# Best trivia questions for fun-time discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 1, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572 "2009-04-01T13:54:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/41 "2009-04-02T13:36:20Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Yo momma’s cooking and yo momma’s pussy? This reminds me that there’s a third thing: a bowling ball. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/42 "2009-04-02T13:56:53Z")
What is Wilmer McLean’s claim to fame? The first land battle of the Civil War was fought, in part, in his front yard in Manassas, Va. in 1861, and Lee surrendered to Grant in the parlor of McLean’s house in Appomattox, Va. four years later. How does the Vatican State flag violate the laws of heraldry? By having the colors of two heraldic “metals” - silver and gold, or white and yellow - side by side without an intervening color. What is the only country to still have an emperor? Japan. Who are the only two Presidents to have come under enemy fire while in office? James Madison, at the Battle of Bladensburg, Md. during the War of 1812; and Abraham Lincoln, during the Battle of Ft. Stevens in 1864. What two male titles does Queen Elizabeth II hold? Duke of Normandy and Lord of Mann. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/43 "2009-04-02T14:09:17Z")
Which English football (soccer) club has a name that starts with five consonants? ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/44 "2009-04-02T14:25:05Z")
Would I be right in thinking that it hinges on a highly questionable definition of “consonants”? If so, I can think of a well-known non-league club whose name starts with seven consonants:Blyth Spartans ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/45 "2009-04-02T21:34:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > What two male titles does Queen Elizabeth II hold? > > Duke of Normandy and Lord of Mann. What about?[Duke of Lancaster?](http://www.duchyoflancaster.co.uk/output/page41.asp) ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/46 "2009-04-03T00:04:49Z")
Who is the only U.S. President to also serve Chief Justice of the United States? William Howard Taft. Who was the heaviest U.S. President? William Howard Taft. Who was the last U.S. President to have facial hair while in office? William Howard Taft. What foreign nation’s capital city is named after a U.S. President? Tafttown, Sierra Leone…just kidding. Monrovia, Liberia. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/47 "2009-04-03T00:05:00Z")
Re: the Queen’s male titles. Sweet - that’s three! But she still only gets one iPod from the President. **pravnik** , thanks for getting the Chief Justice’s exact title right. That’s a pet peeve of mine. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/48 "2009-04-03T00:06:48Z")
> [@Wallenstein](#): > > Which English football (soccer) club has a name that starts with five consonants? Frgrn’ Manchester United, mate! ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/49 "2009-04-03T00:08:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Re: the Queen’s male titles. > > Sweet - that’s three! But she still only gets one iPod from the President. > > **pravnik** , thanks for getting the Chief Justice’s exact title right. That’s a pet peeve of mine. You’re welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/50 "2009-04-03T00:13:20Z")
Nevermind :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/51 "2009-04-03T13:38:47Z")
> [@Wallenstein](#): > > Which English football (soccer) club has a name that starts with five consonants? Crystal Palace. What property is shared by Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan, and no other country? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/52 "2009-04-03T13:55:31Z")
They’re landlocked countries which are surrounded by landlocked countries? ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/53 "2009-04-03T14:03:23Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > They’re landlocked countries which are surrounded by landlocked countries? Yep. Doubly landlocked. ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/54 "2009-04-03T14:24:52Z")
OK, try this one: What is the only inhabited island divided between three internationally-recognised countries? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/55 "2009-04-03T15:01:56Z")
> [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](#): > > OK, try this one: What is the only inhabited island divided between three internationally-recognised countries? Borneo is parts Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. Any others? ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/56 "2009-04-03T15:32:55Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Borneo is parts Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. Any others? Correct. The only other example would be Cyprus, but the Turkish zone in the North is not internationally recognised. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/57 "2009-04-03T23:53:28Z")
What career path _normally_ takes a man from being a Mister, to being a Doctor, and back to being a Mister? A Briton becoming a surgeon starts out being a Mister before he finishes medical school, is a Doctor once he earns his degree, and becomes a Mister again after he finishes the courses needed to become a surgeon. (This dates to the time when surgeons were barbers and considered manual laborers, as opposed to the high-class physicians.) ---
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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > What is Wilmer McLean’s claim to fame? > > The first land battle of the Civil War was fought, in part, in his front yard in Manassas, Va. in 1861, and Lee surrendered to Grant in the parlor of McLean’s house in Appomattox, Va. four years later. I didn’t know that! “Why should I?” you may ask. … Because Wilmer and I happen to share a surname! ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/59 "2009-04-04T08:53:14Z")
> [@Wallenstein](#): > > Which English football (soccer) club has a name that starts with five consonants? OK, if that doesn’t count as a sports question, then presumably this doesn’t either: - which five English Football League clubs’ names start and end with the same letter? Liverpool, Aston Villa, York City, Northampton Town, Charlton Athletic P.S. I used to ask ‘which five English Football League clubs have an ‘x’ in their name?’, but two of them have been relegated out of the League and I can’t remember the 5th one either! :o Oxford United, Exeter City, Halifax Town, Crewe Alexandra, ? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572/60 "2009-04-04T09:12:55Z")
> [@glee](#): > > OK, if that doesn’t count as a sports question, then presumably this doesn’t either: > > - which five English Football League clubs’ names start and end with the same letter? > > Liverpool, Aston Villa, York City, Northampton Town, Charlton Athletic > > P.S. I used to ask ‘which five English Football League clubs have an ‘x’ in their name?’, but two of them have been relegated out of the League and I can’t remember the 5th one either! :o > > Oxford United, Exeter City, Halifax Town, Crewe Alexandra, ? York City have been out of the Football League for a while now as well, so your first question needs to be amended, too. In the same vein: Which is the only English League club that contains none of the letters of the word “mackerel”? Swindon Town Which is the only English League club where none of its letters contain a “closed loop” (letters with a “closed loop” being, for example, a, b, d etc., and those without such as c, f, i)? Hull City [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-trivia-questions-for-fun-time-discussion/491572.md?page=4)