Ask a trivia question & see if anyone knows the answer without using Google

[red dog 1]

The TV series SOAP (1977-1981) took place in what fictional city?

[randr]

1. Fernwood

[Brother Buzz]

5. I thought Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was set in Fernwood

[red dog 1]

32. No, it wasn't Fernwood.

[MLAA]

2. Name previous names of Atlanta Georgia.

I lived there during high school and college and somewhere along the line I picked up a history of Atlanta pamphlet. I know 3 of its prior names.

[Sneederbunk]

11. Sherman's Playground?

[Dulcinea]

96. Marthasville. Terminus.

Metro ATL resident since 1989.

[MLAA]

97. Right on!

And Atlanta was a originally Atalanta and somewhere on the way the seconded a was dropped.

[Permanut]

3. Portland, Oregon got it's name on a coin flip.

Name the other contender.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Boston

[Permanut]

7. Right, and the coin has been preserved by the Oregon Historical Society

[Brother Buzz]

4. What artist did Bob Dylan perform his recording debut with?

He played the harmonica on the title track. Sonny Terry was penciled it, but weather grounded him in Memphis.

[Mister Ed]

10. Was it Odessa? n/t

[Brother Buzz]

15. No, a well established mainstream artist

[red dog 1]

33. Harry Belafonte?

[Brother Buzz]

35. Yep!

We kinda had to wait until 2010 for the whole story to come out

The 1962 recording of "Midnight Special" by the Jamaican-American singer Harry Belafonte is notable for containing the very first official recording of Bob Dylan, who played harmonica. Belafonte told Mojo magazine July 2010 how it came about. He recalled: "It was supposed to be Sonny Terry, but he got grounded by a thunderstorm in Memphis and couldn't make the date. My guitarist Millard Thomas said, 'Well, there's this kid I see all the time down the village and he does that whole Sonny thing… he sleeps and dreams it.' So I said, 'We don't have a choice, I guess. Go find him.'

And this skinny kid appeared, and he had a paper sack with him full of harmonicas in different keys. I played the song for him and he pulled one out of the bag, dipped it in water and played it through a single take, and it was great. I loved it. I asked him if he wanted to try another take and he said, 'No.' He just headed for the door, and threw the harmonica into the trash can on his way out.

I remember thinking, does he have that much disdain for what I'm doing? But I found out later that he bought his harps at the Woolworth drugstore. They were cheap ones, and once he'd gotten them wet and really played through them as hard as he did, they were finished. It wasn't until decades later, when he wrote his book (Chronicles), that I read what he really felt about me, and I tell you, I got very, very choked up. I had admired him all along, and no matter what he did or said, I was just a stone, stone fan."

On edit:

It was actually the first officially-released recording by Bob Dylan. For many years the Belafonte session was thought to have been Bob Dylan's first professional recording, simply because this RCA Victor album was released first. However, documentation found in 2001 in the RCA vaults along with the tapes dates the session definitively as having been recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, in February 1962. This places it later than Bob's recording session with folksinger Carolyn Hester, which dates from September 1961, also in New York City, although her album was not released until later in 1962.

[Sneederbunk]

8. Most northerly state, excluding Alaska?

[jmowreader]

12. Minnesota

[Sneederbunk]

13. Correctamundo!

[sanatanadharma]

9. 1993 Bonnie Hunt summer TV comedy 5 episodes only was called?

Bonus question. What was across the street from Bonnie?

[Sneederbunk]

14. Largest world capital not located on sea, lake or river?

[MLAA]

17. Madrid?

[Sneederbunk]

18. Nope.

[MLAA]

19. Hmmm so a capital with over 3 million population.

I’m stymied

[MLAA]

20. Beijing?

[Sneederbunk]

21. No

[MLAA]

26. I give up, please message me the answer so it doesn't keep me up tonight 😊

[Sneederbunk]

27. Mexico City.

[MLAA]

29. Thank you! That was a good question.

[Sneederbunk]

30. Thanks for playing. Sorry, no parting gifts.

[MLAA]

31. Not even a tshirt?

😬

[rurallib]

22. Moscow?

[MLAA]

24. Largest in population or area?

[Sneederbunk]

25. Population.

[MLAA]

28. Damn, I finally got it but I double checked the population on google, so I won't post it. One of my

favorite cuisines.

[mobeau69]

16. The longest waterfall in the US east of the Mississippi?

[Dulcinea]

98. Crabtree Falls in VA. nt

[mobeau69]

103. Fall Creek Falls, TN

[Different Drummer]

23. According to Tex Avery, what breed of dog was Droopy?

[red dog 1]

34. Doberman?

[Different Drummer]

36. Nope.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. IIRC, A Basset Hound

I read that a long time ago. Not sure why I remember it.

[Different Drummer]

38. You are 100 percent correct!

[ProfessorGAC]

39. I Went Through A Period...

...where I got fascinated with the great animators (aside from Disney).
So, I read a lot about Avery, McKimson, Jones, Freleng, Fleischer, & others.
This fun fact stuck in my head.

[Different Drummer]

41. I've got a fascination with the classic animators aside from Disney myself.

[red dog 1]

40. When did the sea lions at San Francisco's Pier 39 first arrive?

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[Brother Buzz]

46. What year did the SF Giants scouts discover Lou Seal at Pier 39?

[red dog 1]

49. Go Giants!

[Brother Buzz]

51. I'm still waiting for the skinny on why the sea lions ended up at San Francisco's Pier 39

I spent a lot of time on the bay and always enjoyed the Sea Dogs, but no clue what triggered their move to take over Pier 39.




All I know is Pier 39 was a lousy overpriced marina to berth a boat because of the horrible tidal surge. My buddy had to replace his mooring lines, like, every two weeks until I hooked him up with a dream berth in calm Point Richmond at a third of the price.

[red dog 1]

54. I hope someone gets the answer without using Google.

(I may need to post a clue)

[Brother Buzz]

55. I like clues and haven't used Google

[red dog 1]

62. Actually, the question wasn't "Why" but "When"

(I'll give out a clue in a week or so, if someone has gotten the answer by then)

[Brother Buzz]

65. Sometime in the eighties when the yachts started abandoning the marina in mass...

leaving a lot of choice docks and floats free for the taking?

I know it was WAY before Forbes Kiddoo moved his floating island from Richardson Bay to Pier 39

[red dog 1]

66. The sea lions arrived at Pier 39 in the eighties, but it had nothing to do with yachts

abandoning the Marina.

[Brother Buzz]

67. LOL, I'm back at why

Something happened in the eighties to trigger the move, but I have no clue.

[red dog 1]

68. Think hard

"Something happened in the eighties"

[Brother Buzz]

69. Most all I can remember is Bill Walsh's three Super Bowl wins

That, and Huey Lewis and the News Sports album (Check out "The Catch" on the television; Dwight Clark's come from behind, game winning catch advanced the 49ers to Super Bowl XVI two weeks later)

[red dog 1]

70. OK, here's another hint

It happened near the end of the eighties.


[I remember the great Dwight Clark Catch; he had to jump up to make it, & Joe Montana was about to get sacked when he threw it]

[Brother Buzz]

72. Is it in anyway associated with the herring, striped bass, or salmon runs?

1985 had a cool herring run, but that's hardly near the end of the eighties. Fishermen were getting pissed with the sea lions tearing through the light gill nets and getting fat

[red dog 1]

73. No

(Good guess, though)

[red dog 1]

75. Think about it.....What event happened in the SF Bay Area in the late eighties?

[Brother Buzz]

76. Oakland A's beat the SF Giants in the 1989 World Series

with a wicked earthquake letting loose in the middle of it, making it a lousy commuter World Series.

I had just sat down to watch the game when the television signal from SF ceased, and moments later, the rolling began.

Not a lick of wind, but the palm trees were swaying like it was blowing a gale!

[red dog 1]

77. You got it!

It was the 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake.

(The sea lions showed up soon after at Pier 39)

[Brother Buzz]

78. Cool, but the big question remains

WHY?

[red dog 1]

83. Good question...I wonder why an earthquake would trigger all those sea lions showing up at Pier 39?

[Brother Buzz]

85. I can't believe the earthquake triggered it

I'm inclined to believe the earthquake was just a coincidence and the abandoned portions if the marina presented an ideal opportunity.

Occam's razor, and all that.

[red dog 1]

126. Upon reflection, you may be right.

Those barking sea lions showing up when they did may have had nothing to do with the earthquake.

(Sea "lion" doesn't isn't really a good description, imo. ...I'd call them sea "Dogs" instead, since they do "bark" just like dogs do)

[Brother Buzz]

127. Yes, in my childhood, we affectionately called them Sea Dogs

One memorable encounter: I was out sailing on the bay, just entering Raccoon Strait, when one surfaced right behind me with a big hiss and a 24" Striped Bass firmly caught in its jaws, like it was bragging, "I got my lunch".

[red dog 1]

42. What's the largest volcano in the solar system?

[Angleae]

43. Olympus Mons (Mars)

[red dog 1]

44. Wow! You knew That?

(Not bad)

[VGNonly]

45. The US Navy had 3 WW2 aircraft carriers

that were in service before the war and survived the end.

What are the names?

[Brother Buzz]

47. 'The Big E' (Enterprise) is the only one I'm sure off

[VGNonly]

48. The Saratoga (Lexington Class)

and The Ranger (Ranger Class)

The Enterprise was the Yorktown Class.

[malthaussen]

181. Saratoga, Ranger, and Enterprise. n/t

[red dog 1]

50. What planet has the most craters on it's surface?

[Angleae]

52. Mercury?

[red dog 1]

63. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

(My mistake saying nope before, I thought it was Venus)

[Harker]

56. Who was the first fatality in a crash of a powered, heavier than air

flying machine?

[Brother Buzz]

57. Who was the pilot who survived, albeit injured?

[Harker]

58. Orville Wright.

[Brother Buzz]

59. Who was the first aviator to land an airplane on a ship, and where?

[Harker]

60. I came up flat on that, Buzz.

Turns out I had only a very broad idea, and had none of the details correct.

[Brother Buzz]

61. San Francisco Bay

I only stumbled across it when I was fleshing out the story of early aviation in the San Francisco Bay area years ago. Curiously, San Francisco was the epicenter for early airplane development on the West Coast. And not unlike the bicycle builders, the Wright brothers, San Francisco's bicycle and motorcycle houses in SF built a boatload of the components.


https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/web10642-2006640jpg

[Harker]

64. The sandbags are a nice touch... thanks! n/t

[red dog 1]

71. What's the largest freshwater lake in the world?

[First Speaker]

79. The Caspian Sea?

[red dog 1]

82. Nope, good guess

[VGNonly]

84. Lake Superior by surface area.

Lake Baikal by volume. Lake Baikal contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined.

[red dog 1]

87. Lake Superior is correct

[red dog 1]

74. What's the closest known galaxy to Earth?

[First Speaker]

80. I think it's Andromeda...

...The Magellanic Cloud may be closer, I don't remember off-hand, but it's technically not a galaxy...

[red dog 1]

81. No, I thought it was Andromeda too, but it isn't.

[red dog 1]

92. Andromeda is the closest "spiral" galaxy to ours, but it's not the closest galaxy,

(Not the Magellanic Cloud either)

[Angleae]

93. Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy?

[red dog 1]

153. Ding!

You were right all along (Sorry about that)

I thought the closest galaxy was the Canis Major Dwarf (25,000 light-years away), but turns out there is disagreement whether it's a galaxy or a star cluster.

The closest "confirmed" galaxy is the Sagittarius Dwarf - about 65,000 light-years away.

Well done!

[ProfessorGAC]

102. Canis Major Dwarf

Technically it's a satellite galaxy, but it has it's own center of rotation.
There are a few other mini-galaxies nearby, too. One of them is the Sagittarius Elliptical. The others I don't recall by name.

[red dog 1]

88. What planet in the solar system has the most moons?

[Brother Buzz]

89. Saturn, for sure

And if you counted all the junk rocks in its rings as moons, it would have a gazillion.

Back in the day, Jupiter was king because it's moons were quite visible with simple telescopes

[red dog 1]

90. Correctamundo!

[Angleae]

91. Why does the US Navy own a forest in Indiana?

[Harker]

95. Masts?

[Angleae]

100. Basically.

Repair materials for her should they not be able to get them normally.

[Harker]

101. Ah.

That's interesting... thanks!

[NowsTheTime]

99. What actor was in several episodes of Boston Legal also was in movie Apollo 13..or part played B.L.

[Jrose]

201. James Spader?

[NowsTheTime]

204. Nope...this is someone Alan Shore kept bailing out of trouble

[red dog 1]

104. Did Brian Jones (co-founder of The Rolling Stones) play any musical instruments?

[Harker]

106. Yes, he did.

[red dog 1]

107. How many?

[Harker]

108. Four or five, I'd think.

Guitar, sitar, maracas...

[red dog 1]

109. Guess again (It's more than that)

[Harker]

113. 33. n/t

[red dog 1]

154. I think he played over 60 different musical instruments, including, but not limited to

- guitar
- harmonica
- keyboards
- dulcimer
- trumpet
- bass guitar
- marimba
- banjo
- clarinet
- xylophone
- flute
- accordion
- cello
- harp
- + many more

[red dog 1]

105. What song was the first hit for The Rolling Stones?

[Mr.Bill]

132. I Wanna Be Your Man.

Written by Lennon and McCartney.

[red dog 1]

134. Yep!

(A cover version of Chuck Berry's "Come On" was the Rolling Stones first single)

[NowsTheTime]

110. Who used this greeting in early tv? "Hi Ya Gang, Hi Ya, Hi Ya, Hi Ya!

[red dog 1]

111. Froggy?

[NowsTheTime]

112. Yup! Plunk Your Majic Twanger Froggy!

[JoseBalow]

190. The Adventures of Spencer and Mongolia!

[Harker]

114. At his death in 1981, who was the last 5 star U.S. General?

[Brother Buzz]

117. Side Note: His had the longest active duty career in the history of the United States Armed Forces.

He served on active duty continuously from August 1, 1911, until his death on April 8, 1981 – a total of 69 years, 8 months and 7 days. His was the longest active duty career in the history of the United States Armed Forces.

[Harker]

118. You're a reason to be at DU... n/t

[Harker]

122. Nice touch, Buzz. n/t

[First Speaker]

120. Bradley?

[Harker]

121. That's the man! n/t

[Stuart G]

115. What town was Gunsmoke (James Arness was sheriff) in?

[red dog 1]

119. Dodge City?

[Brother Buzz]

123. Can you name the saloon, and.....

the name of another western that used the same saloon, albeit redecorated?

[red dog 1]

125. Long Branch?

[Brother Buzz]

128. Yes, The Long Branch Saloon

I understand the saloon set was used in another western, but I have no clue what film (or even TV Western) in was in.

[red dog 1]

129. It was a guess,

I wasn't sure.

[Brother Buzz]

131. Curiously, the original was a genuine storied saloon in Dodge City, but it burned in 1885

Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and all that!

The Gunsmoke Dodge City street set was built in Utah.

[Stuart G]

124. Yes..........YOU GOT IT....*********************** 1st Prize is??? We are still working on that!!!

[Stuart G]

116. What was the first T.V. show you ever remember watching?

Mine was a show called ...."Super Circus" in the late 40s..

[red dog 1]

130. Howdy Doody for me.

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[Dulcinea]

140. I watched the very first "Sesame Street."

I was 4 years old.

[Jrose]

202. Romper Room! Remember the magic mirror?!

[Mr.Bill]

133. The Beatles White Album

was not actually called The White Album. What was it called?

[Mad_Dem_X]

135. The Beatles

[Mr.Bill]

136. Correct.

And it's an interesting title because this album contains more songs featuring less than all four Beatles than any other album. It's almost more like four solo albums.

The original issue of the album cover had the title embossed in small print, white on white, while later issues of the album had the words printed in a light gray.

[red dog 1]

137. What is the most trafficked animal in the world?

[red dog 1]

138. The unexplained disappearance of characters from TV shows has since become known as the "___________

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Syndrome"

[Different Drummer]

139. Crayola's first set of crayons included every color of the rainbow except one. Which one?

[Harker]

144. Violet?

[Different Drummer]

145. Nope. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

146. White?

[Different Drummer]

147. No. n/t

[Harker]

148. It was 50/50, I figured. n/t

[rsdsharp]

203. Indigo?

[Different Drummer]

205. And...we have a winner!

[Dulcinea]

141. There are 4 state capitals named for presidents. Name them. nt

[First Speaker]

142. Madison, Wisconsin...

...Lincoln, Nebraska; Jackson, Mississippi; and Jefferson City, Missouri

[Dulcinea]

143. You got it! nt

[red dog 1]

149. Who is the youngest person to host Saturday Night Live?

[red dog 1]

150. Who was the singer when Sha Na Na' did "At the Hop" at Woodstock?

[kairos12]

151. What is Dirty Harry's badge number?

[red dog 1]

152. Who coined the term "trivia"?

[red dog 1]

155. Adventurer Phileas Fogg is shocked by the kerfuffle over a San Francisco election for a

justice of the peace that he encounters on his global travels in what Jules Verne novel?

[efhmc]

189. Around the World in 80 Days.

[red dog 1]

191. Correctamundo!

[NowsTheTime]

156. Who played the movie character Lennie Pike & TV character "Fats" Brown was also on Hollywood Squares

[VGNonly]

160. Jonathan Winters

[NowsTheTime]

162. You Got It! It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, & Twilight Zone episode "Game of Pool"

[NowsTheTime]

163. Who was the other star in Twilight Zoine Episode "The Game of Pool"?

[red dog 1]

157. What is the largest land mammal in North America?

[VGNonly]

159. Bison (American Buffalo)

The Lakota term was tatanka.

[efhmc]

188. Grizzly Bear

[red dog 1]

158. What was the name of the band both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley were members of

before forming Kiss?

[VGNonly]

161. What's the name of the ship

that Roald Amundsen took on his South Pole Expedition?

[A HERETIC I AM]

164. The HMS WHATTHEFUCKHAVEIGOTTENMYSELFINTO.

NO?

Too wordy?

[red dog 1]

165. What is a nemophilist?

[red dog 1]

166. Who was the only German to be decorated by both Adolf Hitler and an American President?

[First Speaker]

167. Von Braun?

[red dog 1]

168. Nope, good guess though.

He helped design and co-develop the V-2 Rocket, which was used against the British in WW2.
After the war, he and 1,600 other German scientists were secretly moved to the USA as part of Operation Paperclip.

He was the chief architect of the Saturn 5 Rocket which propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the moon.

(As far as I know, he was never "decorated" by an American president)

[First Speaker]

169. Guess #2--Otto Skorzeny?

...though I rather hope it's wrong...the thought of a US President decorating Skorzeny is creepy...

[red dog 1]

170. No, not him either

Skorzeny was interred for 2 years before being tried as a war criminal at the Dachau Trials.
Later he was interred at an internment camp in Darmstadt awaiting trial there.
In July 1948, he escaped, with the help of 3 former SS officers wearing American military police uniforms.
In 1963, he was allegedly recruited by the Israeli Mossad.



I've known about Skorzeny since the 1980's because he was talked about frequently in a weekly political radio program on KFJC-FM
(Los Altos Hills, CA) called "One Step Beyond" (Great program, I listened to it every week and taped it often)
Over the radio, they read from newspaper & magazine articles, and books.
(They were talking about Iran-Contra before it became known to the American public)

[First Speaker]

172. Third--and final guess--Schacht...?

...Hitler's financial wizard? As for Skorzeny--a recent book implicates him in the JFK assassination. Doesn't that sort of make intuitive sense...? He's just the sort of person who *would* have been involved in it...

[VGNonly]

183. Kurt Debus?

[Harker]

173. Erich Hartmann?

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Or Johannes Steinhof, maybe?

[Brother Buzz]

171. Who coined the word, Beatnik?

[red dog 1]

199. Herb Caen, I think.

In his column in the San Francisco Chronicle.

[Brother Buzz]

206. Yep. - Martinis are like breasts....

one isn't enough, and three is too many.

[Hotler]

174. Which Pro athlete hit a MLB home run and scored a NFL touchdown in the same week?

[First Speaker]

175. Bo Jackson?

[Hotler]

176. Dion Sanders. Excellent guess. Bo is the GOAT though. nt

[red dog 1]

177. What's the largest moon in our solar system?

[VGNonly]

184. Ganymede

Larger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto.

[red dog 1]

200. You got it!

(Largest moon of Jupiter)

[red dog 1]

178. What's the lowest place on Earth?

[Angleae]

179. Dead Sea (in air) or Mariana Trench (underwater)

[red dog 1]

180. Ding!

[malthaussen]

182. What does "trivia" mean?

[Harker]

185. Three roads, or a place where three roads meet.

A great place to chat about insignificant things.

[red dog 1]

186. What mammal is the largest member of the dolphin family?

[Angleae]

187. Orca (aka Killer Whale)

[red dog 1]

192. Ding!

[Different Drummer]

193. What early 20th century U.S. President is credited with...

coining the "Good to the last drop" tagline used in advertising for Maxwell House coffee?

[red dog 1]

194. Teddy Roosevelt?

[Different Drummer]

195. Ding, ding, ding! n/t

[red dog 1]

196. That was a truly wild guess on my part.

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I love it when my guesses are correct (which is rare)

[Angleae]

197. Name an actor who played the same part on two different TV series, each on a different network, at the same time.

Note: Guest actors do not count.

[Different Drummer]

198. Who provided the voice of the ventriloquist dummy in....

Richard Pryor's TV debut as Villar the ventriloquist in the Season 2 debut episode of "The Wild, Wild West" titled "The Night of the Eccentrics"? Two hints....

1-Richard Pryor did not provide the voice of the dummy.

2-The person who did provide the voice of the dummy also was the voice of Punchy in the Hawaiian Punch commercials.