Name 5 capital cities that begin in V.
Clue: They’re all in Europe
Vilnius, Vaduz, Vienna, Valetta, and the most tenuous, Vatican City.
Who was the first actor to play Tarzan?
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!
What major league pitcher has the best all time winning percentage against the NY Yankees (minimum 20 decisions)
Babe Ruth (17-5, .773)
Hmm…do you mean “Wien, Oesterreich”?..perhaps the question should have been capital cities IN ENGLISH that begin with V.
Kinda depends on whose scenes were filmed first.
What’s the German for nitpicking? 
Since the language of this board in English I didn’t really feel it necessary to qualify that.
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]
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Work
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Ummm…pwn?
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Is there an objective answer to this?
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Proud to say I knew both of these (though not many in the rest of the thread).
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Who was the only president to serve in both World Wars?
Eisenhower
Who was the last (OK, most recent) Whig president?
Millard Fillmore
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Which future president is portrayed in the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware - besides George Washington?
James Monroe, who was one of Washington’s aides during the war. He’s the Lieutenant holding the flag.
Mrs.
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?
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- It’s 0001
- 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]
Who is George Holliday?
Videotaped Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991.
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
What were the names of Rick Blaine’s two nightclubs in the movie Casablanca?
Rick’s Americana and La Belle Aurora
When it comes to capital cities, my make-or-break question is the capital of Madagascar (Malagasy republic.)
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.