Sports trivia has not been cancelled

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Well the coronavirus may have taken sports away from us, BUT IT CANNOT TAKE OUR TRIVIA! So let's strike back for the sports world with 20 questions about sports with events that have been cancelled or delayed in recent days. And if anybody knows anything about delays, it's the bozo who “maintains” this blog...

(Always and forever, NCAA questions refer to the largest division unless specified otherwise.)

1. Who is the defending Masters champion (Not for the first time)?

2. What President had a tree on the 17^th fairway at Augusta National named for him after he wanted it torn down because it interfered with his shots? 

3. The NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments were cancelled, so what two schools get to defend those titles again next year?

4. Which men's coach has won the most NCAA basketball championships?

5. Which school has won the most women's NCAA basketball championships?

6. It has 68 teams today, but how many teams played in the first men's NCAA basketball tournament in 1939?

7. And which school won it?

8. Baseball's not cancelled, but Opening Day has been delayed. Who's the only pitcher to throw a no-hitter on Opening Day?

9. In what stadium did the Oakland A's and Seattle Mariners open the 2019 season?

10. What team currently has the MLB's longest dry spell since winning their last World Series (1948)?

11. A couple of spring training questions since that got cut short: What pitcher (quite unintentionally) killed a dove with a fastball during a spring training game in 2001 (which turned out to be a great year for him and his team)?

12. What singer went 1-for-22 in spring training with the Padres in 1999 and 0-for-17 (with four walks) the next spring with the New York Mets?

13. How many times has an NBA season been shortened by a labor lockout? 

14. How many times has the NHL shortened or cancelled a season due to labor conflict? 

15. Who are the defending NBA champions? (Hey, this is trivia for those of us whose city lacks an NBA team)

16. Now that the St. Louis Blues are off the schnide, who has the NHL's longest dry spell since winning their last Stanley Cup (1967)?

17. What event notorious for its Heartbreak Hill is normally held every Patriots' Day?

18. The major European soccer leagues have all gone on hold, too. If you don't like soccer, your question #18 is: who currently leads La Liga, Spain's top league, in goals scored? If you like soccer, your question is: who leads the Premier League, England's top league, in goals scored?

19. NASCAR also shut down operations for at least this weekend. Who was leading this year's Daytona 500 when he suffered a horrifying crash on the final lap? (And still finished in fourth! Upside down!)

20. Last but not least, the XFL sadly has had to cancel the 2^nd half of its return season. In its original season, what was the infamous back-of-jersey nickname used by running back Rod Smart?

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1. Tiger Woods
2. Dwight Eisenhower. The tree had to be taken down in 2014 due to damage from an ice storm.
3. Virginia (men's) and Baylor (women's)
4. John Wooden, UCLA (10)
5. University of Connecticut (11)
6. Eight
7. Oregon
8. Bob Feller (1940)
9. the Tokyo Dome
10. the Cleveland Indians
11. Randy Johnson, with the Arizona Diamondbacks, who won the World Series that year
12. Garth Brooks
13. Twice: 1998-99 (50 games played) and 2011-12 (66)
14. Four! times: 1991-92 (30 games postponed), 1994-95 (48 games played), 2004-05 (season cancelled), 2012-13 (48 games played)
15. Toronto Raptors
16. also Toronto, the Maple Leafs
17. the Boston Marathon
18. If you don't like soccer: Lionel Messi, since he's one of two players non-soccer fans can name.
If you like soccer: Jamie Vardy of Leicester City.
19. Ryan Newman. Glad to hear he's doing well.
20. He Hate Me

Jukebox Quiz #1

Just a short quiz this week. I'm calling this and possible future quizzes like it a "jukebox quiz". This probably isn't a new idea at all, but I haven't thought of it or seen it before now (please humor me). The quiz has eleven questions, and the answer to the 11th question is the title of a song. The lyrics of that song also happen to contain the answers to the previous ten questions.

Clear as mud? Well, this jukebox won't cost you even a quarter (what do jukeboxes charge these days, I wonder?), go ahead and give it a spin...

1. John Mellencamp sang about where he was born, where he lives, and where he'll “probably die” in what 1985 song?

2. What do Gladys Knight and the Pips take to Georgia in a 1973 classic hit?

3. What was the last city to have the defending World Series, Stanley Cup and NFL champions all at the same time (1936)?

4. What's the last name of this acting brother and sister? He was in Beastmaster and the original V miniseries; she was in the TV version of Fame and starred in the original Footloose.

5. What's the more familiar first name of singer/songwriter William Robinson Jr.?

6. What does an oenophile particularly enjoy?

7. What word derived from Dutch and French describes a wide street often lined with trees or having a landscaped median?

8. New York City recently had to replace 29,000 LED bulbs it had installed in what public safety devices after citizens complained they were too bright?

9. Speaking of Gladys Knight, what gaming items each have 21 pips?

10. Reaching #11 in 1977, what was the title of singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop’s highest-charting single on Billboard’s pop chart?

11. Now for the kicker: The answers to the first 10 questions are also found in the lyrics of what 1981 song?

Too hard? Too easy? Too stupid? Lemme know: @TriviaRoad

1. Jack and Diane
2. Midnight Train
3. Detroit
4. Singer (Marc and Lori)
5. Smok(e)y
6. Wine
7. Boulevard
8. Streetlights
9. Dice
10. On and On
11. Click to play

19 for '19

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By God, this blog is going to be early for something for once... Happy New Year!
And logically, this would be a good year for us to know our 19's, so here are between 18 and 20 questions about that very number!

19 FOR '19
1. What Steely Dan song released in 1980 mentions a musical legend who passed away in 2018?
2. Who was the 19th President of the United States?
3. What notable speech, just a few minutes in length, was delivered on the 19th of November, 1863?
4. What is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet?
5. What right was established by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
6. What #19 was the first NBA player to win Most Valuable Player (for the season), MVP of the NBA Finals and MVP of the All-Star game, all in the same season?
7. What was the 19th state admitted to the Union?
8. What was Product 19, which was available in grocery stores from 1967 to 2016?
9. What Hall-of-Fame quarterback made his only Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XIX, a 38-16 loss to the San Francisco 49ers?
10. “Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax” is a line from what 1965 song?
11. Juneteenth was first officially observed in which state that abolished slavery on June 19, 1865?
12. What Hall-of-Fame center and three-time Stanley Cup winner was named the best player ever to wear #19 by NHL.com?
13. William A. Wheeler was the 19th man to hold what American high office?
14. Channel 19 is most commonly used by truck drivers on what medium?
15. What observance that started in the mid-1990s encourages people to speak a little differently on September 19th?
16. Number 19 on the periodic table, what chemical element gets its symbol from its Latin name, kalium?
17. Who won her only Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1999, the 19th time she had been nominated for the award?
18. What #19's NFL record for consecutive games with a touchdown pass was broken by Drew Brees in 2012?
19. What was the subject of Paul Hardcastle's 1985 single titled 19?

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1. Hey Nineteen (mentions Aretha Franklin)
2. Rutherford B. Hayes
3. the Gettysburg Address
4. Tau
5. Women's right to vote / women's suffrage
6. Willis Reed (1969-70)
7. Indiana
8. a Kellogg's breakfast cereal
9. Dan Marino
10. 19th Nervous Breakdown
11. Texas
12. Steve Yzerman
13. Vice President. (Hayes', oddly enough)
14. CB radio
15. International Talk Like A Pirate Day
16. Potassium
17. Susan Lucci
18. John Unitas
19. the Vietnam War

Hey, an actual new quiz on a trivia quiz blog!

Welcome (me) back to Trivia Road! Keep an eye out on this space for more quizzes again. Your author here has finally got a little bit of time on his hands, and writing quizzes is a good way to learn a lot of trivia, which your author has stunk at competitively lately. Let's see if this week's ripped-from-the-headlines categories can sharpen your edge and mine:

(Clicking the Answers button will reveal all 20 answers)

FICTIONAL NATIVE AMERICANS

1. In Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, who is the object of Hiawatha's love?

2. Uncas is the title character of which James Fenimore Cooper novel?

3. What book made into a 1975 movie is narrated by a half-Native American named Chief Bromden who is pretending to be deaf and mute?

4. What trusted friend has been portrayed on the big screen by Johnny Depp and Michael Horse, among others?

5. I should have just made this a Michael Horse category. What character did Michael Horse portray on Twin Peaks?

EMBASSY NOT-SO-SWEETS

6. Who has Ecuador's embassy to the United Kingdom ordered to clean his bathroom and take care of his cat?

7. For how many days were Americans held hostage at the United States embassy in Tehran from 1979-1981?

8. Security guards beat 20 protesters outside the home of what country's ambassador in Washington, D.C. in 2017?

9. On August 7, 1998, 224 people were killed by Al-Qaeda bombings at U.S. embassies in what two countries?

10. In 1996, in what country did Tupac Amaru rebels hold 72 hostages for 126 days at the Japanese embassy?

LOTTERY MADNESS

11. Which team won the first NBA draft lottery (which will always be believed to have been rigged) in 1985?

12. Who “wins” the lottery in Shirley Jackson's famous short story The Lottery?

13. Which team won the 2018 NHL draft lottery and used the first pick to select defenseman Rasmus Dahlin?

14. In 2019, what state will become the 45^th to offer a state lottery, though over Gaming Commission objections that a state lottery will be a competitive force for gambling dollars spent at its casinos?

15. What country has the world's oldest continuous lottery, dating back to 1726?

THAT'S AN UNUSUAL THING TO STEAL

16. Vincenzo Peruggia became famous for stealing what museum item in 1911?

17. Which MLB player stole home more times in his career: Rickey Henderson, Lou Brock or Lou Gehrig?

18. Who stole one of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl rings at a meeting in 2005?

19. In April 2018, what airline had a plane stolen from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and eventually fatally crashed into an island in Puget Sound by one of its employees?

20. Thieves in Kansas last week stole a ten-foot model of what body part that averages 61-65 inches in length in humans?

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FICTIONAL NATIVE AMERICANS
1. Minnehaha
2. The Last of the Mohicans
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. Tonto
5. Deputy Hawk, or Tommy "Hawk" Hill

EMBASSY NOT-SO-SUITES
6. Julian Assange
7. 444
8. Turkey
9. Kenya and Tanzania
10. Peru

LOTTERY MADNESS
11. New York Knicks
12. Tessie Hutchinson
13. Buffalo Sabres
14. PSYCH! The answer is Mississippi. That will leave Alabama, Nevada, Utah, Alaska and Hawaii as the only states that do not have a lottery.
15. The Netherlands. Spain's famous annual Christmas lottery is the second-oldest, dating back to 1812.

THAT'S AN UNUSUAL THING TO STEAL
16. the Mona Lisa
17. You smelled a rat, didn't you? Lou Gehrig stole home 15 times in his career, Rickey Henderson 4, Lou Brock 2. Babe Ruth, of all people, stole home 10 times. (The double steal was used a lot more in their era of baseball.) The all-time leader in home steals is, not too surprisingly, Ty Cobb with 54.
18. Vladimir Putin. He tried Kraft's ring on, pocketed it and walked off with it! (according to Kraft) Diplomacy has turned this interaction into a "gift of respect and admiration", and according to Wikipedia, the ring is on display at the Kremlin.
19. Horizon Air. Also accepting: Alaska Air, Alaska Airlines
20. They stole a 10-foot inflatable colon. If you said large intestine, eh, close enough.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome to another once-in-a-blue-moon Trivia Road quiz, this one vaguely inspired by today's holiday. Try it on for size when the football game gets boring...

(Free trivia: the painting pictured is Freedom From Want by Norman Rockwell)

TURKEY
1. Mentioned in the Bible, what peak is Turkey's highest point?
2. Turkey is bordered by which three seas?
3. Which Turkish city was known as Byzantium until the 4th century A.D.?
4. The Turkish city of Bursa was the original capital city of what empire?
5. Who are these people?

DRESSING
1. What part of men's formal wear gets its name from the Hindi word for waistband?
2. What style of hat gets its name from an 1882 play by Victorien Sardou?
3. According to legend, what clothing item plunged in popularity thanks to a Clark Gable scene in 1934's It Happened One Night?
4. White wedding dresses didn't become popular until who wore one for her wedding in 1840?
5. Which fashion designer has trademarked the shade of red used on the soles of his highly sought-after high-heel shoes?

PI
1. What day is celebrated as Pi Day?
2. What is pi's position in the Greek alphabet? (alpha is first, beta is second...)
3. What shape's volume is calculated with the formula 4/3 π r³?
4. Who is credited with calculating the first accurate (3.14) value of pi?
5. Does the sequence 123456 occur anywhere in the first million decimal places of pi?

FOOTBALL

1. What do the 7th, 9th and 10th QBs on the NFL's all-time-passing yardage list have in common?

2. What many-times injured QB is the oldest Heisman Trophy winner currently on an NFL roster?

3. What team has had nine (the most) different head coaches, including Hue Jackson, since the Patriots hired Bill Belichick in 2000?

4. What's the only NFL team that hasn't qualified for the playoffs yet this century?

5. What's the only company with naming rights to more than one NFL stadium?

ALSO ON THE THANKSGIVING TABLE

1. What dance move mentioned in "Do You Love Me?" by the Contours was made famous by James Brown?

2. What Irish band hit #1 in 1994 with the protest song "Zombie"?

3. Green Giant recently set a world record by creating a 637-pound version of what Thanksgiving standard?

4. First published 100 years ago, the recipe for what dish was influenced by the Cracker Jack company?

5. What piece of a table setting is also known as a sauciere?

TURKEY
1. Mount Ararat
2. Aegean, Black and Mediterranean
3. Istanbul. Byzantium became Constantinople around 330 AD. Constantinople in turn became Istanbul in the 15th century.
4. Ottoman
5. If the link isn't broken, they're whirling dervishes

DRESSING
1. cummerbund
2. fedora. In the title role of Princess Fedora in the play Fedora, actress Sarah Bernhardt wore a hat that became a popular women's style around 1882. Prince Edward made the fedora popular with men in the 1920's.
3. men's undershirts. Gable took off his shirt in one scene, revealing -gasp- nothing underneath! According to legend, sales of undershirts plunged afterward; Snopes, however, says this has actually never been proven
4. Queen Victoria
5. Christian Louboutin

PI
1. March 14th
2. Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet
3. a sphere
4. Archimedes
5. No (see University of Exeter webpage)

FOOTBALL
1. Those QBs, Eli Manning, Philip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger, were all selected in the first round of the 2004 draft.
2. I wrote this to bait St. Louis people into answering Sam Bradford, but the answer is 2002 Heisman winner Carson Palmer of the Cardinals
3. I would have guessed Cleveland even without the Hue Jackson misdirect, but the answer is the Oakland Raiders. (Jackson was head coach there in 2007)
4. The Buffalo Bills, whose last playoff appearance was in 1999, where they succumbed to the Titans' "Music City Miracle"
5. Mercedes-Benz (Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans; Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta)

ALSO ON THE THANKSGIVING TABLE
1. mashed potato
2. Cranberries
3. green bean casserole
4. Sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping. The Cracker Jack company also made marshmallows at the time. The recipe was a way to boost marshmallow sales.
5. gravy boat

Guamming up the works

This quiz was meant for the start of soccer season a couple of weeks ago, hence all the soccer-related questions. Guam isn't a soccer power, but made the news for the first time in many years this month when North Korea, well, threatened to blow it up. What did the people of Guam ever do to Kim Jong-Un? People of Guam? Isn't there a shorter way to say that? Keep quizzing and find out...

GUAM

1. The United States gained control of Guam during what conflict?

2. Who was the first European explorer to visit Guam?

3. Formerly known as Agana, what is the capitol city of Guam:

Agat, Barrigada, Dedeno, Hagatna?

4. The back of the 2009 Guam commemorative quarter shows a flying proa. What is that?

5. Which is the proper term (demonym) used to describe a person from Guam:

Guamian, Guamese, Guamanian, Guamesian?

SOCCER

1. What Brazilian star transferred from Barcelona to Paris-St. Germain before this season for an all-time record 222 million Euros ($265 million)?

2. Which La Liga club is currently the defending UEFA Champions League champion?

3. Which now-Everton player is both the Premier League's active career leading scorer and the England national team's all-time leading scorer?

4. What current MLS player was the last player other than Cristiano Ronaldo (the current holder) or Lionel Messi to win the Ballon D'Or honor as the world's best soccer player?

5. Which country won the CONCACAF Gold Cup in July?

DIRECTIONAL ANSWERS

Each answer will contain one or more points of the compass

1. Who was born June 15, 2013, to Kanye and Kim Kardashian West?

2. Barack Obama and Joe Biden have both spoken at what annual Austin, TX music/film/technology gathering?

3. The Perfect Storm tells of the 1991 sinking of the Andrea Gail due to what weather phenomenon?

4. Which Steinbeck title comes from the fourth chapter of Genesis?

5. Alice Braga stars in what USA Network narco-thriller series that first aired in 2016?

ALSO A SOCCER TEAM

Each answer is or includes the name of a Premier League team but you don't have to know any soccer to get the answers. (Not that it hurts)

1. The Cavern Club is a favorite site for music fans visiting what city on the Mersey River?

2. What verb can mean to shake up the coals of a fire?

3. Who did investment banker Mark Mezvinsky marry in December 2010?

4. What port did the Titanic depart on its only voyage?

5. What building was originally built in Hyde Park to host the Great Exhibition of 1851?

GUAM
1. the Spanish-American War
2. Ferdinand Magellan
3. Hagatna (you can kind of see Agana hiding in the new name)
4. a sailboat
5. Guamanian
SOCCER
1. Neymar
2. Real Madrid
3. Wayne Rooney
4. Kaka'
5. USA
DIRECTIONAL ANSWERS
1. North West
2. South By Southwest
3. a nor'easter
4. East of Eden
5. Queen of the South
ALSO A SOCCER TEAM
1. Liverpool
2. Stoke
3. Chelsea Clinton
4. Southampton
5. Crystal Palace

Totality awesome!

Since I've been writing quizzes about as often as there's a major solar eclipse in the United States, I thought my first quiz in a blue moon should be themed around the eclipse coming to America next Monday. I hope that'll be worth your while even if this quiz isn't:

TOTALITY CITY
questions involving cities in the path of totality of the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse

(the number after each indicates how long it will experience total solar eclipse)

1. What two state capitols named for Presidents are in the path of totality?

2. Fairview, Kentucky (2:40) is the birth place of what American president named after another president?

3. Which former terminal of the Pony Express is in the path of totality?

4. The campuses of which current NCAA (Division I) champions in football and basketball are in the path of totality?

5. Chester, Illinois (2:40) is the birthplace of cartoonist Elzie Segar. What Segar character debuted in the funny pages in 1929 with the line, “Ja think I'm a cowboy?”

6. What author had a home in Ketchum, Idaho (1:04) from 1939 until his self-inflicted death there in 1961?

7. Hermitage, Tennessee (2:17) and Hillsboro, Missouri (2:39) are named after the homes of which two Presidents?

8. What Missouri city is named for the patron saint of Paris?

9. What Tennessee city is named for America's longest-serving Treasury Secretary?

10. What lead actress of the Alfred Hitchock film Lifeboat got her name from a Georgia city in the path of totality?

ECLIPSES

1. Which automaker produced a 2-door compact car called the Eclipse from 1989 – 2011?

2. What Welsh singer hit #1 on the Billboard pop chart with “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983?

3. Which of the following is not the name of a visual effect of a solar eclipse?

a) shadow bands

b) umbrella effect

c) Baily's beads

d) diamond ring

4. In what novel does main character Hank Morgan avoid being burned at the stake by predicting a solar eclipse?

5. The next total solar eclipse in North America will occur in the same year Paris is scheduled to next host the Summer Olympics. What year will that be?

“SUN” SONGS

Name the song (or songs), given the artist, year and that the word or syllable “sun” is in the title

1. Soundgarden, 1994

2. Katrina and the Waves, 1985

3. Donovan, 1966

4. Bobby Hebb, 1976

5. The Beatles, 1964, 1966, 1969

“MOON” TITLES

Name the title of the work, given the year, author or lead actor, and that “moon” is somewhere in the title

1. novel, Stephenie Meyer, 2006

2. movie, Roger Moore, 1979

3. movie, Nicolas Cage, 1992

4. album, Ozzy Osborne, 1984

5. movie, Jim Carrey, 1999

Should I ever make it back over here to write a quiz again, it's likeliest to be in this format, 20-25 questions in 4-5 different categories.

TOTALITY CITY 1. Lincoln, NE (1:25) and Jefferson City, MO (2:29)
2. Jefferson Davis
3. St. Joseph, MO (2:38)
4. Clemson (2:37, football) and South Carolina (2:30, women's basketball). Sorry, Tar Heels; most of North Carolina is not in the path.
5. Popeye
6. Ernest Hemingway
7. Andrew Jackson for Hermitage is the easier one; Hillsboro is supposedly the English translation of the Italian for "little mount", or Monticello, so Thomas Jefferson is the other answer
8. Ste. Genevieve (2:40)
9. Gallatin (2:40). Albert Gallatin was Treasury Secretary for 14 years under three Presidents, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.
10. Tallulah Bankhead, whose grandmother Tallulah was named for Tallulah Falls, GA (2:21)
ECLIPSES 1. Mitsubishi
2. Bonnie Tyler
3. b) umbrella effect
4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
5. 2024
"SUN" SONGS 1. Black Hole Sun
2. Walking On Sunshine
3. Sunshine Superman
4. Sunny
5. I'll Follow The Sun, Good Day Sunshine, Here Comes The Sun
"MOON" TITLES 1. New Moon
2. Moonraker
3. Honeymoon in Vegas
4. Bark at the Moon
5. Man on the Moon