# What is your favorite trivia question? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 5, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169 "2008-05-05T19:00:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/21 "2008-05-05T21:20:20Z")
Who played piano for the E Street Band and Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell 2? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/22 "2008-05-05T21:20:21Z")
[QUOTE=Belrix] What was the proper name of the robot on “Lost in Space” (no - not “Robbie”, that was Forbidden Planet) [/QUOTE] Robot. (And, I used to get it confused with “Robbie”, too…) ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/23 "2008-05-05T21:36:28Z")
[QUOTE=kenobi 65] “The Big Chill” is about a group of college friends reuniting to attend a funeral. Who was the then-unknown actor who was cast as the deceased friend (though most of his scenes were cut, and he only appears as the corpse)? [/QUOTE] I think it was Kevin Costner. Off to IMDB… ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/24 "2008-05-05T21:38:21Z")
[QUOTE=BwanaBob] I think it was Kevin Costner. Off to IMDB… [/QUOTE] Aye, 'twas. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/25 "2008-05-05T21:47:56Z")
See if this floats your friend’s entertainment boat. Name an actor who played Doctor Who and also appeared in a Harry Potter film. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/26 "2008-05-05T21:49:06Z")
[QUOTE=kenobi 65] Robot. (And, I used to get it confused with “Robbie”, too…) [/QUOTE] Nope. That’s what they called him but he has a real name… ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/27 "2008-05-05T21:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=Belrix] Nope. That’s what they called him but he has a real name… [/QUOTE] I missed this question – Robot B-9. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/28 "2008-05-05T21:52:21Z")
[QUOTE=BwanaBob] I missed this question – Robot B-9. [/QUOTE] Ding! Ding! Ding! [Further Explanation](http://home.pacbell.net/thoemke1/f-bot.project/b9nomenclature.html) [Same designer as Robbie, though](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kinoshita) ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/29 "2008-05-05T22:00:13Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] See, the reason I like this question so much is that, for a long time, _everybody_ had seen that clip. “The thrill of victory” changed from season to season, but nothing represented “the agony of defeat” like that old footage of a ski jumper who fell before he’d even cleared the end of the jump, tumbling off, and bouncing in the snow. It was iconic, unmistakeable. And no one, well, almost no one, knew his name. [/QUOTE] My father insists that in the orignal opening of the show the “Agony of Defeat” clip was an Irish hurling player getting his head smashed between two hurleys and that they had to change it because the player in question had died as a result of his injuries and ABC was sued by the guy’s family, but I’ve never been able to find out if that was true or not. ---
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From the old _“Dobie Gillis”_ show on TV: What was beatnick Maynard G. Krebs’ middle name? No fair searching. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/31 "2008-05-05T22:15:04Z")
Which African country’s name is also part of the names of three other countries, one of which is not in Africa? As a bonus, from which nation did each gain independence? Guinea – a former French colony Guinea-Bissau – a former Portuguese colony Equatorial Guinea – formerly owned by Spain Papua New Guinea – although once part of the British Empire, the eastern half of New Guinea was actually administered by Australia immediately prior to gaining independence ---
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[QUOTE=Chefguy] From the old _“Dobie Gillis”_ show on TV: What was beatnick Maynard G. Krebs’ middle name? No fair searching. [/QUOTE] Would it be Gilligan? ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/33 "2008-05-05T22:40:27Z")
What are the world’s only two double-landlocked countries? True of false: France borders The Netherlands? (OK, it’s true, but where?) ---
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On the Jetsons, what was Astro’s real name? Tralfaz ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/35 "2008-05-05T23:13:25Z")
[QUOTE=Shark Sandwich] We were playing Trivia Pursuit one night, and someone received the question: Q: Who does Jesus love more than they will know? A: Mrs. Robinson [/QUOTE] What name did Paul Simon originally use, but changed to Robinson? Roosevelt How many grooves does each side of a 33 1/3 LP record have? Just one…and it’s really long ---
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[QUOTE=Astroboy14] Would it be Gilligan? [/QUOTE] Nope, it’s Walter ---
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[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] What are the world’s only two double-landlocked countries? [/QUOTE] I didn’t know what double-landlocked meant so I looked it up but in doing so I got the answer. For the rest of you, a double-landlocked country means that it is totally surrounded by land-locked countries. ---
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[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] What are the world’s only two double-landlocked countries? True of false: France borders The Netherlands? (OK, it’s true, but where?) [/QUOTE] Liechtenstein is one of them,don’t know the other. My favorites are (though I don’t think they are all that hard), Three POTUS have died on the 4th of July,who are they? And… If you enter the Panama canal from the Atlantic and exit in the Pacific how much further west are you from when you entered? Oh and one from the original Trivial Pursuit game as best I can remember What did Edwin Rood(not sure if that was his name exactly) drive across the United States(thought it mighta been around the world,but not sure how he coulda done that) ---
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My ultimate question: Which time keeping device has the most moving parts? ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/40 "2008-05-06T01:02:00Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] How many grooves does each side of a 33 1/3 LP record have? Just one…and it’s really long [/QUOTE] Generally true, but [there are exceptions…](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records#Parallel_grooves) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169.md?page=3)