# Clever trivia questions **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 22, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747 "2008-06-22T02:54:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/61 "2008-06-25T14:51:08Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Name the 3 films directed by women that received nominations for Best Picture but not Best Director. [/QUOTE] Wasn’t one \*Yentl \* by Barbra Streisand? ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/62 "2008-06-25T21:26:05Z")
Got stumped by this one in a pub quiz recently - apologise if it’s a gimme for US posters: Name the most northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly US states. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/63 "2008-06-25T22:03:42Z")
[QUOTE=Sigmagirl] Wasn’t one \*Yentl \* by Barbra Streisand? [/QUOTE] Right director (one of them, anyway), wrong film. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/64 "2008-06-25T22:08:24Z")
[QUOTE=Busy Scissors] Got stumped by this one in a pub quiz recently - apologise if it’s a gimme for US posters: Name the most northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly US states. [/QUOTE] Hmm. Alaska, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine? ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/65 "2008-06-25T22:29:20Z")
[QUOTE=JSexton] Hmm. Alaska, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine? [/QUOTE] I was thinking northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly Alaska, Hawaii, Hawaii and Alaska Reasoning that we are in the Western Hemisphere and therefore Hawaii is East? If Hawaii is West then it should be Alaska, Maine Hawaii and Hawaii. Of course I could also be completely wrong. Maybe Alaska,Hawaii, Hawaii and Hawaii? ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/66 "2008-06-25T22:36:51Z")
Very close **adhemar** but not precisely right IIRC ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/67 "2008-06-25T22:56:40Z")
Oops. I swapped east and west in my answer. Meant to be Alaska Maine Hawaii Alaska. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/68 "2008-06-25T23:06:51Z")
[QUOTE=Busy Scissors] Name the most northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly US states. [/QUOTE] Alaska, Alaska, Hawaii, and Alaska, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/69 "2008-06-25T23:16:00Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] Alaska, Alaska, Hawaii, and Alaska, respectively. [/QUOTE] Alaska’s the most **easterly**? 😕 :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/70 "2008-06-25T23:16:51Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Right director (one of them, anyway), wrong film. [/QUOTE] _Prince of Tides_ ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/71 "2008-06-25T23:26:54Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Alaska’s the most **easterly**? 😕 :dubious: [/QUOTE] Isaac Asimov argued such in one of his Black Widowers stories. Though I forget the logic that led to that conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/72 "2008-06-25T23:39:35Z")
I would think Alaska being argued as the eastern most point would have to do with the Aleutian Islands lining up under Russia. Russia is considered a Eastern country. [Map](http://encarta.msn.com/map_701510011/aleutian_islands.html) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Pangloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Peter\_Pangloss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Pangloss)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/73 "2008-06-26T03:42:17Z")
Dear **Reality Chuck** and **WotNot** , I admit I made a complete bollocks of the _Dennis the Menace_ question. My shame and guilt confound me. I hope I’ll do better with this comics-themed question: Which two characters, in two comic strips drawn by different artists, are brother and sister? ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/74 "2008-06-26T04:53:14Z")
Which letter (or letters, I suppose) is/are the most common starting letter of U.S. states? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Pangloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Peter\_Pangloss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Pangloss)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/75 "2008-06-26T05:47:11Z")
Who was the only King to be crowned in Westminster Abbey? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/76 "2008-06-26T07:36:49Z")
[QUOTE=pedescribe] Which letter (or letters, I suppose) is/are the most common starting letter of U.S. states? [/QUOTE] M and N, eight states each. And no, I didn’t look it up. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/77 "2008-06-26T13:00:52Z")
[QUOTE=Airblairxxx] Name the movie that featured (a) a star, and (b) footage of that star’s actual funeral. [/QUOTE] Would this one be The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield? ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/78 "2008-06-26T17:34:02Z")
[QUOTE=Student Driver] Would this one be The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield? [/QUOTE] That movie seems to be a thrown-together documentary after her death, and it wasn’t what I was thinking of. The movie I’m talking about was fictional, and the funeral was incorporated into the story. (Oooh, there’s a hint for you.) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/79 "2008-06-26T17:40:59Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Pangloss] Dear **Reality Chuck** and **WotNot** , I admit I made a complete bollocks of the _Dennis the Menace_ question. My shame and guilt confound me. I hope I’ll do better with this comics-themed question: Which two characters, in two comic strips drawn by different artists, are brother and sister? [/QUOTE] Beetle Bailey (from the eponymous strip drawn by Mort Walker) is the brother of Lois from Hi and Lois (drawn by Chris Browne, I think). ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-trivia-questions/453747/80 "2008-06-26T17:46:11Z")
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