The Big LBR Non Google Trivia Quiz

[JaiDee]

Ahhh, but I did!

 

   That was the question on Jeopardy from the Real First Name category.......I threw in which country she was from myself and yes, Albania is correct! 

 

So, real first name?  It's kind of westernized, a typical name your old Aunt may have had when you were a kid......

[seven]

   ELO?  Electric Light Orchestra?  {I think you meant to put this in the Band thread Seven!}

 

      

Nope, not ELO, thats Jeff Lynne.  

Of course i should've put this in the band thread. Pls Mod.

 

A clue hes from Chicago, born 1967.

[Guest LaBambaBar]

Nobody?

 

The Smiling Buddha was the first nuclear test bomb detonated by India.

 

Try this:

 

Randall James Hamilton Zwinge is a famous Canadian.  He is better known as...who?

[pdogg]

 

Randall James Hamilton Zwinge is a famous Canadian.  He is better known as...who?

I'll guess Randy Quaid

[Guest LaBambaBar]

I'll guess Randy Quaid

 

It's amazing, but nope!

[pdogg]

For those who are stumped with the Canadian here's another.

 

What's the most important job that the man born as William Blythe had?

[bumblebee]

And while we are at it, in which country was Joseph Stalin born?

[JaiDee]

Stalin was a Georgian, so I am guessing modern-day Georgia

 

William Blythe - not sure but the name sure sounds familiar.

[bumblebee]

Spot on Jaidee and could William Blythe be the same Captain Blythe of the Bounty fame?

[pdogg]

 could William Blythe be the same Captain Blythe of the Bounty fame?

Nope BB, you're thinking of Captain William Bligh.

 

My guy had a more important job than a ship's captain.

[JaiDee]

 

Randall James Hamilton Zwinge is a famous Canadian.  He is better known as...who?

 

   Just saw this one, that would be famous skeptic and anti-conspiracy guy James Randi! AKA The Amazing Randi

 

    Also a proud and 'out' gay man.

[JaiDee]

could William Blythe be the same Captain Blythe of the Bounty fame?

 

My first thought too, BB

[JaiDee]

Here's one I missed at quiz night this week;

 

   Putting a line over a Roman numeral increases that number by how much?

[Hefe]

Oh jeezus.... 4 years of Latin classes & I can't even remember something as basic as that 

[SiamSam]

Here's one I missed at quiz night this week;

 

   Putting a line over a Roman numeral increases that number by how much?

 

doubles it?

[SiamSam]

I have have asked this before.

 

Why are street/sidewalk manholes covers round?

[JaiDee]

doubles it?

 

  Nope but good try

[Tomcat]

I have have asked this before.

 

Why are street/sidewalk manholes covers round?

 

I just used my beermat to figure out that a Square one could fall in if some Gonk dropped it in along the diagonal section of the square aperture in the ground

[Tomcat]

Here's one I missed at quiz night this week;

 

   Putting a line over a Roman numeral increases that number by how much?

 

i think it must be by half , im sure the Greeks had a half due to Zenos Paradox (one of them)and so must have the Romans

[SiamSam]

I just used my beermat to figure out that a Square one could fall in if some Gonk dropped it in along the diagonal section of the square aperture in the ground

 

That's it TC. Any other geometrical shape can fall into the hole. A circle cannot. Good for you and your beermat. 

[Torurot]

Increase it by 10

[JaiDee]

 

 

   Putting a line over a Roman numeral increases that number by how much?

 

      The answer for this one is;  increases the number by 1000

 

  I had put down 100.

 

      Here's another one from Quiz night which I also missed,  maybe someone can nail it before RX signs on?     He'll know it for sure.....

 

 What is the medical term for your breast bone, or breast plate?

[Guest LaBambaBar]

Sternum, I think.

[JaiDee]

Yesssss!   Very good La Bamba

 

    I had put down scapula,  which I knew was wrong but as usual, putting down ANY answer is better than NO answer!

[JaiDee]

Ok, here's another one which I thought was ridiculously easy from Quiz night......although a few of the teams DID get it wrong!  From the category U.S. Presidents; who was the president who sent troops to Korea in 1950?

 

  And, since that one will likely go quickly, name the landing spot of General Douglas MaCarthur which started US intervention in that conflict.