Weird Trivia

[E-Sabbath]

@haystack1989

1. Name the first person to break the speed of sound (5 points)
   ExtraCredit: Name character/actor that played him on a TV show (5 pts)

Point of order. Chuck Yeager was the first to survive going supersonic. People went supersonic in P-51 Mustangs. In dives. Briefly.
Name his plane. And I’m not talking X-1, it had a name.

[Ludovic]

@E-Sabbath

Point of order. Chuck Yeager was the first to survive going supersonic. People went supersonic in P-51 Mustangs. In dives. Briefly.

I went supersonic. Once. Guess which year?

[Snickers]

@Ludovic

I went supersonic. Once. Guess which year?

Was it for 20 minutes, though?

[The_Chao_Goes_Mu]

Io also thought Chuck Yeager was the first to break the sound barrier.
Stephen King’s childrens’ book was My Pretty Pony.
One thing his books had in common is a fictious town called Castlerock.

[butler1850]

@E-Sabbath

Point of order. Chuck Yeager was the first to survive going supersonic. People went supersonic in P-51 Mustangs. In dives. Briefly.
Name his plane. And I’m not talking X-1, it had a name.

Glamorous Glennis. After his wife.

[E-Sabbath]

Hm. Harder to find citations for P-51s actually exceeding the sound barrier than I thought. Mostly because they did it in very small pieces, admittedly, starting to come apart at about .8 Mach.

[detop]

@haystack1989

Points for the correct answer not the most popular. Just some trivia that you may or may not know. No looking at other answers before you post, just see how you do.

1. Name the first person to break the speed of sound (5 points)

Chuck Yeager

ExtraCredit: Name character/actor that played him on a TV show (5 pts)

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2. Name Stephen King’s attempt at a novel for children (5 pts)

Eyes of the Dragon

EC: A lot of his books are set in Maine. Can you tell me what else many of them have in common? (10 pts)

They are set in the town of Castle Rock ?

3. Who sang the song Nobody Knows? (5 pts)

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4. Name all nine of the Fellowship of the Ring? (5 pts)

Frodo, Merry, Samwise, Pippin, Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, Faramir, Gandalf

EC: Can you name the little singing man the Hobbits meet in the Old Forrest that wasn’t in the movie? (10 pts)

Tom Bombadil

5. In Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events crap just keeps happening to the orphans. Can you tell me what Count Olaf has tattoed on his ankle? (5 pts)

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6. Name Pokemon #39 (5 pts)

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7. Name the town Brad and Janet are from in Rocky Horror Picture Show(5 pts)

Dayton

8. Name all the main characters and how they are related to each other in Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality

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