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Date Posted: 23:48:02 09/11/04 Sat
Author: Roper
Subject: Sorta silly, yet interesting, trivia

Some questions from a trivia quiz I encountered. The quiz goes all over the place, some are kinda easy, and some make you wonder about the person who made a note of it. I'll put up answers later. :

1. What do the following have in common: New York, Japan, Milan, my love, your party, my hat, my shirt, my car, my cat, and THIS song?

2. Mr. Kenneth Gorelick set a world record by holding something for 45 minutes. What was it?

3. Katherine Hepburn has the most Oscars. John Wayne had the most starring roles. Harrison Ford's movies have made the most money. But the greatest personal accomplishment in cinematic history belongs to the late, great Emil Sitka. What did Emil do that NO other actor ever managed to achieve?

4. Brookstone commissioned a 1999 study on the earning power of various fathers on 50 years of sitcoms. According to the results, which TV dad makes the most money per year, and which one earns the least?


5. Eddie Layton has been playing the organ at Yankee Stadium for a third of a century. But he's also performed concerts, written music, and released CDs. What is Eddie Layton's most famous musical composition?

6. Every NFL football team has a different design for its team helmet. But the looks of the Dolphins' and the Raiders' helmets stand alone. What specific pictoral element do those two teams' helmet designs include, which no other team's helmet does?

7. The first one was a Minerva. It was quickly replaced by a Heuer. A few more intermediate switches were made, but for the last two decades, it's always been an Aristo. What is it?

8. The first Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish bands to hit #1 on the British charts, while ALSO making the U.S. Top Ten, each have names that begin and end with the same one letter. Name the three acts.

9. In January 2000, 82-yr old Inupiaq Eskimo Stanton Katchatag of Unalakleet, Alaska became the first person in America to be WHAT?

10. What reasonably common food is translated into English as "devil fart"?

11. What do the following words have in common: my, fun, girls, say, more, love, tonight, baby, mercy, turn, bills, and bye?

12. During much of 1999, ESPN aired a series of half-hour profiles of their choices for the Top 50 Athletes of the Century. Which of the 50 selections weighed the most?

13. Why was Prince William of England born on June 21, 1982?

14. What are the last words John F. Kennedy heard in his life?

15. Words That Almost Rhyme With "Peas." What is their significance?


16. Name the last three Oscar-winning Best Pictures whose titles are simply the name of the main character.

17. What was the best bet that country legend Waylon Jennings ever lost?

18. What is the only product on the U.S. market whose brand name contains the back-to-back letters "XZ"?

19. What do the dates May 30, 1982 and September 20, 1998 signify?

20. If you took every person who ever played major league baseball since 1876, and listed them alphabetically by name, which player would be first? And, if you did the exact same thing for every man ever to play basketball in the NBA, who would be alphabetically first?

21. The 1982 world championships in Budapest were won in a record 26 seconds. What was the competition?

22. According to historian Alain Corbin, as recently as the 19th century, most French women died without ever having experienced this. What?

23. Perhaps one of the most famous motorcycle chases in film history was Steve McQueen's race from a World War II prison camp in "The Great Escape." While weknow McQueen went on to other movies.... whatever happened to the motorcycle?

24. What is the first music video to have a sequel?

25. Nelson Mandela was quoted in November 1997 as saying, "This is one of the greatest moments of my life." What?

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