Easy (?) Trivia Questions

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

(Ah...haven't posted here in a while...here's an interesting question...) Arthur Wellesley was the first person to be given this title, the holder of which also claims the title of Prince of Waterloo.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Add the letter "s" to this kind of tropical tree to get a sacred song or poem.

Monday, March 20, 2006

Also a curling term...

14 pounds.
A mallet, for one.
Something that you fastens, or pushes?
A CD player malfunction.
In TV world, November, February, May and July.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Two Shakespearean plays, both comedy, whose titles contain repeated words.

He invented the first chemical battery, and lends its name to an SI unit.

Rene Descartes' Latin statement cogito, ergo sum is traditionally translated into English as what?

The longest bridge in the world is located in what country: Japan, The United States, Denmark, or Hong Kong?

Complete this pangram: "The quick brown fox jumps over the..." Part two of the question: What is a pangram?

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Con man Victor Lustig is best known for having sold this famous landmark for scrap.

This European country is sometimes known as "The Hexagon."

Unit of measurement that is the "parallax of one arc second."

The state flag for this U.S. state contains 8 stars, 7 representing the Big Dipper, 1 for the Polaris.

The name of this region comes from an ancient Greek word for "bear," a reference to the constellations of the Great Bear and Little Bear.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

The Cook Islands is one of the associated states of this island nation.

These two composers (who never met each other) were born in the same year 1685, one in Leipzig, the other in Halle, about 50 kilometres apart.

This major American company was established in Two Harbors, later moved to Duluth, and now in Maplewood.

What do NATO, laser, and scuba have in common?

In this Olympic event, it is illegal to have both feet off the ground at the same time.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Each year, the names of these are given in alphabetical order in the chronological order that they are formed, alternating between boy and girl names.

The Republic of San Marino is closest to which of these seas: Adriatic, Balearic, Ionian, or Tyrrhenian?

Friday, July 29, 2005

The Fujita scale classifies tornados into F0 to F6 according to which of the following: wind speed, width, force of updraft, or damage to structures?

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Among the 30 NHL teams, only 3 whose home stadiums' names do not take on any corporations. (Imaginary bonus for naming all 3 teams.) Among the 3, which team's home stadium is named after an athlete?

Monday, July 25, 2005

Located in the city of Nuuk, Illisimatusarfik is the only university on this island.

The year in which Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France.

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Cross-country skiing and rifle shooting are two of the sports in what Olympics event: Biathlon, triathlon, (modern) pentathlon, or decathlon?

Saturday, July 23, 2005

Which company is formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company?

Which of these national capitals is the northernmost one: London, Tokyo, or Ottawa?

In the name of the operating system "Microsoft Windows XP," what does XP stand for?

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

What is the first city to host the modern Summer Olympics twice: London, Paris, Los Angeles, or Athens?

Translated into English, this European country's motto is Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.

In 1825, a country was created in honour of this revolutionary, who was born in Caracas in 1783.

In the U.S., Presidents' Day is a combination of two former holidays on the birthdays of these two presidents, one born on February 12, the other February 22.

Saturday, July 09, 2005

About half the island of New Guinea is occupied by the country Papua New Guinea. The other half is occupied by this province of Indonesia.

The name of this U.S. territory comes from the fact that its distances to Asia and North America are about the same.

If Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. state, would it be the smallest state in the country in terms of land area?