In light of the “What happend on May 33rd” thread (Was that ever solved BTW) Lets start our own “impossible” trivia thread here.
First up:
When is lavendar blue? clue in subject BTW…
If you get it, ask one of your own…
I can’t really come up with a new question right now but,
When you love me, dilly dilly, I will love you.
(maybe a guy named Fugazi should be disqualified from answering this one)
I finally came up with one. Which band’s music “could be described as lame”?
Why is a mouse when it spins?
Because it’s upside down.
What is the difference between a duck?
What is the appropriate forum for your favorite trivia?
(Hint: it isn’t General Questions.)
TVeblen
Moderator, IMHO
These aren’t trivia. These are just riddles. Here’s an example of tough trivia:
In the movie, The Shining, what is the signature on the bat used by Jack Nicholson?
Limp Bizkit?
And I got the one in the OP as well, dammit. I owe you for your love…
What band seems to want to warn us for impending and irrevocable doom?
To Reality Chuck:
Why is a mouse when it spins?
Because the faster the higher.
but why this answer?
It refers to engineering slang about speed limiters on a shaft of an engine.
The minute I saw the name Fugazi in my email notificaion letter I knew my Q was answered.
Transatlantic II coming soon! (You ever post to the MikePortnoy.com MB Fugazi?)
I think a lot of people might be confused about Question #1 at this point, so let me recap the give-and-take:
- “lavendar blue” and “A penny for your thoughts my dear” and “When you love me, dilly dilly, I will love you” are lyrics from “Lavender”, a song on Marillion’s “Misplaced Childhood” album.
- Fugazi was the name of the group’s second album.
The minute I saw the name Fugazi in my email notificaion letter I knew my Q was answered.
Transatlantic II coming soon! (You ever post to the MikePortnoy.com MB Fugazi?)
You want impossible trivia?
In the movie “The War of the Worlds” one of the most suspenseful scenes is when Glenn Ford et al are approaching the half buried and still smoking spacecraft.
Slowly and with a peculiar grinding sound the hatch begins to spin out of the side of the craft.
For ten virtual silver dimes;
What Foley technique produced the sound in the movie?
Was the sound effect created by unscewing the lid of a jar while held down within a toilet bowl? (I’m pretty sure I heard that was what was done for either the radio show or the movie).
Most excellent Cabbage!
The only thing that you omitted was the fact that the lid to the mason jar was rusty. I think that we can both safely assume that you are referring to an empty toilet bowl. Good show, I’m impressed!
::clinking of ten virtual silver dimes changing hands::
Here’s one, but I really don’t have a good feel for how hard it may/may not be: In Psycho, what was used for the fake blood in the shower scene?
Dammit! I knew that at one point in my life. Watched the WoTW-Special in school, no bells rung when I read the question but the answer brought back the memory clearly…
On the table still…
Irrevicable doom…
and
The Sig on the bat in the Shining… (If I had this on DVD rather than VHS Id check myself… I hate VHS now BTW…)
Wasn’t it Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup?
What’s the smallest city in England?
I’m pretty sure that Hershey’s was the hematic liquid of choice in “Night of the Living Dead.” Might have been in “Psycho” too.
Here’s your next killer Hitchcock trivia:
How did they arrive at the stabbing sound effect for the shower scene in Psycho? What was the method of selection?
Yep, Hershey’s it was! Psycho was filmed in B&W so it wouldn’t end up looking like a blood bath, chocolate syrup had the closest consistency to blood that Hitch found.