# 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:** 24
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/462 "2025-04-13T22:33:00Z")
pulykamell: > There’s also a ton of bridges connecting the two sides. For which pair? ---
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Buda and Pest. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/464 "2025-04-13T22:37:37Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > The second answer is less clear-cut. Philip Roth? Joseph Heller? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Kurt Vonnegut? Tolkien? ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/465 "2025-04-13T22:40:26Z")
Hm, I hadn’t thought of Twain, but if you count him as a twentieth century writer then there are three answers. But both _Adventures of Tom Sawyer_ and _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ were published before 1900, so I don’t think it’s a good fit. I was thinking of James Joyce (_Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_ and _Ulysses_) and J.R.R. Tolkien (_The Hobbit_ and _The Lord of the Rings_) ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/466 "2025-04-14T02:43:22Z")
What about Thomas Harris? _Manhunter_ then 7 years later _The Silence of the Lambs_? ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/467 "2025-04-14T02:46:56Z")
Is Silence of the Lambs really regarded as “one of the greatest works of English literature” ? ---
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Good question. Many consider it one of the best thrillers of all time. Also _Manhunter_ was the movie. Should be _Red Dragon_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/469 "2025-04-14T14:55:36Z")
Heck, the obvious answer to me was Harper Lee with _To Kill a Mockingbird_ and _Go Set a Watchman_. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/470 "2025-04-14T15:00:03Z")
I thought about Harper Lee, but she didn’t seem to fit the stipulation that the writer have “published a novel which received widespread popularity” _prior_ to spending years writing the book that “is now regarded as their magnum opus and one of the greatest works of English literature.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/471 "2025-04-14T15:05:02Z")
Ah, I glossed over that. I focussed on “received widespread popularity” and “years writing next book”. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/472 "2025-04-14T15:08:57Z")
In which film does a male hairdresser smuggle himself across international borders in a suitcase? ---
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Also .. it appears that _Go Set a Watchman_ was written before _To Kill a Mockingbird_ ! (According to [wikipedia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Set_a_Watchman)) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/474 "2025-04-14T16:01:11Z")
Saint\_Cad > What about Thomas Harris? Manhunter then 7 years later The Silence of the Lambs? **Black Sunday** is highly regarded in certain circles. Many terrorists, when caught or killed, are found to have a copy of it in their possession. He went into the “how to” a little more accurately than law enforcement would have preferred. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/475 "2025-04-14T16:13:38Z")
Peter\_Morris > Is Silence of the Lambs really regarded as “one of the greatest works of English literature”? Well, not by me (I think the movie sure deserved its accolades), but most authors aren’t fairly evaluated during their lifetime. When my father was in school in the 1930s, Twain and Dickens weren’t considered serious literature. When I was in school in the 70s and 80s, neither was Tolkein. Jim Thompson was considered maybe half a step above Mickey Spillane, while Jerzy Kozinski was a lock for literary stardom, but my impression is that these days Thompson is considered the bigger deal. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/476 "2025-04-29T00:21:21Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Also .. it appears that _Go Set a Watchman_ was written before _To Kill a Mockingbird_ ! Yes, a much inferious first draft, which the poor senile author was coerced into publishing as a sequel. ---
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In which movie does one character, whose nickname contains an honorific and a type of animal, attempt to impress another character by passing off someone else’s big fancy house as her own? ---
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This Pope, the only one from his county as of today, took the name Adrian. ---
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In which work did Tim Curry play the manager of the Plaza Hotel? _Home Alone 2_ and _Eloise: The Animated Series_ ---
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I was curious enough to look this up. I was aware of the only English pope having taken the name Adrian (he was Adrian IV) but I had never heard of the only Dutch pope, who was Adrian VI. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/481 "2025-05-22T03:03:21Z")
That is correct. And bonus is that Adrian VI is the last pope to use his own name as his papal name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=25)