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Title: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 03:00:38 PM
No Yi rule, you can ask a question about your own country.

First pitch:

Who was the one British Prime Minister of the 19th century to attend neither a public school or Oxbridge?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on April 06, 2021, 03:06:58 PM
Boot?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 06, 2021, 03:20:28 PM
Peel?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Threviel on April 06, 2021, 03:20:44 PM
Someone early enough and rich enough to be home educated. Pitt?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 03:22:24 PM
no, no, no
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Tonitrus on April 06, 2021, 03:25:01 PM
Gonna go with Gladstone.

Had to immediately check myself and am way wrong.  :P
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on April 06, 2021, 03:41:01 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on April 06, 2021, 03:25:01 PM
Gonna go with Gladstone.

Had to immediately check myself and am way wrong.  :P
Fairly sure he went to Oxford and was later their MP?

Edit: Pam?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on April 06, 2021, 04:04:28 PM
Lord North??
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 04:10:06 PM
no no
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 04:41:19 PM
[spoiler]Disreali[/spoiler]

Y'all can either jump in with a new question or give others the opportunity to guess.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Barrister on April 06, 2021, 04:55:21 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 04:41:19 PM
[spoiler]Disreali[/spoiler]

Y'all can either jump in with a new question or give others the opportunity to guess.

[spoiler]I was going to say "of course the Jew didn't go to public school", but according to Wiki his older brothers did, so it wasn't anti-semitism.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on April 06, 2021, 04:55:34 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 04:41:19 PM
[spoiler]Disreali[/spoiler]

Y'all can either jump in with a new question or give others the opportunity to guess.

What was slightly interesting about the 1997 election defeat of Conservative MP Henry Bellingham in the North West Norfolk constituency?

Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Jacob on April 06, 2021, 04:58:43 PM
His opponent was dead at the time of the election?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Barrister on April 06, 2021, 05:00:09 PM
Quote from: mongers on April 06, 2021, 04:55:34 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 04:41:19 PM
[spoiler]Disreali[/spoiler]

Y'all can either jump in with a new question or give others the opportunity to guess.

What was slightly interesting about the 1997 election defeat of Conservative MP Henry Bellingham in the North West Norfolk constituency?

Bring back the Yi rule!
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on April 06, 2021, 05:07:32 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 06, 2021, 04:58:43 PM
His opponent was dead at the time of the election?

Nope, but in one sense he did have another 'opponent' who was long dead.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on April 06, 2021, 05:16:39 PM
Hint:

The sitting conservative MP lost the seat to the Labour candidate by around 1,300 votes, because the Referendum party ran a candidate, one Roger Percival who polled nearly 3,000 and split the right-wing vote.

Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 05:29:34 PM
Bellingham and Percival were outrageous homosexualist lovers and Percival only ran because of a lover's spat.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on April 06, 2021, 05:33:54 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 05:29:34 PM
Bellingham and Percival were outrageous homosexualist lovers and Percival only ran because of a lover's spat.

Perhaps nearer, alternatively I'll give you the link to the answer and you/others can continue to guess or not?
I have to go and do something.

Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8375544.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8375544.stm)
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 05:37:03 PM
I've got one.

Name the one US island that is allowed by the [obscure branch of the government in charge of this shit] to have an apostrophe in its name.

Cribbed from Jeopardy.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 06, 2021, 05:41:52 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 05:37:03 PM
I've got one.

Name the one US island that is allowed by the [obscure branch of the government in charge of this shit] to have an apostrophe in its name.

Cribbed from Jeopardy.

It's probably on the northeast coast.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on April 06, 2021, 05:44:27 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 05:37:03 PM
I've got one.

Name the one US island that is allowed by the [obscure branch of the government in charge of this shit] to have an apostrophe in its name.

Cribbed from Jeopardy.

St.James's Island or is it King James's Island?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 05:45:41 PM
no
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 06, 2021, 05:50:27 PM
Wasn't this on QI btw? Is Martha's Vineyard an island?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 05:51:52 PM
Quote from: Liep on April 06, 2021, 05:50:27 PM
Wasn't this on QI btw? Is Martha's Vineyard an island?

Don't know what QI is, and the Vineyard is an island.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on April 06, 2021, 05:54:47 PM
One of the Hawaiian islands? Would have thought several of them.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 06, 2021, 05:55:04 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 05:51:52 PM
Quote from: Liep on April 06, 2021, 05:50:27 PM
Wasn't this on QI btw? Is Martha's Vineyard an island?

Don't know what QI is, and the Vineyard is an island.

Stephen Fry saying stuff that are quite interesting.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 06:00:38 PM
Quote from: Liep on April 06, 2021, 05:55:04 PM
Stephen Fry saying stuff that are quite interesting.

Ah, that show.  I've watched a few clips.  I think the factoids are fun, but the smug superiority of the panel puts me off.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 06:02:09 PM
It's your go Liep if you have something.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 06, 2021, 06:05:12 PM
I'll go with the latest question I remember from a Trivial Pursuit game: From who did East Timor last win independence?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on April 06, 2021, 06:06:59 PM
Quote from: Liep on April 06, 2021, 06:05:12 PM
I'll go with the latest question I remember from a Trivial Pursuit game: From who did East Timor last win independence?

Australia.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on April 06, 2021, 06:12:40 PM
Australia as a technicality?
But Indonesia really. De facto. Portugal de jure.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 06, 2021, 06:18:05 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 06, 2021, 06:12:40 PM
Australia as a technicality?
But Indonesia really. De facto. Portugal de jure.

I'm pretty sure the answer was Indonesia, wikipedia might correct me.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 06:22:38 PM
Is Squeeze too newbie to remember the old trivia threads?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2021, 06:26:01 PM
In case you are Squeeze, the person with the correct answer wins the right to ask the next question.

If you have bupkiss you can always pass your turn.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on April 07, 2021, 02:15:32 AM
In the 1970 election how did Edward Heath lose the vote in the Bexley constituency yet Edward Heath became prime minister out of the election?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2021, 02:24:01 AM
Bexley had a disproportional amount of Edward Heaths running?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Gups on April 07, 2021, 03:28:36 AM
Quote from: Liep on April 07, 2021, 02:24:01 AM
Bexley had a disproportional amount of Edward Heaths running?

As a one year old living in Bexley at the time I can confirm that's correct. Two Edward Heaths stood.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on April 07, 2021, 03:29:49 AM
Yes. Right first time.
And it changed the system forever.
https://www.markpack.org.uk/107255/political-leaflets-used-look-two-edward-heaths-ballot-paper/
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on April 07, 2021, 04:34:58 AM
If we're going to get tons of arcane questions about British electoral results I call for the reestablishment of the Yi rule.  :P
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2021, 06:16:43 AM
Who is the only other Dane to win the Tour of Flanders besides Kasper Asgreen?

I'm struggling to find none-googleable questions but maybe someone remembers one of the greatest Danish cyclists of all time. (HINT :P)
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on April 07, 2021, 06:24:35 AM
Bjarne Riis?  :P
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2021, 06:36:15 AM
Quote from: The Larch on April 07, 2021, 06:24:35 AM
Bjarne Riis?  :P

No, but same era.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: PDH on April 07, 2021, 08:44:55 AM
Dopey Dopersson?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 07, 2021, 10:37:49 AM
Bjarne Rhubl?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 07, 2021, 10:51:02 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 07, 2021, 10:37:49 AM
Bjarne Rhubl?

Bjarne Stinssön
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on April 07, 2021, 10:54:45 AM
Quote from: Liep on April 07, 2021, 06:36:15 AM
Quote from: The Larch on April 07, 2021, 06:24:35 AM
Bjarne Riis?  :P

No, but same era.

Don't really know any other Danish cyclists.  :Embarrass:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2021, 11:59:36 AM
Quote from: PDH on April 07, 2021, 08:44:55 AM
Dopey Dopersson?

He has of course admitted to doping, but everyone was doped in the 90's so it was still fair play.

And two hints: #1 it's sen not son. #2 His nickname is Il Biondo.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: PDH on April 07, 2021, 12:02:01 PM
Quote from: Liep on April 07, 2021, 11:59:36 AM
Quote from: PDH on April 07, 2021, 08:44:55 AM
Dopey Dopersson?

He has of course admitted to doping, but everyone was doped in the 90's so it was still fair play.

And two hints: #1 it's sen not son. #2 His nickname is Il Biondo.

Fair play except for Riis who apparently had a heart that could pump cement through his veins.   :P
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on April 07, 2021, 12:33:32 PM
I can only think of Rasmussen, but I'm pretty sure it's not him.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2021, 12:41:16 PM
Quote from: Maladict on April 07, 2021, 12:33:32 PM
I can only think of Rasmussen, but I'm pretty sure it's not him.

He was riding for the same team when he won Flanders as Rasmussen did when he got booted from the Tour.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: PDH on April 07, 2021, 12:46:00 PM
Ahh, Rasmussen "I never got caught I just disappeared for a few months after doping so I could later test clean."
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2021, 12:48:42 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 07, 2021, 12:46:00 PM
Ahh, Rasmussen "I never got caught I just disappeared for a few months after doping so I could later test clean."

To be fair everyone was doped in the 00's so it was still fair play. :P :unsure:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2021, 12:53:04 PM
It was of course the great Rolf Sørensen!

New round:

Name three actors who have played CIA analyst Jack Ryan
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 12:54:23 PM
Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski and I want to say Brad Pitt (some film where he's doing something with the IRA)?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Barrister on April 07, 2021, 01:01:22 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 12:54:23 PM
Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski and I want to say Brad Pitt (some film where he's doing something with the IRA)?

Baldwin, Krasinski and Harrison Ford.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2021, 01:02:49 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 07, 2021, 01:01:22 PM

Baldwin, Krasinski and Harrison Ford.

Winner!
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 01:10:31 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 07, 2021, 01:01:22 PMBaldwin, Krasinski and Harrison Ford.
:huh: Weirdly the IRA movie I was thinking of co-stars Harrison Ford (it's also dreadful). But yeah it's not a Jack Ryan film
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Barrister on April 07, 2021, 01:14:40 PM
Floor's open.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 07, 2021, 01:17:19 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 07, 2021, 01:01:22 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 12:54:23 PM
Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski and I want to say Brad Pitt (some film where he's doing something with the IRA)?

Baldwin, Krasinski and Harrison Ford.

Also Ben Affleck and Chris Pine.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 01:18:04 PM
What's the only country in Africa that still has a capital city that is definitely named after a European explorer? Bonus: who?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Jacob on April 07, 2021, 01:18:33 PM
What is the fat content of blue whale milk?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Barrister on April 07, 2021, 01:20:49 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 01:18:04 PM
What's the only country in Africa that still has a capital city that is definitely named after a European explorer? Bonus: who?

Brazzaville?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Valmy on April 07, 2021, 01:26:16 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 01:18:04 PM
What's the only country in Africa that still has a capital city that is definitely named after a European explorer? Bonus: who?

John Cairo? Antonio Xavier Mogadishu?

Probably in the western part of Africa someplace. I am going to guess Brazzaville...but I am not familiar with European Explorers outside of big ones like Da Gama and Cabral and Magellan and those guys.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Valmy on April 07, 2021, 01:26:38 PM
Damn it! BB beat me.

That city just sounds very European compared to other African capitals.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Barrister on April 07, 2021, 01:31:37 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 07, 2021, 01:26:38 PM
Damn it! BB beat me.

That city just sounds very European compared to other African capitals.

That's all I was going off of.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Jacob on April 07, 2021, 01:32:19 PM
RSA and Pretoria?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Valmy on April 07, 2021, 01:32:27 PM
You can have Brazzaville then and I will guess Windhoek. For Heinrich Windhoek maybe.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 07, 2021, 01:32:34 PM
Windhoek?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 01:34:50 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 07, 2021, 01:20:49 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 01:18:04 PM
What's the only country in Africa that still has a capital city that is definitely named after a European explorer? Bonus: who?

Brazzaville?
Is correct!

Capital of Congo - named after Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 01:44:29 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 07, 2021, 01:32:19 PM
RSA and Pretoria?
Fair - I thought I'd carved it out by specifying explorer but it's named after a voortrekker/settler so maybe not specific enough :hmm:

Edit: (I was obsessed with capital cities as a kid and have a weird amount of residual useless trivia :lol:)
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on April 07, 2021, 01:44:43 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 01:34:50 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 07, 2021, 01:20:49 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 07, 2021, 01:18:04 PM
What's the only country in Africa that still has a capital city that is definitely named after a European explorer? Bonus: who?

Brazzaville?
Is correct!

Capital of Congo - named after Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.

No, the correct answer is Congo (Republic).  :goodboy:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Valmy on April 07, 2021, 01:49:56 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 07, 2021, 01:32:34 PM
Windhoek?

Capital of Nambia and founded by Euro settlers.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 07, 2021, 01:54:15 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 07, 2021, 01:49:56 PM
Capital of Nambia and founded by Euro settlers.

Not Zamibia?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Valmy on April 07, 2021, 01:56:46 PM
Namibia. Sorry, typo.

And no not Zamibia :P
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 07, 2021, 01:58:20 PM
Some typos are more costly than others in the post-Trump age.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 07, 2021, 02:03:16 PM
You know what Valmy?  I was wondering why you were Texasplaining Windhoek to me then I read back and realized I posted my guess right after yours.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Jacob on April 07, 2021, 03:00:48 PM
Texasplaining  :lol:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on April 07, 2021, 03:04:48 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 07, 2021, 01:18:33 PM
What is the fat content of blue whale milk?

I know it's the highest of any animal, but no idea how much. Let's say 40%?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Jacob on April 07, 2021, 03:38:32 PM
Quote from: The Larch on April 07, 2021, 03:04:48 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 07, 2021, 01:18:33 PM
What is the fat content of blue whale milk?

I know it's the highest of any animal, but no idea how much. Let's say 40%?

~40% is correct!
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: FunkMonk on April 07, 2021, 05:41:52 PM
Damn that a lot of fat
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 26, 2021, 03:23:07 PM
In relation to which campaign does the quote "veni, vidi, vici: apply?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on June 26, 2021, 03:27:01 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 26, 2021, 03:23:07 PM
In relation to which campaign does the quote "veni, vidi, vici: apply?

Crap, I knew this. Once  :(
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on June 26, 2021, 03:28:11 PM
I've heard this, but since history is for nerds I didn't pay enough attention.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Razgovory on June 26, 2021, 06:11:13 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 26, 2021, 03:23:07 PM
In relation to which campaign does the quote "veni, vidi, vici: apply?


Caesar's conquest of Gaul?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: viper37 on June 26, 2021, 06:31:04 PM
Ceasar's campaign in the Pontus?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 26, 2021, 09:53:19 PM
Quote from: viper37 on June 26, 2021, 06:31:04 PM
Ceasar's campaign in the Pontus?

yup
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 02, 2021, 02:51:59 PM
Name the one woman executed by the US in the 20th century for a crime other than murder.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on July 02, 2021, 02:55:56 PM
Ethel Rosenberg?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 02, 2021, 02:57:46 PM
yup
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on July 03, 2021, 06:41:14 AM
An easy one for some here:  what is the only surviving Pre-Indo-European language native to Europe?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 03, 2021, 06:42:53 AM
Basque?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on July 03, 2021, 06:44:59 AM
Basque in the glory of being the first one to get it right (though it took you a minute and 39 seconds to do so).
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 03, 2021, 08:50:59 AM
Sorry, I don't have notifications on.

146 people died in a fire at which factory in New York in 1911?

Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on July 03, 2021, 09:06:42 AM
Something Shirt Something.  That's all I remember.  I do recall reading about the fire.  Victims were overwhelming immigrant women, and the fire was, I believe the most deadly in NYC history until 9/11.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 03, 2021, 09:31:08 AM
Right track.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Razgovory on July 03, 2021, 10:25:33 AM
Quote from: grumbler on July 03, 2021, 06:41:14 AM
An easy one for some here:  what is the only surviving Pre-Indo-European language native to Europe?

I think that Finnish is native to Europe...  Also all those weird languages in the Caucuses.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 03, 2021, 01:53:30 PM
Triangle Shirt Factory
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 03, 2021, 01:55:41 PM
Yep.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 03, 2021, 02:29:17 PM
What, if any, was the relationship between Thomas Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on July 03, 2021, 02:30:46 PM
Distant cousin? :hmm:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 03, 2021, 02:32:06 PM
Hmm. Too vague.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 03, 2021, 02:43:45 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 03, 2021, 02:30:46 PM
Distant cousin? :hmm:

Aren't they like one century apart from each other?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on July 03, 2021, 02:46:22 PM
Quote from: The Larch on July 03, 2021, 02:43:45 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 03, 2021, 02:30:46 PM
Distant cousin? :hmm:

Aren't they like one century apart from each other?
Yep - hence distant :P Second or third cousin maybe, I'm not sure.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 03, 2021, 02:55:31 PM
[spoiler]My source says great grand nephew.[/spoiler]

Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Valmy on July 03, 2021, 03:08:42 PM
A desire to bath in the blood of Irishmen?

I guess I always thought Oliver was a descendent of Thomas. I guess this is where I learn that is not true.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Valmy on July 03, 2021, 03:09:16 PM
Oh...well that isn't too far off.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 03, 2021, 03:17:55 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2021, 03:08:42 PM
A desire to bath in the blood of Irishmen?

I guess I always thought Oliver was a descendent of Thomas. I guess this is where I learn that is not true.

Do you mean ancestor?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on July 03, 2021, 06:10:10 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on July 03, 2021, 03:17:55 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2021, 03:08:42 PM
A desire to bath in the blood of Irishmen?

I guess I always thought Oliver was a descendent of Thomas. I guess this is where I learn that is not true.

Do you mean ancestor?

Oliver was the ECW general (17th Century).  Thomas was Henry VIII's chief minister during VIII's chief mischiefs (16th Century). 
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 03, 2021, 07:49:30 PM
My bad.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 10, 2021, 08:40:05 AM
Judith Love Cohen was an aerospace engineer who worked on the guidance system of the Minutemen missiles and the Abort-Guidance system of the Apollo lunar module which played a critical role in saving Apollo 13.

She is also the mother of an actor/comedian. Who is he?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 10, 2021, 08:50:14 AM
Jack Black.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 10, 2021, 08:58:39 AM
Correct :)
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 10, 2021, 09:33:40 AM
Continuing with the space race theme:

Astronaut candidates that wanted to join the Mercury program (the famous Mercury Seven) had to fulfill a series of criteria, such as being qualified jet pilots, having at least 1.500 hours of flight time, and having a bachelor's degree, but they also had a couple of more arbitrary ones related to their age and height. Which were these requiriments?
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Post by: The Brain on July 10, 2021, 09:35:55 AM
They had to be white.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Agelastus on July 10, 2021, 09:49:08 AM
At least 30 years old and under 5ft 10"?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 10, 2021, 09:50:00 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 10, 2021, 09:49:08 AM
At least 30 years old and under 5ft 10"?

1/2.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 10, 2021, 11:56:09 PM
24 hour rule, or something.

Which five nationalities were present at The Battle of The Boyne?

I say nationalities because two of them, the English and the Irish, were not countries.  So what are the other three.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Liep on July 11, 2021, 12:06:03 AM
Orcs, elves and dwarves?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 11, 2021, 12:21:01 AM
So close.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Agelastus on July 11, 2021, 02:31:48 AM
English, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Scottish, (Ulster) Scots and probably several more.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 11, 2021, 02:49:45 AM
The source I used to check my answer doesn't mention Germans (except for the Protestant commander from the HRE), Scots, or Ulster Scots.

French yes, Dutch yes, I'm looking for one more, kind of an odd ball.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 11, 2021, 02:57:53 AM
Swiss?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on July 11, 2021, 03:04:22 AM
Swedish?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 11, 2021, 03:13:27 AM
Danish?

Great, now I'm hungry.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 11, 2021, 03:30:40 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 11, 2021, 03:13:27 AM
Danish?

Great, now I'm hungry.

bingo
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 11, 2021, 03:47:25 AM
Emperor Franz Joseph had one condition for approving the use of gas by Austro-Hungarian forces in WW1. What was it?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on July 11, 2021, 04:01:17 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 11, 2021, 03:47:25 AM
Emperor Franz Joseph had one condition for approving the use of gas by Austro-Hungarian forces in WW1. What was it?

Only as retaliation?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 11, 2021, 04:16:31 AM
Don't kill any horses?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 11, 2021, 04:17:02 AM
Quote from: Maladict on July 11, 2021, 04:01:17 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 11, 2021, 03:47:25 AM
Emperor Franz Joseph had one condition for approving the use of gas by Austro-Hungarian forces in WW1. What was it?

Only as retaliation?

Correct. Austria-Hungary would have to be attacked with gas first.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 11, 2021, 04:17:10 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 11, 2021, 04:16:31 AM
Don't kill any horses?

No. :(
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on July 11, 2021, 05:27:57 AM
Easy one for the Byzantards: Emperor Constans II considered moving the capital from Constantinople to which city?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Threviel on July 11, 2021, 05:31:07 AM
Syracuse.  :blush:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on July 11, 2021, 05:53:55 AM
Quote from: Threviel on July 11, 2021, 05:31:07 AM
Syracuse.  :blush:

Correct  :D
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 11, 2021, 05:59:21 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 10, 2021, 11:56:09 PM
24 hour rule, or something.

In case anyone was curious, the criteria for Mercury astronauts were that they should not be older than 40 or taller than 5'10".
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Threviel on July 11, 2021, 06:21:19 AM
Quote from: Maladict on July 11, 2021, 05:53:55 AM
Quote from: Threviel on July 11, 2021, 05:31:07 AM
Syracuse.  :blush:

Correct  :D

I have no question, free for all!
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 11, 2021, 04:38:12 PM
I might have asked this one before.

What is the origin of the term golf caddy, as in a person who carries your bag of clubs?

Hint: it's related to Scotland.  :D
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 20, 2021, 01:43:36 AM
24 hour rule? :P

A German politician developed a soy based sausage in 1916. He tried to have it patented but failed in Germany and could only get a patent in the UK, dated June 1918.

Who was he?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 20, 2021, 03:38:28 AM
Oscar Meyer?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 20, 2021, 04:16:27 AM
Graf von Tofu.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 20, 2021, 04:22:10 AM
No.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on July 20, 2021, 04:24:51 AM
Wilhem Von Quornenburg
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 04:46:31 AM
Martin Prinz.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 20, 2021, 05:03:46 AM
It was a well known post-WW2 politician.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 05:08:13 AM
Adenauer.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 20, 2021, 05:27:39 AM
Korrekt.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 05:34:11 AM
Bismarck said that if the world was ending he'd move to a certain part of Germany. Which part?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 20, 2021, 06:34:32 AM
Saxony?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 06:51:14 AM
Nein.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on July 20, 2021, 06:51:31 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 05:34:11 AM
Bismarck said that if the world was ending he'd move to a certain part of Germany. Which part?

The part of the moon with the secret nazi moonbase with the V2 rockets?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 06:53:41 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 20, 2021, 06:51:31 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 05:34:11 AM
Bismarck said that if the world was ending he'd move to a certain part of Germany. Which part?

The part of the moon with the secret nazi moonbase with the V2 rockets?

That wasn't an official part of Germany.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Agelastus on July 20, 2021, 06:57:02 AM
Rugen?

Edit: just looked it up after making my guess. The reason he gave for his choice is quite amusing.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 07:00:59 AM
No.

Maybe obvious, but here's a hint anyway: of course it was the most backwards part of Germany.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on July 20, 2021, 07:28:51 AM
Bavaria would be the sensible answer
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 07:59:28 AM
It would be, but alas no.

If Syt or someone doesn't know it I guess we're screwed.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 20, 2021, 08:09:12 AM
I know (or believe I know) but didn't want to hog it. :)
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Post by: garbon on July 20, 2021, 08:16:55 AM
I would not have guessed though I've been there on vacation.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 20, 2021, 08:20:40 AM
IIRC it was Mecklenburg, because everything there happens 100 years later?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 20, 2021, 08:26:40 AM
Saarland?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 08:27:24 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 20, 2021, 08:20:40 AM
IIRC it was Mecklenburg, because everything there happens 100 years later?

Korrekt.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 20, 2021, 08:28:51 AM
I cede the floor. -_-
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on July 20, 2021, 12:15:28 PM
What was the largest number of kamikaze strikes (in one engagement) survived by an allied warship?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on July 20, 2021, 12:21:36 PM
Resurrection is a non-trivial feat.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on July 20, 2021, 12:24:11 PM
5!
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Post by: Jacob on July 20, 2021, 12:24:55 PM
27!
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Post by: grumbler on July 20, 2021, 12:34:07 PM
Quote from: Tyr on July 20, 2021, 12:24:11 PM
5!

Nein!  (no, that's not the answer, that's just "no" in German)
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Post by: grumbler on July 20, 2021, 12:34:42 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 20, 2021, 12:24:55 PM
27!

I said "ship," not "fleet."
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Post by: Eddie Teach on July 20, 2021, 03:00:53 PM
Quote from: Tyr on July 20, 2021, 12:24:11 PM
5!

120?  :huh:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: crazy canuck on July 20, 2021, 03:11:55 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 20, 2021, 12:34:42 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 20, 2021, 12:24:55 PM
27!

I said "ship," not "fleet."

:D

2
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 20, 2021, 03:33:30 PM
Zero. BANZAI
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on July 20, 2021, 03:57:02 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 20, 2021, 12:15:28 PM
What was the largest number of kamikaze strikes (in one engagement) survived by an allied warship?

The ship that would not die? I forget its name, and probably never knew the number of strikes.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on July 20, 2021, 05:13:19 PM
Quote from: Maladict on July 20, 2021, 03:57:02 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 20, 2021, 12:15:28 PM
What was the largest number of kamikaze strikes (in one engagement) survived by an allied warship?

The ship that would not die? I forget its name, and probably never knew the number of strikes.

I'll accept that.  USS Laffey (DD-724) was hit by six kamikazes and four bombs and survived.  Nicknamed "The Ship That Would Not Die," she's a museum ship in Charleston now.

You're up.
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Post by: crazy canuck on July 20, 2021, 06:00:11 PM
I am impressed Maladict
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Post by: Maladict on July 21, 2021, 06:10:50 AM
Quote from: grumbler on July 20, 2021, 05:13:19 PM
Quote from: Maladict on July 20, 2021, 03:57:02 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 20, 2021, 12:15:28 PM
What was the largest number of kamikaze strikes (in one engagement) survived by an allied warship?

The ship that would not die? I forget its name, and probably never knew the number of strikes.

I'll accept that.  USS Laffey (DD-724) was hit by six kamikazes and four bombs and survived.  Nicknamed "The Ship That Would Not Die," she's a museum ship in Charleston now.

You're up.

Laffey, that's the one. Thanks.

Quote from: crazy canuck on July 20, 2021, 06:00:11 PM
I am impressed Maladict

I like to look up cool museum ships in the US (there are so many!) in case I'm ever in the area.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on July 21, 2021, 06:11:27 AM
Back to ancient times: According to tradition, where did Alaric take his loot from the sack of Rome?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on July 21, 2021, 06:53:02 AM
Quote from: Maladict on July 21, 2021, 06:11:27 AM
Back to ancient times: According to tradition, where did Alaric take his loot from the sack of Rome?

Ebay?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 08:20:22 AM
Did he bury it then divert a river over the site so no-one would find it?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on July 21, 2021, 08:43:20 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 08:20:22 AM
Did he bury it then divert a river over the site so no-one would find it?

Yes Agel, I think you've got it, that does sound very familiar.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 08:59:38 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 08:20:22 AM
Did he bury it then divert a river over the site so no-one would find it?


Yeah, it was up by Narbo in Roman Gaul, but I don't remember the name of the town.  Colleen McCullough had a fun little story about that...

Tolusa.  It was the "Gold of Tolusa"
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: HisMajestyBOB on July 21, 2021, 09:09:19 AM
Sounds like a good way tolusa your gold.  ;)
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 09:28:36 AM
Quote from: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 08:59:38 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 08:20:22 AM
Did he bury it then divert a river over the site so no-one would find it?


Yeah, it was up by Narbo in Roman Gaul, but I don't remember the name of the town.  Colleen McCullough had a fun little story about that...

Tolusa.  It was the "Gold of Tolusa"

I haven't looked it up but that sounds like two stories getting mixed up?

The Gold of Tolosa was gold left in the care of the locals who were related to members of a tribal alliance that went off to invade Italy (once again, without looking it up I want to say it was the Cimbri-Teutones group and it was the gold from their decade and more of wandering that they left behind before going off to launch a two pronged invasion of Italy that was beaten by Marius and his co-consul.)

McCullough believed or created the theory that a Servilius Caepio had arranged to have it removed from Tolosa and then to have the convoy ambushed and its guards killed so he could steal it for himself IIRC. She also stated it was kept at the bottom of a local set of sacred or artificial ponds by the local tribe.

Alaric's gold would have been buried in Italy.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 09:34:06 AM
I heard Alaric's crap was in Italy, but it's been years since I read about it.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on July 21, 2021, 11:19:15 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 08:20:22 AM
Did he bury it then divert a river over the site so no-one would find it?

Yes, he was buried with it, allegedly in a river bed near Cosenza in southern Italy.

But as others have noted, it is a story attributed to various historical figures.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 11:32:46 AM
I was confusing Alaric and Brennus, anyway. 
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Post by: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 11:34:36 AM
Geese. :wub:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 12:03:15 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 11:32:46 AM
I was confusing Alaric and Brennus, anyway.

My first reaction to your post was Brennus but then I second guessed myself into thinking that was too far in the past compared to when the gold disappeared. :blush:

---------------------------------------------

Question:

Around the year 300, how many 3rd (III) Legions were in service with the Roman Empire?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 12:16:23 PM
3.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 12:34:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 12:16:23 PM
3.

Nope.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 01:37:26 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 12:34:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 12:16:23 PM
3.

Nope.

III
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Post by: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 01:40:21 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 01:37:26 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 12:34:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 12:16:23 PM
3.

Nope.

III

:lol:

I really, really wish it was that number just for the amusement factor, but unfortunately...no

Now, if we were talking 1AD and not 300AD you would have been right.
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Post by: Josquius on July 21, 2021, 01:57:59 PM
V!

Quote from: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 08:59:38 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 08:20:22 AM
Did he bury it then divert a river over the site so no-one would find it?


Yeah, it was up by Narbo in Roman Gaul, but I don't remember the name of the town.  Colleen McCullough had a fun little story about that...

Tolusa.  It was the "Gold of Tolusa"

Huh
Just read about this. The gallic invasion of Greece is not something I've ever heard of. Sounds so impossibly unlikely and bizzare on the surface of it.
I should have taken classics at a level.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 21, 2021, 01:58:47 PM
IIRC it was something silly like 5 or 6 3rd legions. Yet the silliest was the 1st legion, of which there were more than 10. There were 5 Legio I Flavia + extra apellative alone.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 02:04:48 PM
Actually, open floor. I withdraw my question as I should have said 200 AD as the year, not 300 AD.

The answer should have been five -

III Augusta (Raised by Augustus)
III Cyrenaica (Raised by M. Antonius)
III Gallica (Raised by Caesar)
III Italica (Raised by Aurelius)
III Parthica (Raised by Severus)

Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 21, 2021, 02:06:39 PM
Ah, so pre-Diocletian's reform then. That was a clearer time, as afterwards IIRC there was a lot of mix up with regular troops and border troops, with all of them being lumped together as legions while there were actually different ranks between them.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 21, 2021, 02:20:47 PM
Now that we are talking about Imperial Roman Legions, a question about them!

By the early IIIrd century AD the overwhelming majority of Roman legions were stationed in the different border provinces, except for two. Which regions did those two legions cover?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Caliga on July 21, 2021, 02:33:51 PM
One was stationed in Italia, the other Egypt?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 21, 2021, 02:39:57 PM
Quote from: Caliga on July 21, 2021, 02:33:51 PM
One was stationed in Italia, the other Egypt?

One was in Italia itself, yeah (the Legio II Parthica, stationed near Rome itself), and there was one in Egypt as well (the Legio II Traiana Fortis, stationed in Alexandria), but in my book Egypt is sort of a border province, so I wasn't counting it.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Caliga on July 21, 2021, 02:53:17 PM
Ah ok, yeah I guess Egypt is a border province.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 02:54:16 PM
Iberia?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 21, 2021, 02:55:48 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 02:54:16 PM
Iberia?

Yup, Legio VII Gemina, stationed in modern León.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 02:59:54 PM
I, genuis. :smarty:

Open floor.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 21, 2021, 03:04:40 PM
So, the breakdown was something like this (around the end of Septimius Severus' reign, 211 AD):

In Europe:
- 6 legions in the Upper Danube border (provinces of Raetia, Noricum and Pannonia).
- 6 in the Lower Danube border (Dacia and Moesia)
- 4 in the Rhine border (Upper and Lower Germania)
- 3 in Britannia.
- 1 in Italia.
- 1 in Iberia.

In Asia:
- 6 legions in Siria.
- 2 in Cappadocia.
- 2 in Mesopotamia.

In Africa:
- 1 in Egypt.
- 1 in Numidia.

For a grand total of 33 active legions.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on July 21, 2021, 03:23:31 PM
"Our" local legions were from the early 2nd century till ca. the 5th century Legio X Gemina in Vindobona and Legio XIV Gemina in nearby Carnuntum.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on July 21, 2021, 03:42:06 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 21, 2021, 03:23:31 PM
"Our" local legions were from the early 2nd century till ca. the 5th century Legio X Gemina in Vindobona and Legio XIV Gemina in nearby Carnuntum.

There was a 3rd legion stationed in what is today's modern Austria, the Legio II Pia Italica, which was stationed a place called Enns, in the current border of Upper and Lower Austria, in what was then the province of Noricum. The two you mention were in Upper Pannonia, and there were another two in Lower Pannonia (modern Hungary), and another one in Raetia, in Regensburg, in modern Bavaria.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2021, 07:06:59 PM
This one is impossible, so anyone within a 1,000 miles gets the win.

What is the origin of the word "malapropism?"
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: HVC on August 03, 2021, 07:13:17 PM
Looked it up. No where near what I would have guessed
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 03, 2021, 08:08:06 PM
Was it a character named Mrs Malaprop?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2021, 08:18:08 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on August 03, 2021, 08:08:06 PM
Was it a character named Mrs Malaprop?

chicken dinner!
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on August 07, 2021, 09:58:04 AM
Who said:

"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community exists within that relation."
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 07, 2021, 10:01:17 AM
Adam Smith?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on August 07, 2021, 10:03:23 AM
Mr. Ed?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on August 07, 2021, 10:04:33 AM
No and no.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on August 07, 2021, 10:08:58 AM
Friedrich Engels
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on August 07, 2021, 10:10:25 AM
No. Not an economist (or at least not known as such to me).
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 07, 2021, 10:25:59 AM
Emile Durkheim?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on August 07, 2021, 10:28:18 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 07, 2021, 10:25:59 AM
Emile Durkheim?

No :lol:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Savonarola on August 07, 2021, 10:43:50 AM
John Locke?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on August 07, 2021, 11:07:07 AM
No. grumps was in the right century, with his guess of Engels.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Razgovory on August 07, 2021, 11:11:39 AM
Abe Lincoln?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on August 07, 2021, 11:13:33 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 07, 2021, 11:11:39 AM
Abe Lincoln?

Correct.

Source is the First Annual Message, dated 3rd December 1861.

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/december-3-1861-first-annual-message
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on August 08, 2021, 08:31:20 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2021, 07:06:59 PM
This one is impossible, so anyone within a 1,000 miles gets the win.

What is the origin of the word "malapropism?"
Isn't it a character - I want to say in a Richard Sheridan play? Mrs Malaprop.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Razgovory on August 08, 2021, 09:34:07 AM
Raz leaves the floor open.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on August 08, 2021, 09:43:01 AM
Which two actors hold the record for most academy award nominations without a win, and how many times were they nominated?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Sheilbh on August 08, 2021, 09:46:26 AM
Peter O'Toole? I think he was nominated 6-7 times.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: garbon on August 08, 2021, 09:47:04 AM
I think Glenn is one but I don't know how many times.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on August 08, 2021, 11:23:14 AM
Nicholas Cage.

Or someone in that unexpected vein.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 08, 2021, 12:03:41 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 08, 2021, 08:31:20 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2021, 07:06:59 PM
This one is impossible, so anyone within a 1,000 miles gets the win.

What is the origin of the word "malapropism?"
Isn't it a character - I want to say in a Richard Sheridan play? Mrs Malaprop.

Much closer than 1,000 miles, but unfortunately Mrs. Malaprop was already guessed upstream.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on August 08, 2021, 01:13:57 PM
It was O'Toole and Close, and the total was eight nominations without a win.  An interesting side note is that O'Toole's nominations were all for leading roles, whole Close's noms were 50-50 between lead and supporting.  I'm not sure which record is the more impressive.

I'm going to assume that garbo's "Glenn" was Glenn Close and give the win to him.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on August 08, 2021, 01:17:18 PM
I assume it was Swedish footballer Glenn Hysén. Or Swedish footballer Glenn Strömberg.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Agelastus on August 08, 2021, 01:47:20 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 08, 2021, 01:17:18 PM
I assume it was Swedish footballer Glenn Hysén. Or Swedish footballer Glenn Strömberg.

I thought he meant Glenn Ford.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: garbon on August 08, 2021, 02:16:16 PM
Quote from: grumbler on August 08, 2021, 01:13:57 PM
It was O'Toole and Close, and the total was eight nominations without a win.  An interesting side note is that O'Toole's nominations were all for leading roles, whole Close's noms were 50-50 between lead and supporting.  I'm not sure which record is the more impressive.

I'm going to assume that garbo's "Glenn" was Glenn Close and give the win to him.

I'm happy to give it to Sheilbh as he also guessed a number of noms while I gave half a name. :blush:

But yes, meant the perennially robbed Glenn Close.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 08, 2021, 02:41:47 PM
Quote from: Tyr on August 08, 2021, 11:23:14 AM
Nicholas Cage.

Or someone in that unexpected vein.

He has a win. :contract:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on August 08, 2021, 03:32:43 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on August 08, 2021, 02:41:47 PM
Quote from: Tyr on August 08, 2021, 11:23:14 AM
Nicholas Cage.

Or someone in that unexpected vein.

He has a win. :contract:

Yes.  It's a sign of the crap that is the Oscars that Cage has won one in only two nominations, but O'Toole, Close, Burton, Finney, Raines, Kerr, and Ritter have zero in 43 nominations.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 05, 2021, 10:33:32 PM
Who coined the term "factoid?"

I would never have guessed in a bajillion years.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on December 06, 2021, 07:22:02 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 05, 2021, 10:33:32 PM
Who coined the term "factoid?"

I would never have guessed in a bajillion years.

Churchill?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on December 06, 2021, 08:48:31 AM
I'm sure he would guess Churchill in the first year. Now if it was Churchill's mother's hairdresser, that might take longer.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on December 06, 2021, 12:33:00 PM
You could probably guess any person of note in a year. Provided you knew of them in the first place.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Barrister on December 06, 2021, 03:19:04 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 05, 2021, 10:33:32 PM
Who coined the term "factoid?"

I would never have guessed in a bajillion years.

Author Douglas Coupland, coiner of "Generation X" and McJobs?

Edit: nope, though I was sort of on the right track.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on December 13, 2022, 07:35:35 AM
New question: In 1869, Welshman John Hughes founded a city in the Russian Empire around his coal and steel businesses. The city was called "Hughesovka" (or: Yuzovka).

What name does the city have today?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Larch on December 13, 2022, 07:58:38 AM
Had to wiki it, interesting answer.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on December 13, 2022, 09:13:34 AM
Volgagrad?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: frunk on December 13, 2022, 09:18:14 AM
I got it with my second guess.  Volgograd was my first.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on December 13, 2022, 09:20:47 AM
Volgograd is not correct.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Caliga on December 13, 2022, 10:15:24 AM
Donetsk?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on December 13, 2022, 10:19:42 AM
Quote from: Caliga on December 13, 2022, 10:15:24 AMDonetsk?

Yeah somewhere like that, I've read about the guy's story before, but won't google it, see if my memory works in a while.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Caliga on December 13, 2022, 10:24:40 AM
I'm thinking it's in or near Ukraine.  In the 19th century a lot of foreign investors were allowed to build factory cities there by the Imperial government.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on December 13, 2022, 11:04:42 AM
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's Donetsk.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on December 13, 2022, 11:21:40 AM
Quote from: Caliga on December 13, 2022, 10:15:24 AMDonetsk?

Correct :)
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on December 13, 2022, 11:24:26 AM
Cal = nerd
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Caliga on December 13, 2022, 12:11:48 PM
I swear I didn't cheat. :showoff:

I figured it was in Ukraine due to what I said earlier, and remembered Donetsk used to be named Stalino which means 'Steel' (and I thought I also read that it wasn't named for Comrade Stalin, but for its steel works).
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: DGuller on December 13, 2022, 12:38:05 PM
I knew it was Donetsk, but only because I was familiar with details of Khrushchev's biography.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 13, 2022, 05:56:57 PM
Looks like Cal has not.

John Paul Jones fought the Serapis in a ship named in honor of whom?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: mongers on December 13, 2022, 06:29:14 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 13, 2022, 05:56:57 PMLooks like Cal has not.

John Paul Jones fought the Serapis in a ship named in honor of whom?

USS Led Zeppelin ?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 13, 2022, 06:58:15 PM
No. 
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on December 13, 2022, 07:06:08 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 13, 2022, 05:56:57 PMLooks like Cal has not.

John Paul Jones fought the Serapis in a ship named in honor of whom?

Ben Franklin's imaginary everyman.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 13, 2022, 07:07:47 PM
correct
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on December 13, 2022, 07:12:18 PM
What is the only US Navy (or even non-RN) ship to ever fly the Admiralty Pennant (signifying that the RN's Board of Admiralty was meeting onboard)?

Bonus question:  what were the circumstances?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Tonitrus on December 13, 2022, 08:57:26 PM
USS Missouri for the surrender of Japan?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on December 14, 2022, 01:59:00 AM
I was going to suggest a war meeting of FDR and Churchill which I seem to recall was held aboard a ship in the Atlantic, but I don't recall its name.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Valmy on December 14, 2022, 02:41:02 AM
Quote from: Syt on December 14, 2022, 01:59:00 AMI was going to suggest a war meeting of FDR and Churchill which I seem to recall was held aboard a ship in the Atlantic, but I don't recall its name.

Well they met on the HMS Prince of Wales that was part of Force Z that was sunk by the Japanese later that year, but I guess they also met on an American ship during that conference.  :hmm:

Not sure what that ship was named though.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 02:44:28 AM
USS Enterprise for some Magic carpet thingy?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: The Brain on December 14, 2022, 03:07:20 AM
USS Ponce. The Admiralty briefly transferred there from HMS Cockchafer for the lols.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on December 14, 2022, 09:50:12 AM
Quote from: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 02:44:28 AMUSS Enterprise for some Magic carpet thingy?

Yep.  The Enterprise was engaged in Magic Carpet in Europe, when the Admiralty decided to give it this unique honor in recognition of its outstanding contributions to victory in the War in the Pacific.

Your turn.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:19:31 AM
Why is there a Union Jack in the Hawaiian state flag?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Maladict on December 14, 2022, 10:32:13 AM
Quote from: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:19:31 AMWhy is there a Union Jack in the Hawaiian state flag?

Because it was also in the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaii?   :P
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:34:43 AM
Quote from: Maladict on December 14, 2022, 10:32:13 AM
Quote from: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:19:31 AMWhy is there a Union Jack in the Hawaiian state flag?

Because it was also in the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaii?   :P

Well, yes, but I want the origin story.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Josquius on December 14, 2022, 10:41:03 AM
Hawaii wanting to keep both Britain and the US chill/defending the neutrality of Hawaii between them.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Caliga on December 14, 2022, 01:11:33 PM
Did the Hawaiians capture a flag from Cook and adopt it as their own? :hmm:
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: HVC on December 14, 2022, 01:17:43 PM
Quote from: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:34:43 AM
Quote from: Maladict on December 14, 2022, 10:32:13 AM
Quote from: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:19:31 AMWhy is there a Union Jack in the Hawaiian state flag?

Because it was also in the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaii?   :P

Well, yes, but I want the origin story.

Just saw a YouTube thing on flags and they said the emperor of Hawaii thought they flag looked cool and wanted to use it. He also hoped it would lead to joining the uk/being an Allie, but that never happened.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Valmy on December 14, 2022, 02:23:29 PM
Quote from: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:34:43 AM
Quote from: Maladict on December 14, 2022, 10:32:13 AM
Quote from: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:19:31 AMWhy is there a Union Jack in the Hawaiian state flag?

Because it was also in the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaii?   :P

Well, yes, but I want the origin story.

I thought it was a flag that represented the union of the islands of Hawaii into one kingdom and by complete coincidence it just happened to resemble the Union Jack of Great Britain.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 04:26:49 PM
Quote from: HVC on December 14, 2022, 01:17:43 PM
Quote from: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:34:43 AM
Quote from: Maladict on December 14, 2022, 10:32:13 AM
Quote from: Threviel on December 14, 2022, 10:19:31 AMWhy is there a Union Jack in the Hawaiian state flag?

Because it was also in the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaii?   :P

Well, yes, but I want the origin story.

Just saw a YouTube thing on flags and they said the emperor of Hawaii thought they flag looked cool and wanted to use it. He also hoped it would lead to joining the uk/being an Allie, but that never happened.

Close enough, the king was gifted it by some explorer and liked it better than the Russian.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: HVC on December 14, 2022, 04:48:18 PM
YouTube comes through once again :P


Random animal trivia you'll never forget:

Dolphins are mamamals and so nurse their young; where are their nipples located?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Razgovory on December 14, 2022, 05:07:45 PM
On their boobs.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on December 16, 2022, 05:25:08 PM
Quote from: HVC on December 14, 2022, 04:48:18 PMDolphins are mamamals and so nurse their young; where are their nipples located?

On Uranus.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: HVC on December 16, 2022, 05:27:55 PM
Quote from: grumbler on December 16, 2022, 05:25:08 PM
Quote from: HVC on December 14, 2022, 04:48:18 PMDolphins are mamamals and so nurse their young; where are their nipples located?

On Uranus.

On her anus :P .  Or at least next to it on the sides of her genital slit (proper term lol).

Natures weird.

You're up :)
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on December 16, 2022, 06:40:22 PM
Sir Isaac Newton personally successfully prosecuted and saw executed 28 men.  What was their crime?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: frunk on December 16, 2022, 06:46:14 PM
Counterfeiting?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: grumbler on December 16, 2022, 07:00:09 PM
Correct.  Your turn.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: frunk on December 16, 2022, 08:35:26 PM
I don't have one queued up, open floor.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on December 17, 2022, 04:25:09 AM
Maybe an easy one: 19th century German scientist/chemist Justus von Liebig is generally credited with inventing which British food?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Razgovory on December 17, 2022, 04:33:50 AM
Synthetic rubber?
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 17, 2022, 04:46:15 AM
Marmite
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 17, 2022, 05:13:19 AM
I think I got it but I'm out so floor open.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Syt on December 17, 2022, 05:52:44 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 17, 2022, 04:46:15 AMMarmite

Correct :)
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: Eddie Teach on December 17, 2022, 10:56:36 AM
Quote from: frunk on December 16, 2022, 06:46:14 PMCounterfeiting?

Harsh.
Title: Re: Trivia Thread Resurrection
Post by: HisMajestyBOB on December 18, 2022, 12:22:14 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on December 17, 2022, 04:33:50 AMSynthetic rubber?

 :lol: