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Quiz about Useless Trivia in Ten Categories

Useless Trivia in Ten Categories Quiz

This quiz is for just about anyone who knows lots of useless trivia but is not that good at math or the like.

A multiple-choice quiz by notheridesbus. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
notheridesbus

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
171,925

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
697

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Comics: When written in all capitals, what is unusual about the name Rastapopoulos in Tintin comics? Hint

An exclamation point is never included

There is a small number 1 to the left corner

An "O" is used in place of the "U"

It takes up an entire comic panel

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Question 2 of 10

2. Place the Film: Ricardo Montalban can finally walk (to a degree)after being wheelchair bound since the early '90s? Hint

Images of Indians

Spy Kids 3-D

Spy Kids 2

Freakazoid!

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Question 3 of 10

3. Music: In Brian Wilson's current backing band, who plays the following: Guitar, Electro-Theremin, trumpet, synthesizer, French horn? Hint

Paul Mertens

Andy Paley

Darian Sahanaja

Probyn Gregory

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Question 4 of 10

4. Television: In what television special starring several future members of 'Monty Python' were emergency sprills, fussing, doors that fall off and parents that make pipe-lighters featured? Hint

Live at Aspen

Do Not Adjust Your Set

How to Irritate People

Owl-Stretching Time

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Question 5 of 10

5. Food: Name the American invention that is now sold in China, but with more indirect fillings? Hint

Fortune Cookies

Chow Mein

Chop Suey

Wontons

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Question 6 of 10

6. Canada: The first Canadian Prime Minister was Charles Tupper?

True

False

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Question 7 of 10

7. Technology: In the Basic programming language, a command of 'Print 12345 end' will make the computer print 12345?

True

False

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Question 8 of 10

8. Sport: In which sport did a player die by sucking on a piece of sport equipment? Hint

English Football

Baseball

Golf

Football

9. Urban Legends: Who is purported to have complained to a cashier at a general store that she couldn't use the phone, but was upstaged when she learned the President couldn't use the phone there either? Hint

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Martha Stewart

Oprah Winfrey

Kathie Lee Gifford

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Question 10 of 10

10. Books: Who is the true identity of kids' fiction writer Lemony Snicket? Hint

Jesse Kornbluth

Josh Young

Todd Gold

Daniel Handler

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Comics: When written in all capitals, what is unusual about the name Rastapopoulos in Tintin comics?

Answer: An exclamation point is never included

The name Rastapopoulos was used in at least 3 Tintin comics - "The Red Sea Sharks," "Flight 714" and "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks" - in its non-exclamation version.

2. Place the Film: Ricardo Montalban can finally walk (to a degree)after being wheelchair bound since the early '90s?

Answer: Spy Kids 3-D

His entire body from the neck down was computer-generated in the movie. Most of the movie was indeed shot on greenscreen and then computer altered later.

3. Music: In Brian Wilson's current backing band, who plays the following: Guitar, Electro-Theremin, trumpet, synthesizer, French horn?

Answer: Probyn Gregory

Probyn has a small mousy face and body, and is situated to the direct right of the synthesizers/vibes. The band is officially named 'The Brian Wilson Band'.

4. Television: In what television special starring several future members of 'Monty Python' were emergency sprills, fussing, doors that fall off and parents that make pipe-lighters featured?

Answer: How to Irritate People

Starring John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Connie Booth, Gillian Lind and Tim Brooke-Taylor, "How to Irritate People" was released in 1968.

5. Food: Name the American invention that is now sold in China, but with more indirect fillings?

Answer: Fortune Cookies

The "indirect fillings" are the paper slips, which are inscribed with Chinese messages like "The tiger fears no fire." Fortune cookies are generally regarded to have been invented in 1909 by Makota Hagiwara, manager of the 'Japanese Tea Garden' in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

6. Canada: The first Canadian Prime Minister was Charles Tupper?

Answer: False

The first Canadian Prime Minister was actually Sir John A. MacDonald, He emigrated to Canada, from Scotland, at the age of five.

7. Technology: In the Basic programming language, a command of 'Print 12345 end' will make the computer print 12345?

Answer: False

That will actually do nothing, as the numbers '12345' need to be in quotation marks. So to do that, you would put 'Print "12345" end."

8. Sport: In which sport did a player die by sucking on a piece of sport equipment?

Answer: Golf

The golfer sucked on a tee that had been used in an Army-Navy course in Arlington, Virginia. The ground there had recently been sprayed with pesticide.

Answer: Martha Stewart

The Stewart-phone urban legend is in fact completely false and never happened.

10. Books: Who is the true identity of kids' fiction writer Lemony Snicket?

Answer: Daniel Handler

This American author of children's books has also written such adult books as "The Basic 8." That's it for this quiz. Hope you enjoyed it!

Source: Author notheridesbus

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