Surely the answer to this one is Lou Gehrig?
The Book of Revelation is also called the Book of the Apocalypse, from an ancient Greek word. What does the ancient Greek word mean?
Revelation
My all time favorite: Where is the Mohorovicic discontinuity?
Between the earth’s crust and mantle
The question could be modified to say ‘made as a feature film’, but you have a good point. Also qualifying to predate the first answer by using your definition would be the 1979 Captain America TV movie which had a 1981 theater release in Colombia. And not qualifying would be the 1944 Captain America movie, although if the question were poorly phrased it might pass.
I admit up front, this is a trick question.
In this wireless world we live in, accurate knowledge of the speed of light is critical to calculations in almost every communications system. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the speed of light?
No one. Albert Michelson, the Nobel prize winner most closely associated with the speed of light actually won the prize for improving the design of interferometers.
And the Amazing Spider-Man pilot – with one of the Sound of Music kids as Peter Parker! – got a theatrical release in France and Germany back in '78.
Subway trains pass through Grand Central The 4 5 6 trains and the 7 train all “pass through”.
I believe the actual catch with the “Grand Central Station” part of the riddle that Grand Central Station is a post office.
I could’ve sworn we already covered this in this thread.
ETA: a quick search didn’t turn it up. I wonder where I got this idea.
Here’s the thread where it was being discussed recently.
N.b.: I don’t remember which explanation the movie character uses.
I did a Google search for “Inside Man” riddle and the best answer seems to be at the IMDB (which is not the most reliable source). Here is their quote:
Which weighs more: all the trains that pass through Grand Central Station in a year - or the trees cut down to print all U.S. currency in circulation? Here’s a hint. It’s a trick question.
Their answer is “they both weigh the same”. Although they were tempted to say “they both weigh nothing” which probably made no difference anyway.
Yes, but it’s not where the plumb bob points. Excluding small-scale bumpiness like mountains, a plumb bob always points at a 90 degree angle with the ground (if it didn’t, then it would mean there were sideways forces, and the ground would flow in that direction until it evened out). But except at the poles and equator, the center of the Earth isn’t directly below you. That’s largely due to centrifugal forces.
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?
Can you dig it? 
[slightly hijacky pedantry]
If the Official Scrabble Dictionary has it as a valid Scrabble word then… guess what? It’s a valid Scrabble word. Crazy how that works, isn’t it?
[/slightly hijacky pedantry]
Don’t you say that!
I had to picture this in my head for a while before it made sense, but I get it now. Thanks.
The underlined point threw me, trying to distinguish the ground from the small scale bumpiness like mountains. But the plumb line defines vertical, which is perpendicular to horizontal, e.g. water level, so I see what you mean.
A related trivia tidbit: What did Albert Einstein win his Nobel Prize for?
His explanation for the photoelectric effect, which showed that light is quantized. The theory of relativity (including E = mc[sup]2[/sup]) was considered too controversial at the time, but there was plenty of experimental evidence for the photoelectric effect.
Another neat bit of trivia: Who is the only person to have won Nobel prizes in two different sciences?
Marie Curie, in physics and chemistry. Her daughter Irene Curie also won a Nobel prize in chemistry. Quite a distinguished family.
In astronomy, what’s special about the distance of ~300 light years, i.e., ~100 parsecs?
It’s the farthest that the distance to stars can be measured directly, i.e., by parallax using the diameter of the Earth’s orbit as a baseline. After ~300 ly, indirect means have to be used.
When limited strictly to Earthbound observations, what is the sole unambigious proof that the Earth rotates on its axis?
The Foucault pendulum. The only explanation for why it behaves as it does is the Earth twisting beneath it from west to east.
Where on Earth does the Sun appear to pass directly overhead two days a year?
Anywhere in the zone between the the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, once heading north and once heading south. The tropical zone is roughly 46.5 degrees wide. At the tropics themselves, the Sun is directly overhead only once a year, at the Summer and Winter solstices, respectively.
What is the active ingredient in absinthe?
Alcohol.
Actually, there is some uncertainty about that (link goes to a search result page at newsfromme.com, based on the search “Ray Middleton” The first couple of articles don’t get too much into it, but the following ones do. Articles are in reverse chronological order.)
As to the OP - my favorite trivia question was “What’s the ancient name of the capital of Jordan?”
Philadelphia
What are The Skipper’s and The Professor’s real names?
Jonas Grumby and Roy Hinkley