It Takes Two Trivia Quiz

Answer: Argentina as South America's second largest country behind Brazil

Massive Brazil covers just about fifty percent of South America with an area of 8,515,767 square kilometers. Argentina, at 2,780,400 square kilometers, is far ahead of third place Peru (1,285,216 sq. km). California is the largest US state in population, but is third in area. Texas is second, much to the chagrin of Texans, who love to brag about being the biggest in everything. Russia is far and away the largest single country in Asia and in the world, pushing India to number three in Asia.

In Australia, New South Wales comes in at only number five in area of states/territories, behind Queensland, Northern Territory, and South Australia as well as Western Australia, which occupies about one third of Australia's total land area.

Answer: "snake eyes"

"Snake eyes," is the usual call, because the small single pips look like beady little snake eyes. The stickman is the centrally located person at the craps table who directs the taking and paying of bets, passes the dice to the shooter with a long L-shaped wooden stick, and calls out the results of the roll.

This dice game is old, possibly dating as far back as the 12th century and the Crusades, when English knights played a forerunner game called "Hazard" while waiting out out the enemy during a castle siege.

The current name probably derives from the French "crapaud" (meaning 'toad') which referred to the shape of the players as they hunched on the ground while playing the street version of the game.

Answer: Octopuses have a local brain at the end of each tentacle, three hearts, but only two eyes

Gorillas are polygamous, and the alpha male leader of the group generally mates with multiple females. --It is the non-toothed baleen whales, such as the blue, gray and humpback, that have two blowholes next to each other. Dolphins, orcas, sperm whales and other toothed whales (odontocetes) have just one. --The two-toed sloth is found in South America and Central America only.

Octopuses are amazing creatures. They do in fact have concentrated bundles of neurons at the end of each of their eight arms, and only a small walnut sized central brain in their heads, which functions like a central processing unit for their localized brains. They also have three hearts, two of which pump blue, copper-rich blood to the gills while the third supplies the rest of the body. Their two eyes are as keen as any sea creature and provide part of a formidable defense arsenal against predators. In addition, most octopuses can squirt a black ink cloud into the water to confuse and disorient attackers, and/or change the color and texture of their skins to blend in and hide among plants or rock formations.

Answer: Sirius

Sirius, known informally as "the dog star" (hint in question) is the star which appears brightest in the night sky. It gets its nickname by being the most prominent star in the constellation "Canis Major"(Greater Dog). It is twice as massive as the sun and many times more luminous. Sirius and a much smaller companion star relatively nearby revolve around a central point, defining it and its little brother as a binary star system (a system made up of two stars orbiting each other). Gravity holds the two bodies in that relationship.

A nebula is a giant cloud of diffuse dust and gas which can become more concentrated and eventually attract other matter and form into stars under the right conditions. This is evidently what happened in the Eagle Nebula, known to scientists as "the pillar of creation," based on data from the Spitzer Telescope, launched in 2003 to observe interstellar phenomena.

The Sun and Betelgeuse are both single stars, but are very different. Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the Orion constellation. It is so big that if it were in the Sun's place, its surface area would extend outward well beyond Mars.

Answer: Two to Tango (1999) - starring Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, and Dylan McDermott

This 1999 comedy is actually "Three to Tango." In it, McDermott is rich businessman Charles Newman, and Campbell is Amy, his girlfriend. Perry, playing the part of Oscar Novak, is hired by Charles as a star architect. For somewhat absurd and barely believable reasons, the other two mistakenly believe Oscar to be gay. He then falls in love with Amy, and the fun and misunderstanding accelerates. There is an obscure 1988 movie titled "Two to Tango" which I hope you haven't heard of, since I wasn't trying to trick you. It's a thriller about a hit man sent to Argentina. It had no notable stars, did nothing at the box office, and was rated poorly on websites.

"Taking of Pelham One Two Three" is a remake of the original identically titled film starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, and Martin Balsam. "Two for the Money" is an American drama about sports and gambling. "Lock, Stock..." is a British comedy about a group of criminals in London involved in a number of scams and a card game which goes very wrong. This was director Ritchie's first feature film. He also helmed "Snatch" (2000), "Sherlock Holmes" (2009), and "The Man From Uncle" (2015).

Answer: "Two Blind Mice"- James Patterson

The 2002 James Patterson novel is titled "Four Blind Mice," not two. It's a crime drama involving murder, corruption, and cover-up in the military as a result of atrocities in Vietnam. It's not for the faint of heart.

The classic "A Tale of Two Cities" is one of Charles Dickens' most famous and enduring novels. Published in 1859, it takes the pulse of some of society's timeless issues in the context of a story set during the French revolution.

"The Two Towers" is volume II of Tolkien's epic fantasy novel about Hobbits and so much more. Originally intended as a follow up to "The Hobbit," the story kept getting bigger and eventually expanded into three volumes. He wrote it between 1937 and 1949. More than 150 million copies of the trilogy have been sold worldwide.

Dr. Seuss is the wildly popular children's author with millions of copies of his more than sixty published books on children's shelves throughout the world. His born name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. "One Fish, Two Fish..." was first published in 1960.

Answer: Nancy and Nathan Detroit

Working for the Motown Records label, Marvin Gaye recorded "It Takes Two," the title track for this quiz, with Weston in 1966. He recorded hits with several other of the label's top female singers as well; primarily Tammi Terrell, but also with Mary Wells and Diana Ross.
The Purify Brothers were pretty much a "one hit wonder" with the tune "I'm Your Puppet"(1966), although they did produce some more obscure soul numbers which bear listening.
Sam and Dave recorded on the Stax label out of Memphis. Their very soulful, joyful vocals produced several catchy hits including "Soul Man" and "Hold On (I'm Comin')." Their style was effectively copied by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the movie "The Blues Brothers".

Answer: number of Cy Young awards won by MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan

Nolan Ryan, inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame in 1999, retired as the all-time strike out king with 5,714. He was also number one in no-hitters with seven, tied Bob Feller with twelve one-hitters, was an eight-time all-star, and compiled 324 lifetime wins. Despite all this in his 27 year career with four different teams, he never won the Cy Young award as the best pitcher in his league for a given season.

The New York Yankees officially retire #2 in honor of Derek Jeter on May 14th, 2017. Jeter's last season was 2014. His is the last number between one and ten to be worn. All others have been retired by the team.
Vince Lombardi won five NFL titles as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959-1967. His teams won the first two Super Bowls in his last two seasons coaching that team. After one more season coaching the Washington Redskins in 1969, he retired.
When an offensive team fails to escape its own end zone on an offensive play, the result is two points awarded to the opponent. The team that had the ball also must then kick it back to the other team.

Answer: ____ on a match; ____ sheets to the wind

It's THREE on a match and THREE sheets in the wind. The 'three on a match' idiom refers to an interesting superstitious belief that it's bad luck to be the third person to have your cigarette lit from a match. It arose from soldiers, possibly in the Crimean War but definitely by World War II. The story was that enemy snipers would see the light when the first soldier lit up, would aim when he lit the second cigarette, and would fire as third man was getting lit, resulting in lights out for number three.

Three sheets in (or to) the wind means drunk. This is of nautical origin. Sheets are the ropes that manage the sails. The more sheets that are loose and flapping in the wind, rather than secure and tied down, the more the sails flutter erratically, and the more the sailboat lurches out of control. Sailors thus attached degrees of inebriation to number of sheets in the wind. Three was basically falling down drunk.

Answer: Italian: due

Giving the French (deux) or the Spanish (dos) would be too easy. For the other languages listed: German- drei is three, zwei is two; Portuguese- dez is ten, dois is two; Turkish- dort is four, iki is two(really!) [source: indifferentlanguages.com]