Trivia Hunt IX: July 17th, 2021
Congrats to our three fastest perfect-scoring teams, taking home $642.85 each:
1st – Slumdoge Millionaires – 59 minutes, 27 seconds
2nd – MC Gandalf the Fresh and His Hip-Hobbits – 1 hour, 9 minutes, 47 seconds
3rd – Well Anyway – 1 hour, 40 minutes, 41 seconds
Our Recap
Hey, folks. This is Remy, Sporcle Live trivia host and co-writer of the Trivia Hunt questions.
Once again, this weekend’s teams did an outstanding job. 78% of the teams scored at least 20 points. Remarkably, the average score was the exact same as the last Hunt at 21.3. As for the average time, well… officially, the average time is 3 hours and 9 minutes. If we exclude the teams whose submissions came after breakfast on Sunday (that is, today), the average time becomes 2 hours, 46 minutes. Of the teams whose submissions came on Saturday proper (Eastern time), the average time is 2 hours, 28 minutes. Perhaps our questions have become a little difficult?
This time around, the number of winning teams returned to the single digits with a total of 7. The top three teams earn a solid $642.85, while the next four teams earn $142.85. As you may have noticed, Slumdoge Millionaires’ winning streak has been extended to three in a row. Impressive stuff!
As always, we hope you all enjoyed solving our trivia puzzles. Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty!
Average Completion Time: 189 minutes
Average Score: 21.3
Teams Winning Cash – 7
The next Trivia Hunt is a unique one: Trivia Hunt Express! It’ll be held on Wednesday, August 18th at 9PM Eastern. This time around, it’s a quick one: 10 questions, with a one-hour prize time limit. As a bonus, this one is FREE to enter! Ticket info coming soon!
A quick note about the questions and how we go about them: when we write each question, we test it in a small group, re-write them, and try again. A different group does a test run 2-3 days before the hunt, and again, we revise. Even with all that, we sometimes don’t discover an additional answer or a possible wording issue. We certainly do our best, and our intent is never to trick you. We want you to get them right, but we also want them to be a challenge. With that said, there are sometimes questions where there were multiple accepted answers.
Question #1:
Welcome to Trivia Hunt IX!
This mountain peak lies on the Continental Divide of the Americas and shares its name with a mountain on the island of Crete. The name of this mountain is the first name of a certain person with a long career in the film industry. A movie directed by this person, who became a US citizen in the 1940s, was inducted into the National Film Registry in the 21st century. Name this movie.
A: Outrage
Most Common Wrong Answer: The Hitchhiker
Correct Percentage: 78%
Quick Note: Although The Hitchhiker was also inducted into the National Film Registry, it was inducted in the 20th century, not the 21st.
Question #2:
Of the women currently serving as a country’s elected head of government or state, which two leaders‘ current terms began closest to each other chronologically?
A: Mette Frederiksen and Zuzana Čaputová OR Angela Merkel and Bidya Devi Bhandari
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 83%
Quick Note: So here’s why English is a tough language to learn. “Current term” can be interpreted as both “elected term” and “overall tenure.” While the current tenures of Mette Frederiksen and Zuzana Čaputová were twelve days apart, Angela Merkel and Bidya Devi Bhandari were sworn in for their current elected terms on the same day!
Question #3:
A: Signs
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: Excellent job! Did this question open up your eyes when you saw it?
Question #4:
What name is shared by:
- The last name of a character that appears in more than one Pixar film.
- The middle name of a former First Lady of the United States.
- An island on the Ohio River.
- A character in The Hunger Games.
- A US Naval destroyer that was decommissioned in the 1940s.
A: Boggs
Most Common Wrong Answer: Davis
Correct Percentage: 88%
Quick Note: Several teams jumped the gun on Davis which, unfortunately, only fits four of the five criteria.
Question #5:
The film production label that released Splash and The Waterboy shares its name with a character from a Shakespeare play. This character was portrayed by a certain actor in a 2000s film. This actor’s last name is the same as the name of a U.S. healthcare company (minus the word “Healthcare”).
Of the people who won a Nobel Prize during the year this healthcare company was founded, which person has a name that begins with the same letter as the common short form name of the country he represents?
A: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: This was another easy one for most of you! Well done!
Question #6:
The clothing company that aired a music video-style commercial featuring this song has its headquarters in a certain U.S. city. This city officially uses two area codes, one of which is about 3/4ths the numerical value of the other.
The larger area code is the same as the total number of points scored by a country in a certain Eurovision Song Contest Final after 2000. The entry song by this country that scored that total number of points has a single-word title that is also the last name of an actor who was born in the 1980s. This actor has starred in a number of television shows, most recently guest-starring in a single episode of a certain show. IMDb lists two people as co-creators of this show, one of whom also stars in the show. Who is the other co-creator?
A: Teresa Hsiao
Most Common Wrong Answer: Awkwafina
Correct Percentage: 94%
Quick Note: Never forget, folks: you can’t over-love your underwear.
Question #7:
There have been three #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1959 that contains the same name as a professional team in either the MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, or WNBA and has no other unique words in its title. One of them is “Bills, Bills, Bills.” Name the other two.
Clarifier: It must be word-for-word, so if there is a song called “Fevers” that would not work for the Indiana Fever.
Clarifier: It can only contain the team name in the title. Therefore, a song like “Mr. Blue Sky” would not count for the Chicago Sky.
A: Magic & Royals
Most Common Wrong Answer: Fire, Thunder
Correct Percentage: 77%
Quick Note: Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder” peaked at #4, while the Portland Fire haven’t existed since 2002.
Question #8:
Two women have each performed songs that won them back-to-back Song of the Year Grammys. Only one of the four songs in question did not win Record of the Year that year. The last word in the title of the song that won Record of the Year that year is also the title of the 7th track on a certain singer’s 2002 debut album.
This singer, whose last name can also be used as a first name, is best known for her debut album’s first single. This single first appeared as a sample in a movie that includes a woman in its cast that has since been nominated for a Grammy. Name her.
A: Selma Blair
Most Common Wrong Answer: Jessica Cauffiel
Correct Percentage: 87%
Quick Note: In 2010, Selma Blair narrated the audiobook version of The Diary of Anne Frank, earning a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
Question #9:
This image produced a lot of memes back when it was first taken. The image was taken on the campus of a certain university. One of that university’s notable alumni has a Netflix show that first debuted in early 2018. Most episodes of that show have city names as titles. Which of those cities is furthest away (as the crow flies) from where the linked image was taken?
A: Singapore
Most Common Wrong Answer: Saigon
Correct Percentage: 74%
Quick Note: The difference between the distances is 650 miles, or just over 1,046 kilometers.
Question #10:
In a certain film from the 1990s, Mel Gibson played a character with a peculiar fondness for one of ALA’s 50 most commonly banned books of the 2010s. (This list includes books that were banned – not necessarily released – during the years 2010-2019.) One of the other cast members of this film has a last name beginning with the letter W. This last name is shared by an island country in a SNES role-playing game released in the U.S. in 1995. Of this game’s main characters, who is the last character to join the party?
A: Poo
Most Common Wrong Answer: Magus
Correct Percentage: 79%
Quick Note: Sorry, Chrono Trigger fans. Conspiracy Theory was the film, Dean Winters was the cast member, and Earthbound was the game. #LocalizeMother3
Question #11:
Of the 44 names mentioned in the Nails’ song “88 Lines About 44 Women,” two are also names of major US cities. The first four letters of the county in which one of the cities is located and the first four letters of the other city’s state are the same.
Adding the word “The” before those four letters gives the title of a movie featuring several musicians and singers in credited or uncredited roles. Two of them collaborated on a hit single that peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the music video for that song, two men are seen wearing numbered sports jerseys. The one wearing the jersey with a larger number is wearing the jersey of what famous athlete?
A: Wayne Gretzky
Most Common Wrong Answer: Michael Jordan
Correct Percentage: 81%
Quick Note: It’s almost a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but it’s there! … wait, is that what the “G” stands for?
Question #12:
The two NBA teams that are most closely associated with the two songs heard in this clip played each other twice this past regular season (as in the one that just finished in May 2021). On the first day of those two games, someone is seen eating a hotdog on the front page of that same day’s New York Times newspaper. That man has a brother whose first name is also the name of a US city that is home to a major university (one with over 25,000 students). Name that university.
A: University of Kansas
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 90%
Quick Note: Not too shabby, folks. Good job!
Question #13:
The most recent woman to win the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical was previously nominated for the same award for a different musical. This earlier musical’s title refers to a real-life event that was first witnessed by a man who shares his first name with an author who received a particular award in 1845. A certain woman singer has been awarded this honor twice: first at the same rank in 1998 and again at a higher rank in 2020. In years, how old was this singer when her most recent studio album was released?
A: 81 or 82 (disputed)
Most Common Wrong Answer: 83
Correct Percentage: 77%
Quick Note: It turns out that Fairuz’s birthday is disputed, allowing for either 81 or 82 to become the correct answer here. 83 looks to be a math error, since the album in question came before her birthday that year.
Question #14:
The first UFC event to utilize weight classes shares its subtitle (albeit spelled slightly differently) with a 1990s sequel to a 1980s film. The actor who portrayed this film’s antagonist appears in this role (or a parody thereof) in two other films in the 1990s. Of these two films, find the film that made more at the domestic box office on its opening weekend. When you arrange all of the songs on its soundtrack in alphabetical order, which one comes last?
A: “Why You Wanna Break My Heart” by Tia Carrere
Most Common Wrong Answer: What the Hell Have I
Correct Percentage: 85%
Quick Note: I know what the 15% of teams who got this wrong are thinking. … I’ll let you finish the joke.
Question #15:
The artist of this painting died in a year that is the same as the identification number belonging to a specific inmate of a maximum security prison that opened in 1934. The inmate in question has been portrayed in film by an actor whose name is also the title of a song that hit the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001.
The band that produced this song also released a different song in 2005 named after a famous character portrayed by that same actor. What was the title of the final film in the series that featured that character?
A: The Dead Pool
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: Another easy one. Good job!
Question #16:
What film meets these criteria:
• Its score was composed by John Williams.
• Its title starts and ends with the same letter (including films with “the” or “a/an” in the title).
• It won at least one Academy Award.
• It was based on a previously-existing work of the same name.
• It was given a four-star rating by Gene Siskel.
A: The Accidental Tourist
Most Common Wrong Answer: Fiddler on the Roof
Correct Percentage: 91%
Quick Note: Gene Siskel only gave Fiddler on the Roof 3 1/2 stars. No rounding up, here!
Question #17:
The first names of comedians Quinn, Davies, Lewis, White, and Mulaney are shared by the original five members of a certain Australian musical group. This group had a song whose lyrics mention a man from a city closely associated with the European Union. His specific height is also mentioned.
Of the most recently completed NBA regular season, two teams had an average point differential of 0.0. Of those two, find the team that has appeared in fewer NBA finals. There is one player on that team’s roster (check their official web site just to be sure!) with the same height as the man from the song. The university where that NBA player played college basketball is in a major US city. If you were flying in to see him play in one of those college games, what is the three-letter airport code you flew in to (assuming you flew to the nearest international airport)?
Clarifier: Use this link for the NBA stats.
A: CVG
Most Common Wrong Answer: IND
Correct Percentage: 79%
Quick Note: If only I were 6’4″ and full of muscle. That’d be the life, wouldn’t it?
Question #18:
One of the first viral musical performance videos on the Internet was of this arrangement of a classical piece from the 17th century. This particular arrangement’s original composer goes by his first name and last initial professionally.
Find the second musical to win the Tony Award for Best Musical with a title beginning with that last initial. Of the characters in this musical, one has a name that is also the name of a month. What is the longest-running scripted American TV series to have debuted in that month?
A: General Hospital
Most Common Wrong Answer: Dallas
Correct Percentage: 42%
Quick Note: This was by far the most brutal question of the Hunt. The teams that said Dallas likely got their answer from a list that only included primetime shows. Factoring in daytime shows like soap operas yielded the correct answer. If only it were all just a dream!
Question #19:
A constant named after a famous scientist born in Turin relates the number of particles in an amount of a substance. The SI unit closely related to that constant is also a name for a group of mammals. The natural color of that animal’s pelt is also the French name for the animal.
Take the first three numbers of the hex code of that color. Use them in the same order to create a year. What Pope passed away that year?
A: Pope Simplicius
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 94%
Quick Note: Simplicius is best. Good job!
Question #20:
Of the 25 most populous cities in Iowa, one of them shares its name with the most populous city in one of the other 49 US states. The current mayor of that non-Iowa city shares their first name with the in-ring name of a current professional wrestling* champion.
That person was born in a country outside of the United States. A different country, one that borders the birthplace country of our wrestling star, has hosted at least one Summer Olympics. During that country’s most recently hosted games, the country that came out first during the Opening Ceremonies Parade of Nations is known for some specific mountainous volcanic peaks. Those two peaks share part of their names with the brand name of the country’s most popular lager beer. Name the beer.
* Clarifier: We are only considering wrestling companies that currently air on national TV in the US.
A: Piton (Lager)
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: Two back-to-back easy ones. Good job!
Question #21:
If you sound out the four-letter monosyllabic words represented by the images in this collage in a certain order, you’ll get (what we think sounds a lot like) the name of a singer born in 1967. This singer has appeared in over 20 films, only one of which is a numbered sequel. If you add each digit in the film’s worldwide gross according to IMDb, you’ll get a two-digit prime number. Give that number.
Clarifier: The words represented by each image may be a first name, last name, alias, or production name.
A: 37
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 99%
Quick Note: Yep, that’s three easy questions … in a row?
Question #22:
Of the songs released by Taylor Swift as the main artist (not the featured artist) that have numbers in the title (either numeral or spelled out), two have Swift listed as the sole songwriter. Take note of the number in the title of the song that was released earlier. We’ll call this “Our Number” for simplicity’s sake.
Of the elements on the periodic table that fall into the group whose number matches that of Our Number, only one has a symbol that does not share any letters with its full name. Let’s call this “Our Element.”
Find the play in Shakespeare’s First Folio that has the same ordinal position as Our Number. Next, read the atomic number of Our Element as follows:
• The first digit is the act number of this Shakespeare play.
• The second digit is the scene number within this act.
What are the final three words of dialogue in this scene?
A: A prouder foe
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 86%
Quick Note: I didn’t write this question, but I absolutely wish I did. It’s my favorite one of the Hunt by far. (Good job, Emily!)
Question #23:
In the first episode of South Park, Kyle urges his brother to do his impersonation of a certain actor’s career. The character this actor portrayed on the most number of episodes during the 1990s shares its name with the real name of a literary character once played in film by Willem Dafoe.
The 1993 book considered this character’s “origin story” is primarily set in an American city and a country. Who was the president of this foreign country when this book was released?
A: Lê Đức Anh
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 94%
Quick Note: Most of you were able to answer this one without remorse!
Question #24:
You may need to write down some notes for this one.
Of the countries whose common short form names end in a consonant, which country produces the most of this annually? (No, we don’t mean pianos.)
A: Japan
Most Common Wrong Answer: China
Correct Percentage: 86%
Quick Note: To the best of my knowledge, “a” is not a consonant.
Question #25:
The final answer unlocks this customized combination lock. Find out the correct combination by filling out the blanks in the following sequence:
___ RIGHT – The world’s best selling album of the year in 2015.
___ LEFT – The atomic number of an alkaline earth metal in the same row as chlorine.
___ LEFT – The minimum age to purchase tobacco products in Sri Lanka.
___ RIGHT – In Greek mythology, the number of days for an anvil to fall from heaven to Earth or from Earth to Tartarus.
___ LEFT – The number of the sports car driven by Cary Elwes’s character in a movie also starring Tom Cruise.
___ RIGHT – The lowest double digit score that’s impossible to get in cribbage.
___ RIGHT – The number by which a prisoner of Chateau d’If is referred to in a novel by Alexandre Dumas (père).
___ RIGHT – The total number of toes Cavia porcellus usually has on its four legs.
___ LEFT – The jersey number of a 1986-87 NBA All-Rookie Team member nicknamed “Hot Rod.”
___ RIGHT – The number of Golden Globe Awards won by any film in the Star Wars franchise.
___ LEFT – The number combined with ‘Alt’ key that shows the → symbol on Microsoft Windows operating system.
___ LEFT – The number appearing in the title of the eighth episode in season six of The Big Bang Theory.
___ RIGHT – The number of dots in a quincunx.
Clarifier: Green 0 (zero) is the starting point, and a space character, if reached.
Clarifier: Rotating combination lock clockwise is RIGHT, and counter-clockwise is LEFT.
Clarifier: The answer may have more than one word.
A: Montauk Daisy
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 81%
Quick Note: This question definitely made more sense once you had the lock image, right? Ahahaha… (sorry about that!)
If your team got the right numbers in place and submitted those numbers, we gave you credit for it!
As always, we sincerely appreciate your support of our humble Trivia Hunt! We hope to see you again on August 18th!
The Next Hunt – Trivia Hunt Express
August 18th, 2021 – 9 PM Eastern
Ticket info coming soon!
Trivia Hunt IX: July 17th, 2021
Congrats to our three fastest perfect-scoring teams, taking home $642.85 each:
1st – Slumdoge Millionaires – 59 minutes, 27 seconds
2nd – MC Gandalf the Fresh and His Hip-Hobbits – 1 hour, 9 minutes, 47 seconds
3rd – Well Anyway – 1 hour, 40 minutes, 41 seconds
Our Recap
Hey, folks. This is Remy, Sporcle Live trivia host and co-writer of the Trivia Hunt questions.
Once again, this weekend’s teams did an outstanding job. 78% of the teams scored at least 20 points. Remarkably, the average score was the exact same as the last Hunt at 21.3. As for the average time, well… officially, the average time is 3 hours and 9 minutes. If we exclude the teams whose submissions came after breakfast on Sunday (that is, today), the average time becomes 2 hours, 46 minutes. Of the teams whose submissions came on Saturday proper (Eastern time), the average time is 2 hours, 28 minutes. Perhaps our questions have become a little difficult?
This time around, the number of winning teams returned to the single digits with a total of 7. The top three teams earn a solid $642.85, while the next four teams earn $142.85. As you may have noticed, Slumdoge Millionaires’ winning streak has been extended to three in a row. Impressive stuff!
As always, we hope you all enjoyed solving our trivia puzzles. Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty!
Average Completion Time: 189 minutes
Average Score: 21.3
Teams Winning Cash – 7
The next Trivia Hunt is a unique one: Trivia Hunt Express! It’ll be held on Wednesday, August 18th at 9PM Eastern. This time around, it’s a quick one: 10 questions, with a one-hour prize time limit. As a bonus, this one is FREE to enter! Ticket info coming soon!
A quick note about the questions and how we go about them: when we write each question, we test it in a small group, re-write them, and try again. A different group does a test run 2-3 days before the hunt, and again, we revise. Even with all that, we sometimes don’t discover an additional answer or a possible wording issue. We certainly do our best, and our intent is never to trick you. We want you to get them right, but we also want them to be a challenge. With that said, there are sometimes questions where there were multiple accepted answers.
Question #1:
Welcome to Trivia Hunt IX!
This mountain peak lies on the Continental Divide of the Americas and shares its name with a mountain on the island of Crete. The name of this mountain is the first name of a certain person with a long career in the film industry. A movie directed by this person, who became a US citizen in the 1940s, was inducted into the National Film Registry in the 21st century. Name this movie.
A: Outrage
Most Common Wrong Answer: The Hitchhiker
Correct Percentage: 78%
Quick Note: Although The Hitchhiker was also inducted into the National Film Registry, it was inducted in the 20th century, not the 21st.
Question #2:
Of the women currently serving as a country’s elected head of government or state, which two leaders‘ current terms began closest to each other chronologically?
A: Mette Frederiksen and Zuzana Čaputová OR Angela Merkel and Bidya Devi Bhandari
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 83%
Quick Note: So here’s why English is a tough language to learn. “Current term” can be interpreted as both “elected term” and “overall tenure.” While the current tenures of Mette Frederiksen and Zuzana Čaputová were twelve days apart, Angela Merkel and Bidya Devi Bhandari were sworn in for their current elected terms on the same day!
Question #3:
A: Signs
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: Excellent job! Did this question open up your eyes when you saw it?
Question #4:
What name is shared by:
- The last name of a character that appears in more than one Pixar film.
- The middle name of a former First Lady of the United States.
- An island on the Ohio River.
- A character in The Hunger Games.
- A US Naval destroyer that was decommissioned in the 1940s.
A: Boggs
Most Common Wrong Answer: Davis
Correct Percentage: 88%
Quick Note: Several teams jumped the gun on Davis which, unfortunately, only fits four of the five criteria.
Question #5:
The film production label that released Splash and The Waterboy shares its name with a character from a Shakespeare play. This character was portrayed by a certain actor in a 2000s film. This actor’s last name is the same as the name of a U.S. healthcare company (minus the word “Healthcare”).
Of the people who won a Nobel Prize during the year this healthcare company was founded, which person has a name that begins with the same letter as the common short form name of the country he represents?
A: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: This was another easy one for most of you! Well done!
Question #6:
The clothing company that aired a music video-style commercial featuring this song has its headquarters in a certain U.S. city. This city officially uses two area codes, one of which is about 3/4ths the numerical value of the other.
The larger area code is the same as the total number of points scored by a country in a certain Eurovision Song Contest Final after 2000. The entry song by this country that scored that total number of points has a single-word title that is also the last name of an actor who was born in the 1980s. This actor has starred in a number of television shows, most recently guest-starring in a single episode of a certain show. IMDb lists two people as co-creators of this show, one of whom also stars in the show. Who is the other co-creator?
A: Teresa Hsiao
Most Common Wrong Answer: Awkwafina
Correct Percentage: 94%
Quick Note: Never forget, folks: you can’t over-love your underwear.
Question #7:
There have been three #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1959 that contains the same name as a professional team in either the MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, or WNBA and has no other unique words in its title. One of them is “Bills, Bills, Bills.” Name the other two.
Clarifier: It must be word-for-word, so if there is a song called “Fevers” that would not work for the Indiana Fever.
Clarifier: It can only contain the team name in the title. Therefore, a song like “Mr. Blue Sky” would not count for the Chicago Sky.
A: Magic & Royals
Most Common Wrong Answer: Fire, Thunder
Correct Percentage: 77%
Quick Note: Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder” peaked at #4, while the Portland Fire haven’t existed since 2002.
Question #8:
Two women have each performed songs that won them back-to-back Song of the Year Grammys. Only one of the four songs in question did not win Record of the Year that year. The last word in the title of the song that won Record of the Year that year is also the title of the 7th track on a certain singer’s 2002 debut album.
This singer, whose last name can also be used as a first name, is best known for her debut album’s first single. This single first appeared as a sample in a movie that includes a woman in its cast that has since been nominated for a Grammy. Name her.
A: Selma Blair
Most Common Wrong Answer: Jessica Cauffiel
Correct Percentage: 87%
Quick Note: In 2010, Selma Blair narrated the audiobook version of The Diary of Anne Frank, earning a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
Question #9:
This image produced a lot of memes back when it was first taken. The image was taken on the campus of a certain university. One of that university’s notable alumni has a Netflix show that first debuted in early 2018. Most episodes of that show have city names as titles. Which of those cities is furthest away (as the crow flies) from where the linked image was taken?
A: Singapore
Most Common Wrong Answer: Saigon
Correct Percentage: 74%
Quick Note: The difference between the distances is 650 miles, or just over 1,046 kilometers.
Question #10:
In a certain film from the 1990s, Mel Gibson played a character with a peculiar fondness for one of ALA’s 50 most commonly banned books of the 2010s. (This list includes books that were banned – not necessarily released – during the years 2010-2019.) One of the other cast members of this film has a last name beginning with the letter W. This last name is shared by an island country in a SNES role-playing game released in the U.S. in 1995. Of this game’s main characters, who is the last character to join the party?
A: Poo
Most Common Wrong Answer: Magus
Correct Percentage: 79%
Quick Note: Sorry, Chrono Trigger fans. Conspiracy Theory was the film, Dean Winters was the cast member, and Earthbound was the game. #LocalizeMother3
Question #11:
Of the 44 names mentioned in the Nails’ song “88 Lines About 44 Women,” two are also names of major US cities. The first four letters of the county in which one of the cities is located and the first four letters of the other city’s state are the same.
Adding the word “The” before those four letters gives the title of a movie featuring several musicians and singers in credited or uncredited roles. Two of them collaborated on a hit single that peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the music video for that song, two men are seen wearing numbered sports jerseys. The one wearing the jersey with a larger number is wearing the jersey of what famous athlete?
A: Wayne Gretzky
Most Common Wrong Answer: Michael Jordan
Correct Percentage: 81%
Quick Note: It’s almost a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but it’s there! … wait, is that what the “G” stands for?
Question #12:
The two NBA teams that are most closely associated with the two songs heard in this clip played each other twice this past regular season (as in the one that just finished in May 2021). On the first day of those two games, someone is seen eating a hotdog on the front page of that same day’s New York Times newspaper. That man has a brother whose first name is also the name of a US city that is home to a major university (one with over 25,000 students). Name that university.
A: University of Kansas
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 90%
Quick Note: Not too shabby, folks. Good job!
Question #13:
The most recent woman to win the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical was previously nominated for the same award for a different musical. This earlier musical’s title refers to a real-life event that was first witnessed by a man who shares his first name with an author who received a particular award in 1845. A certain woman singer has been awarded this honor twice: first at the same rank in 1998 and again at a higher rank in 2020. In years, how old was this singer when her most recent studio album was released?
A: 81 or 82 (disputed)
Most Common Wrong Answer: 83
Correct Percentage: 77%
Quick Note: It turns out that Fairuz’s birthday is disputed, allowing for either 81 or 82 to become the correct answer here. 83 looks to be a math error, since the album in question came before her birthday that year.
Question #14:
The first UFC event to utilize weight classes shares its subtitle (albeit spelled slightly differently) with a 1990s sequel to a 1980s film. The actor who portrayed this film’s antagonist appears in this role (or a parody thereof) in two other films in the 1990s. Of these two films, find the film that made more at the domestic box office on its opening weekend. When you arrange all of the songs on its soundtrack in alphabetical order, which one comes last?
A: “Why You Wanna Break My Heart” by Tia Carrere
Most Common Wrong Answer: What the Hell Have I
Correct Percentage: 85%
Quick Note: I know what the 15% of teams who got this wrong are thinking. … I’ll let you finish the joke.
Question #15:
The artist of this painting died in a year that is the same as the identification number belonging to a specific inmate of a maximum security prison that opened in 1934. The inmate in question has been portrayed in film by an actor whose name is also the title of a song that hit the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001.
The band that produced this song also released a different song in 2005 named after a famous character portrayed by that same actor. What was the title of the final film in the series that featured that character?
A: The Dead Pool
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: Another easy one. Good job!
Question #16:
What film meets these criteria:
• Its score was composed by John Williams.
• Its title starts and ends with the same letter (including films with “the” or “a/an” in the title).
• It won at least one Academy Award.
• It was based on a previously-existing work of the same name.
• It was given a four-star rating by Gene Siskel.
A: The Accidental Tourist
Most Common Wrong Answer: Fiddler on the Roof
Correct Percentage: 91%
Quick Note: Gene Siskel only gave Fiddler on the Roof 3 1/2 stars. No rounding up, here!
Question #17:
The first names of comedians Quinn, Davies, Lewis, White, and Mulaney are shared by the original five members of a certain Australian musical group. This group had a song whose lyrics mention a man from a city closely associated with the European Union. His specific height is also mentioned.
Of the most recently completed NBA regular season, two teams had an average point differential of 0.0. Of those two, find the team that has appeared in fewer NBA finals. There is one player on that team’s roster (check their official web site just to be sure!) with the same height as the man from the song. The university where that NBA player played college basketball is in a major US city. If you were flying in to see him play in one of those college games, what is the three-letter airport code you flew in to (assuming you flew to the nearest international airport)?
Clarifier: Use this link for the NBA stats.
A: CVG
Most Common Wrong Answer: IND
Correct Percentage: 79%
Quick Note: If only I were 6’4″ and full of muscle. That’d be the life, wouldn’t it?
Question #18:
One of the first viral musical performance videos on the Internet was of this arrangement of a classical piece from the 17th century. This particular arrangement’s original composer goes by his first name and last initial professionally.
Find the second musical to win the Tony Award for Best Musical with a title beginning with that last initial. Of the characters in this musical, one has a name that is also the name of a month. What is the longest-running scripted American TV series to have debuted in that month?
A: General Hospital
Most Common Wrong Answer: Dallas
Correct Percentage: 42%
Quick Note: This was by far the most brutal question of the Hunt. The teams that said Dallas likely got their answer from a list that only included primetime shows. Factoring in daytime shows like soap operas yielded the correct answer. If only it were all just a dream!
Question #19:
A constant named after a famous scientist born in Turin relates the number of particles in an amount of a substance. The SI unit closely related to that constant is also a name for a group of mammals. The natural color of that animal’s pelt is also the French name for the animal.
Take the first three numbers of the hex code of that color. Use them in the same order to create a year. What Pope passed away that year?
A: Pope Simplicius
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 94%
Quick Note: Simplicius is best. Good job!
Question #20:
Of the 25 most populous cities in Iowa, one of them shares its name with the most populous city in one of the other 49 US states. The current mayor of that non-Iowa city shares their first name with the in-ring name of a current professional wrestling* champion.
That person was born in a country outside of the United States. A different country, one that borders the birthplace country of our wrestling star, has hosted at least one Summer Olympics. During that country’s most recently hosted games, the country that came out first during the Opening Ceremonies Parade of Nations is known for some specific mountainous volcanic peaks. Those two peaks share part of their names with the brand name of the country’s most popular lager beer. Name the beer.
* Clarifier: We are only considering wrestling companies that currently air on national TV in the US.
A: Piton (Lager)
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: Two back-to-back easy ones. Good job!
Question #21:
If you sound out the four-letter monosyllabic words represented by the images in this collage in a certain order, you’ll get (what we think sounds a lot like) the name of a singer born in 1967. This singer has appeared in over 20 films, only one of which is a numbered sequel. If you add each digit in the film’s worldwide gross according to IMDb, you’ll get a two-digit prime number. Give that number.
Clarifier: The words represented by each image may be a first name, last name, alias, or production name.
A: 37
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 99%
Quick Note: Yep, that’s three easy questions … in a row?
Question #22:
Of the songs released by Taylor Swift as the main artist (not the featured artist) that have numbers in the title (either numeral or spelled out), two have Swift listed as the sole songwriter. Take note of the number in the title of the song that was released earlier. We’ll call this “Our Number” for simplicity’s sake.
Of the elements on the periodic table that fall into the group whose number matches that of Our Number, only one has a symbol that does not share any letters with its full name. Let’s call this “Our Element.”
Find the play in Shakespeare’s First Folio that has the same ordinal position as Our Number. Next, read the atomic number of Our Element as follows:
• The first digit is the act number of this Shakespeare play.
• The second digit is the scene number within this act.
What are the final three words of dialogue in this scene?
A: A prouder foe
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 86%
Quick Note: I didn’t write this question, but I absolutely wish I did. It’s my favorite one of the Hunt by far. (Good job, Emily!)
Question #23:
In the first episode of South Park, Kyle urges his brother to do his impersonation of a certain actor’s career. The character this actor portrayed on the most number of episodes during the 1990s shares its name with the real name of a literary character once played in film by Willem Dafoe.
The 1993 book considered this character’s “origin story” is primarily set in an American city and a country. Who was the president of this foreign country when this book was released?
A: Lê Đức Anh
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 94%
Quick Note: Most of you were able to answer this one without remorse!
Question #24:
You may need to write down some notes for this one.
Of the countries whose common short form names end in a consonant, which country produces the most of this annually? (No, we don’t mean pianos.)
A: Japan
Most Common Wrong Answer: China
Correct Percentage: 86%
Quick Note: To the best of my knowledge, “a” is not a consonant.
Question #25:
The final answer unlocks this customized combination lock. Find out the correct combination by filling out the blanks in the following sequence:
___ RIGHT – The world’s best selling album of the year in 2015.
___ LEFT – The atomic number of an alkaline earth metal in the same row as chlorine.
___ LEFT – The minimum age to purchase tobacco products in Sri Lanka.
___ RIGHT – In Greek mythology, the number of days for an anvil to fall from heaven to Earth or from Earth to Tartarus.
___ LEFT – The number of the sports car driven by Cary Elwes’s character in a movie also starring Tom Cruise.
___ RIGHT – The lowest double digit score that’s impossible to get in cribbage.
___ RIGHT – The number by which a prisoner of Chateau d’If is referred to in a novel by Alexandre Dumas (père).
___ RIGHT – The total number of toes Cavia porcellus usually has on its four legs.
___ LEFT – The jersey number of a 1986-87 NBA All-Rookie Team member nicknamed “Hot Rod.”
___ RIGHT – The number of Golden Globe Awards won by any film in the Star Wars franchise.
___ LEFT – The number combined with ‘Alt’ key that shows the → symbol on Microsoft Windows operating system.
___ LEFT – The number appearing in the title of the eighth episode in season six of The Big Bang Theory.
___ RIGHT – The number of dots in a quincunx.
Clarifier: Green 0 (zero) is the starting point, and a space character, if reached.
Clarifier: Rotating combination lock clockwise is RIGHT, and counter-clockwise is LEFT.
Clarifier: The answer may have more than one word.
A: Montauk Daisy
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 81%
Quick Note: This question definitely made more sense once you had the lock image, right? Ahahaha… (sorry about that!)
If your team got the right numbers in place and submitted those numbers, we gave you credit for it!
As always, we sincerely appreciate your support of our humble Trivia Hunt! We hope to see you again on August 18th!
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Trivia Hunt IX: July 17th, 2021
Congrats to our three fastest perfect-scoring teams, taking home $642.85 each:
1st – Slumdoge Millionaires – 59 minutes, 27 seconds
2nd – MC Gandalf the Fresh and His Hip-Hobbits – 1 hour, 9 minutes, 47 seconds
3rd – Well Anyway – 1 hour, 40 minutes, 41 seconds
Our Recap
Hey, folks. This is Remy, Sporcle Live trivia host and co-writer of the Trivia Hunt questions.
Once again, this weekend’s teams did an outstanding job. 78% of the teams scored at least 20 points. Remarkably, the average score was the exact same as the last Hunt at 21.3. As for the average time, well… officially, the average time is 3 hours and 9 minutes. If we exclude the teams whose submissions came after breakfast on Sunday (that is, today), the average time becomes 2 hours, 46 minutes. Of the teams whose submissions came on Saturday proper (Eastern time), the average time is 2 hours, 28 minutes. Perhaps our questions have become a little difficult?
This time around, the number of winning teams returned to the single digits with a total of 7. The top three teams earn a solid $642.85, while the next four teams earn $142.85. As you may have noticed, Slumdoge Millionaires’ winning streak has been extended to three in a row. Impressive stuff!
As always, we hope you all enjoyed solving our trivia puzzles. Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty!
Average Completion Time: 189 minutes
Average Score: 21.3
Teams Winning Cash – 7
The next Trivia Hunt is a unique one: Trivia Hunt Express! It’ll be held on Wednesday, August 18th at 9PM Eastern. This time around, it’s a quick one: 10 questions, with a one-hour prize time limit. As a bonus, this one is FREE to enter! Ticket info coming soon!
A quick note about the questions and how we go about them: when we write each question, we test it in a small group, re-write them, and try again. A different group does a test run 2-3 days before the hunt, and again, we revise. Even with all that, we sometimes don’t discover an additional answer or a possible wording issue. We certainly do our best, and our intent is never to trick you. We want you to get them right, but we also want them to be a challenge. With that said, there are sometimes questions where there were multiple accepted answers.
Question #1:
Welcome to Trivia Hunt IX!
This mountain peak lies on the Continental Divide of the Americas and shares its name with a mountain on the island of Crete. The name of this mountain is the first name of a certain person with a long career in the film industry. A movie directed by this person, who became a US citizen in the 1940s, was inducted into the National Film Registry in the 21st century. Name this movie.
A: Outrage
Most Common Wrong Answer: The Hitchhiker
Correct Percentage: 78%
Quick Note: Although The Hitchhiker was also inducted into the National Film Registry, it was inducted in the 20th century, not the 21st.
Question #2:
Of the women currently serving as a country’s elected head of government or state, which two leaders‘ current terms began closest to each other chronologically?
A: Mette Frederiksen and Zuzana Čaputová OR Angela Merkel and Bidya Devi Bhandari
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 83%
Quick Note: So here’s why English is a tough language to learn. “Current term” can be interpreted as both “elected term” and “overall tenure.” While the current tenures of Mette Frederiksen and Zuzana Čaputová were twelve days apart, Angela Merkel and Bidya Devi Bhandari were sworn in for their current elected terms on the same day!
Question #3:
A: Signs
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: Excellent job! Did this question open up your eyes when you saw it?
Question #4:
What name is shared by:
- The last name of a character that appears in more than one Pixar film.
- The middle name of a former First Lady of the United States.
- An island on the Ohio River.
- A character in The Hunger Games.
- A US Naval destroyer that was decommissioned in the 1940s.
A: Boggs
Most Common Wrong Answer: Davis
Correct Percentage: 88%
Quick Note: Several teams jumped the gun on Davis which, unfortunately, only fits four of the five criteria.
Question #5:
The film production label that released Splash and The Waterboy shares its name with a character from a Shakespeare play. This character was portrayed by a certain actor in a 2000s film. This actor’s last name is the same as the name of a U.S. healthcare company (minus the word “Healthcare”).
Of the people who won a Nobel Prize during the year this healthcare company was founded, which person has a name that begins with the same letter as the common short form name of the country he represents?
A: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: This was another easy one for most of you! Well done!
Question #6:
The clothing company that aired a music video-style commercial featuring this song has its headquarters in a certain U.S. city. This city officially uses two area codes, one of which is about 3/4ths the numerical value of the other.
The larger area code is the same as the total number of points scored by a country in a certain Eurovision Song Contest Final after 2000. The entry song by this country that scored that total number of points has a single-word title that is also the last name of an actor who was born in the 1980s. This actor has starred in a number of television shows, most recently guest-starring in a single episode of a certain show. IMDb lists two people as co-creators of this show, one of whom also stars in the show. Who is the other co-creator?
A: Teresa Hsiao
Most Common Wrong Answer: Awkwafina
Correct Percentage: 94%
Quick Note: Never forget, folks: you can’t over-love your underwear.
Question #7:
There have been three #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1959 that contains the same name as a professional team in either the MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, or WNBA and has no other unique words in its title. One of them is “Bills, Bills, Bills.” Name the other two.
Clarifier: It must be word-for-word, so if there is a song called “Fevers” that would not work for the Indiana Fever.
Clarifier: It can only contain the team name in the title. Therefore, a song like “Mr. Blue Sky” would not count for the Chicago Sky.
A: Magic & Royals
Most Common Wrong Answer: Fire, Thunder
Correct Percentage: 77%
Quick Note: Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder” peaked at #4, while the Portland Fire haven’t existed since 2002.
Question #8:
Two women have each performed songs that won them back-to-back Song of the Year Grammys. Only one of the four songs in question did not win Record of the Year that year. The last word in the title of the song that won Record of the Year that year is also the title of the 7th track on a certain singer’s 2002 debut album.
This singer, whose last name can also be used as a first name, is best known for her debut album’s first single. This single first appeared as a sample in a movie that includes a woman in its cast that has since been nominated for a Grammy. Name her.
A: Selma Blair
Most Common Wrong Answer: Jessica Cauffiel
Correct Percentage: 87%
Quick Note: In 2010, Selma Blair narrated the audiobook version of The Diary of Anne Frank, earning a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
Question #9:
This image produced a lot of memes back when it was first taken. The image was taken on the campus of a certain university. One of that university’s notable alumni has a Netflix show that first debuted in early 2018. Most episodes of that show have city names as titles. Which of those cities is furthest away (as the crow flies) from where the linked image was taken?
A: Singapore
Most Common Wrong Answer: Saigon
Correct Percentage: 74%
Quick Note: The difference between the distances is 650 miles, or just over 1,046 kilometers.
Question #10:
In a certain film from the 1990s, Mel Gibson played a character with a peculiar fondness for one of ALA’s 50 most commonly banned books of the 2010s. (This list includes books that were banned – not necessarily released – during the years 2010-2019.) One of the other cast members of this film has a last name beginning with the letter W. This last name is shared by an island country in a SNES role-playing game released in the U.S. in 1995. Of this game’s main characters, who is the last character to join the party?
A: Poo
Most Common Wrong Answer: Magus
Correct Percentage: 79%
Quick Note: Sorry, Chrono Trigger fans. Conspiracy Theory was the film, Dean Winters was the cast member, and Earthbound was the game. #LocalizeMother3
Question #11:
Of the 44 names mentioned in the Nails’ song “88 Lines About 44 Women,” two are also names of major US cities. The first four letters of the county in which one of the cities is located and the first four letters of the other city’s state are the same.
Adding the word “The” before those four letters gives the title of a movie featuring several musicians and singers in credited or uncredited roles. Two of them collaborated on a hit single that peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the music video for that song, two men are seen wearing numbered sports jerseys. The one wearing the jersey with a larger number is wearing the jersey of what famous athlete?
A: Wayne Gretzky
Most Common Wrong Answer: Michael Jordan
Correct Percentage: 81%
Quick Note: It’s almost a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but it’s there! … wait, is that what the “G” stands for?
Question #12:
The two NBA teams that are most closely associated with the two songs heard in this clip played each other twice this past regular season (as in the one that just finished in May 2021). On the first day of those two games, someone is seen eating a hotdog on the front page of that same day’s New York Times newspaper. That man has a brother whose first name is also the name of a US city that is home to a major university (one with over 25,000 students). Name that university.
A: University of Kansas
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 90%
Quick Note: Not too shabby, folks. Good job!
Question #13:
The most recent woman to win the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical was previously nominated for the same award for a different musical. This earlier musical’s title refers to a real-life event that was first witnessed by a man who shares his first name with an author who received a particular award in 1845. A certain woman singer has been awarded this honor twice: first at the same rank in 1998 and again at a higher rank in 2020. In years, how old was this singer when her most recent studio album was released?
A: 81 or 82 (disputed)
Most Common Wrong Answer: 83
Correct Percentage: 77%
Quick Note: It turns out that Fairuz’s birthday is disputed, allowing for either 81 or 82 to become the correct answer here. 83 looks to be a math error, since the album in question came before her birthday that year.
Question #14:
The first UFC event to utilize weight classes shares its subtitle (albeit spelled slightly differently) with a 1990s sequel to a 1980s film. The actor who portrayed this film’s antagonist appears in this role (or a parody thereof) in two other films in the 1990s. Of these two films, find the film that made more at the domestic box office on its opening weekend. When you arrange all of the songs on its soundtrack in alphabetical order, which one comes last?
A: “Why You Wanna Break My Heart” by Tia Carrere
Most Common Wrong Answer: What the Hell Have I
Correct Percentage: 85%
Quick Note: I know what the 15% of teams who got this wrong are thinking. … I’ll let you finish the joke.
Question #15:
The artist of this painting died in a year that is the same as the identification number belonging to a specific inmate of a maximum security prison that opened in 1934. The inmate in question has been portrayed in film by an actor whose name is also the title of a song that hit the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001.
The band that produced this song also released a different song in 2005 named after a famous character portrayed by that same actor. What was the title of the final film in the series that featured that character?
A: The Dead Pool
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: Another easy one. Good job!
Question #16:
What film meets these criteria:
• Its score was composed by John Williams.
• Its title starts and ends with the same letter (including films with “the” or “a/an” in the title).
• It won at least one Academy Award.
• It was based on a previously-existing work of the same name.
• It was given a four-star rating by Gene Siskel.
A: The Accidental Tourist
Most Common Wrong Answer: Fiddler on the Roof
Correct Percentage: 91%
Quick Note: Gene Siskel only gave Fiddler on the Roof 3 1/2 stars. No rounding up, here!
Question #17:
The first names of comedians Quinn, Davies, Lewis, White, and Mulaney are shared by the original five members of a certain Australian musical group. This group had a song whose lyrics mention a man from a city closely associated with the European Union. His specific height is also mentioned.
Of the most recently completed NBA regular season, two teams had an average point differential of 0.0. Of those two, find the team that has appeared in fewer NBA finals. There is one player on that team’s roster (check their official web site just to be sure!) with the same height as the man from the song. The university where that NBA player played college basketball is in a major US city. If you were flying in to see him play in one of those college games, what is the three-letter airport code you flew in to (assuming you flew to the nearest international airport)?
Clarifier: Use this link for the NBA stats.
A: CVG
Most Common Wrong Answer: IND
Correct Percentage: 79%
Quick Note: If only I were 6’4″ and full of muscle. That’d be the life, wouldn’t it?
Question #18:
One of the first viral musical performance videos on the Internet was of this arrangement of a classical piece from the 17th century. This particular arrangement’s original composer goes by his first name and last initial professionally.
Find the second musical to win the Tony Award for Best Musical with a title beginning with that last initial. Of the characters in this musical, one has a name that is also the name of a month. What is the longest-running scripted American TV series to have debuted in that month?
A: General Hospital
Most Common Wrong Answer: Dallas
Correct Percentage: 42%
Quick Note: This was by far the most brutal question of the Hunt. The teams that said Dallas likely got their answer from a list that only included primetime shows. Factoring in daytime shows like soap operas yielded the correct answer. If only it were all just a dream!
Question #19:
A constant named after a famous scientist born in Turin relates the number of particles in an amount of a substance. The SI unit closely related to that constant is also a name for a group of mammals. The natural color of that animal’s pelt is also the French name for the animal.
Take the first three numbers of the hex code of that color. Use them in the same order to create a year. What Pope passed away that year?
A: Pope Simplicius
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 94%
Quick Note: Simplicius is best. Good job!
Question #20:
Of the 25 most populous cities in Iowa, one of them shares its name with the most populous city in one of the other 49 US states. The current mayor of that non-Iowa city shares their first name with the in-ring name of a current professional wrestling* champion.
That person was born in a country outside of the United States. A different country, one that borders the birthplace country of our wrestling star, has hosted at least one Summer Olympics. During that country’s most recently hosted games, the country that came out first during the Opening Ceremonies Parade of Nations is known for some specific mountainous volcanic peaks. Those two peaks share part of their names with the brand name of the country’s most popular lager beer. Name the beer.
* Clarifier: We are only considering wrestling companies that currently air on national TV in the US.
A: Piton (Lager)
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 97%
Quick Note: Two back-to-back easy ones. Good job!
Question #21:
If you sound out the four-letter monosyllabic words represented by the images in this collage in a certain order, you’ll get (what we think sounds a lot like) the name of a singer born in 1967. This singer has appeared in over 20 films, only one of which is a numbered sequel. If you add each digit in the film’s worldwide gross according to IMDb, you’ll get a two-digit prime number. Give that number.
Clarifier: The words represented by each image may be a first name, last name, alias, or production name.
A: 37
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 99%
Quick Note: Yep, that’s three easy questions … in a row?
Question #22:
Of the songs released by Taylor Swift as the main artist (not the featured artist) that have numbers in the title (either numeral or spelled out), two have Swift listed as the sole songwriter. Take note of the number in the title of the song that was released earlier. We’ll call this “Our Number” for simplicity’s sake.
Of the elements on the periodic table that fall into the group whose number matches that of Our Number, only one has a symbol that does not share any letters with its full name. Let’s call this “Our Element.”
Find the play in Shakespeare’s First Folio that has the same ordinal position as Our Number. Next, read the atomic number of Our Element as follows:
• The first digit is the act number of this Shakespeare play.
• The second digit is the scene number within this act.
What are the final three words of dialogue in this scene?
A: A prouder foe
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 86%
Quick Note: I didn’t write this question, but I absolutely wish I did. It’s my favorite one of the Hunt by far. (Good job, Emily!)
Question #23:
In the first episode of South Park, Kyle urges his brother to do his impersonation of a certain actor’s career. The character this actor portrayed on the most number of episodes during the 1990s shares its name with the real name of a literary character once played in film by Willem Dafoe.
The 1993 book considered this character’s “origin story” is primarily set in an American city and a country. Who was the president of this foreign country when this book was released?
A: Lê Đức Anh
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 94%
Quick Note: Most of you were able to answer this one without remorse!
Question #24:
You may need to write down some notes for this one.
Of the countries whose common short form names end in a consonant, which country produces the most of this annually? (No, we don’t mean pianos.)
A: Japan
Most Common Wrong Answer: China
Correct Percentage: 86%
Quick Note: To the best of my knowledge, “a” is not a consonant.
Question #25:
The final answer unlocks this customized combination lock. Find out the correct combination by filling out the blanks in the following sequence:
___ RIGHT – The world’s best selling album of the year in 2015.
___ LEFT – The atomic number of an alkaline earth metal in the same row as chlorine.
___ LEFT – The minimum age to purchase tobacco products in Sri Lanka.
___ RIGHT – In Greek mythology, the number of days for an anvil to fall from heaven to Earth or from Earth to Tartarus.
___ LEFT – The number of the sports car driven by Cary Elwes’s character in a movie also starring Tom Cruise.
___ RIGHT – The lowest double digit score that’s impossible to get in cribbage.
___ RIGHT – The number by which a prisoner of Chateau d’If is referred to in a novel by Alexandre Dumas (père).
___ RIGHT – The total number of toes Cavia porcellus usually has on its four legs.
___ LEFT – The jersey number of a 1986-87 NBA All-Rookie Team member nicknamed “Hot Rod.”
___ RIGHT – The number of Golden Globe Awards won by any film in the Star Wars franchise.
___ LEFT – The number combined with ‘Alt’ key that shows the → symbol on Microsoft Windows operating system.
___ LEFT – The number appearing in the title of the eighth episode in season six of The Big Bang Theory.
___ RIGHT – The number of dots in a quincunx.
Clarifier: Green 0 (zero) is the starting point, and a space character, if reached.
Clarifier: Rotating combination lock clockwise is RIGHT, and counter-clockwise is LEFT.
Clarifier: The answer may have more than one word.
A: Montauk Daisy
Most Common Wrong Answer: Various
Correct Percentage: 81%
Quick Note: This question definitely made more sense once you had the lock image, right? Ahahaha… (sorry about that!)
If your team got the right numbers in place and submitted those numbers, we gave you credit for it!
As always, we sincerely appreciate your support of our humble Trivia Hunt! We hope to see you again on August 18th!
The Next Hunt – Trivia Hunt Express
August 18th, 2021 – 9 PM Eastern
Ticket info coming soon!