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It's Not Paranoia Trivia Quiz


You're not paranoid if someone is really after you. Can you figure out who is after or chasing people in the following instances? Have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by shvdotr. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
shvdotr
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
373,922
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
587
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Question 1 of 10
1. It's Thursday, 18 July, 2013, in the Tour de France, and France's own Christophe Riblon is struggling up the Alpe-d'Huez. He may be feeling a bit of paranoia, but who is that huge bunch of guys chasing him? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. It's January 21, 1979, at Super Bowl XIII. Roger Staubach is in the Orange Bowl in Miami trying to win another Super Bowl for the Cowboys. Feelings of paranoia accompany his position, but he actually is constantly being harassed by four huge men in Black and Gold, including "Mean Joe" Green and L.C. Greenwood. Just who are those four guys chasing Staubach? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", as the pair are being chased across the West, Butch may be feeling a little paranoid, because he keeps looking back at their pursuers and asking, "Who are those guys?" Well, who WERE those guys? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. A couple of "Good Ol' Boys" who always seemed to be objects of car chases were Bo and Luke Duke on the 1980s TV sitcom "The Dukes of Hazzard". Played by John Schneider and Tom Wopat, the Duke cousins weren't paranoid because they were constantly being chased by James Best in the role of the Hazzard County Sheriff. Now, what was his name? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. You wouldn't blame Adolf Eichmann for feeling paranoid, because he was one of the most famous war criminals of all time and known as "the architect of the Holocaust." After World War II he fled to Argentina, where he was finally captured in 1960. What organization had been hunting him for 15 years? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. In May of 1941, Captain Ernst Lindemann might have felt paranoid in what would become his last tour of duty as Kapitän zur See, serving on the "Bismarck". If Lindemann had known the lyrics of Johnny Horton's "Sink the Bismarck", he would not be paranoid, because "Churchill told the people" to do what in search of his vessel? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Although she was born in Poland, Marie Sklodowska moved to France after being involved in a revolutionary student organization, not only because she may have been a tiny bit paranoid, but probably also to get more education, get married, and build her career. Nonetheless, a Swedish group tracked her down not once, but twice. Who were they? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. After joining the Mediterranean and Red Seas with the Suez Canal, which he completed in 1869, Ferdinand de Lesseps attempted to duplicate the feat across the Isthmus of Panama in the 1880s. He may not have actually been paranoid, but he eventually gave up on the latter project because he and his crews were constantly being devastated by hordes of what scourge of that climate? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. As Frodo and his friends leave the Shire to take the Ring of Power to Rivendell at the outset of J.R.R. Tolkien's masterful novel, "The Lord of the Rings," the small group is pursued by nine ring-wraiths, servants of the Dark Lord Sauron. What term from the Black Speech is used to refer to these wraiths? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Pursued for four months over 1,170 miles of Idaho and Montana by three full U.S. Army units made up of about 2,000 total men, Chief Joseph led a band of less than 80 warriors along with 500 women, children, and old men to within 40 miles of Canada in 1877. Which former Civil War general and winner of the Medal of Honor accepted the final surrender of the Nez Perce? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. It's Thursday, 18 July, 2013, in the Tour de France, and France's own Christophe Riblon is struggling up the Alpe-d'Huez. He may be feeling a bit of paranoia, but who is that huge bunch of guys chasing him?

Answer: the Peloton

Riblon won the 18th Stage of the 2013 Tour de France, which included the climb up the Alpe-d'Huez, one of the most famous climbing stages of the Tour. The Peloton is the term given in the Tour to the pack of riders who make up the bulk of competitors at any given time in each stage. Stade de Reims is a traditionally strong soccer team in the French Ligue 1.

The Legion Etrangere is the French Foreign Legion, and the Garrison of Rome was another term for the Praetorian Guard, which served as Rome's police force during the Republic.
2. It's January 21, 1979, at Super Bowl XIII. Roger Staubach is in the Orange Bowl in Miami trying to win another Super Bowl for the Cowboys. Feelings of paranoia accompany his position, but he actually is constantly being harassed by four huge men in Black and Gold, including "Mean Joe" Green and L.C. Greenwood. Just who are those four guys chasing Staubach?

Answer: the Steel Curtain

The Steel Curtain was the front four of the Pittsburgh Steelers, which also included Dwight White in 1979 and, up until 1977, Ernie Holmes. The Steelers won Super Bowl XIII by the score of 35-31. The Purple People Eaters were the defensive front four of the Minnesota Vikings from the 1970s.

The Legion of Doom is a group of DC Comics supervillains, although there are also two music bands by the same name. The Big Green Machine is a product name for a line of vacuum cleaners by Bissell.
3. In "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", as the pair are being chased across the West, Butch may be feeling a little paranoid, because he keeps looking back at their pursuers and asking, "Who are those guys?" Well, who WERE those guys?

Answer: Pinkerton agents

Allan Pinkerton established his detective agency in 1850. He rose to fame when he claimed to have prevented a plot to assassinate President Lincoln in 1860. After Pinkerton agents made the American West too uncomfortable for them in 1900, Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) and Sundance (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh) first fled to Argentina, and then to Bolivia, where they were probably killed in 1908.

However, there have been claims that Cassidy had been seen in the United States as late as the 1920s.
4. A couple of "Good Ol' Boys" who always seemed to be objects of car chases were Bo and Luke Duke on the 1980s TV sitcom "The Dukes of Hazzard". Played by John Schneider and Tom Wopat, the Duke cousins weren't paranoid because they were constantly being chased by James Best in the role of the Hazzard County Sheriff. Now, what was his name?

Answer: Roscoe P. Coltrane

Enos Strate, played by Sonny Shroyer, was a good-hearted deputy who was the other member of the Hazzard County Sheriff's Department who was often in pursuit of the Dukes. Jubilation T. Cornpone was a mythical Civil War general and founder of Dogpatch in the "Li'l Abner" comic strip from the pen of cartoonist Al Capp from 1934 to 1977. Alfred E. Neuman was the cover boy of "Mad" magazine, beginning in the 1950s. Of course, Robert E. Lee was the South's greatest general in the American Civil War and the namesake of the Dukes' orange 1969 Dodge Charger stock car named "The General Lee".
5. You wouldn't blame Adolf Eichmann for feeling paranoid, because he was one of the most famous war criminals of all time and known as "the architect of the Holocaust." After World War II he fled to Argentina, where he was finally captured in 1960. What organization had been hunting him for 15 years?

Answer: Mossad

Mossad is the intelligence agency of Israel. In 1960, Mossad agents captured Eichmann in Argentina and transported him to Israel, where he was tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes, among others. He was then executed in 1962.
6. In May of 1941, Captain Ernst Lindemann might have felt paranoid in what would become his last tour of duty as Kapitän zur See, serving on the "Bismarck". If Lindemann had known the lyrics of Johnny Horton's "Sink the Bismarck", he would not be paranoid, because "Churchill told the people" to do what in search of his vessel?

Answer: "Put every ship asail"

After sinking the HMS Hood on 24 May, the Bismarck fled, but suffered damage from torpedoes as well as shelling from British ships. Disabled, she was eventually scuttled by her crew and sank, taking Captain Lindemann and over 2,000 other crewmen with her. Perhaps the most famous battleship of all time, the Bismarck's entire tour of duty turned out to last only eight months.
7. Although she was born in Poland, Marie Sklodowska moved to France after being involved in a revolutionary student organization, not only because she may have been a tiny bit paranoid, but probably also to get more education, get married, and build her career. Nonetheless, a Swedish group tracked her down not once, but twice. Who were they?

Answer: the Nobel Prize committee

Marie married Pierre Curie in 1895, and also succeeded him as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne. She went on to win Nobel Prizes in Physics in 1903 and in Chemistry in 1911.
8. After joining the Mediterranean and Red Seas with the Suez Canal, which he completed in 1869, Ferdinand de Lesseps attempted to duplicate the feat across the Isthmus of Panama in the 1880s. He may not have actually been paranoid, but he eventually gave up on the latter project because he and his crews were constantly being devastated by hordes of what scourge of that climate?

Answer: mosquitoes

Mosquitoes presented an insurmountable obstacle at that time because they infected workers with malaria and yellow fever, which the state of medicine of the day could not control. Other factors that contributed to de Lesseps' failure there included recurrent landslides from the water-saturated hills and financial difficulties. Eventually, the United States was able to complete a canal in a different location and after most of the mosquito-associated disease problems had been solved.

The canal was completed in 1914.
9. As Frodo and his friends leave the Shire to take the Ring of Power to Rivendell at the outset of J.R.R. Tolkien's masterful novel, "The Lord of the Rings," the small group is pursued by nine ring-wraiths, servants of the Dark Lord Sauron. What term from the Black Speech is used to refer to these wraiths?

Answer: Nazgul

"Black Speech" is one of the languages created by Tolkien for his epic work. The Black Speech is one of the languages of Arda, spoken in the realm of Mordor. Tolkien created many languages for Middle Earth, including a family of Elvish languages, three distinct human languages with complete grammars and vocabularies, and languages for several races, such as Ents, Dwarves, Orcs, and Valarin.
10. Pursued for four months over 1,170 miles of Idaho and Montana by three full U.S. Army units made up of about 2,000 total men, Chief Joseph led a band of less than 80 warriors along with 500 women, children, and old men to within 40 miles of Canada in 1877. Which former Civil War general and winner of the Medal of Honor accepted the final surrender of the Nez Perce?

Answer: Oliver O. Howard

From 1865 to 1874 Howard was also head of the Freedmen's Bureau, and was also involved in the 1867 founding of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Source: Author shvdotr

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