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When is "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria's birthday?
Oh, don't you just love date questions that aren't really all that significant and have the answers so closely stacked together that there's no way to guess if you don't know for sure? Yeah, so do I. Let me give you a little hint on this one: if you're into Julius Caesar, you should have no reason to beware this answer (hint, hint). |
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What is the slang term for fake in pro wrestling?
Maybe not a bad question, but if you're initiated into the world of pro wrestling you'll know that all of the terms below have been used for "fake" at one point or another, so the question is ambiguous at best. One of these answers is a little better answer than the rest, though. The term I'm looking for is broader than the rest, and is also the name of a secret language shared only by the most "inside" of wrestlers - a version of Pig Latin whose name sounds like a nonsense word. Knowing this, what is the best answer to this question? |
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"I am an arms dealer.
Fitting you with weapons in the form of words"
What song do these lyrics come from?
Admittedly, this may not seem like such a bad question on its face. However, it does nothing to pull the reader into the material if they don't know the answer right off, and an entire quiz of questions just like this - which Music editors, unfortunately, get dozens of every week - is about as exciting as watching paint dry.
That being said, what is this song that compares the "emo" music scene to the machinations of war profiteers? |
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Who is the consensus greatest American football player of all time?
OK, most football fans can tell you that there really IS no consensus as to who the greatest football player of all time is. A better way to phrase this would be: "Considered by many to be the greatest football player of all time, this Cleveland Browns fullback was also an All-American lacrosse player at Syracuse University." Now you've narrowed the question down to only one of the following. Which one? |
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In the Biblical story of Jesus' crucifixion, the Roman governor Pontius Pilate offers to release Jesus in commemoration of Passover. The group he addresses, however, instead requests the release of Barabbas. How does John 18:40 identify Barabbas?
See the problem here? As folks who have done some Bible study will readily point out, different translations of the Bible will often use different terms, and each of the terms below identifies Barabbas in at least one major English translation. Even specifying what version you are using (in this case the New Revised Standard) may not be much help - someone who studies another version of the Bible religiously (ouch - bad word choice) will still be upset when tricked this way. In his case, the term I'm looking for is also the name of a character played by Burt Reynolds in one of the most successful movies of the 1970s - a flick that had the whole US buying CB radios. |
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What is the top movie of all time?
See the problem here? There are many ways to define the "top movie", and this question really doesn't point you toward any of them. In this case, the movie I'm asking for was rated number one on the American Film Institutes "100 Years, 100 Movies" list, and was voted number one on the "Sight and Sound" film magazine's poll of great films every ten years from 1962 to 2002. What is this influential 1941 masterpiece? |
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What band was Paul McCartney in before Wings?
Nothing insightful to say about this one; it's just a really stupid question. |
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What was that one movie with the guy from that one show who used to be really funny and married that girl from "Striptease" and he was in a skyscraper and it blew up?
Again, nothing too insightful to add here. This question just stinks. |
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Considered by most rabbis to be the most influential figure in Judaism since the Babylonian exile, this great thinker was born in Cordoba, Spain in 1135. Among his works are a concise, 13-point synopsis of Judaism's essentials. Please type this great thinker's name in the blank below.
OK, unless you're eight times the speller I am, this just isn't a fair thing to ask, even if you do know the answer cold. It doesn't help that this milestone thinker's name has several spellings. So, if you prefer, just go ahead and type his first name, which he shares with the putative author of the Torah. (You know, the guy with the tablets and what not.) |
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When did Charles Darwin realize that Christianity was false?
The substance of this question is actually entirely valid - most biographers of Darwin do indicate a point in the scientist's life where he turned from Anglican Christianity to agnosticism. The problem with this question is that it is quite disrespectful to believing Christians, and Quizzyland, for all its faults, is a place where we all try the best we can to show a respect for the diverse group frequenting the site.
That being said, what period of Darwin's life is generally associated with his loss of Christian faith? |
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