# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/101 "2008-05-07T16:06:34Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] I did not know that. I made my first visit to California in July of 1985. Took the Universal Studio tour, and recall seeing promo billboards for _Back to the Future_. Although I did not see the movie until it was released on cable a couple years afterwards. I can absolutely verify that the Doc Brown sets the flux capacitor for November 5, 1955- the day I was born. [/QUOTE] HA!! I was right!! ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/102 "2008-05-07T16:32:05Z")
Who is the only U.S. Supreme Court Justice to play for the Detroit Lions? Justice Byron “Whizzer” White. He led the NFL in rushing yards playing for the Lions in 1940, and had done the same two years earlier playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates, now the Steelers. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/103 "2008-05-07T16:43:53Z")
I believe that the other doubly landlocked country is Uzbekistan. What is the longest city in the world? Name, in order, the five largest countries on Earth. What is the northern-most US state? Eastern-most? Western? Southern? While this answer is contoversial, they are Alaska, Alaska, Alaska, and Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/104 "2008-05-07T18:37:16Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] I think there are 3. San Marino, Vatican, and Lesotho. [/QUOTE] And Swaziland? love yams!! ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/105 "2008-05-07T18:59:33Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I believe that the other doubly landlocked country is Uzbekistan. What is the longest city in the world? Name, in order, the five largest countries on Earth. What is the northern-most US state? Eastern-most? Western? Southern? While this answer is contoversial, they are Alaska, Alaska, Alaska, and Hawaii. [/QUOTE] Along the same lines What part of the US sees the sun first? Guam. US Territory that is across the international date line. ---
**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 7, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/106 "2008-05-07T19:06:12Z")
[QUOTE=yams!!] And Swaziland? love yams!! [/QUOTE] Nope, Swaziland has a border with Mozambique. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/107 "2008-05-07T19:28:44Z")
[QUOTE=yams!!] And Swaziland? [/QUOTE] Swaziland, I believe is bordered by Mozambique and South Africa. I’ve been through there by bus. Beaten by T\_SQUARE! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/108 "2008-05-07T19:30:41Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Along the same lines What part of the US sees the sun first? [/QUOTE] Good one. My first guess would have been Alaska, but the IDL does a little zigzag around it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/109 "2008-05-07T19:31:51Z")
[QUOTE=Duhkecco] 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.) [/QUOTE] Teddy Roosevelt. The youngest \*elected \*president was John Kennedy – but TR was younger when he became president after the assassination of William McKinley. So you think this would make Roosevelt the youngest to be elected vice-president, right? Wrong. Richard Nixon was barely 39 when he took office as Veep in 1952. TR was 42. ---
**Author:** ![Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intravenus_De_Milo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/110 "2008-05-07T21:45:21Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Name a state whose name contains 4 consecutive consonants that don’t span two different words. (not so much trivia as parsing it out). New Hampshire 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/111 "2008-05-07T21:59:37Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Nope, it’s [November 5, 1955](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future). October **25th** is the day in the present (1985) when Marty meets Doc in the mall parking lot and goes back in time. Scroll down do the Plot heading, halfway through the second paragraph. [/QUOTE] Well crap, I guess I need to go back and watch the movie again! :o Somebody answer the Pink Floyd / Leonard Nimoy question! I’m dying to know! ---
**Author:** ![Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intravenus_De_Milo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/112 "2008-05-07T22:14:24Z")
Okay okay, I got one: Name the first, second, and third women in space. BONUS: name the first woman to perform a spacewalk. ---
**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 7, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/113 "2008-05-07T22:38:41Z")
Assuming you mean human women; Velentina Tereshkova, Sally Ride, Judith Resnick. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/114 "2008-05-07T22:46:21Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Name, in order, the five largest countries on Earth. [/QUOTE] Russia, Canada, China, USA, Brazil? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/115 "2008-05-07T23:02:57Z")
Each state flag - with the exception of one - is rectangular. Which state does _not_ have a rectangular flag, and what is the shape called? ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/116 "2008-05-07T23:09:39Z")
The only one I know is hard just because it’s so freakin’ obscure. Who was John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of Agriculture? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/117 "2008-05-07T23:23:56Z")
[QUOTE=feppytweed] The only one I know is hard just because it’s so freakin’ obscure. Who was John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of Agriculture? [/QUOTE] Orville Faubus? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/118 "2008-05-07T23:29:29Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] In 1986, Leonard Nimoy made a claim that no one else could make. What was it? [/QUOTE] He published a book titled \*I am not Spock. \* ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/119 "2008-05-07T23:43:46Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] Orville Faubus? [/QUOTE] Orville Freeman. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/120 "2008-05-07T23:46:27Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] He published a book titled \*I am not Spock. \* [/QUOTE] Couldn’t anyone else have have made that claim? I noticed he also published a book _I am Spock_ which soon another guy will be able to claim. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169.md?page=7)