# Trivia questions which, amazingly, have two answers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 7, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849 "2017-12-07T22:56:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/342 "2020-10-16T15:08:18Z")
My guess: One is most likely “Murder by Death”. Not sure about the other; is it “Saw”? ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/343 "2020-10-16T15:16:30Z")
I’m assuming “The Last of Sheila” is one, the other may be “Sleuth” but it doesn’t quite fit. These have long gone past the criteria of things that amazingly have 2 answers. Most don’t even have the appearance of having only one answer. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/344 "2020-10-16T15:45:04Z")
_Sleuth_ fits perfectly, and the other is, indeed, _The Last of Sheila_ (Some of the 1972 movie _Sleuth_ was supposed to have actually been filmed in Sondheim’s apartment, I heard.) How is this long past . the criteria? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/345 "2020-10-16T15:50:25Z")
You missed Washington, DC. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/346 "2020-10-16T15:52:23Z")
True, since I was asking for cities, not incidents when this happened. ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/347 "2020-10-16T15:53:46Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > He invites people for a weekend of cruel mind games that reveals hidden secrets and results in murder. Inspire by Stephen Sondheim’s game parties and his game- and puzzle-filled apartment. One person, not people About an hour or so, not a weekend About the only secret that gets revealed is Andrew’s impotence, nothing else really counts as a secret. When you have to be so twistingly specific it’s clearly left behind the idea of a question with apparently one answer. I think since the June bump only mine and Treppenwitz’s have actually sounded like a real question with only one answer. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/348 "2020-10-16T15:59:16Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > What year was the Beatles second album released? > > Are you asking for information? Or is that a trivia question that amazingly has two answers? Trivia question that has two answers, though a better formulation would be “How many songs were on the Beatles second album?” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/349 "2020-10-16T17:33:13Z")
I couldn’t say one person – it’d give the show away. The rest is quibbling. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/350 "2020-10-16T17:39:55Z")
It arguably has three answers, which mostly turns on the fact that early Beatles albums were released differently in the UK than in the US. The second album by the Beatles released in the UK was _With the Beatles_, released November 22, 1963. It contains 14 songs. The second album by the Beatles released in the US was _Meet the Beatles!_, released January 20, 1964. It contains 12 songs. There was also an album released in the US on April 10, 1964, which was actually called _The Beatles’ Second Album_. It contains 11 songs. It was actually their third US album, but only their second issued by Capitol Records. So, potentially there are three different answers to that question, depending on what you mean by “the Beatle’s second album.” ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/351 "2020-10-16T18:31:21Z")
In 1 sentence there are 3 glaring errors. That is hardly a "“quibble”. This will be my last post in this thread on the matter though, won’t derail any further. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/352 "2024-11-01T17:50:17Z")
In what movie did a plane flown by Dana Andrews have a mid-air collision with a plane flown by Efrem Zimbalist Jr.? ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/353 "2024-11-01T18:02:33Z")
This has come up on a British game show, I believe. The question was, which actor played Doctor Who the longest? The easy answer is Tom Baker. He had the role for seven consecutive seasons. He appeared at the very end of John Pertwee’s final episode on June 8, 1974 and passed the title to Peter Davison on March 21, 1981. 2478 days. But…Sylvester McCoy, who only starred as the Doctor for three short seasons (14 episodes each) made his debut on September 7, 1987, and then appeared in the first half of the TV movie, which debuted on different days in different territories, but let’s use the UK date of May 27, 1996: 3185 days. But…despite McGann only appearing _onscreen_ that one night, and not being seen again until a webisode made for the 50th anniversary of the show in 2013, he technically _was_ the Doctor until Christopher Eccleston appeared on March 26, 2005: 3225 days. Once you get into the Big Finish audio plays, for which Davison, McCoy, the Bakers and McGann, and lately the Nu Who Doctors as well, are continuing to act in the role, numbers go out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Honolulu\_Lulu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/87869e/32.png) [@Honolulu\_Lulu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honolulu_Lulu)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/354 "2024-11-08T00:43:18Z")
On Seinfeld, who said, “and by the way, they’re real and they’re spectacular!”? Who said, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” to Ryan O’neal? ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/355 "2024-11-08T01:43:19Z")
“Love means never having to watch that movie.” – John Lennon ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/356 "2024-11-08T05:10:08Z")
> [@Honolulu\_Lulu](#): > > Who said, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” to Ryan O’neal? Ali McGraw and Barbra Streisand. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/357 "2024-11-08T11:12:53Z")
Since the question does not specify a timeframe, another correct answer to the question of the composition of Tycho Brahe’s nose is: _flesh_; bone, cartilage, fatty tissue and skin etc. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/358 "2024-11-08T11:37:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > What Dudley Moore movie features a seduction scene where he’s interrupted when his record player starts skipping? (I know I’m six and a half years late.) _Foul Play_ and _10_. (No, I didn’t cheat by looking it up.) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/359 "2024-11-08T12:44:21Z")
Which Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has the same name as two U.S. presidents? Which U.S. president has the same name as two Pulitzer Prize-winning composers? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/360 "2024-11-08T12:59:07Z")
In what 1984 movie does Kate Capshaw’s character see the villain reach into a man’s chest with his bare hand and pull out his beating heart, yet the victim lives? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/361 "2024-11-08T13:45:23Z")
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