The Birth of our Trivia Blog
1. In what year did Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley tie the knot?
2. In the 1996 presidential election, who was Bob Dole’s running mate?
3. In 1997, 39 members of what religious group committed suicide near San Diego, California believing that a gigantic spacecraft trailed the Hale-Bopp comet and offered an opportunity for them to be transported to a higher realm before the Earth would be annihilated?
4. What team won the 1992 World Series?
5. In 1998, what toy was banned from offices of several intelligence agencies because it was thought to pose a security risk?
1. What was Sean Penn’s character’s name in Fast Times At Ridgemont High?
2. What low-budget, government-funded, allegedly a documentary but actually a propaganda film from the mid-30s dramatized the dangers of marijuana use and demonized weed?
3. In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, who plays Dr. Frank-N-Furter?
4. What singer/songwriter provided the soundtrack for 1971’s Harold and Maude?
5. The 1982 classic film Blade Runner is set in futuristic, proto-punk Los Angeles in 2019, starring Harrison Ford as an ex-cop who hunts down renegade human replicants. What is the name of the Philip K. Dick novel the film is loosely based upon?
1. Albert Einstein was born in what country?
2. Where are you if you buy something with Krona (the national currency)?
3. In July of 1978 the world’s first test tube baby was born in what country?
4. What was the first European country to give women the right to vote?
5. From what nation did Slovenia declare its independence in 1991?
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1. It’s generally accepted that there are four major professional men’s sports (football, baseball, basketball and hockey). Seattle won its first championship in which of these?
2. Mariners hall of fame inductee Dave Niehaus has been known to say “Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it’s grand salami time” and “My, oh, my”. What broadcasting partner of his, whom he affectionately referred to as “Red”, was probably best known for saying, what seemed to listeners to be hundreds of times per game, “he’s gotta keep the ball down”?
3. In what year did a 12 and 0 season lead to the Huskies being voted co-National Champions alongside the Miami Hurricanes by the USA Today/CNN Coaches Poll?
4. What was the name of the Major League Baseball team that played only one season in Seattle, moving in 1969 to Milwaukee and becoming the Brewers?
5. Which former Seahawks wide receiver was elected to the House of Representatives in 1994 in Oklahoma?
1. UPC (one of a wide variety of barcode languages called symbologies, it was the original bar code widely used in the US and Canada)?
2. BBC (largest of its kind in the world)?
3. TVA (a federally owned corporation created in 1933 under FDR)?
4. JPEG (a commonly used standard method of compression for photographic images)?
5. FICA (an employment tax imposed in an equal amount on employees and employers to fund federal programs for retirees, the disabled, and children of deceased workers)?
1. Kenneth Bianchi, along with his cousin Angelo Buono, killed 15 women in southern California and Washington state from 1977 to 1979 before being captured in Bellingham. He is better known by what name?
2. What serial killer, who was responsible for the deaths of 33 young men in the 70s, was known around Chicago for dressing as a clown and entertaining children at local hospitals and for immersing himself in organizations such as the Jaycees, working to make his community a better place to live?
3. What Wisconsin serial killer, who was the inspiration for the movies Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs, was arrested in 1957 after police found several body parts in his home along with many pieces of furniture upholstered in human skin?
4. “Son of Sam” was the name given to what serial killer who claimed he was controlled by a 3000-year-old demon which, to the untrained eye, appeared to be Harvey, his neighbor’s black labrador?
5. What notorious female serial killer, on whom the movie Monster was based, was a prostitute who killed 6 men in Florida?
1. Dirty Mind (from Dirty Mind – 1984)
2. Dirty Little Secret (from Move Along – 2005)
3. Dirty Mutha Fuzz (from Ferociously Stoned – 1990)
4. Dirrty (from Stripped – 2002)
5. Dirty Laundry (from I Can’t Stand Still – 1982)