Clever trivia questions

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[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
Name the 3 films directed by women that received nominations for Best Picture but not Best Director.
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Wasn’t one *Yentl * by Barbra Streisand?

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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.

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[QUOTE=Sigmagirl]
Wasn’t one *Yentl * by Barbra Streisand?
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Right director (one of them, anyway), wrong film.

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[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.
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Hmm.

Alaska, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine?

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[QUOTE=JSexton]
Hmm.

Alaska, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine?
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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?

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Very close adhemar but not precisely right IIRC

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Oops. I swapped east and west in my answer. Meant to be Alaska Maine Hawaii Alaska.

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[QUOTE=Busy Scissors]
Name the most northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly US states.
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Alaska, Alaska, Hawaii, and Alaska, respectively.

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[QUOTE=Robot Arm]
Alaska, Alaska, Hawaii, and Alaska, respectively.
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Alaska’s the most easterly? :confused: :dubious:

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[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
Right director (one of them, anyway), wrong film.
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Prince of Tides

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[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
Alaska’s the most easterly? :confused: :dubious:
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Isaac Asimov argued such in one of his Black Widowers stories. Though I forget the logic that led to that conclusion.

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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

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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?

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Which letter (or letters, I suppose) is/are the most common starting letter of U.S. states?

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Who was the only King to be crowned in Westminster Abbey?

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[QUOTE=pedescribe]
Which letter (or letters, I suppose) is/are the most common starting letter of U.S. states?
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M and N, eight states each.

And no, I didn’t look it up.

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[QUOTE=Airblairxxx]
Name the movie that featured (a) a star, and (b) footage of that star’s actual funeral.
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Would this one be The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield?

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[QUOTE=Student Driver]
Would this one be The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield?
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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.)

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[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?
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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).

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What product’s tagline used to be “Whitens teeth as it freshens breath?”