

Whoopi Goldberg

3. Lev Bronstein was best known as a Marxist revolutionary and a founding leader of the Red Army. Today, you can visit his grave in Mexico City. By what name was he better known?

Leon Trotsky

4. What actor, born Eric Bishop in 1967, won the “Best Actor” Academy Award in 2005 — the same year he was nominated for the “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar for his role in “Collateral”?

Jamie Foxx

5. What Roman emperor, born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, was better known by a nickname meaning “little boot”?

Caligula

[mln59]

Friday's questions:

1. There are four major tournaments in the tennis Grand Slam. Name as many of those tournaments as you can.

2. What company got its start in 1969 when a man named Michael Kittredge melted down some crayons in his Massachusetts home to create an aromatic Christmas gift for his mother?

3. What is the only movie on IMDb.com whose rating is given out of a total of 11 stars, as opposed to the standard 10?

4. “Motel” is a portmanteau, which is a combination of “hotel” and what other word?

5. Today is June 14. On this day in 1928, what prominent Cuban Revolution figure and South American leader, seen on many t-shirts, was born?

[mikegarrison]

1. US Open, French Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon
2. Yankee Candles?
3. Spinal Tap?
4. Motor Hotel
5. Che?

[coahc21]

1. US Open, French Open, Wimbledon, Australian Open
2. Yankee Candle
3.
4. Motor
5. Che Guevara