# What is your favorite trivia question (and answer)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 9, 2013, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028 "2013-07-09T11:04:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/21 "2013-07-09T17:44:41Z")
Name 5 capital cities that begin in V. Clue: They’re all in Europe Vilnius, Vaduz, Vienna, Valetta, and the most tenuous, Vatican City. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/22 "2013-07-09T18:00:12Z")
Who was the first actor to play Tarzan? [Elmo Lincoln](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Lincoln) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/23 "2013-07-09T19:08:43Z")
Which of these cities is the furthest West? Los Angeles, Ca or Carson City, NV or Guadalajara, MX or San Diego, CA? Carson City, NV - go ahead and take a look at any USA map! ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/24 "2013-07-09T19:08:52Z")
What major league pitcher has the best all time winning percentage against the NY Yankees (minimum 20 decisions) Babe Ruth (17-5, .773) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/25 "2013-07-09T19:10:39Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Name 5 capital cities that begin in V. > > Clue: They’re all in Europe > > Vilnius, Vaduz, Vienna, Valetta, and the most tenuous, Vatican City. Hmm…do you mean “Wien, Oesterreich”?..perhaps the question should have been capital cities IN ENGLISH that begin with V. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/26 "2013-07-09T19:17:27Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Who was the first actor to play Tarzan? > > [Elmo Lincoln](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Lincoln) Uh, no, sorry. The winner is: Gordon Griffith Cite: [Gordon Griffith - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341503/?ref_=tt_cl_t6) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/27 "2013-07-09T19:23:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Uh, no, sorry. The winner is: > > Gordon Griffith > > Cite: [Gordon Griffith - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341503/?ref_=tt_cl_t6) Kinda depends on whose scenes were filmed first. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/28 "2013-07-09T20:37:49Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Hmm…do you mean “Wien, Oesterreich”?..perhaps the question should have been capital cities IN ENGLISH that begin with V. What’s the German for nitpicking? 🙂 Since the language of this board in English I didn’t really feel it necessary to qualify that. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/29 "2013-07-09T20:57:12Z")
I have so many favorites, but my favorite sports trivia question is this: The Kansas Jayhawks have been one of the most successful men’s college basketball teams ever. In fact, in their entire history, only ONE man has ever finished his term as head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks with a losing record. Who is this unfortunate coach? [spoiler] None other than Dr. James Naismith, the man who INVENTED basketball. [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/30 "2013-07-09T21:40:34Z")
> [@Chief\_Pedant](#): > > What is the verb for which “wrought” is a past participle? > > What commonly used English 3 letter word contains neither a vowel nor a y? > > How would a lion fare against a tiger? > > I like trivia questions that the answerer realizes they should know, but don’t. > Obscure facts do not make interesting trivia for me. 1. Work 2. Ummm…pwn? 🙂 3. Is there an objective answer to this? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/31 "2013-07-09T21:42:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Where are the Islets of Langerhans? > > in the pancreas > > I used to teach a library science class, and I always saved this one for when they had to check up on their research skills. > [@delphica](#): > > Who is the only U.S. President to have learned English as a second language? > > Martin Van Buren, he was from a Dutch-speaking family. He is also the first U.S. president to have been a U.S. citizen from birth. Proud to say I knew both of these (though not many in the rest of the thread). mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/32 "2013-07-09T21:46:09Z")
Who was the only president to serve in both World Wars? Eisenhower Who was the last (OK, most recent) Whig president? Millard Fillmore mmm ---
**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:** [July 9, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/33 "2013-07-09T21:53:33Z")
Which future president is portrayed in the painting [Washington Crossing the Delaware](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze,_MMA-NYC,_1851.jpg) - besides George Washington? James Monroe, who was one of Washington’s aides during the war. He’s the Lieutenant holding the flag. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/34 "2013-07-09T21:56:12Z")
> [@Chief\_Pedant](#): > > What commonly used English 3 letter word contains neither a vowel nor a y? Mrs. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/35 "2013-07-09T22:03:20Z")
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd famously owns what’s considered a very special Fender Stratocaster. What are two significant facts about it’s serial number? [spoiler] 1. It’s 0001 2. It’s not the first Stratocaster made - it was a custom order with a gold anodized pickguard. They had made and numbered a bunch of neckplates (the plate used to bolt the neck to the body) and that one got randomly pulled when the custom order was being made… [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/36 "2013-07-09T22:10:54Z")
Who is George Holliday? Videotaped Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/37 "2013-07-09T23:43:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Mrs. No, that’s an abbreviation of Missus, not a word in itself. I was going to suggest either tsk or tch, but I deny that those are words either, they are only onomatopoeic renditions of sounds that can be made by the human mouth. So, come on back **Chief Pedant** , and enlighten us of lower knowledge. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/38 "2013-07-10T00:01:09Z")
What were the names of Rick Blaine’s two nightclubs in the movie Casablanca? Rick’s Americana and La Belle Aurora ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/39 "2013-07-10T00:20:25Z")
When it comes to capital cities, my make-or-break question is the capital of Madagascar (Malagasy republic.) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028/40 "2013-07-10T00:38:47Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > No, that’s an abbreviation of Missus, not a word in itself. Actually, it’s an abbreviation of Mistress. Mr. is an abbreviation of Master. The pronunciations were changed to the modern missus and mister after the abbreviations were made. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question-and-answer/663028.md?page=3)