# GOOD LORD!! Not another Trivia Thread!! :p **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774 "2005-03-22T21:17:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/1 "2005-03-22T21:17:17Z")
Here we go again, folks šŸ˜ƒ 1. On the online version of _Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,_ name one of the phone-a-friend people whose name appears. 2. In the 1948 World Series, who called Phil Masi safe, to the chagrin of Lou Boudreau? 3. What is the name of the highest court in the state of New York? (Iā€™m not talking in geographical terms.) 4. What kind of rake has rigid teeth? 5. Where are sesamoids found? 6. In _Grapes of Wrath,_ what wrong conclusion did the Joad children come to, about a flush toilet? 7. In Chopinā€™s ā€œNocturne,ā€ what is the name of the musical phrase indicated above the staff with a flat sign, an ā€œSā€ on its side, and a sharp sign? 8. When baking an angel-food cake, what must you do with the eggs? 9. Which of these metals is liquid on a hot summer day: gallium, indium, or bismuth? 10. What does the term ā€œdipā€ mean in dancing? ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/2 "2005-03-22T22:24:39Z")
1. A garden rake. 2. Separate them, then beat the whites until they form stiff peaks. 3. Gallium. 4. To lower your partner toward (but not _to_) the ground, while maintaining your hold on her. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/3 "2005-03-22T22:31:13Z")
1. It drains the opposite clock-way on the opposite hemisphere? [sub](simpsons must have got that from somewhere)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/4 "2005-03-23T00:10:00Z")
1. They grow within tendons. ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/5 "2005-03-23T00:11:18Z")
> [@oldbatoutahell](#): > > 1. They grow within tendons. Sorry, I meant 5. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/6 "2005-03-23T00:45:28Z")
1. The New York State Court of Appeals ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/7 "2005-03-24T01:15:42Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > 1. It drains the opposite clock-way on the opposite hemisphere? > > [sub](simpsons must have got that from somewhere)[/sub] Try again. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/8 "2005-03-24T01:17:18Z")
That should have been the _natural_ sign, not the _sharp_ sign. :o ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/9 "2005-03-24T20:34:41Z")
Golly, I thought the Teeming Millions would get all of these. 1. John Carpenter, for one. 2. NL umpire Bill Stewartā€“himself from Boston. 3. One of them flushed the toilet and the others thought he broke it! šŸ˜ƒ Here are some more: 4. What job did Moe Berg have outside baseball? 5. What pianist and composer was once chief of state of a country? 6. In the play _The Caine Mutiny Court Martial,_ what unspeakable thing did Lt. Greenwald fear Hermann Goering might do? 7. What county in New England has two non-contiguous parts? 8. What is the conjunctiva? 9. True or false: The Boston Tea Party occurred because the British taxed tea bought by the colonists. 10. What happens to iodine as the temperature rises? 11. On _Everybody Loves Raymond,_ what line of work is Robertā€™s brother-in-law in? 12. What Biblical prophet ran and hid rather than accept his divine assignment? 13. What is a ā€œpongoā€? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/10 "2005-03-24T21:32:10Z")
1. Jonah 2. Cop 3. an uppity user of and, or, butā€¦ 4. John Carpenter! ---
**Author:** ![Waterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Waterman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waterman)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/11 "2005-03-24T21:48:11Z")
1. It sublimates. ---
**Author:** ![Waterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Waterman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waterman)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/12 "2005-03-24T21:59:04Z")
> [@Waterman](#): > > 1. It sublimates. I should have been more explicit and stated that it sublimates when the pressue is at or less than 100 mm of Hg. ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/13 "2005-03-24T22:29:25Z")
1. Membrane lining the eyelids. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/14 "2005-03-25T00:40:08Z")
1. To quote the title of a book about him, _The Catcher Was a Spy_. 2. Ignace Jan Paderewski of Poland 3. Norfolk County, Massachusetts (as I recall from an **SDMB** thread!) ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/15 "2005-03-25T04:13:11Z")
1. Iā€™m guessing, the Spanish word for ā€œI putā€? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/16 "2005-03-25T07:53:08Z")
> [@emekthian](#): > > 1. Iā€™m guessing, the Spanish word for ā€œI putā€? No, itā€™s a geological term. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/17 "2005-03-25T14:35:20Z")
1. A name for some kind of monkey or ape? ā€œPongo will now do his amazing disappearing-banana trick!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/18 "2005-03-25T16:19:19Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. True or false: The Boston Tea Party occurred because the British taxed tea bought by the colonists. True, but with a caveat. It wasnā€™t so much that they taxed the tea, but more that they forced to colonists to buy their tea, instead of buying it from their own wholesale merchants, who were getting it from outside sources to aviod the tax on it. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/19 "2005-03-25T17:23:52Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > 1. Ignace Jan Paderewski of Poland Paderewski was Prime Minister (head of government) for most of 1919, not head of state, though I do assume that that was whom **dougie monty** was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774/20 "2005-03-25T22:36:06Z")
I _was_ thinking of Paderewski but I didnā€™t know offhand what specific position he held. From what you say he was chief _executive._ šŸ™‚ As for the Boston Tea Party, we learned in the eighth (and eleventh) grade that the colonials were buying tea snuggled in from Holland. The British priced their tea for less than what the contraband stuff was selling for, in order to undercut it, and thatā€™s what set the colonials off. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-not-another-trivia-thread-p/295774.md?page=2)