Easy (?) Trivia Questions

2007-02-27T00:24:00.000-05:00

(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.

2006-04-11T09:25:00.000-04:00

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

2006-03-20T15:54:00.000-05:00

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.

2006-01-04T21:24:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-04T21:16:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-04T21:14:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-04T21:09:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-04T21:02:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-03T14:45:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-03T14:40:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-03T14:29:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-03T14:25:00.000-05:00

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

2005-11-03T14:21:00.000-05:00

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.

2005-09-27T09:51:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-27T09:37:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-09-27T09:05:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-27T08:59:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-27T08:53:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-01T07:42:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-09-01T07:40:00.000-04:00

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

2005-07-29T07:45:00.000-04:00

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?

2005-07-27T15:09:00.000-04:00

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?

2005-07-25T14:46:00.000-04:00

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

2005-07-25T14:37:00.000-04:00

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

2005-07-24T21:47:00.000-04:00

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