# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/41 "2008-05-06T01:05:50Z")
[QUOTE=DellieM] My ultimate question: Which time keeping device has the most moving parts? [/QUOTE] Can you tell us how many moving parts it has? ---
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/42 "2008-05-06T01:06:05Z")
An hour glass. ---
**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 6, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/43 "2008-05-06T01:09:37Z")
[QUOTE=Saint Cad] On the Jetsons, what was Astro’s real name? Tralfaz [/QUOTE] Some years ago, I saw a Chevy Astro minivan, with that name as its license plate. Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/44 "2008-05-06T01:13:05Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] Can you tell us how many moving parts it has? [/QUOTE] Ummmm… no. Cool question though yes? ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/45 "2008-05-06T01:13:32Z")
What was the real name of Shaggy (from Scooby Doo fame)? Norville Rogers ---
**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, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/46 "2008-05-06T01:20:06Z")
[QUOTE=DellieM] My ultimate question: Which time keeping device has the most moving parts? [/QUOTE] Also, which time keeping device has the _least_ moving parts? Hint: it’s even more ancient than the hourglass. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/47 "2008-05-06T01:30:45Z")
[QUOTE=Mbossa] Also, which time keeping device has the _least_ moving parts? Hint: it’s even more ancient than the hourglass. [/QUOTE] Sundial ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/48 "2008-05-06T03:10:36Z")
This one was used at our local “Pub Quiz” a couple of weeks ago. During the infamous drug bust at Keith Richards’ Sussex mansion in February 1967, Mick Jagger was “reportedly” performing “candy bar cunnilingus” on Marianne Faithful. What brand of candy bar was involved? Mars Bar ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/49 "2008-05-06T03:46:28Z")
From Trivial Pursuit: What is a female peacock called? a peahen For some reason I found this hysterically funny when I was twelve. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/50 "2008-05-06T11:06:37Z")
I’ve just spent six weeks travelling around America. I met a large cross-section of Americans, both friends and strangers. For no good reason, after a conversation early on in the trip, I tried out the following set of trivia questions on more or less everyone I met. 1. Where was Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated? About 95% of the people I spoke to knew the answer to this. 1. What was the name of the play? I 'd say only about 50% got this. 1. Who wrote it? About 2% of the people I spoke to knew the answer to this. 1. Where was Lincoln when he died? About 2% of the people I spoke to knew the answer. 1. That crown or coronet around the head of the Statue of Liberty… how many points does it have? About 50% of people got this right, but what was interesting was the range of wrong answers (the lowest guess I got was 5 and the highest was 13). Seven 1. What is this number (the correct answer to question 5) supposed to represent? About 10% of people got this right. The answers I haven’t given so far are Lincoln was in Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC when he was shot. The play was ‘Our American Cousin’, written by Tom Taylor. Lincoln died in a house across the street from the theatre, specifically at the Peterson House, at 516, Tenth Street, DC. The seven points on Liberty’s crown are supposed to represent ‘the seven continents’. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/51 "2008-05-06T11:38:35Z")
I usually get less-knowledgable people with this one : What was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon ever made? … and … What was Mickey’s first color film appearance? ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/52 "2008-05-06T12:21:35Z")
I have two I like to use that usually trip people up. !. In the old **Pogo** comic strip, what were the names of the three bats? Those who think they know will often say “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered.” The correct answer is “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bemildred.” 1. Which is the largest European country? Most people say “France” or “Poland”, but the correct answer is “Denmark.” Denmark? Yes, because Greenland, which is huge, is legally an integral part of Denmark just the way Hawaii is an integral part of the U.S.A. (Actually, this may no longer be true since I recall reading a few years ago that the status of Greenland had changed.) ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/53 "2008-05-06T12:55:21Z")
What were the Skipper’s and the Professor’s character’s real names? Skipper = Jonas Grumby Professor = Roy Hinkley ---
**Author:** ![Duhkecco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8491ac/32.png) [@Duhkecco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duhkecco)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/54 "2008-05-06T12:55:24Z")
[QUOTE=Ronald C. Semone] Which is the largest European country? [/QUOTE] I would say Ukraine, or, if I change the question to “What’s the largest country in Europe?” – Russia. One of my favorite trivia questions was the final question in the first game of Trivial Pursuit that I ever played: Who was the youngest U.S. President? Everyone was sure that I was wrong. (BTW, I am not American, nor was anyone in the game. I’m sure that the question is easier for Americans.) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/55 "2008-05-06T14:36:01Z")
Another one that has generated lots of discussion: Who is the only person in the world who has two countries named after him? Simón Bolivar; Bolivia and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/56 "2008-05-06T19:02:00Z")
[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] And here’s something interesting to piggyback on that one: the funeral in **The Big Chill** was originally intended to be a follow-up to the events of what movie, in which Kevin Costner dies? Answer can be found [here](http://jabootu.com/sk.htm). ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/57 "2008-05-06T19:32:33Z")
Who’s the only person to be a US Senator, Governor of a US state, and the President of a foreign country? Sam Houston. All three in Texas ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/58 "2008-05-06T19:46:36Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] Who’s the only person to be a US Senator, Governor of a US state, and the President of a foreign country? [/QUOTE] I knew that one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/59 "2008-05-06T19:50:34Z")
The greatest movie trivia question of all time: In the movie, _Back to the Future_ To what day did Doc Brown set the flux capacitor; being the day that Doc Brown had invented the flux capacitor and therefore the day that Marty McFly arrived in the past? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/60 "2008-05-06T19:56:39Z")
I’ll let others answer that one, but I know it: My best friend was born that very day, and entered a promo contest sponsored by the studio when that movie came out. Everybody born that day was eligible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169.md?page=4)