Trivia Questions

Here are the trivia questions I asked last night, and a few I didn't get to (if you were there and wanted to try your hand at a few more). If you happen to live up here in Undiclosed, Canada, we're doing it again on November 19 at 8:00 after ConneXion. More later. Try to get as many as you can. If you write to me I'll send you the answers, but only after you've tried yourselves.

Who was the second Prime Minister of Canada

When was the last time the Calgary Flames won the Stanley Cup

In the 2004 A Canadian movie actually won a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It was in French (although for my money…). What was it called?

On “Three’s Company,” What was “Chrissie actually short for?

What was the name of the cat on the Smurfs

In North America, children hang their stockings at Christmas. In Holland, do the kids receive gifts in their A) stockings, B) shoes, C) hats, D) underwear

What do these words all have in common: dram, colon, won, dong, kip?

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the Telephone, had what well known unit of measurement named after him?

What 15 letter word contains the letter “e” five times and no other vowels?

There are 12 animals featured in Chinese astrology, and four of them with five letters. What are they? Partial credit

These three seemingly unpronounceable set of letters actually go to common words. What are they? Sthm tchphr tchst

What time is it almost always on analog clocks and watches in TV commercials, and for a bonus point, why?

What order is denoted by the following prefixes? First, Middle, Morning, Forenoon, Afternoon, First Dog, Last Dog

What do the words reverberated and stewardesses have in common, and in the same vein, lollipop?

Who has appeared more than any other woman on the cover of Time Magazine?

What year is denoted by taking the Roman Numbers in descending order: MDCLXVI?

A new street is built with 100 new houses, with street numbers 1-100. How many nines are needed to put up all the house numbers?

Who was the only Bryan to have a record at number one for 16 weeks?

Who recorded “Riders on the Storm”?

What year was Chernobyl and what is Krakatoa?

Marie Antoinette belonged to what Royal House?

What was the title of the Beatles’ first single?

Canadians wear poppies every year for Remembrance Day, which comes from a line in the poem In Flanders Field. In what country would you find Flanders Field?

Who was Czar Nicholas II’s youngest daughter?

What is the fundamental oath usually associated with doctors

Who is Richard Starkey better known as?

In “Mission Impossible,” the tape always ended with a self-destruct warning. How long was it before the tape blew up?

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which herb is said to be “for remembrance”?

In the 1920s, who arranged 200 golf balls in neat rows in the hollow of a fallen tree in Winnipeg?

Mike Weir became famous for being the first Canadian to win the Masters in 2003. What other notable “first” did Weir accomplish by winning the event?

Bonus Questions

What novels do these famous characters appear?

Quasimodo

d’Artagnan

Jim Hawkins

Elizabeth Bennett

Tom Joad

Blanche Dubois

Who do the following famous dogs belong to:

Argos

Checkers

Krypto

Nana

Snert

Snoopy