# What wrong answers have you found in Trivial Pursuit? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 2, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688 "2001-08-02T20:11:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/61 "2019-01-10T02:45:59Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Another question from the '80s Edition has to do with Timothy Dalton’s final appearance as James Bond. The answer is _Licence Revoked_, the film’s title during production, rather than _Licence to Kill_. Again, I accept either answer if I’m asking. > > I’m guessing that the cards were published before _Licence to Kill_ and _Batman_ were released. Wait, if the card was published before License to Kill’s release how would they know that was his final Bond film? Apparently Dalton was signed on for one more film after License to Kill but only dropped out due to a bunch of weird corporate restructuring stuff that occurred after LtK’s release which is why there was such a giant gap between LtK and Goldeneye. In fact the outline of the 3rd Dalton film has been out for a while now and Dalton apparently at one point was going to fight a robot, I’m not joking (since Terminator was hot at the time and Bond films tend to copy whatever was the last big hit). ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/62 "2019-01-10T02:52:31Z")
> [@President\_Johnny\_Gentle](#): > > The questions weren’t necessarily incorrect, but I remember getting the Sports expansion in the mid 80s and playing with my father. We gave up on it fairly quickly after discovering a considerable number of questions were of the form “Who wears number 9 for the Vikings?” Every crappily made sports trivia game suffers from this. I remember buying one in the early 00’s for PC where most the questions were “How many yards did \ rush for last season?” which made it hilariously out of date a year after production. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/63 "2019-01-10T03:42:38Z")
I recall playing the game in the mid-1980s when Pete Rose was player-manager of the Reds. Trivial Pursuit was obviously printed/published before Pete was named their manager, because they had a question “Who was the last player-manager in Major League Baseball?” and the answer on the back was Don Kessinger (which was indeed correct before Rose managed). ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/64 "2019-01-11T18:28:19Z")
Possibly a hijack, as it pertains to the tabletop version of a different game: _Who Want to be a Millionaire_, but my outrage at the error was similar to that of others in this thread. The final, million-dollar question was: what is the name of the [B-2 Bomber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2)? I forget what the claimed “correct” answer was, but none of the four options was “Spirit,” which is correct. The other players feigned that this information could not possibly be known, so I “lost.” This was in the days before smartphones and Wikipedia. I was quite put out. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/65 "2019-01-11T19:33:22Z")
> [@ScatteredFrog](#): > > The best, though: > > “From what two words did the meat product Spam take its name?” Gotta wonder what the “right” answer to that question is. There are many folk etymologies of Spam floating around, and the makers aren’t saying what the true version is. > [@Asuka](#): > > Apparently Dalton was signed on for one more film after License to Kill but only dropped out due to a bunch of weird corporate restructuring stuff that occurred after LtK’s release which is why there was such a giant gap between LtK and Goldeneye. I thought that was because of a long legal dispute with the people that made Never Say Never Again. They wanted to make more Bond films. EON wanted to stop them. Until the dispute was resolved, neither were able to make any. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/66 "2019-01-11T19:51:14Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > Wait, if the card was published before License to Kill’s release how would they know that was his final Bond film? > > Apparently Dalton was signed on for one more film after License to Kill but only dropped out due to a bunch of weird corporate restructuring stuff that occurred after LtK’s release which is why there was such a giant gap between LtK and Goldeneye. In fact the outline of the 3rd Dalton film has been out for a while now and Dalton apparently at one point was going to fight a robot, I’m not joking (since Terminator was hot at the time and Bond films tend to copy whatever was the last big hit). All I know for sure is that the little insert with the color codes is ©1989. I’m not about to dig through all those cards to find the exact wording. 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 11, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/67 "2019-01-11T20:39:58Z")
Back in 2013, someone found and posted a picture on the net of a card with the question, “Which of these actors has never played Batman: Ben Affleck, Christian Bale, George Clooney, Val Kilmer, or Adam West?” ---
**Author:** ![Maestroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@Maestroh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maestroh)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/68 "2019-01-13T03:03:17Z")
I was at a church singles group in 1988 playing whatever the most recent edition was. Team play. I was cleaning house on sports questions. Then came one right down the middle of the plate: “How many games did it take the Minnesota Twins to defeat the St Louis Cardinals in the 1987 World Series?” I said, “Seven,” and reached for the die. Nope. The card said “six,” and nobody else there was a baseball fan. I listed the scores for each game, etc, but they thought the card was like the 10 Commandments or something. I stopped playing and just sat there. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/69 "2019-02-02T22:33:05Z")
There’s a question that asks, what name was given the ( Boeing ) 737 when it came out? Answer: “Fat Albert”. FWIW, I’ve worked as a mechanic on the 737 for 30+ years with different operators. In that time I’ve NEVER heard the “Fat Albert” term used by any of my peers, in all our work histories. We’ve only heard of the term via Trivial Pursuit. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/70 "2019-02-02T22:46:13Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > There’s a question that asks, what name was given the ( Boeing ) 737 when it came out? Answer: “Fat Albert”. > > FWIW, I’ve worked as a mechanic on the 737 for 30+ years with different operators. In that time I’ve NEVER heard the “Fat Albert” term used by any of my peers, in all our work histories. We’ve only heard of the term via Trivial Pursuit. That’s because “Fat Albert” is [a specific NASA 737](https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/B-737.html). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/71 "2019-02-02T23:50:45Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > That’s because “Fat Albert” is [a specific NASA 737](https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/B-737.html). 🙂 I see…Albeit not the household term the game card implies. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/72 "2019-02-05T06:16:17Z")
Q: What is the largest organ in the human body? A: The liver. Correct answer: Skin. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/73 "2019-02-05T16:05:11Z")
'Course, the skin isn’t _in_ the body. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/74 "2019-02-05T17:21:21Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Q: What is the largest organ in the human body? > > A: The liver. > Correct answer: Skin. My di…ohhhh IN the body ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/75 "2019-02-06T04:41:59Z")
In _ **a** _ body? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/76 "2019-02-10T05:16:38Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Q: What is the largest organ in the human body? > > A: The liver. > Correct answer: Skin. > [@Skywatcher](#): > > 'Course, the skin isn’t _in_ the body. 😉 I may have another organ that is bigger. And it has on occasion been in a body, heh. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![vandwedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f14d63/32.png) [@vandwedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandwedge)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/77 "2020-11-21T01:30:39Z")
Please tell me if I’ve misinterpreted something, but I believe I found one with an error in the question AND another in the answer. The question, as written: “What is the difference between one square mile and one mile square?” I’m pretty sure it means “a mile squared,” right? The answer is even more cryptic, though. Instead of something like “one is a square a mile on each side, and the other is a straight line,” the answer is, I quote, “One square mile.” (Was the question originally “which is bigger,” not “what’s the difference”? I don’t know, this whole thing is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/78 "2020-11-21T05:24:04Z")
There isn’t any difference, because the square of 1 is 1. So one mile square (1 mile by 1 mile) is exactly equal to 1 square mile. Compare that to say 2 square miles and 2 miles square. The former is: x x The latter is: x x x x Assuming the character x is a mile. But don’t take my word for it, take Dr. Math’s! [http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58423.html](http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58423.html) ---
**Author:** ![vandwedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f14d63/32.png) [@vandwedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandwedge)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/79 "2020-11-21T12:34:36Z")
Helpful link! Thank you. I still don’t see how their answer makes any sense. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688/80 "2020-11-21T23:59:31Z")
It doesn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-wrong-answers-have-you-found-in-trivial-pursuit/74688.md?page=5)