Great trivia week, everyone. I thought it might be interesting to show the answer to each question and the stats about how everyone answered them.
We had 123 people take the quiz last week and the average score was 6.26/10.
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And here’s the questions:
Most of you knew that the flute was a part of the woodwind family with over 72.4% of you getting that right. I realize two of these four answers are ridiculously easy but 25.2% of you also thought it was a brass instrument. Not a single taker for keyboard…
The second question was about Jane Austen novels and again most people knew this one. I threw about 30% of you with Emily Bronte’s Mansfield Park. But too that 30% don’t feel bad, I’m not a fan either and don’t think I’ll ever recover from being forced to read some of these books in high school. I resonate with Mark Twain’s take on Austen, “Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig Jane Austen up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
Next question was about Powerline from A Goofy Movie. Am I the only one that spent the week with I2I in their head? I’m not kidding when I say I believe the soundtrack from A Goofy Movie is a top 5 Disney soundtrack. Check it out if you haven’t and put your 90’s pop hat back on to fully appreciate it.
Only about 50% of you knew this one which means you can now work out your upcoming weekend plans accordingly.
The next question was about Sherlock Holmes’ brother and 72.1% of you knew his name was Mycroft. What you probably didn’t know (unless you are an extremely beautiful nerd) is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Mycroft as intellectually superior to Sherlock but a bit out-of-shape and lazy comparatively.
Stephen Frye played Mycroft in the 2011 Guy Ritchie take, A Game of Shadows and Mark Gatiss plays him in the more recent Sherlock mini-series with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Gatiss is also one of the co-creators of the latter series so that may explain why Mycroft doesn’t really come across as out-of-shape and lazy in that version.
The next question was the image of a flag and 89.4% of you knew it was Turkey’s. Too easy.
After that was the mascot of the NHL team from New Jersey and 67.5% of you knew this one was the Devils.
The Devils started in Kansas City in 1974 as the Scouts. After that they moved to Denver in 1976 where they were the Colorado Rockies (sound familiar) from 1976-1982?
Colorado Rockies NHL logo
In 1982 they moved to New Jersey and took on the name Devils after a mythical creature called the Jersey Devil that supposedly lives in the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey.
This is a drawing of a Jersey Devil and it looks terrifying.
The next question about the capital of West Germany was the toughest by far. Only 22% of you got Bonn (and I’d guess a healthy number of those were guesses).
A likely reason that many people don’t know this fact is because Bonn was strategically chosen as the capital of West Germany because it wasn’t thought to represent a powerful capital and the West could show that they hoped Berlin would be the eventual capital of a reunified Germany. Forced obsolescence, in a sense.
Either way, tough question for sure but hopefully you’ve got something to take with you to your next bar trivia night.
Next up, the president who didn’t get to 1600 Penn because of the guy in front of him getting assassinated. 42.3% of you got this one right as Gerald Ford.
Ford became president in 1974 after the resignation of Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal. Andrew Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson became presidents after the assassinations of Lincoln, McKinley, and Kennedy respectively. One other president, Chester A. Arthur (you’ve never heard that name before-haha) became president after the assassination of James Garfield just 9 months into his term.
Next was Screech’s real name in Saved by the Bell and 60.2% of got it right. Writing alternative answers is one of the toughest parts of writing a good question and these answers I am particularly proud of. I hope true fans of the show appreciated them. The options were Samuel (the correct answer), Albert, Clifford (A.C. Slater’s real name), and Maxwell (the local hangout on the show was called The Max).
Next question was which state is home to Everglades National Park and almost all of you knew it. Everglades National Park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the third largest national park in the US (behind Death Valley and Yellowstone).
The final question was our tie-breaker about the Leaning Tower of Pisa and it was no coincidence that it was on the same quiz as a question about A Goofy Movie.
The tower, which was finished in the year 1372, is 183.3 feet tall. It isn’t the world’s furthest leaning man-made tower, that award goes to Capital Gate in Abu Dhabi which, though designed to do so, leans almost 5 times are much as the tower in Pisa.
Well that’s it for this week. Great trivia-ing. See you after the next one.
