# Trick Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851 "2005-01-21T02:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/261 "2005-01-30T05:03:06Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > _[Krakatoa, East of Java](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064555/combined)_ - but how far? Krakatoa is actually \*\*west \*\* of Java. So I suppose the distance east is however many thousands of kilometres it takes to go all the way around the world at that parallel of latitude from Java to Krakatoa. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mycroft\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_H)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/262 "2005-01-30T05:05:12Z")
And a question in the spirit of the OP – From what country in Europe did the Pennsylvania Dutch originate? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/263 "2005-01-30T05:07:39Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > It’s a heterosexual couple, who have been in the news rather regularly for over a decade now. I’ll take a stab. Bill and Hillary Clinton? Hillary would be able to address the Senate anyway in her capacity as a Senator from New York. Perhaps Bill Clinton has that privilege as an ex-president? Failing that, isn’t the current Secretary of Labour married to a senator? Perhaps the role of the Secretary of Labour carries the right to address the Senate? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/264 "2005-01-30T05:23:57Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > I’ll take a stab. Bill and Hillary Clinton? Hillary would be able to address the Senate anyway in her capacity as a Senator from New York. Perhaps Bill Clinton has that privilege as an ex-president? Correct. Ex-Presidents were granted the privilege of the floor in the Senate in 1964; Harry Truman (who had been a Senator for ten years before becoming Vice President in January 1945) was the first ex-President to do so. And Hillary, of course, has the right to speak in her own right as Senator. (I find it amusing that the _spouses_ of the two major candidates for President in 1996 are both now Senators.) ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/265 "2005-01-30T05:36:20Z")
> [@Mycroft H.](#): > > From what country in Europe did the Pennsylvania Dutch originate? Germany. They’re the Pennsylvania “Dutch” because of a faulty translation of the German word _Deutsch_… which means “German.” When were women given the right to vote in the United States? ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/266 "2005-01-30T10:43:06Z")
> [@Kaitlyn](#): > > Since nobody’s attempting the bra size question, the answer is 28 to 29 inches. Scary as it may be, I actually knew that. > [@Polycarp](#): > > (I find it amusing that the _spouses_ of the two major candidates for President in 1996 are both now Senators.) I do too, but imagine if they ran for president, how much more odd that would be. ---
**Author:** ![LucyInDisguise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucyindisguise/32/18064_2.png) [@LucyInDisguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyInDisguise)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/267 "2005-01-30T14:06:27Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Correction: _engine_. > EAGLE: Contact light! O.K., engine stop . . . descent engine command override off . . . > > HOUSTON: We copy you down, Eagle. > > EAGLE: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed! Sooooooooooooo close it’s spooky. The fourth word spoken on the surface of the moon: [transcript] … Buzz Aldrin: Contact light. Neil Armstrong: Shutdown. Aldrin: **Okay.** Engine stop. ACA out of Detent. Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto. Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off. Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in. Charlie Duke (Houston CapCom): We copy you down, Eagle. Armstrong: Engine arm is off … Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. Duke: Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot. … [/transcript] Gotcha … ---
**Author:** ![LucyInDisguise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucyindisguise/32/18064_2.png) [@LucyInDisguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyInDisguise)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/268 "2005-01-30T14:09:39Z")
> [@sjc](#): > > I believe it’s Milla J **o** vovich What the … Where did that ‘a’ come from??? :smack: ::shrugs, slinks off in search of a good, reputable proof-reader:: ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/269 "2005-01-30T14:10:49Z")
> [@MSUbulldogs101](#): > > Into how many regions is the country of Bolivia divided? > > google is NOT your friend!!! Nobody seems to have tackled this one, and it may be out of lack of clarity in the question. **Bulldogs** , is “region” the official name of the political subdivision here? Or are you talking ecology, or ethnology, or climate, or what? ---
**Author:** ![LucyInDisguise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucyindisguise/32/18064_2.png) [@LucyInDisguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyInDisguise)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/270 "2005-01-30T14:25:59Z")
Sorry, forgot to toss out a couple of new ones … How many states did the riders have to cross in the first year that the Pony Express was in operation? What was the offical name of the war the United States entered into after the attack on Pearl Harbor? ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/271 "2005-01-30T18:03:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Bulldogs, is “region” the official name of the political subdivision here? Or are you talking ecology, or ethnology, or climate, or what? political. i don’t know if region is the official term, but you could break out a thesaurus or something… ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/272 "2005-01-30T20:27:46Z")
> [@MSUbulldogs101](#): > > Into how many regions is the country of Bolivia divided? > > google is NOT your friend!!! The answer I fount with google is: 9 departments subdivided into 324 sections ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/273 "2005-01-30T20:33:19Z")
> [@MSUbulldogs101](#): > > Into how many regions is the country of Bolivia divided? > > google is NOT your friend!!! The answer I foun **d** with google is: 9 departments subdivided into 112 provinces, 324 municipalities and 1.384 cantons ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/274 "2005-01-30T22:20:44Z")
> [@LucyInDisguise](#): > > Sorry, forgot to toss out a couple of new ones … > > How many states did the riders have to cross in the first year that the Pony Express was in operation? Zero. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/275 "2005-01-30T22:25:45Z")
> [@LucyInDisguise](#): > > Sorry, forgot to toss out a couple of new ones … > > How many states did the riders have to cross in the first year that the Pony Express was in operation? Zero or two, depending upon how you count. The only states the Pony Express operated in were Missouri and California ended, in between were territories, not states. Since they didn’t cross MO or CA, the answer is technically zero. 1. Bob is six feet tall. Bob walks around the Earth at the equator, which for the purposes of this question, we’ll assume to be exactly 24,000 miles. Bob’s feet traveled exactly 24,000 miles. How much farther did the top of Bob’s head travel than his feet? 2. What fictional character has been the subject of more movies than any other in cinema history? ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/276 "2005-01-30T23:00:31Z")
> [@MSUbulldogs101](#): > > snakes…and their STDs More precisely all reptiles and amphibians, but yeah. > [@Kaitlyn](#): > > 1. What fictional character has been the subject of more movies than any other in cinema history? I know I’ve seen the answer to this before…is it Sherlock Holmes? ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/277 "2005-01-30T23:23:16Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > More precisely all reptiles and amphibians, but yeah. > > I know I’ve seen the answer to this before…is it Sherlock Holmes? No. Sherlock Holmes is tops in English language movies, though. Think Hong Kong. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/278 "2005-01-30T23:34:21Z")
> [@Kaitlyn](#): > > 1. Bob is six feet tall. Bob walks around the Earth at the equator, which for the purposes of this question, we’ll assume to be exactly 24,000 miles. Bob’s feet traveled exactly 24,000 miles. How much farther did the top of Bob’s head travel than his feet? Assuming a perfect circle, that Bob can walk on water, and that there’s a trench across South America, Africa, etc., with the bottom right at sea level, and probably a few other things I haven’t thought of, 2pi times 6’, or just shy of 38 feet. This answer won’t change regardless of the size of the sphere Bob walks around. If he walks around a 10’ diameter globe using magnetic boots, his head will also move about 38 feet further than his feet. To what does the name of the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan refer? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/279 "2005-01-31T00:00:37Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > To what does the name of the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan refer? Is it a corruption of the native word for a local geographical feature like a mountain or river? ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-questions/285851/280 "2005-01-31T00:14:21Z")
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