Trick Questions

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This is a thread for those little pieces of trivia you run into which don’t quite conform to what you expect. If you know (or can find out) the right answer to a question, you get to pose the next one. The point, of course, is that the “obvious” answer is wrong.

Two questions to start us off. Answer either correctly and pose the next question; that way we have two sequences going at once, in order to prevent “stalling” when nobody can come up with the answer to the one current question.

  1. What animal were the Canary Islands named after?

  2. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is located in a city whose name is part of the racetrack’s name. What city is it located in?

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  1. Canary Tortoise? That’s just a guess.
  2. Speedway, IN
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  1. Dog, from “canares”, from which we also get canine.

  2. No idea but I’ll guess Anapolis (or maybe Diana?).

  3. From what is a camel hair coat made?

  4. From what are Moleskin trousers made?

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Dogs.

What’s Michael J. Fox’s middle initial?

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A, for Andrew.

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:smack:

I was supposed to come up with some questions, wasn’t I?

Ummm.
Crap. I’ll get back to you.

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Many “camel hair coats” are made from real camel hair. Am I missing something with this question?
My favorite “trick” question is: who won the French and Indian war?

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The British, or at least the British colonials.

How long was the Hundred Years’ War? How long was the Thirty Years’ War?

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How did “coat” get in there? Of course I meant “camel hair brush” !

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Life on Wry got #2; Askance and Scarlett67 simulposted #1. (And Life on Wry got the Michael J. Fox one too; I happened to have run into the answer on that earlier today.

Answers:

  1. Rabbit fur?

  2. Tightly woven brushed cotton
    6*. What was Buffalo, New York named after?

  • I’m attributing #5 to the Michael J. Fox question, which wasn’t numbered.
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I think it was either 112 years or 118 years. Can’t remember though.

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From memory, 115 years for the Hundred Years’ War?

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116 years. 30 years.

Where did Panama hats come from originally?

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From memory? You’re older than you look.

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He’s the bastard child of Paul Newman and Dick Clark.

(No way am I doing an hour’s worth of research on Buffalo, NY) 7. What is the answer to the -gry riddle as it is originally posed? [Bonus points: what three -gry words does Cecil give?]

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Ecuador?

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  1. Squirrel hair.

  2. (I think) With what words was MTV launched?

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What colonies came together to form Canada in 1867?

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Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada, the latter being divided into Ontario and Quebec. (My Grammie was from Sydney Mines) :wink:

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Right. (Most people forget that Upper and Lower Canada had been fused into the Province of Canada some time beforehand.)