# Questions Only thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667 "2020-06-22T15:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 115
**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:** [September 19, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2281 "2021-09-19T03:19:31Z")
Should I? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2282 "2021-09-19T03:30:21Z")
Why wouldn’t you? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2283 "2021-09-19T03:32:57Z")
Hey, why is everyone acting like this is the Spanish Inquisition, all of a sudden? Was there any reason I should have expected this? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2284 "2021-09-19T03:35:23Z")
Would you like to sit in the…_comfy chair_? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2285 "2021-09-19T03:41:34Z")
**EH** , did you expect the Spanish Inquisition? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2286 "2021-09-19T06:05:39Z")
After all these years, shouldn’t _everyone_ expect the Spanish Inquisition? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2287 "2021-09-19T17:50:35Z")
Why should we? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2288 "2021-09-19T18:39:32Z")
Can one really expect the unexpected? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2289 "2021-09-19T18:48:03Z")
Did you know that a biographer of U.S. Grant some years ago wrote that, at the 1862 Battle of Shiloh, the general was surprised by the Confederates, but that he _expected_ to be surprised? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2290 "2021-09-19T18:50:40Z")
What would he have thought if it was the Spanish Inquisition that showed up? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2291 "2021-09-19T18:53:52Z")
It would’ve been a lot easier for him to beat than the Army of the Mississippi, wouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2292 "2021-09-19T18:54:22Z")
What, those pussies? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2293 "2021-09-19T19:11:56Z")
That’s as may be, but there were lot more of _them_ then there were of the Spanish Inquisition, weren’t there? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2294 "2021-09-19T19:28:18Z")
I dunno, how many were in the Spanish Inquisition anyway? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2295 "2021-09-19T19:36:11Z")
Are you including the Moops? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2296 "2021-09-20T15:45:37Z")
EDIT: Would you believe I just put a post in the wrong thread? What’s a “Moop” anyway? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2297 "2021-09-20T16:59:47Z")
[Who invaded Spain in the 8th Century [3:12]?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SULQSL4Cd0) ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2298 "2021-09-20T19:23:24Z")
Has anyone else played a Bubble Boy at Trivial Pursuit lately? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2299 "2021-09-20T21:12:44Z")
Do people still play Trivial Pursuit? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2021, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2300 "2021-09-21T00:08:15Z")
There’s probably an app for that, isn’t there? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=114) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=116)