Category: General Interest

  What do the actors Wallace Beery, Randolph Scott, and Daniel Day-Lewis all have in common?     [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-february-4/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]        

    What poet made the statement “Poetry makes nothing happen”? And in what poem did he say it?       [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-january-21/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]      

Earlier this week (January 19) was Edgar Alan Poe’s birthday. Where was Poe born? (Hint: he alludes to his birthplace in his first publication in 1827).     [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-january-21/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]      

In what famous book, by what famous author, does the main character think this: “I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of a bone spur in his heel.”   [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’… Continue reading Trivia Question for January 14

The bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans is tomorrow, January 8, 2015. In honor of that occasion, here’s an Andrew Jackson trivia question: the most famous literary work on Jackson is the novel The President’s Lady, about Jackson and his wife Rachel, written by Irving Stone, author of other biographical novels like Lust for Life and The Agony… Continue reading Trivia Question for January 7

What is the exact LITERAL translation of the title of Robert Burs’ New Year’s Eve poem/song, “Auld Lang Syne”?   [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-december-31/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]  

December 26 is Thomas Gray’s 298th birthday. Perhaps his most often-quoted line is “ignorance is bliss,” from his “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.” But the line is almost always taken out of context. The actual line begins “Where ignorance is bliss….” For TRIVIA BRAGGING RIGHTS, what is the line that follows it and completes the sentence?… Continue reading Trivia Question for December 26

On this date in 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic A CHRISTMAS CAROL was published. There have been at least 21 film versions of the story (not counting those made for television). No actor has ever won an Oscar for playing Scrooge. However, one has won a Golden Globe award. Can you name this Golden Globe winning… Continue reading Trivia Question for December 17

Today, December 10, is Emily Dickinson’s 184th birthday. For trivia bragging rights for the day, what college did Emily Dickinson briefly attend?   [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-december-10/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]  

Joseph Conrad was born on this date in1857 in Berdychiv, in Podolia. He always thought of himself as a Pole. But what modern country is Berdychiv in?   [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-december-3/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]