# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/101 "2017-12-09T03:04:22Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > There’s been more than just two, even ignoring those of the War of Independence. > > There were several in the War of 1812. The Battle of New Orleans is best known, but also the [Battle of Blandensburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bladensburg) and the [Battle of Baltimore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baltimore) included some land fighting. I suppose the [Siege of Detroit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Detroit) should count too. There were other lesser engagements as well. > > There were several in Texas at the beginning of the Mexican-American War and some in California as well. Those latter probably shouldn’t count, since California wasn’t part of the US yet. I was actually thinking of the gotcha as the Aleutian Islands Japanese-US battles in WWII… ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/102 "2017-12-09T03:07:46Z")
What player, born in Mobile, Alabama, led the National League in home runs with 44 homers in 1963, while wearing uniform number 44? The answer is both Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey, who tied for the title , in a rather amazing coincidence of same home town, same uniform number matching holme run total… ---
**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 9, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/103 "2017-12-09T03:25:46Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Archibald Campbell, Chief of that Ilk and Earl of Argyll, was the son of another Archibald Campbell and the grandson of William Douglas, Earl of Morton. He was de facto ruler of Scotland for a while, and for a while was an important supporter of King Charles II, but, charged by that King with treason, he was eventually beheaded on ‘the Maiden’ at Edinburgh for treason against his King, with both head and body laid to rest in Kilmun Parish Church. He was succeeded by his son Archibald to whom his lands were eventually restored. _ **In what year did his beheading by ‘the Maiden’ occur?** _ Since this is just more tedious detail about Britain’s Civil War, with its confusing ever-shifting alliances, I’ll spoil it. The 8th Earl was beheaded in 1661; his son the 9th Earl was beheaded in 1685. Their grandfathers William Douglases were themselves grandfather and grandson. Note that just ten years before King Charles II ordered the 8th Earl’s head removed, it was that same 8th Earl who had personally placed the Crown on Charles, making him King of the Scots. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/104 "2017-12-09T03:25:46Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Which major city in New York State was named after King James II and VII of Great Britain? Oddly enough, neither of them are [Jamestown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_New_York#History). ---
**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 9, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/105 "2017-12-09T03:28:31Z")
What famous Englishman won a Nobel Prize and had a half-brother who, though not winning a Nobel, was even more famous? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/106 "2017-12-09T09:10:30Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > What famous Englishman won a Nobel Prize and had a half-brother who, though not winning a Nobel, was even more famous? Andrew Huxley and? ---
**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 9, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/107 "2017-12-09T12:20:06Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Andrew Huxley and? … and Austen Chamberlain, 1925 Peace Laureate. His half-brother, Neville ‘I have returned from [Munich] Germany with peace for our time’ Chamberlain was more famous (infamous?). ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/108 "2017-12-09T14:37:01Z")
What Nobel Laureate lived in the small town of [Condon, Oregon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condon,_Oregon)\* as a child? - 2010 pop. 682. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/109 "2017-12-09T14:53:53Z")
What famous person died on November 22, 1963? ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/110 "2017-12-09T15:29:49Z")
What famous person was born on February 12, 1809? ---
**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 9, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/111 "2017-12-09T15:34:34Z")
What famous person was born on February 12, 1809? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/112 "2017-12-09T15:50:51Z")
> [@Julius\_Henry](#): > > What famous person was born on February 12, 1809? > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > What famous person was born on February 12, 1809? Is there an echo in here? ---
**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 9, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/113 "2017-12-09T16:21:28Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Is there an echo in here? _I_ started posting it first. But since the new https upgrade has somehow broken posting from Firefox on the desktop, I had to open the thread on my phone, retype and resend my reply. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/114 "2017-12-09T16:25:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > What famous person died on November 22, 1963? Actually, there’s three answers to that one. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > _I_ started posting it first. But since the new https upgrade has somehow broken posting from Firefox on the desktop, I had to open the thread on my phone, retype and resend my reply. Sure, sure, whatever you say, Darren. ---
**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 9, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/115 "2017-12-09T16:46:31Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Among the world’s 30 most populous cities, which has a name that translates to ‘City of Angels’? (This is too well-known to be in doubt, but to provide closure for alien archaeologists in the far future who are trying to reconstruct late human history from an SDMB archive, I’ll provide a Spoiler anyway.) U.S.A.'s #2 city name translates as ‘the City of the Angels’, though its earliest name was apparently ‘The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula.’ The common name of Thailand’s capital is Krung Thep which translates as ‘City of angels.’ (The full name translates as ‘City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra’s behest.’) ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/116 "2017-12-09T17:13:52Z")
Who was the winner of the 1977 Australian Open men’s singles tournament? ---
**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 9, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/117 "2017-12-09T17:26:34Z")
Who won the top prize at the 1992 World Snooker Championship? ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/118 "2017-12-09T17:30:46Z")
> [@dstarfire](#): > > Most questions that can be answered with “Istanbul” could also be answered with “constantinople” if time isn’t a factor. (sorry, I’ve had that song stuck in my head forever) That’s not really a case of two different answers, it’s a case of one answer that has two different names that can refer to it (there are actually at least two more names for the city: Byzantium, which was the original name of the place, and New Rome, which was briefly the official name of the place after it had been made capital of the Roman Empire, but which didn’t stick because people preferred using Byzantium or Constantinople). In semiotic terms, the signifiers are different, but the signified are the same. ---
**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 9, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/119 "2017-12-09T20:57:30Z")
Unfortunately, modern research has made this slightly wrong, but: He was probably the most famous writer that his country has ever produced, and he died on 23rd April, 1616. Who was he? (Unfortunately, it is now believed that one died on 22nd April, 1616. Nevertheless, it is still true that one died about 10 days before the other.) ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/120 "2017-12-09T22:39:21Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > What actor who starred in the 1987 sci-fi action thriller _Predator_ later went on to become governor of a U.S. state? One could ask the same question about the film Running Man, which was released the same year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849.md?page=7)