Hmm… this one may actually have three answers, except I’m not sure anyone still believes Richard Branson’s predictions about when Virgin Galactic is going to launch a manned space mission.
One I actually heard: “Which European country has a land border with only one other country?”
(The question-setters were expecting Portugal or Denmark - they forgot about, ahem, the UK and the Republic of Ireland!)
There’s also Vatican City, Monaco and San Marino.
And of course if you include non-sovereign countries there’s also Scotland, Wales, and debatably Cornwall.
World Book Day is on the first Thursday in March in the UK so “when is world book day?” also has at least two answers.
George was never his first name, only his regnal name, and his nickname was never his first name either.
What movie was inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland?
Oh, that’s got lots of answers: Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, At World’s End, On Stranger Tides, and whatever the last one was called. But I’m guessing you’re saying there’s another?
I should have phrased that better. There is another one not part of the Johnny Depp franchise of the same name.
A mention of a certain movie in another thread brought to mind this one:
Name a movie where Janet Leigh is alone at an out-of-the way motel with a creepy clerk.
I don’t know of any other movie directly based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, but apparently a movie was almost made called The Curse of Monkey Island. A script was written based on the video game The Secret of Monkey Island. The video game was inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and the Tim Powers novel On Stranger Tides.
I have a personal theory about what happened when the movie Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides was made, although I have no proof of it. The official story is that the producers of the films discovered the Tim Powers novel while making the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movie and decided that it would make a good plot for a fourth movie in the series. In fact, when the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out, a lot of people noted that its plot was similar to The Secret of Monkey Island game, which came out in 1990. The creator of the game has said that he was inspired by the novel On Stranger Tides and the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. The people at LucasArts decided to make a movie from this game and hired a screenwriter named Ted Elliot. They spent some time preparing to make this film from that script, but eventually they decided not to do the movie. It was only a few years later that the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out. Ted Elliot is one of the credited screenwriters for it.
I suspect that what then happened was that representatives for LucasArts and for Tim Powers went to Disney and said that they had a clear case of copyright infringement. Disney then made an offer to compensate them if they would remain silent about what happened. Disney agreed that the fourth movie in the series would be called Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and would incorporate some plot points from the novel. Powers would thus get royalty money, his name in the credits, and his title on the movie. LucasArts (and the creators of the game) would also get royalty money. Everybody decided that it would be best to take the money and keep their mouths shut.
I didn’t say directly based, I said inspired by. It has nothing to do with pirates, but when you hear the answer it should make sense.
Didn’t he also run on the “Bull Moose” ticket?
That was his 1912 run. Taft got the Republican nomination, so Roosevelt ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party (nicknamed “Bull Moose”).
For cricket nuts:
Against whom did Graham Gooch score his 100th first-class century?
What mammal lays eggs?
That’s easy: The echidna and the Easter bunny.
5 different answers, if allowed to be pedantic
What famous science fiction author graduated from Berkeley High School (in California) in 1947?
I can come up with four off the top of my head, though more would not surprise me.
The Matrix, Dark City, The Thirteenth Floor, and eXistenZ. eXistenZ isn’t a perfect fit, though, since the characters know they might be in a simulation; it’s just that there’s confusion as to what “level” they’re at.