The 2015 Trivia Calendar

howard · Post by **howard** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:06 pm

Actor is Darth Vader.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 4:43 pm

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:05 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:What are 10 of the most common things people give up for Lent?

Their will to deny themselves instant gratification

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:21 am

Twitter, chocolate, swearing, alcohol, soda, Facebook, fast food, sex, sweets, and meat
Monkey, rooster, dog, pig, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, and horse
A semi-vegetarian- someone who generally sticks to a vegetarian diet but occasionally eats meat. The word is a combination of the works flexible and vegetarian
James Earl Jones

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:23 am

What was the first book printed in braille by the National Library Service? Hint: it was a biography of a former U.S. president written by a future president.
What is misleading about the name of the popular Indian delicacy known as Bombay Duck?
What two valuable Scrabble title did a top youth contender at the National Scrabble Championship get caught hiding in 2012?

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:27 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:What is misleading about the name of the popular Indian delicacy known as Bombay Duck?

It is not brined in gin as part of its preparation.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:59 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:What is misleading about the name of the popular Indian delicacy known as Bombay Duck?

It isn't brought to your table by Emilio Estevez

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 8:16 pm

george washington a profile by woodrow wilson. Originally published in 1896, it was printed in Braille in 1932 under the library of congress's newly launched bids for the adult blind project. It wss selected add the Project's first book to Commemorate the bicentennIal of Washington's birth.

Bombay Duck is a fish-a lizardfish-not a duck. There are a number of theories about how it acquired its name. The most credible, perhaps, is that it was named for the train, the Bombay Daak (daak means “mail” in Hindi), on which the fish was once regularly transported to market.

The two blanks, whIch are valuable in Scrabble because they can be used in place of any letter. The player, a teenager, was b ejected from the tournament in what a national Scrabble association official said was the first cheating incident in competition's history.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 8:19 pm

What 1964 film classic gave us the line,m "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room"?
How long was the train on Princess Diana's wedding dress?

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:08 pm

"Mein Furher! I can walk!"

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:39 pm

They're after our precious bodily fluids.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:15 pm

Dr. Strangelove--as you knew
25 feet

Norman Vincent Peale wrote the bestselling classic “The Power of Positive Thinking.” What controversial sports legend wrote “The Power of Negative Thinking”

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 12:48 pm

bobby knight

How many cows' cuts are needed to string the average professional tennis racket?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:02 pm

Answer-Three. The strings are made from the serosa-or lining- of a cow’s intestines.

What unique distinction does the Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, have in the U.S. beer-marking history?

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:50 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:Answer-Three. The strings are made from the serosa-or lining- of a cow’s intestines.

What unique distinction does the Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, have in the U.S. beer-marking history?

Shittiest beer in America! I mean oldest brewery.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:29 am

yup it's the oldest continuously operating brewery in the country. It was opened as the Eagle Brewery in 1829 by German immigrant David Yuengling, who changed its name to D.G. Yuengling and Son in 1973, when his son joined the business.

What are the one-name stage names of the entertainment-world sisters whose family name is Knowles?
What amazing marine creature can assume the shape and behavior of more than a dozen other underwater species to make itself appear less palatable to predators?
What film beat our Taxi Driver, Network, and All the President's Men to win the Best Movie Oscar in 1977?

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:35 am

wlu_lax6 wrote:What are the one-name stage names of the entertainment-world sisters whose family name is Knowles?

Beyonce and Beytwice

What amazing marine creature can assume the shape and behavior of more than a dozen other underwater species to make itself appear less palatable to predators?

Mitch McConnell

What film beat our Taxi Driver, Network, and All the President's Men to win the Best Movie Oscar in 1977?

The legendary cult movie Yellowstone Cubs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8UfoEl9sdE

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:00 pm

The film that won best picture that year was the actual best picture of the year. I should know; I saw it in the theater seven times. His whole life was a million-to-one shot.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:24 am

DC47 wrote:
What amazing marine creature can assume the shape and behavior of more than a dozen other underwater species to make itself appear less palatable to predators?
Mitch McConnell

I can't look at him without hearing Jon Stewart's Cecil the Turtle impersonations. The question says "unpalatable to predators," not unpalatable to reasoning people, so I think it may be wrong.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:57 pm

Yes Beyonce and Solange
The mici octopus, which can contort its 2-foot-long, bronw-and-white striped body to impersonate the lionfish, jellyfish, spine fish, stingray, sea snake, poisonous striped flatfish, giant crab, and other sea life.
Yes to Rocky

What is China’s Great Green Wall?
What alcoholic beverage was known as kill-devil when it was first produced in the 17th century?
Why will no births be recorded between 2:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. today in most of the U.S.? (this question was from 3/8/2015)
What prolific children’s book author bequeathed her royalites to a neighbor’s nine-year-old son?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:25 pm

It’s a 2,800 mile long belt of trees that is being planted across norther China in a bid to halt the loss of 950 square miles of land annually to the advancing Gobi Desert. The massive project begun in 1978, is scheduled to be completed in 2050.
Rum
Daylight Savings Time
Goodnight Noon author Margaret Wise Brown, who died in 1952, when the royalties earned by her meager book slaes didn’t amount to much. That changed to millions of dollars through the years as her books became more popular.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:29 pm

What was the size of the standard dinner plate in the 1960s? What is the size of a standard plate today?
What unusual geological formation, sacred to American Indians, was declared the U.S.'s first national monument in 1906?

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:37 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: What unusual geological formation, sacred to American Indians, was declared the U.S.'s first national monument in 1906?

Devil's Tower.

aka this:

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 7:22 am

Pruitt wrote:
wlu_lax6 wrote: What unusual geological formation, sacred to American Indians, was declared the U.S.'s first national monument in 1906?
Devil's Tower.

aka this:

Isn't that gorgeous?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 7:03 am

In the 1960s, 9 inches, today 12 inches
Yes on Devil's Tower

What designer dog was the result of the unplanned mating of one of Queen Elizabeth II’s beloved corgis and a dachshund belonging to her sister, Princess Margaret?
How many U.S. presidents have been elected to two terms since the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution set a two-term limit on the nation’s top elected position in the 1951?
As preteenagers, what did financial whiz Warren Buffett and a friend print and sell to earn money?

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:58 am

How many U.S. presidents have been elected to two terms since the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution set a two-term limit on the nation’s top elected position in the 1951?

4 - Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton

As preteenagers, what did financial whiz Warren Buffett and a friend print and sell to earn money?

Horse Racing tip sheets

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 7:23 am

Pruitt wrote:How many U.S. presidents have been elected to two terms since the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution set a two-term limit on the nation’s top elected position in the 1951?

4 - Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton

As preteenagers, what did financial whiz Warren Buffett and a friend print and sell to earn money?

Horse Racing tip sheets

no on the first one...there are missing presidents

Yes on Warren Buffett

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 5:20 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:What designer dog was the result of the unplanned mating of one of Queen Elizabeth II’s beloved corgis and a dachshund belonging to her sister, Princess Margaret?

Paris Hilton

As preteenagers, what did financial whiz Warren Buffett and a friend print and sell to earn money?

Twenty-dollar bills.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:03 pm

The world's first dorgi. The queen liked the little puppies so much, she intentionally began crossbreeding her corgis with Margaret's dachshunds.
Six, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill CDlinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama
A horse-racing tip sheet, based on their own handicapping. They called it Stable-Boy Selections and hawked it for 25 cents a copy at the Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in their homewotn of Omaha, Nebraska

What two birds were named for explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their historic westward expedition in the early 1800s.
Who designed the wedding gowns worn by Sarah Michelle Gellar on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and as a bride in her own wedding?
What was unique about diminutive, Irish-born character actor Barry Fitzgerald's two 1945 Oscar nominations?

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:36 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:What two birds were named for explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their historic westward expedition in the early 1800s.

The Meadow C. Lark was one.

What was unique about diminutive, Irish-born character actor Barry Fitzgerald's two 1945 Oscar nominations?

He received them for playing the lead role in The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Story. The unique thing was that Fitzgerald was the first Irishman to truly master the skyhook.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:19 am

wlu_lax6 wrote:
Pruitt wrote:How many U.S. presidents have been elected to two terms since the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution set a two-term limit on the nation’s top elected position in the 1951?

4 - Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton

As preteenagers, what did financial whiz Warren Buffett and a friend print and sell to earn money?

Horse Racing tip sheets
no on the first one...there are missing presidents

Pruitt is correct. W was only elected once, the Supreme Court nominated him in 2000. Obama is an illegitimate President, so he doesn't count.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:40 pm

Lewis's woodpecker and Clark's nutcracker
Vera Wang. As Buffy, Gellar wore a Wang gown in a dream sequence in a 1999 episode of the TV series entitled "the Prom"; she also wore one at her own wedding to actor Freddie Prinze Jr. in 2002.
The nomination were for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same performance in the same movie -0 the first and only time that has happened in Oscar history. The role was Father Fitzgibbon in the move "Going My Way." Fitzgerald ended up winning for Best Supporting Actor. His costar, Bind Crosby, won for Best Actor.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:45 pm

Where on American soil are Paw Paw, Walla Walla, and Pago Pago located?
In bowling, how did three consecutive strikes come to be called a turkey?
Where is a statue cast from a model made of Roy Rogers’s horse Trigger prominently displayed and known by another name?
What is the technical term used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a space walk?
Which U.S. president owned a Muzak franchise? Which had Muzak installed in the White House? Which had it played at his inauguration?
What was the “storm-door structure” that Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for in 1888?
What was the “top sprots moment of the 20th century,” according to Sports Illustrated Magazine?
When di dhte U.S. enact its first whistle-blower protection law?
In which of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories is the famous detective’s signature deerstalker hat first mentioned?
What vegetable- a symbol of eternity in ancient Egypt- was sent to the afterlife with mummified kings?
In diner slang of old, what was meant by the phrase “Hold the hail”? How about “Put legs on it”?

howard · Post by **howard** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:36 pm

Paw Paw, Michigan; Walla Walla Washington; Pago Pago, American Samoa.

The home of The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch. (perhaps that is why Baby's on Fire.)

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DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:26 am

Put legs on it = take-out order

Ah, the old diner days.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:50 pm

Paw Paw is in Michigan, Walla Walla is in Washington state, and Pago Pago is American Samoa
During Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks in the late 1800s and early 1900s, bowling alleys would present a live turkey to the first person on a team who bowled three strikes in a row
Atop the scoreboard at the southern end of Sports Authority Field at Denver’s Mile High Stadium, home of football’s Denver Broncos. The rearing 27-foot-high fiberglass horse is known as Bucky Bronco, a named picked by Denver fans. Singing cowboy star Rogers gave permission for the model to be made on the condition that it be given a name of its own.
An EVA, or extra-vheicular activity.
Lyndon B. Johnson had the Muzak Franchise for Austin , Texas, in the early 1950s, when he was a U.S. senator. Dwight D. Eisenhower had it installed in the West Wing – private quarters—of the White House in 1953. Richard Nixon had it piped outdoors over the loudspeakers at his 1969 inauguration.
A revolving Door, the first one patented in the U.S.
The U.S. amateur hockey team's stunning upset victory over the Soviet Union's unbeatable pro team at the 1980 Winter Olympics- which was followed by the U.S.'s defeat of Finland to win the gold medal.
In July 1778, just two years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The action by the Continental Congress was sparked by the arrest of two seamen for signing a petition that led to the suspension of the Continental Navy’s commander in chief for torturing British prisoners..
In one of them, Holmes' iconic headgear became part of his wardrobe thanks to artist Sidney Paget’s illustrations for Doyle’s stories starting with “The Boscombe Valley Mystery” in “The Strand Magazine” in 1891. In that short story, Holmes wears a “close-fitting cloth cap.” The closest thing to deerstalker in Doyle’s stories is Holmes’s “ear-flapped traveling cap” in “silver Blaze,” published in 1892.
The Onion
Hold the Hail meant “No Ice”; Put Legs on it meant “To Go”

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:52 pm

What was British chemist Harry Brearley trying to improve when he discovered a formula for stainless steel in 1913?

Why are the homes in Barrow, Alaska, built on stilts?
What do the letters "TWIsM" stand for in the tattoo on basketball great Shaquille O'Neal's left bicep?
What innovative twist to the standard keyboard did England's Virgin Mobile announce would be introduced on its new Sony Ericsson cell phone on this day in 2004?

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:25 pm

1- lysergic acid diethylamine
2-polar bears
3-Thats Why I Shoot (like a brick) Mason
4-sfsf

(stupid fucking smiley face)

#2 is a serious answer, but I probably shouldn't admit to that.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:46 pm

1. Coors Light
2. Town originally founded by stilt-walking clowns who quit the circus at the end of the summer tour and became salmon fisherman; they had a lot of stilts laying around when they built their houses.
3. The Walton Is Me
4. Defaults to caps so people can text louder

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:44 pm

Rifle barrels, which he wanted to make corrosion resistant. Brearley found that while his steel allow didn't work for rifle barrels, its rustless and stainless qualities made it ideal for cutlery.
To avoid having the houses melt the permafrost and sink. Permafrost- permanent frost- covers the ground in Barrow, which, at 330 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is the U.S.’s northernmost City.
The World Is Mine
A specially designed keyboard with the buttons in reverse order, for left-handed people. After generating some interest, the company revealed that its announcement had been an April Fools Day gag. Watch out-today is April 1st.