# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/41 "2017-12-08T04:48:20Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Also, there are 3 answers to who ran for governor. The recently departed Sonny Landham unsuccessfully ran in Kentucky. Good grief. If the alien had survived he’d probably be a senator by now. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/42 "2017-12-08T05:42:44Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > It orbits the Sun and was called a planet when discovered, but was ‘demoted’ when similar bodies were discovered, and is now called a dwarf planet. What is its name? Ceres. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/43 "2017-12-08T06:19:25Z")
Which major city in New York State was named after King James II and VII of Great Britain? Hint: One is the capital of the state, and the other was once the capital of the U.S. and is thought by many to be the capital of the state. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2017, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/44 "2017-12-08T06:20:49Z")
The category is “First Second Third”. The answer is _“This First Lady named Edith was her husband’s second wife. She opposed her husband’s plans to run for a third term in 1920 on the grounds that his health had declined.”_ ---
**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:** [December 8, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/45 "2017-12-08T06:27:06Z")
Quadratic equations. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/46 "2017-12-08T06:34:51Z")
“What is the largest city (stating with the letter C) in the State of Ohio?” actually has three possible answers. Columbus is the largest incorporated city, Cleveland is the largest metropolitan area if you only include parts within the state, and Cincinnati is the largest if you include parts in northern Kentucky. Of course, you can drop “starting with the letter C” from the question, and still get the same three answers. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/47 "2017-12-08T06:42:15Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Quadratic equations. What is the square root of x (where x is any real or complex number not equal to zero)? ---
**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:** [December 8, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/48 "2017-12-08T07:08:37Z")
Questions of the form ‘what is the only English anagram of ‘banana’?’ (because, assuming there is only one anagram of the word, the word itself is also an anagram of itself - letters rearranged into what happens to be the same readable word as the original) ---
**Author:** ![Remember\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Remember\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Remember_me)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/49 "2017-12-08T07:41:11Z")
What is the Capital of Georgia? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/50 "2017-12-08T08:19:15Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I like mine better, because otherwise you have to count Punjab. Or all the Springfields. There is only one Punjab. It was divided into two, that’s the _Part_ bit of **Partition** , and both countries then continued to call their version “Punjab”, infact India further subdivided their bit. And while several towns share names, “Hyderabad” is rare in that both cities are large with multi- million people populations. In play: Two countries each named for a River in Africa. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/51 "2017-12-08T09:02:04Z")
Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb? Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/52 "2017-12-08T09:06:01Z")
After whom is Lincoln County named? It’s obvious for most Lincoln counties, but [Lincoln County, Kentucky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_County,_Kentucky) as first organised as a county of Virginia in 1780, long before Abe Lincoln was born. It’s named after General Benjamin Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/53 "2017-12-08T09:35:03Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb? Nitpick:Nobody is buried in Grant’s Tomb. The famous General and his wife are entombed in above-ground sarcophagi. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/54 "2017-12-08T10:42:32Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I like mine better, because otherwise you have to count Punjab. Or all the Springfields. There is only one Punjab. It was divided into two, that’s the _Part_ bit of **Partition** , and both countries then continued to call their version “Punjab”, infact India further subdivided their bit. And while several towns share names, “Hyderabad” is rare in that both cities are large with multi- million people populations. In play: Two countries each named for a River in Africa. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/55 "2017-12-08T11:22:16Z")
Who created the character Dennis The Menace, first published on 12 March, 1951? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/56 "2017-12-08T11:22:47Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Despite what some Internet would-be pedants will tell you, the only correct answer to that question is George Washington. If you’re going to argue that Peyton Randolph was “President of the United States”, then you’d have to likewise say that the current President of the United States is Mike Pence. I was thinking of John Hanson, the first President of the United States under the Articles of the Confederation. Most people don’t consider it a legitimate argument because the office didn’t work the same way as it does under the Constitution but it isn’t a completely false claim either because he did have the title. > **[John Hanson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanson)** > > John Hanson (April 14 \[O.S. April 3\] 1721 – November 15, 1783) was an American Founding Father, merchant, and politician from Maryland during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress after serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland. He signed the Articles of Confederation in 1781 after Maryland joined the other states in ratifying them. In November 1781, he was elected as the first President of the Confederation Congress (... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/57 "2017-12-08T11:24:15Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen? I was waiting for this one. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/58 "2017-12-08T11:46:37Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I guess the OP didn’t consider a case like your kitchen, where the existence of only one correct answer would exceed the existence of two or more correct answers in amazingness. I’m getting the impression that you don’t [recognize the reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=botdmsQilnU).[URL=“[15 Eunomia - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_Eunomia)”] ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/59 "2017-12-08T12:24:23Z")
I don’t know if they still have it, but Trivial Pursuit’s Spain’s edition used to have this question: Which artist recorded an album called _Mediterráneo_? Having said Rebeldes and agreed that it was correct (it had been a pretty big hit a couple of years prior, specially the song by the same name), several of my dorm-mates were miffed to find a different answer in the back of the card. So, they came to the room of that girl who was banned from playing TP. I knew that there was at least one other album by that name, that it was much older and had caused a big political scandal when published; that album by Joan Manuel Serrat was the one referenced in the answer card. And if you make it songs instead of albums, there’s even more; different ones, I mean, not just covers. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/60 "2017-12-08T13:58:07Z")
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