# Trivia Questions from my Trivia Night **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 15, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-from-my-trivia-night/525093 "2010-01-15T17:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-from-my-trivia-night/525093/1 "2010-01-15T17:26:04Z")
I hosted a local trivia night at a fine local pub and eatery last night. I thought I would post the questions here for fun. See how you do and if you want to be like the folks at the pub last night then don’t look up the answers. 1. The Green Bay Packers and Arizona Cardinals played in the highest scoring NFL playoff game of all time last Sunday. How many total points were scored? 2. Yellowstone National Park was America’s first National Park. What decade was it created? 3. Tom Cruise has been nominated for three acting academy awards. For three points name the movies that Cruise starred in that got him the nominations. 4. What Revolutionary War battle is remembered for the phrase, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” 5. What is the northern most state after Alaska? 6. What do the letters URL stand for in relation to a website address? 7. In Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, E=mc2, what does the c stand for? 8. What is the largest animal to have ever lived on earth? 9. Which of these is not a perfect number – 6, 16, 28? 10. What novel begins with the line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”? 11. What is the name given to diamonds mined and sold in combat zones to finance an insurgency? 12. What does the Scoville Scale measure? 13. Spell facetious, which means “not meant to be taken seriously or literally”. 😛 14. How many total NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL teams are there in California (totalled together, one number)? 15. What are the nick names for MTV’s Jersey Shore’s Mike and Nicole? 16. Which of these rumors about The Tonight Show Is closest to the truth: A) Conan is carrying Jay Leno’s baby;B) Jay is moving back to 1135 and conan is leaving NBC; C) The Tonight Show will be an iPhone app and the Jay Leno show will become an Xbox game; D) NBC is going to throw Conan and Jay in a pit with sharpened sticks. The one who crawls out alive gets to leave NBC. 17. Which bird is the only bird that can fly backwards? 18. What is the next number is in this sequence – 6,6,7,9,8,6? 19. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, nominated for 5 Grammy Awards, is better known as? 20. Four US Presidents have been assassinated. For four points name them. 21. President Obama pledged how many millions of dollars for Haitian earthquake relief yesterday? 22. Which University has the most NCAA Basketball Tournament appearances? 23. What is the name of the actor who played Juno’s boyfriend in the movie _Juno_? 24. What US City and State can be made with the letters from the phrase “A Disco Minnow Sins”? 25. What is the name for the science or study of plants? 26. When druggist and chemist John Pemberton invented this beverage in Columbus, Georgia, in 1886, he referred to it as “Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.” What do we call it today? 27. Which Canadian Province shares a border with the largest number of US states? 28. This California County is the largest county in the United States. Name it. 29. The distinctive red triangle of what beer was the first registered trademark in the United Kingdom? 30. What 1985 quarky dark comedy film is the following quote from? “I’ve been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I’m no dummy. I know high school girls.” Tie Breaker: How many islands make up the county of Indonesia? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-from-my-trivia-night/525093/2 "2010-01-15T18:03:33Z")
I’ll skip those questions to which I have no idea. Here’s what I know/have a decent guess: 1. 96 3. Jerry Maguire Magnolia Vanilla Sky 5. Maine 7. Speed of Light 8. Blue Whale 10. A Tale of Two Cities 11. Blood Diamonds 12. Calories 13. Facetious 😉 14. 14 15. The Incident (?)/Snooki 16. B 19. Lady Gaga 20. Kennedy Lincoln McKinley Garfield 23. Michael Cera 25. Herbology 26. Coca-Cola 27. Quebec 29. Bass Ale ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-from-my-trivia-night/525093/3 "2010-01-15T18:11:28Z")
2. 1870s 28. San Bernadino County ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-from-my-trivia-night/525093/4 "2010-01-15T18:22:10Z")
Answers: 1. 96 2. 1870s 3. Born on the Fourth of July; Magnolia; jerry Maguire 4. Battle of Bunker Hill 5. Minnesota 6. Uniform Resource Locator 7. Speed of Light 8. Blue Whale 9. 16 10. A Tale of Two Cities 11. Blood Diamonds (or Conflict Diamonds) 12. Hotness/Spiciness of food 13. Facetious 14. 15 15. Snooki and The Situation 16. B 17. Hummingbird 18. 8 (Letters in the names of the days of the week) 19. Lady Gaga 20. Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy 21. 100 22. Kentucky 23. Michael Cera 24. Madison Wisoconsin 25. Botany 26. Coca-Cola 27. Ontario 28. Sand Bernardino 29. Bass 30. Better Off Dead Tie Breaker: 17,508 ---
**Author:** ![Incensed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Incensed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incensed)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-from-my-trivia-night/525093/5 "2010-01-15T20:18:41Z")
[SPOILER] 1. 96 2. 1900’s 3. Born on the 4th of July, Eyes Wide Shut, um, Minority Report 4. No idea. I’ll say Concord 5. Maine, maybe Michigan 6. Pass 7. 186,000 miles per second 8. Said ‘animal’, not ‘organism’, so I’ll take blue whale. 9. No idea, I’ll say 28. 10. A Tale of Two Cities 11. Blood Diamond 12. Spiciness 13. Yep. 14. 8 15. The Situation and Snooky (Never seen it, but I seem to absorb pop culture irrelevancies.) 16. Pass 17. Hummingbird 18. I’ll guess 3. 19. Angelina Jolie? 20. Lincoln, Kennedy, McKinley and… 21. 100 Million 22. Kentucky? 23. Michael Cera 24. Madison, Wisconsin 25. Botany 26. Coke 27. Ontario 28. Orange? 29. Guinness? 30. Best guess-Dazed and Confused. Tie Breaker: 38?[/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-from-my-trivia-night/525093/6 "2010-01-15T21:00:51Z")
1. 96 2. 1870s 3. _Born on the Fourth of July_, _Jerry Maguire_, _Magnolia_ 4. Battle of Bunker Hill 5. Minnesota 6. Uniform Resource Locator 7. Speed of light 8. Blue whale 9. 16 10. _A Tale of Two Cities_ 11. Conflict diamonds or blood diamonds 12. Level of heat in peppers 13. Facetious! 14. 15 16. No clue. My brain would run out of my ears if I watched that stuff. 16. As of this moment, B.  17. Hummingbirds 18. 8 19. Lady Gaga 20. Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy 21. $100 million 22. UCLA 23. Michael Cera 24. Madison, Wisconsin 25. Botany 26. Coca-Cola 27. Ontario 27. Orange County 28. San Bernardino County 29. Bass 30. \*Better Off Dead \*31. 17,000