# 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:** 29
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/562 "2026-06-10T01:14:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > What classic game takes its name from a Shakespeare play? Othello and Hungry Hungry Hippos? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/563 "2026-06-10T01:22:10Z")
Tempest and Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/564 "2026-06-10T13:00:18Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > For which NHL team does the Nordic hockey player Sebastian Aho play? What position does Elias Pettersson play for the Vancourver Canucks? What is the birth year of left winger Greg Adams who played with the Vancouver Canucks during the 88-89 season? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/565 "2026-06-10T16:54:44Z")
I don’t think anyon ever answered this one that Posted a long time ago. 1984 movie with Kate Capshaw as the heroine. She watches the Bad Guy reach into a victim’s chest with his bare hand and pull out the beating heart. But, amazingly, the victim doesn’t die. At least not immediately. Name the movie. ---
**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 10, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/566 "2026-06-10T17:22:47Z")
**Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom** and **Dreamscape** ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/567 "2026-06-10T18:11:34Z")
Correct! ---
**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 10, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/568 "2026-06-10T18:14:16Z")
In which film does Patrick Stewart voice a talking sheep? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/569 "2026-06-10T18:14:47Z")
Mid 1980s movie in which pig feces play a significant part. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/570 "2026-06-10T18:25:53Z")
From movies to actual events. Two professors at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah claimed to have made a quantum leap in technology, achieving something that physicists had been trying to do for years by using a radically different approach. Instead of going through the usual announcement at a conference or with a paper in a prestigious journal, they went straight to the press and blindsided everyone. Physicists were skeptical at first, but this was a breakthrough that everyone wanted, so they tried to replicate the results…with no success. It was ultimately decided that the apparent success was really an unexpected glitch, and interest in the topic slowly faded, although the potential results were so great that a lot of people still pursued the effect, hoping for that big breakthrough that never came. What was the discovery that got everybody so worked up? ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/571 "2026-06-10T19:41:51Z")
I’d think Cold Fusion was one of them ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/572 "2026-06-10T20:00:58Z")
Yes for sure. It’s the other one that had/has me stumped. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/573 "2026-06-10T20:41:53Z")
Yep. And the other…? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/574 "2026-06-10T20:47:48Z")
Chopstick nanorods? I think that was retracted. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/575 "2026-06-10T21:20:47Z")
Room-temperature superconductivity? There was a cold-fusion-like fuss about that, recently. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/576 "2026-06-10T21:32:13Z")
```auto ``` No that one was in South Korea wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/577 "2026-06-10T21:34:21Z")
I do think the nanorods was a grad student at Utah. ---
**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 10, 2026, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/578 "2026-06-10T21:53:28Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > In which film does Patrick Stewart voice a talking sheep? I just saw _The Sheep Detectives_, so I know that’s one. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/579 "2026-06-11T01:11:35Z")
The second one is older, and didn’t make so big a fuss (although, being in optics, I caught it), so I’m not surprised you haven’t got it. So I’ll give it to you This was the X-ray Laser. John G. Kepros blasted a mixture of Knox unflavored gelatine and copper sulfate with a huge neodymium glass laser cannon and produced light streaks visible through aluminum foil. They eventually determined that the spot on the film were due to electrostatic pickup, not x-rays penetrating the foil. ---
**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 11, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/580 "2026-06-11T17:49:18Z")
In what 1970s movie does Sally Field team up with two men trying to recover and transport some merchandise for a windfall profit? One of the men gives Field’s character an animal nickname, and a romance develops between them. One of the men has an accent. ---
**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 17, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/581 "2026-06-17T15:50:47Z")
I don’t remember the answers to these, but get the feeling there are several: What movie has Stanley Tucci tied to a chair? What movie has Judy Davis’s head being cut off, blown off, or shot off? For the bonus prize: What movie has Stanley Tucci tied to a chair, forced to watch Judy Davis’s head being cut off, blown off, or shot off? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=30)