# 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:** 31
**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:** [September 4, 2026, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/602 "2026-09-04T14:22:28Z")
That’s one. The easy one. What was the other? ---
**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:** [September 4, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/603 "2026-09-04T14:46:40Z")
For anyone who would like a clue about the second Czech-born writer: > [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > Have to think about the second one. not the Rossum’s Universal Robots guy? I think he did write in Czech. (Ha, remembered his name: Capek. But still don’t think it was him.) The second writer is not Karel Čapek, but he IS primarily known as a playwright. The language that he wrote in is English. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2026, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/604 "2026-09-04T16:11:51Z")
A science fiction movie made at a British studio, with a British director and a largely British cast, about a discovered alien artifact which had profoundly affected humanity’s ancestors and changed the course of our evolution, and which is still active today and sending out signals. Released in 1968. Based on a story from the 1950s. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2026, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/605 "2026-09-04T17:54:53Z")
One is obviously _2001 A Space Odyssey_. I guess the other is _Quatermass and the Pit_ (aka _Five Million Years to Earth_). ---
**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:** [September 4, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/606 "2026-09-04T18:21:31Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > > [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > > Which title character, played by an actor from greater Pittsburgh, appears after a tracking shot over miniature model houses? > > I’m going to guess Barbie on this one? Barbie was played by Margot Robbie in the recent movie and she’s Australian. (That said, I saw her in a couple of movies before I realized she wasn’t an American. She’s really good at the accent.) ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/607 "2026-09-05T09:42:31Z")
Good answer! ^^^^^ 👍🏽 ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/608 "2026-09-05T18:47:35Z")
Well, all right. I don’t think it’s Arthur Miller, about whom I know not a lot. How about Tom Stoppard or Harold Pinter, about whom I know practically nothing? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/609 "2026-09-05T19:07:08Z")
Tom Stoppard it is! (Born Tomas Straussler, adopted by his British stepfather as a young child.) ---
**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:** [September 6, 2026, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/610 "2026-09-06T03:10:59Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > One is obviously _2001 A Space Odyssey_. I guess the other is _Quatermass and the Pit_ (aka _Five Million Years to Earth_). Bingo! ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/611 "2026-09-07T18:59:29Z")
Cool! I had no idea (just approached it from the viewpoint of “playwright of a certain era”) Thanks. That’s an interesting one. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2026, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/612 "2026-09-14T12:41:11Z")
What Houston Astros pitcher threw an immaculate inning against the Rangers on June 15, 2022, striking out Nathaniel Lowe, Ezequiel Duran, and Brad Miller? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/613 "2026-09-16T21:48:10Z")
This album, released on September 24, 1991, was a blockbuster landmark in rock history, setting the template for so much music in the 1990s and beyond. It received widespread critical acclaim and propelled the band into worldwide popularity. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2026, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/614 "2026-09-21T03:04:38Z")
Which role was originated on Broadway by Dorothy Loudon and subsequently performed on film by Carol Burnett? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/615 "2026-09-21T12:04:03Z")
Burnett was just returning the favor. Loudon replaced her on _The Garry Moore Show_ when Burnett left in 1962 ---
**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:** [September 30, 2026, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/616 "2026-09-30T01:37:17Z")
> This album, released on September 24, 1991, was a blockbuster landmark in rock history, setting the template for so much music in the 1990s and beyond. It received widespread critical acclaim and propelled the band into worldwide popularity. I cheated and looked these up. One was truly more groundbreaking, but I retain a lot more affection for the other. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2026, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/617 "2026-10-20T00:43:18Z")
Which musical’s first act ends with the characters holding a pose, which they’re still holding - while complaining about the heat - at the start of the second act? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/618 "2026-10-20T02:35:55Z")
🙂 They are the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ magnum opus, _Blood Sugar Sex Magic._ The other is Nirvana’s seminal _Nevermind_. I assume you see the Nirvana one as more groundbreaking, and the Peppers’ one as more fun to listen to — but it’s not impossible to imagine it the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/619 "2026-10-20T02:55:20Z")
Saw one of them last summer. Not sure about the other. Hmm… ---
**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:** [October 20, 2026, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/620 "2026-10-20T10:49:07Z")
In the late 1970s Lynn Redgrave played the part of Saint Joan of Arc on Broadway in this play. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/621 "2026-10-20T14:00:23Z")
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