Trivia 3.0
A recap of the questions, answers (to see them, highlight within the brackets after the question), and final standings
- (6pts) What 2 US states' official nicknames (i.e., The Lone Star State, The Pelican State) do not end in "State"? Bonus +2: what are both nicknames? [Alaska, The Last Frontier & New Mexico, Land of Enchantment]
- (4pts) The Oakland Raiders' and the San Francisco 49ers' NFL stadiums are the closest to each other. Which 2 stadiums are 2nd closest? [the Baltimore Ravens' and Washington Redskins' stadiums are 22 miles apart]
- (5pts) Who was the last guest on the Johnny Carson Show? [Bette Middler]
- (4pts) Within the 48 contiguous states, how far apart are the nation's highest and lowest points? [84.5 miles - Mount Whitney is WNW of Death Valley, also in California]
- (3pts) True/False: The quickest an NFL team has gone from joining the league to appearing in the Super Bowl is less than 10 years. [True - a couple of teams have done it, one being the Miami Dolphins, established in '66 and appearing in the '72 Super Bowl]
- (4pts) Which bodypart contains nearly 25% of the 206 bones in the human body? [Feet, with 52 bones between the both of them]
- (6pts) Al Capone's business card said he was a dealer of what used item(s)? [Furniture]
- (6pts) First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen was stated at the funeral of what person? [George Washington]
- (4pts) Which US state capital makes up the smallest percentage of the state's population, at .4%? [Harrisburg, PA - the capital has a population of ~49,000 to the state's 12,742,886]
- (4pts) On a statue of a soldier on a horse, what does the number of legs the horse has on the ground commonly symbolize? [How the rider lived through or died in or after battle - both legs in the air: the rider died in battle; one front leg up: the rider was wounded in battle or died of battle wounds; all four hooves are on the ground: the rider died outside battle]
- (5pts) Which country recorded the world record for most rainfall in a one-year period? [India - in 1860, Cherrapunji received 1,042" of rain]
- (4pts) In the history of the English alphabet, what was the most recently added letter? [J - estimated to have come into existence sometime around the 1600s]
- (3pts) Who is taller: the world's tallest jockey or the NBA's shortest player? [the jockey Richard Hughes, at 5'10" was 7" taller than NBA's Muggsy Bogues at 5'3"]
- (3pts) Which is closer to Chicago: Istanbul, Turkey or Buenos Aires, Argentina? [Istanbul, by 121 miles - the trick is in that going to Argentina crosses the equator where the Earth bulges, thus extending the travel distance]
- (7pts) John Kennedy is one of 6 US presidents whose last names begin with a letter that no other's does. What is the only word that can be formed from the other 5's first letters? [NOVEL - Nixon, Obama, Van Buren, Eisenhower, and Lincoln]
- (3pts) Which of the following is the only to touch the Atlantic Ocean: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Vermont, or New Hampshire? [New Hampshire]
- (3pts each) There are 17 countries that only border one other country. Name the only two pairs that border each other. [United Kingdom & Ireland, and Haiti & Dominican Republic]
- (4pts) What is the name of the family in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath? [the Joads]
- (4pts) How many days is 1 million seconds? [11.5741 days]
- (5pts) Blaise Pascal's experiments into perpetual motion eventually founded what gambling game? [Roulette]
- (5pts) What country's capital translates to "the capital"? [Seoul, South Korea is the only one to translate to "the capital," however the capitals of Beijing, Tokyo, and Astana also have "capital" somewhere in them]
- (6pts) What is the name of the scale that measures the hardness of minerals? [Moh's Scale of Mineral Hardness]
- (5pts) What is the fewest number of bordering US states to go through travelling from the Atlantic to Pacific? [7 - one route being California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina]
- (5pts) Collins, Taylor, Peart, Moon, Beauford, Ulrich, and Watts are all surnames of famous players of what musical instrument? [they all play the drums for the bands Genesis, Queen, Rush, The Who, Dave Matthews Band, Metallica, and The Rolling Stones, respectively]
- (5pts) Who was the last team to beat the UConn women's basketball team prior to Stanford snapping their record 90-game winning streak in December of 2010? [Stanford - yup, they bookended the massive winstreak]
- (5pts) What became the second independent country in the Americas after the United States? [Haiti declared independence in 1804]
- (4pts) Charlie's wagon, Plough, Saucepan, Butcher's Cleaver, & Saptarshi are other names for what celestial body? [The Big Dipper]
- (4pts) What is the name of the book Mean Girls was adapted from? [Queen Bees & Wannabes]
- (4pts) What is the last note on a piano? [C]
- (4pts) As of 2008, what percentage of all land in the U.S. was owned by the federal government? [29%]
- (4pts) In the children's rhyme, what did the third little piggy have? ["this little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home; this little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none; and this little piggy went weeeee weeeee weeeee all the way home"]
- (4pts) Name one of the 2 countries that borders 3 oceans. [USA & Canada both touch the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic]
And the final standings will go here (luckily no one had the same initials):
DW, DC, AC, JH, WP, LR, AH, JK, TS, SQ, ES, HB, JB, JL, ZM, SK, GG, CC, MR, MS, KN, MP, & EW.
67 66 62 36 34 31 23 23 21 19 11 10 10 8 8 7 7 5 4 3 3 3 0