Random Trivia by orwant

Champion(s):

OrientalWizDad


Runner(s)-Up:

MirandaM
Only the Trivial Life is worth living


Quiz Description

No theme here. Just random trivia.

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Questions:

A regulation NHL hockey puck WEIGHS HOW MUCH, in ounces? Answers within one ounce will be considered correct.

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6

Did Andrew Lloyd Webber plagiarize Pink Floyd? Some claim that a pipe organ riff (D, C#, C, B, A#, then ascending A#, B, C, C#, D) from THIS MUSICAL was copied from the band's song Echoes.

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Phantom of the Opera

WHAT CITY is the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States?

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Austin

The Oscars have a nerdier sibling: the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards. In 2019, one was awarded for the "design and development of [redacted] After Effects software for motion graphics." WHAT COMPANY makes After Effects?

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Adobe

Thirty years ago this week, the president of WHAT EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY was overthrown shortly after thousands of protesters against the ruling regime were killed?

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Romania

The LAST NAME's the same: the sole U.S. Senator to be impeached; an American humorist who's appeared on both Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! and A Prairie Home Companion; and the NFL running back known as "The Train", who helped the Eagles win Super Bowl LII over his former team, the Patriots?

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Blount

"Many investigators have proved that [redacted] salt and mud are useful in treating skin disorders and skin diseases." So begins a 2006 article in the Journal of Cosmetic Science. WHAT BODY OF WATER has been redacted from this sentence?

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Dead Sea

There are ten categories of conservation status in the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species. What SINGLE-WORD CATEGORY falls between "Endangered" and "Near Threatened"? (Hint: It's not "Threatened".)

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Vulnerable

THIS PAINTER, best known for Liberty Leading the People, was considered a leader of the French Romantic School.

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Eugène Delacroix

Nigeria has the largest population in Africa, but WHICH AFRICAN NATION has the largest land area?

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Algeria

Many musicians are featured on the Voyager Golden Records, the phonographic representations of human culture included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. They contain the song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by WHICH BLIND GOSPEL BLUES SINGER/GUITARIST?

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Blind Willie Johnson

President Obama is a fan of Cixin Liu's science-fiction trilogy, "So that was fun to read, partly because my day-to-day problems with Congress seem fairly petty — not something to worry about. Aliens are about to invade." WHAT IS THE TITLE of the first book in the trilogy, named after a problem in classical mechanics that demonstrates chaotic motion?

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Three Body Problem