# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/121 "2008-05-07T23:55:40Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] In 1986, Leonard Nimoy made a claim that no one else could make. What was it? What member of Pink Floyd can make a similar claim? [/QUOTE] I know nothing about Nimoy, but I’m gonna guess that the Pink Floyd member is Nick Mason, since he’s the only person to be in Pink Floyd since its inception. If I’m right, that probably means Leonard Nimoy can make a similar claim about Star Trek or something. Am I even close? ---
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[QUOTE=Kizarvexius] In _The Pirates of Penzance_, young Fredric discovers (much to his horror) that, due to a legal technicality, he is bound to serve the pirate crew for much longer than he had originally thought. On what date will Frederic (according to his own calculations in Act II) be freed from his indentures?February 29th, 1940 [/QUOTE] And I’m sure I remember reading somewhere that the D’Oyly Carte company had a special coming of age party or something for Frederic on that day. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/123 "2008-05-08T01:52:53Z")
[QUOTE=Crafter\_Man] Each state flag - with the exception of one - is rectangular. Which state does _not_ have a rectangular flag, and what is the shape called? [/QUOTE] Ohio; burgee ---
**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 8, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/124 "2008-05-08T02:05:40Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Assuming you mean human women; Velentina Tereshkova, Sally Ride, Judith Resnick. Yes, I meant humans. You’re answer’s close, but not quite there…although Judy Resnik was the first Jew in space, IIRC. ---
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[QUOTE=Cunctator] Ohio; burgee [/QUOTE] What’s round on the ends and hi in the middle? 😃 ---
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[QUOTE=tdn] What is the longest city in the world? [/QUOTE] Is it Anchorage, Alaska? With a total area of 1,961.1 square miles, Its diameter is at least 156.9 miles. (Since it is not a circle, I would guess that it is even longer.) If you meant longest name, then that would be the official name of Bangkok. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/127 "2008-05-08T04:44:06Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] What is the longest city in the world? [/QUOTE] Honolulu. Due to a merger of the City & County of Honolulu, Honolulu includes the Northwest Hawaiian islands, which means that the city stretches from Oahau almost to Midway. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/128 "2008-05-08T04:59:22Z")
Which is the only state of the US, no part of which has ever been under a foreign flag (ie not owned by any foreign power)? (Amerind nations, the CSA, and the Republic of Texas do not count as foreign powers for this purpose). ---
**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 8, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/129 "2008-05-08T05:17:42Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Which is the only state of the US, no part of which has ever been under a foreign flag (ie not owned by any foreign power)? (Amerind nations, the CSA, and the Republic of Texas do not count as foreign powers for this purpose). The only one I can think of would be Hawai’i (assuming that the former Kingdom of Hawai’i would constitute an “Amerind nation”). ---
**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 8, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/130 "2008-05-08T05:18:02Z")
[QUOTE=Askance] Which is the only state of the US, no part of which has ever been under a foreign flag (ie not owned by any foreign power)? (Amerind nations, the CSA, and the Republic of Texas do not count as foreign powers for this purpose). [/QUOTE] Washington? What country besides Canda and Mexico is closest to the United States? ---
**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 8, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/131 "2008-05-08T05:19:19Z")
[QUOTE=Intravenus De Milo] The only one I can think of would be Hawai’i (assuming that the former Kingdom of Hawai’i would constitute an “Amerind nation”). [/QUOTE] Hawaii was British wasn’t it? ---
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[QUOTE=Intravenus De Milo] BONUS: name the first woman to perform a spacewalk. [/QUOTE] Kathleen Sullivan. (An easy one for me. She’s a friend of mine.) ---
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> [@T SQUARE](#): > > Hawaii was British wasn’t it? IIRC it was visited from time to time by British mariners, but the Empire itself never successfully claimed the islands. ---
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> [@commasense](#): > > Kathleen Sullivan. > > (An easy one for me. She’s a friend of mine.) She was the first American woman to perform a spacewalk. Svetlana Savitskaya of the USSR beat her by a couple of months (although, in honesty, I don’t think either woman particularly cared about who had gone first - a spacewalk is a spacewalk, and must be an incredible thing to do no matter if you’re #1 or #1000). ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169/135 "2008-05-08T06:51:25Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] Washington? What country besides Canda and Mexico is closest to the United States? [/QUOTE] Cuba ---
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[QUOTE=Rick] Cuba [/QUOTE] Nope, Cuba is third. ---
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[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] Nope, Cuba is third. [/QUOTE] ::: puts on thinking cap::: Russia. IIRC the US and Russia have two islands about two miles apart in the Bering Sea. Little Diomede and Big Diomede. According to Wiki they are 2.4 miles apart. I doubt you can find any closer, and if Cuba is #3, I am at a loss for #2. ---
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[QUOTE=Rick] ::: puts on thinking cap::: Russia. IIRC the US and Russia have two islands about two miles apart in the Bering Sea. Little Diomede and Big Diomede. According to Wiki they are 2.4 miles apart. I doubt you can find any closer, and if Cuba is #3, I am at a loss for #2. [/QUOTE] Correct! The Bahamas are closer to Florida than Cuba… I think. ---
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Who was the 85th person to fly across the Atlantic? (Hint - you have definitely heard of him.) Charles Lindbergh - he was the first to fly solo non-stop. ---
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[QUOTE=Intravenus De Milo] She was the first American woman to perform a spacewalk. Svetlana Savitskaya of the USSR beat her by a couple of months (although, in honesty, I don’t think either woman particularly cared about who had gone first - a spacewalk is a spacewalk, and must be an incredible thing to do no matter if you’re #1 or #1000). [/QUOTE] D’oh! I knew that she was known as the first _American_ woman, so I should have realized that there was someone (probably Russian) ahead of her. But I had never heard of Ms. Savitskaya. Good one! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-trivia-question/448169.md?page=8)