# 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:** 25
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/482 "2025-05-22T03:33:52Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > And bonus is that Adrian VI is the last pope to use his own name as his papal name. Bonus bonus: The first pope to adopt a new name upon becoming pope was John II in 533. His birth name was Mercurius and he didn’t feel it was right for a Christian leader to be named after a pagan god. ---
**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, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/483 "2025-05-22T12:02:58Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Bonus bonus: The first pope to adopt a new name upon becoming pope was John II in 533. His birth name was Mercurius and he didn’t feel it was right for a Christian leader to be named after a pagan god. Bonus binus bonus: Some think the papal name Sixtus may not have been his regnal name, but rather a reference to being the sixth Pope after Peter. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/484 "2025-05-23T21:58:33Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Bonus binus bonus: Some think the papal name Sixtus may not have been his regnal name, but rather a reference to being the sixth Pope after Peter. Bonus binus benus banus: I’ve seen some places that say the first pope to have an adopted name was the first pope aka St Peter. Because his birth name was Simon (or Shimon depending on which language you’re transcribing it in). But Simon didn’t adopt the name Peter when he became pope. He got it years earlier when Jesus began using it as Simon’s nickname. It’s from the Greek word Petros, which means a stone or rock, and Jesus supposedly said that Simon was the rock he would build his church on. But I think it’s funny that the first pope was essentially named Rocky. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/485 "2025-05-23T22:25:27Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > 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? LOL, I know one of the answers, a relatively recent films that I’ve actually seen, Greta Gerwig’s _Lady Bird_ I don’t know the 2nd answer, though. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/486 "2025-05-23T23:13:56Z")
_The Great Muppet Caper_ (the character in question being Miss Piggy). ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/487 "2025-06-04T00:16:58Z")
What is the fiction book series (of at least six books), still in print in the past 20 years, in which the main character is an elephant? ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/488 "2025-06-04T00:40:47Z")
Disney put out some Dumbo books but I think it was only 3 or 4. So Babar is one. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/489 "2025-06-04T00:41:50Z")
Elmer the Patchwork Elephant? ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/490 "2025-06-04T01:12:59Z")
You beat me to it. I immediately thought of Babar and Elmer, but I spent time researching Dumbo and Horton, neither of **who** seem to have six stories. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/491 "2025-06-04T02:21:38Z")
One of the book series I was thinking of was the Babar books. I was not thinking of the Dumbo books or the Elmer books. I was thinking of a different series. It has never been made into anything of a different media than books. The books are illustrated by a famous artist. The author first began thinking of the stories by telling his children those stories before World War I. He didn’t write them down and get them published until decades later. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/492 "2025-06-04T15:31:50Z")
The two book series are the Babar series by and the Uncle series by J. P. Martin. The famous artist who has illustrated recent printings is Quentin Blake.. Some recent printings have an introduction by Neil Gaiman. The first time one of the books in the series got published was in 1964, when he was 84: > **[Uncle](https://books.google.com/books/about/Uncle.html?id=myPfCQAAQBAJ)** > > Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He lives in a labyrinth of skyscrapers connected by water chutes, lifts and railways, and littered with oil lakes, walls of sweets and towers of treacle. He and his... > **[Quentin Blake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Blake)** > > Sir Quentin Saxby Blake (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works.\[a\] For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator, Blake won the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. From 1999 to 2001, he was the inaugural British Children' Bl... ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/493 "2025-06-09T11:30:05Z")
What actress is the niece of a member of Spike Jones and his City Slickers? ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/494 "2025-06-09T13:40:22Z")
Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Grey? (I’m surer of the first than the second.) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/495 "2025-06-09T14:11:41Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Sigourney Weaver ‘Doodles’ Weaver, Sigourney’s uncle was definitely in the band. Jennifer Grey’s grandfather, Mickey Katz, father of Joel Grey was another member. Katz had other children who would have been Jennifer’s uncles who may have been in the group also. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/496 "2025-06-09T14:36:20Z")
I didn’t know that about Jennifer Grey. She’s not the one I was thinking of, so there may be three answers. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/497 "2025-06-09T14:53:38Z")
I just found a great video. I’ll post it once the question is answered. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/498 "2025-06-09T14:57:31Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > ‘Doodles’ Weaver, Sigourney’s uncle was definitely in the band. It’s worth mentioning that Pat Weaver (father of Sigourney and brother of Doodles) was president of NBC for a time, and had a hand in creating _Today_ and _The Tonight Show_. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/499 "2025-06-09T15:03:49Z")
And unrelated to comedian Charley Weaver whose real name was Cliff Arquette. If you’re old enough you may remember him from the Hollywood Squares. He was the father of actor Lewis Arquette (The Waltons), and grandfather of more well known actors Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis, and David Arquette. ---
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She did a lot of guest roles on television in the 1970s and early-'80s, one cult classic role, then cartoon voice work for a while. Her last IMDb credit is 1994. Judy Strangis is the niece of Spike Jones, himself. ---
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> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I just found a great video. I’ll post it once the question is answered. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UpA5JkE2eCc/hqdefault.jpg "Judy Strangis as Lady MacBeth 1961") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpA5JkE2eCc&t=0) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=26)