Trivia Database_94 Flashcards
The Pentagon uses, on average, about 666 rolls of ___________ every day
Toilet paper
Name the remake of a 1960’s film with the aid of the following actors. The first actor was in the 60’s original, the second actor played the same role in the remake Robert Mitchum and Robert de Niro
Cape Fear
Who played Garth in “Wayne’s World”?
Dana Carvey
Who Did Paul McCartney Perform a Duet With On The Song “Say Say Say”
Michael Jackson
By what process is rum created
Fermenting molasses
What was Vivian Leigh’s character won Oscar in her 30s
Blanche Dubois
Which character of the ‘Bloom County’ comic strip ran for president even though he was dead at the time?
Bill the Cat
The Sound and the Fury took its title from what other work
Macbeth
Which fruit is a cross between a peach and a plum?
Nectarine
What event led to Hirohito ascending to the Japanse throne in 1926
His fathers death
The video for which eighties song features nothing but 5 cheerleaders?(Name the artist too)
Mickey Toni Basil
What links elephanta, bad-i-sad-o-bistroz, oe, whuly, zonda
All winds
What nationality is footballer Davor Suker
Croatian
What is the art of fighting with gloves on the hand
Boxing
What was the operative name of WWI spy Geertruida Zelle
Mata hari
What is the largest BBS in the world
CompuServe
In which London Square is the American Embassy situated
Grosvenor square
Palaeontology is the study of what
Fossil remains
In Simon & Simon,what unusual thing did Rick live in?
In a boat
Kynophobia is the fear of
Rabies
In which sport would you see a Boston Crab or a Full Nelson
Wrestling
Which popular singer of the 80’s has the real name Christopher Davidson
Chris de burgh
Who followed Grover Cleveland as U.S. President in 1897
William mckinley
What was the first offical international boat race
Hundred guineas cup
What is the flower that stands for: chivalry
Great yellow daffodil
Who wrote the opera the Snow Maiden
Rimsky-korsakov
What occurs in September and December more than any other month
Letter E
Where does Dilbert think of inventions
In the bathtub
What was Elvis Presley’s twin brother’s name?
Garon
Elvis Presley collected statues of what famous woman
Joan of Arc
In what athletic event is it illegal to carry weights
Long Jump
If you were eating fragrant meat in Hong Kong what is it
Dog
What Canadian province was the site of England’s first overseas possession
Newfoundland
What Did Lord Carnavon & Howard Carter vDiscover In 1922
The Tomb Of Tutankhamen
Why Was The Seismosaurus So Named
Because Of It’s Size Hence Earth Shaking Lizard
Which King Was Overthrown As A Result Of The French Revolution
Louis XVI
Who was the chief spokesman for the lost generation
F scott fitzgerald
What drink did Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee advertise singing off-key around a piano
Heineken Lager
Jesus was born in Bethlehem what does Bethlehem mean
House of Bread
After how many years marriage do you celebrate your emerald wedding anniversary
55
What is produced in a ginnery
Cotton
What day of the week was JFK assassinated on
Friday
In 1937 American Chester Carlson Invented A Process Called Xerography What Do We Know It As Today
Photocopying
Name The Italian Composer That Provided The Scores To The Spaghetti Westerns “The Good The Bad And The Ugly”
Ennio Morricone
What Was Pato Banton’s Follow Up to His No.1 “Baby Come Back” Reaching No.15
Bubbling Hot
What trade name was given to the phenol-formaldehyde resin developed as the first synthetic plastic in 1909
Bakelite
Who married queen victoria
Prince albert
What Is The Longest Living Mammel?
Man
Which country became the second to issue postage stamps in 1843
Brazil
What fruits are usually served ‘belle helene’
Pears
Who Were The First Europeans To Reach Mount Kilimanjaro In Tanzania
2 Germans , Johannes Rebmann & Ludwig Krapf
Which Is The Largest Owl Found In Britain
Snowy Owl
What is the main ingredient of an edible faggot
Liver
Work done, equals force multiplied by ________.
Distance
What is measured in units called jnd
Sensitivity Just noticeable difference
Which substance, occurring naturally in fruit, causes jams and preserves to set
Pectin
As sly as a ______
Fox
Who was the second man to set foot on the moon?
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
Which City Is The Capital Of Pakistan
Islamabad
The massacre at Kent State occurred as students protested the bombing of Cambodia and the _____ war.
Vietnam
German mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller named what
America – after Amerigo Vespucci
I’ll Be There For You, sung by the Rembrandts, is the theme song of which American television comedy series
Friends
In Horse Racing Which Of the 5 Classics Is Run Over The Longest Distance
The St Leger
Septicaemia is better known as _____
Blood poisoning
What nation has its capital in Zagreb
Croatia
Sixteen pounds is the maximum legal weight of what sporting device
Bowling
Who Kills Nancy In Dickens Novel Oliver Twist
Bill Sykes
What and where is the longest group of coral reefs in the world
Great
1k equals how many bytes
1024
When was the record breaking flood of the North Sea
1953
Who had a major hit with joni mitchell’s ‘both sides now’
Judy collins
In the Mystical Ninja series, who is Goemon’s sidekick?
Ebisumaru
Hugo Quotations: “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
Sir Winston Churchill
Arc, radius, and sector are parts of a(n) _________.
Circle
What is the language of hungary
Magyar
What is a person in his eighties
Octogenarian
Division of geologic time in the Cenozoic era following the tertiary period (geology)
Quaternary period
Where is Mount Washington?
New Hampshire
The word mattress what taken from which language
Arabic
In mythology, which King of Cyprus fell in love with a statue
Pygmalion
Who Had A Hit With “Get Outa My Dreams Get Into My Car”
Billy Ocean
Who was the first person elected to US swimming hall fame
Johnny Weismuller
What animal lives in a form
Hare
This is the lowest ranking suit in Bridge.
Clubs
In which year was the Berlin Wall constructed?
1961
What unit of currency will buy you dinner in Iraq, Jordan, Tunisia and Yugoslavia
Dinar
What did d.w griffith invent
False eyelashes
Which seattle-based band had a hit with ‘daughter’
Pearl jam
Meaning ‘Black Knife’ in Gaelic what is the dagger worn in the sock with full Highland Dress
Skean dhu
Kind of mild pale Welsh cheese
Caerphilly
What is the capital of Burundi
Bujumbura
A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a __________
Day
What kind of animal is a possum
Marsupial
How many dimples does a golf ball have?
336
What Is The Name Given To The Type Of Singing That Mimics An Instrumental Solo
Scat Singing
What type of pastry is usually bought frozen in wafer thin slices
Filo
The Braves moved to Atlanta from where
Milwaukee
Which variety of apple is on the Beatles apple label
Granny Smith
What was the name of Thomas Jefferson’s home
Montecello
In ancient India how were dead parents traditionally disposed of
Eaten by offspring as a sign of respect
Ward Green wrote the story for which famous film
Lady and the Tramp
What is the animated videogame by Don Bluth, where the hero had to work his way through a trap infested castle
Dragons lair
What is the estimated weight of the great pyramid of Egypt
6,648,000 tons
U.S. Captials - South Carolina
Columbia
What does the symbol ‘Am’ represent?
Americium
What is quicksilver better known as
Mercury
Gin - lemon Juice - Sugar - Soda make what cocktail
Tom Collins
A receptacle for holy water is a(n) ____.
Font
Tropical plant with large flowering bracts
Bougainvillaea
Which American state passed a bill declaring Pi to be 3 ?
Indiana
What painting depicts the sister & the dentist of artist Grant Wood as rural farm folk
American gothic
Singapore uses the colours blue and yellow at funerals to ward off ______
Evil spirits
Followers of the unification church are nicknamed _______
Moonies
What was the name of king arthur’s castle
Camelot
The Who’ had a guiness world record for what?
Loudest Band
The aardvark is the first animal in the dictionary what’s second
Aardwolf
Where is mount augustus
Western australia
What Indian word means “big village”
Canada
The Duo Erasure Consisted Of Vince Clark And Which Other Singer?
Andy Bell
In the creation myth on the fourth day God made what
Sun Moon Stars
Hamburgers were invented in what country
China
What was the name of long john silver’s parrot
Captain flint
Of what is cetology a study
Whales
What did dr john pemberton invent in atlanta, georgia in 1886
Coca cola
What does a hotwalker do
Walks a hot racehorse
Which Famous Book Begins With The Line ‘Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmatian dogs named Pongo and Misses Pongo’
101 Dalmations
What is the name given to the green pigment in plants
Chlorophyl
Who wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan kundera
In which tv series do james van der beek, katie holmes, joshua jackson and michelle williams play
Dawson’s creek
What monster is said to be living in a Scottish lake
Loch ness monster
France has the highest per capita consumption of ______
Cheese
When was the miss world competition founded
1951
The Triassic, Jurrasic, and Cretaceous periods make up which era ?
Mesozoic Era
What do Cleopatra, Margarett Thatcher, & Mia Farrow all have in common
They All Had Twins
A non-cancerous tumor is said to be _______.
Benign
Which metal was invented by British metallurgist Harold Brearley in 1912?
Stainless Steel
To which London club did Mycroft Holmes belong
Diogones
Which character lived at 3 stable mews City of London
John Steed in the
Which artist painted ‘Guernica’
Picasso
Marine iguanas, saltwater crocodiles, sea snakes, and sea turtles are the only surviving seawater_adapted __________
Reptiles
Fifty who had the nickname ‘golden bear’
Jack nicklaus
What is the common name for the aurora borealis
Northern lights
What florentine held that the ends justified the means
Machiavelli
What bird has double-plumed feathers
Emu
Samhain’, literally means ‘end of summer’ and is a Gaelic language word. What is it’s direct English equivalent
November
What is the capital of Venezuela
Caracas
What was the setting for “The Sound of Music”?
Austria
Francis What prime-time soap opera debuted as a five-part miniseries in 1978
Dallas
What is the Capital of: Slovenia
Ljubljana
What fabled monster has a lions head and a serpents tail
Chimera
Who proclaimed thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863
Abraham lincoln
The Brodway version of Disney “The Lion King” uses more than ___________ puppets
232
What are the units of measurement for Power ?
Watt
On the Moh Hardness scale what has a hardness of 10?
Diamond
Which Author Wrote The ‘Just So Stories’’?
Rudyard Kipling
Who discovered gold on the Witwatersrand?
George Harrison
What travels in gaggles
Geese
What is the name of the largest South American lake
Lake maracaibo
What was the first name of Captain Dobey on Starsky & Hutch?
Harold
Where or what is a birds lore
Space between eye and beak
