# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/161 "2017-12-11T13:51:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same (or almost the same) date, ten days apart. It’s that Julian/Gregorian thing again. … was England still on the Julian calendar? Because otherwise I don’t get it. ---
**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 11, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/162 "2017-12-11T14:14:13Z")
Who wrote a stage musical based on Phantom of the Opera? ---
**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:** [December 11, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/163 "2017-12-11T14:21:39Z")
Who directed the 1980s film _The Last Emperor_ about the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China? Bernardo Bertolucci and Li-Han Hsiang ---
**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:** [December 11, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/164 "2017-12-11T14:24:07Z")
In what 1984 fantastic adventure film does heroine Kate Capeshaw watch the villain reach into his victim’s chest with his bare hand and pull out the victim’s beating heart, yet leaves the victim alive? ---
**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:** [December 11, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/165 "2017-12-11T14:26:16Z")
In what 1988 comedy does the villain get run over by a steamroller, yet survives? Bonus: There’s another 1988 film in which the villain gets run over by a steamroller, but, since he’s already dead, he doesn’t get a chance to survive. ---
**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 11, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/166 "2017-12-11T14:27:08Z")
What well known person died in New York City on September 11, 2001? ---
**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:** [December 11, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/167 "2017-12-11T14:31:37Z")
A three-fer What movie ends with heroine Jennifer Connelly at the end of a long pier in broad daylight? [spoiler] Dark City (1998) , Requiem for a Dream (2000) , and House of Sand and Fog (2003) https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/339019-jennifer-connelly-piers-ocean.html [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/168 "2017-12-11T14:35:43Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Nope > And it’s not Greenland (or Denmark). But you did make me double-check and my question is incorrect. It should be now: > What country in North America has land north of the United States. > I think that works. [France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon) does. ---
**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 11, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/169 "2017-12-11T15:00:08Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > … was England still on the Julian calendar? Because otherwise I don’t get it. You got it. England didn’t switch to the Gregorian Calendar until 1752. ---
**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 11, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/170 "2017-12-11T15:07:48Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You got it. England didn’t switch to the Gregorian Calendar until 1752. And [the full explanation](http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2368.htm), for anyone interested. (I mean, **Colibri** answers it completely, but if anyone desires more context, see above.) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/171 "2017-12-11T15:15:50Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > “This countries capital is the only capital in the world which was attacked by both ballistic and cruise missiles” > > It actually applies to two different countries, but you can get the singular one you desire by simply stating “in the same war” or “in separate wars” The “same war” one was easy, the “separate war” was hard since you can eliminate Western Europe since they haven’t had a war in their own country since WW2, and can eliminate the rest of Europe since they’ve never been hit by ballistic missiles. Which leaves the Middle East and I couldn’t think of a capital that had been hit by both until I researched the common type of ballistic missile in the area and learned who had them and used them. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/172 "2017-12-11T15:28:04Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Look at almost any broadly E-W irregular border, the same is true more often than not: > there are parts of Nicaragua due N of Honduras, parts of Costa Rica due N of Nicaragua, etc. And closer to home (for Americans, anyway), there are parts of Minnesota due N of Ontario. > [@boffking](#): > > [France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon) does. Check the last post of page 3 and you will find that I pointed out those islands are not directly north of the US, or for that matter, Canada. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/173 "2017-12-11T17:27:23Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > In what 1988 comedy does the villain get run over by a steamroller, yet survives? > Bonus: There’s another 1988 film in which the villain gets run over by a steamroller, but, since he’s already dead, he doesn’t get a chance to survive. _ **Who Framed Roger Rabbit?** _ is one of the first two… _ **The Naked Gun** _ is the one where a dead guy gets steamrollered. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/174 "2017-12-11T17:29:03Z")
If anybody wondered, in November of 1987, Tiffany hit #1 with a remake of Tommy James & the Shondells’ “I Think We’re Alone Now” and the next week, Billy Idol hit #1 with his cover of “Mony Mony.” ---
**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 11, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/175 "2017-12-11T17:34:39Z")
Which future American President is depicted in [this famous painting](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ap/web-large/DP215410.jpg)? ---
**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:** [December 11, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/176 "2017-12-11T17:40:12Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > _ **Who Framed Roger Rabbit?** _ is one of the first two… _ **The Naked Gun** _ is the one where a dead guy gets steamrollered. Very good. Now you need the other one where he survives… ---
**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 11, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/177 "2017-12-11T17:40:40Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > So there are (at least) _three_ answers. You can quibble whether Greenland (Den.) is the country of Greenland or the country of Denmark, but it must be one or the other. If you go with just “north of the United States”, you could add a fourth country, Russia, which is directly north of the Aleutian Islands. And if you want to go with “north of United States territory” you can add the United Kingdom. The British Virgin Islands are directly north of the American Virgin Islands. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/178 "2017-12-11T17:47:34Z")
What 1987 action movie featured two actors who would be elected governors several years later? Bonus question: Which third actor who appeared in one of the films ran for governor, but was defeated? Sonny Landham. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-questions-which-amazingly-have-two-answers/803849/179 "2017-12-11T17:52:55Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > If you mean “on the same day or almost as the other”, then it’s Shakespeare and Cervantes (who’s now corrected to the 22nd, apparently); that’s why April 23rd is World Book Day. Who does the ‘10 days before’ refer to? Julian vs. Gregorian calendars? Not sure which date these are in in the first place though. Edit: phone slow to load, the replies didn’t load yet when I started. ---
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