Trivia questions which, amazingly, have two answers

Which Doper posted a trivia question which, amazingly, had two answers.

Linus Pauling (and Linus Pauling!) and William Parry Murphy.

Roscoe Tanner and Vitas Gerulaitis. (Due to a scheduling change — January date changed to December — two Australian Opens took place in 1977.)

No takers? :slight_smile:

The point of this thread is to give questions, not answer them. That’s why the vast majority have not been answered here. Unless the subject is really obscure, you can usually google the answers.

Sorry if I’m not “on point.” :wink:

But FTR, I don’t think my “puzzle” (if I may use the term :)) will yield readily to Google.

What country is between the continental United States and the North Pole?

I’ll guess Jimmy White as top scorer and Stephen Hendry as winner.

To be honest, the answers in a spoiler would be helpful - this being hangover Sunday. :smiley:

Hendry won the 1992 snooker World Championship and took the £150,000 prize money.

Jimmy ‘Whirlwind’ White was runner up taking £90,000 but in an earlier round he scored a 147 maximum break which earned him an extra £100,000. So his combined total prize of £190,000 was the top prize.

TCMF-2L

Which Scandinavian country does Russia border?

Bravo! Jimmy White actually won £204,000. His 147 was good enough to also get the £14,000 prize for highest break. :slight_smile:

Canada.

Greenland (Den.) lies between Maine and the Geographic North Pole. (Using the Magnetic North Pole, I think only Canada works.)

The OP (written by yours truly) does not support this contention. I’m more interested in people pointing out and explaining interesting facts than someone randomly asking “what two people were born on June 4 1833” with no further commentary or explanation.

Is Greenland a country?

It is “an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark.” So for one given definition of country, yes, but not for others.

Note that when I mentioned Nicosia above, I intentionally said “nation” to avoid debating whether a place without international recognition is a “country” or not.

Greenland is either a country, or a part of a country. Certainly, if you draw a line from Maine to the North Pole, it passes through land which is neither the US nor Canada.

I think there’s only one answer to that, since Finland is not a Scandinavian country.

I wonder what you think are the dual correct answers to these.

With King George VI’s first name, you could say Albert or George. He was also familiarly known as “Bertie”.

The swallow’s airspeed velocity should be obvious. :stuck_out_tongue:

My point was that the thread is about such questions, but not about asking other people to answer them. We’re not trying to stump others with the questions. After all, you didn’t ask others to answer the question about the actor-predecessor to Jerry Brown.

If people aren’t discussing their questions, it’s usually because either they’re well-known questions or the answers can be found by a simple google search or Wikipedia lookup.