QUICK: give me a trivia question everyone should know the answer to but a lot of people don't

[yurbud]

I'll use it on my students.

[guitar man]

1. Who wrote the song "crazy"

That was sung by Patsy Cline?

[yurbud]

6. Willie Nelson?

[guitar man]

13. ding ding ding!!

yes, that is correct :)

you'd be surprised how many people don't know that ;)

[LaurenG]

2. this one makes people wrong all the time - though not exactly trivia

A plane full of Mexican citizens crashes right on the border of Texas and Mexico. On which side do you bury the survivors?

[yurbud]

5. If you ask a conservative, the correct answer is to bury the survivors, and leave the dead

rotting in the desert as a warning to illegal immigrants.

[LaurenG]

9. Well there are other ways to tell it

It could be just a plane load of people or a plane load of Americans. Too many of the people that take this don't read the word survivors. It is an interesting test and very telling when the nationality is changed.

[Redstone]

29. You don't bury the survivors.

Redstone

[LaurenG]

31. Yep!

[cemaphonic]

61. yet

[one_voice]

3. What is...

refrigerator Perry's first name.

[yurbud]

4. Nancy?

[RandomThoughts]

7. No, not about that, it is about Murdoch and Sky channel.

Was a set up in that thread. So skipped over the trap.


Standard muzzle flash

[abq e streeter]

26. William

[gratuitous]

8. Oh, students

I was gonna say "What group was Paul McCartney in before Wings," but today's students will not likely have heard of Sir Paul, Wings and the Beatles.

[yurbud]

10. a beatle is a cockroach that lives in the woods isn't it?

[KamaAina]

11. A young man is seriously injured in an accident.

He's taken immediately into surgery. The doctor takes one look at him, and says, "I cannot operate on him. He is my son!"

So he's taken to another or, where the doctor takes a look at him and exclaims, "I cannot operate on him, He is my son!"

How can this be?

[guitar man]

14. the doctors

Are husband and wife?

[KamaAina]

15. Outstanding!

You'd be surprised at the lengths non-feminists will go to explain this (the second doctor is his adoptive father, etc.). :thumbsup:

[guitar man]

21. It was easy for me

My daughter was delivered by a woman who I think is the best OBGyn in the world. ;)

[One_Life_To_Give]

67. The episode of All in the Family with this was entertaining

That anyone would still find this confusing 35years later is disheartening.

[One_Life_To_Give]

17. Gay parents in Mass?

In Utah it would be Six hospitals and each time the doctor says, "I cannot operate on him. He is my son!"

[KamaAina]

19. Snarf!

:rofl:

[rug]

12. What is the 14th state (without googling).

[KamaAina]

18. Vermont.

No googling required.

[KamaAina]

16. Who is buried in Grant's tomb?

The classic.

[amerikat]

39. Grant and his wife?

[doc03]

59. Nobody, it is a mausoleum not a tomb. n/t

[One_Life_To_Give]

20. Name the current crew on the ISS

The most recent Nobel prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, Lit etc. and what were they awarded for?
What was Albert Einsteins Nobel Prize awarded for?
What is the global per capita production of oil and what is the US per capita consumption?
What is the global median food consumption per person?

[The Midway Rebel]

22. What is the city formerly known as Constantinople?

You really wanna screw with folks, ask them to explain the four seasons.

[abq e streeter]

23. A. Istanbul...b. It was the great production, seamless harmony, and unique vocals by Frankie Valli

[Art_from_Ark]

62. The 4 seasons

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme :+

[abq e streeter]

24. Who were the Quarrymen? The High Numbers? The 101ers? Operation Ivy?

[abq e streeter]

43. I guess nobody gives a shit, because I'm sure there are lots of DUers who know these , so...

.The Beatles, The Who, Joe Strummer's band immediately before The Clash and the forerunner of Rancid

[abq e streeter]

25. Who wrote the book of love? Who put the bomp?

and who put the ram in the ram a lam a ding dong?

[abq e streeter]

44. # 1. I wonder, wonder, wonder...#2. rumor has it that Clarence Clemons does know who

[mulsh]

27. with out looking at a map what are the names of the 5 Great Lakes

very few people I've asked this have named all of the lakes.

Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario. At least as far as the North American Great Lakes go.

[PassingFair]

28. H-O-M-E-S

Acronym.

[Redstone]

30. What was the state of Wyoming named after?

Redstone

[Redstone]

34. Nobody? OK, I'll give it to you:

Named after Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania.

Redstone

[TheMightyFavog]

32. Who holds the only Milwauke Brewers Record set during their single year as the Seattle Pilots?

Tommy Harper, Most stolen bases in a year.

[Tikki]

33. Punk and Grunge: The words that rock...

In what rock fanzine did the term 'punk rock' first appear in 1970?

The vocalist for which Seattle band is credited as being the first to use the term "Grunge" to describe the music?


Tikki


answers...Creem Magazine; Green River (later Mudhoney) vocalist Mark Arm...

[struggle4progress]

35. What was Harry Truman's middle name?

[Mr. Ected]

37. His Middle Name Was "S"

He had no middle name.

[struggle4progress]

40. The trivia question everybody knows the answer to, but almost nobody knows they know

[SCantiGOP]

66. I knew a guy in high school

who would show his driver's license and state that his middle name(s) were Norman Mailer Nottingham, because the license listed NMN (for No Middle Name).

[Bennyboy]

36. Name all of the pro sports teams that have names that DON'T end in the letter S.....

Baseball, football, Hockey and Basketball...

[abq e streeter]

53. Coulda answered this once upon a time, before the NHL expanded from 6 to 182 teams

[JTG of the PRB]

56. Here goes...

Baseball:
White Sox
Red Sox

Football:
None

Hockey:
Avalanche
Wild
Lightning

Basketball:
Magic
Heat
Thunder
Jazz


I think that's it. All from memory, too. Had to think for a few minutes about all that.

[abq e streeter]

57. Wow, thought there would have been more, especially the NHL and NBA , but I'll assume you're right

since I can't think of any others beyond yours.

[A HERETIC I AM]

38. What did Beaver Cleaver's Father do during the war?

Revealed in only one episode of "Leave it to Beaver"

OK, this really doesn't fit your "everyone should know the answer to but a lot of people don't" because it is as obscure as the true name of "The Professor" on Gilligan's Island (Roy Hinkley)



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Answer;

Ward Cleaver was a Surveyor in the SeaBees.

[abq e streeter]

41. Comic Book Guy's name

[Steely_Dan]

42. Who Was Originally Cast...

...as Dorothy in the Wizard Of Oz?

-P

[Steely_Dan]

54. Shirley Temple

[namahage]

45. Name a sport where you win by going backwards. n/t

[petronius]

47. Competitive rapelling?

:)

(OK, I googled - would not have come up with ToW...)

[nuxvomica]

48. I thought it was rowing

Boy am I stupid. :dunce:

[abq e streeter]

51. Politics in Arizona , Georgia, maybe Kentucky...Nevada...

[rurallib]

46. Pres. Ford's VP?

[abq e streeter]

50. The 70's... memories are VERY fuzzy, but isn't the answer Rocka feller

[rurallib]

63. the one and only hero of Attica (sarcasm)

who, like a true republican died in the saddle with a woman not his wife.
A wife with whom before he married her, had had a torrid public affair while married to another woman.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

49. Where can you drive south and get to Canada?

The answer is Detroit....... look closely at a map. Windsor Ontario is due south of Detroit. :bounce:

[doc03]

58. What about Wasilla, Alaska you can also see Russia

from there.

[Deep13]

64. South from Alaska is the sea.

There is a place in Alaska where one can see Russia. One of the islands is far enough east that on a clear day one can see the western-most island of Russia.

[abq e streeter]

52. Which is further west: Los Angeles or Reno?

[begin_within]

55. Which end of the Panama Canal is further west: the Pacific end or the Atlantic end?

[quakerboy]

60. what wavelength of light does a green laser pointer use

How about a red. A purple? A blue?

532, 630, 405, 473

These are questions of vital import, for without these answers, it becomes immensely harder to find the best price for one on ebay. All people should know this.

[Deep13]

65. What was the first war America lost? nt