# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/61 "2017-12-08T14:38:36Z")
Who had a Top 10 single in the US with the song “Cry Me A River”? ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/62 "2017-12-08T15:13:29Z")
What is the airspeed over a laden swallow’s wing? More interesting trivia questions: What was King George VI’s first name? Where do Panama hats come from? Which side of the Panama canal is to the west - Atlantic or Pacific? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/63 "2017-12-08T16:01:28Z")
One of my favorites: **What remake of an oldie by Tommy James and the Shondells hit #1 on the US Billboard charts in November of 1987?** ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/64 "2017-12-08T16:04:21Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > Who created the character Dennis The Menace, first published on 12 March, 1951? That’s a good one! I recently read about that. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/65 "2017-12-08T16:18:52Z")
Who was King County, Washington named after? ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/66 "2017-12-08T16:25:00Z")
Name the defensive wall, named for an emperor, that was built by the Roman empire on the Northern border of Roman Britain: Hadrian’s Wall is more famous, but 20 years later the Antonine Wall (named for Antonius Pius) was built further North. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/67 "2017-12-08T16:47:13Z")
What top-5 lifetime homerun leader for Major League Baseball started his career in the same city but on different teams? ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/68 "2017-12-08T17:04:36Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > What actor who starred in the 1987 sci-fi action thriller _Predator_ later went on to become governor of a U.S. state? Or to drill it down even further: What actor starred in the 1987 sci-fi action thrillers _Predator_ and _The Running Man_, then later went on to become governor of a U.S. state? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/69 "2017-12-08T17:33:36Z")
In what catcher’s honor did the New York Yankees retire the number 8? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/70 "2017-12-08T18:00:29Z")
> [@UDS](#): > > And one from the UK version of Trivial Pursuit: Who were the enemy at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift? Zulu? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/71 "2017-12-08T18:02:01Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Which state of the United States is farthest east? > > If you consider “east” as starting at the 180th meridian, it’s Alaska instead of Maine. Yes, the answers are AK, AK, AK, HA, oddly enough. Given a interpreation on “East”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/72 "2017-12-08T18:16:47Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yes, the answers are AK, AK, AK, HA, oddly enough. Given a interpreation on “East”. I assume you mean HI? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/73 "2017-12-08T18:21:59Z")
(Though aren’t all the Hawaiian islands well east of the 180th meridian? Or is there some other interpretation of “east” I’m missing? And why AK three times? I assume we’re going with four different interpretations of “east,” but I can’t figure them out.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/74 "2017-12-08T18:32:41Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > Who created the character Dennis The Menace, first published on 12 March, 1951? what answer other than Hank Ketcham??😕 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/75 "2017-12-08T18:34:23Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > (Though aren’t all the Hawaiian islands well east of the 180th meridian? Or is there some other interpretation of “east” I’m missing? And why AK three times? I assume we’re going with four different interpretations of “east,” but I can’t figure them out.) [http://allproudamericans.com/name-the-farthest-east-west-north-and-south-states.html](http://allproudamericans.com/name-the-farthest-east-west-north-and-south-states.html) Ok, this is kind of a trick question because one state is actually the farthest north, east, and west: Alaska. Alaska is the farthest northern state in the U.S. and because of the Aleutian Islands, which stretch across 1,200 miles and over the 180° meridian of longitude, it makes Alaska the most eastern and western state. ---
**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, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/76 "2017-12-08T18:46:34Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > 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)”] Thanks! Cliff was robbed, he was correct. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/77 "2017-12-08T18:50:53Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > In what catcher’s honor did the New York Yankees retire the number 8? And which player does the Yankees’s retired number 42 represent? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/78 "2017-12-08T18:52:15Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > [http://allproudamericans.com/name-the-farthest-east-west-north-and-south-states.html](http://allproudamericans.com/name-the-farthest-east-west-north-and-south-states.html) > Ok, this is kind of a trick question because one state is actually the farthest north, east, and west: Alaska. > Alaska is the farthest northern state in the U.S. and because of the Aleutian Islands, which stretch across 1,200 miles and over the 180° meridian of longitude, it makes Alaska the most eastern and western state. Ah, so you’re answering for all four cardinal directions. I didn’t realize that. I was just reading “east” into the answers. ---
**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, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/79 "2017-12-08T18:54:48Z")
What is the arithmetic constant named after Leonhard Euler which frequently appears in asymptotic formulae for combinatorial optimization problems? ---
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> [@md2000](#): > > What is the airspeed over a laden swallow’s wing? > More interesting trivia questions: > What was King George VI’s first name? > Where do Panama hats come from? > Which side of the Panama canal is to the west - Atlantic or Pacific? According to Wikpedia Panama Hats were invented in Equador. The guy who made Panama hats popular lived in the Dominican Republic, is that what you meant? Category: What did they do: Famous person named John Smith. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=5)