# 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:** 20
**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 23, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/382 "2024-11-23T17:38:30Z")
In which film do Jim Broadbent, Tom Felton, and Mark Williams appear alongside a main character named Potter? (OK, this one has more than two answers, but it still fits the spirit of the OP.) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/383 "2024-11-25T16:12:15Z")
Caucasus Mountains have a region called Albania as well as an Iberia. Galicia is a region in Central Turkey, Southern Poland and North Western Spain. All come from the word Gaul who used to live in all three. ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/384 "2024-11-25T17:21:19Z")
What Formula One driver clinched the World Drivers’ Championship by finishing fifth in the Las Vegas Grand Prix? As of this past weekend, there are now three correct answers. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/385 "2024-11-26T02:03:45Z")
What film has the same plot as _The Parent Trap_? I’m not talking about accidental resemblances. I mean ones that are close enough that they pay royalties to the same original scriptwriter. In this case, there are at least twelve answers. Yes, there are at least twelve movies based on the same plot. You can find the list in Wikipedia: > **[Lisa and Lottie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_and_Lottie)** > > c.1969 as Lisa and Lottie > Lisa and Lottie, published in the United Kingdom and Australia as The Parent Trap, (original German title: Das doppelte Lottchen, "The Double Lottie") is a 1949 German children's novel by Erich Kästner. The book is about identical twin girls whose parents separated them in infancy upon divorcing, only to reunite at a summer camp years later before switching places. > The book originates from a film scenario Kästner developed during World War II that was never produced. I... ---
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Robert Vaughn appeared in which movie based on The Seven Samurai? (Just found out this is a triple 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:** [November 27, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/387 "2024-11-27T03:38:58Z")
What’s the third, after Magnificent Seven and Battle Beyond the Stars? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/388 "2024-11-27T03:55:04Z")
> **[The Magnificent Eleven (2013) ⭐ 3.5 | Comedy, Drama, Sport](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1027873/?ref_=ls_t_10)** > > 1h 31m ---
**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 28, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/389 "2024-11-28T17:38:46Z")
What mid-'80s song about a pink Cadillac features Clarence Clemons on saxophone? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/390 "2024-12-14T17:28:18Z")
Which 1950s musical, later adapted into a Best Picture-winning 1960s film, contains a song titled “Maria”? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/391 "2024-12-22T02:02:23Z")
Which movie was based upon a novel by Ian Fleming, produced by Albert R. Broccoli, written partly by Richard Maibaum and features a flying car made by SFX guru John Stears? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/392 "2024-12-22T05:47:47Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Which movie was based upon a novel by Ian Fleming, produced by Albert R. Broccoli, written partly by Richard Maibaum and features a flying car made by SFX guru John Stears? Would this be _Thunderball_ and _Never Say Never Again_? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/393 "2024-12-22T05:50:11Z")
Joking? Broccoli didn’t produce NSNA. ---
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I read “based on a novel” as meaning based on the same novel and for reasons those two movies were based on the novel “Thunderball”. But if not then I’m guessing one of the movies is _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ and the other would have to be _The Man with the Golden Gun_. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/395 "2024-12-22T06:24:22Z")
Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/396 "2025-01-17T00:42:09Z")
Only two. Nelson Piquet and Keke Rosberg clinched the 1981 and 1982 F1 driver’s titles by finishing fifth in the [Caesar’s Palace Grand Prix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Caesars_Palace_Grand_Prix), not the Las Vegas GP. You could modify the question to say “in the F1 race in Las Vegas,” though technically all four Vegas F1 races (1981, 1982, 2023 and 2024) took place in Paradise, Nevada. The Las Vegas Strip is completely outside the boundaries of the City of Las Vegas, weirdly. (And it really did make sense to call it the Caesar’s Palace GP back then because the track was laid out mostly on the CP grounds - it wasn’t just a sponsorship deal!) ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/397 "2025-01-17T01:05:15Z")
When did The Mets win the World Series (1869, 1986) When did the Mets lose the World Series (1973. 2015) ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/398 "2025-01-17T12:40:02Z")
Probably just a typo, but the first one was 1969. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/399 "2025-01-17T13:55:51Z")
The NY Metropolitans lost the [1884 World Series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1884_World_Series) to the Providence Grays ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/400 "2025-01-17T15:49:27Z")
Wow, thanks and had no idea! ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/401 "2025-01-17T18:10:33Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Probably just a typo, but the first one was 1969. Yes and I noticed it too late for an edit. Reasoning for not following up was 1869 was the first year of professional baseball (may not be too relevant), and precedes Ernest Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat” (1888) and the Mets first manager Casey Stengel (1890) (admittedly also irrelevant to the typo regarding the Miracle Mets) > [@Telemark](#): > > The NY Metropolitans lost the [1884 World Series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1884_World_Series) to the Providence Grays I definitely reckoned using any records of the old Metropolitans would make it a bit of trick question, yet fair enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=21)