Trivia Questions 02/02/24

  1. If you ever get to look a Reinder in the eye – you will not see this color: Blue, Brown, or Gold? (Reindeer eyes turn from Gold to Blue through the season to accommodate for days of complete light to days of complete darkness)
  2. In the last 2 weeks Joel Embid scored 70 pts & Luka Doncic 73 – how many times in NBA history has a player scored at least 70 pts in a game: 11, 13, or 15 times? (9 players plus, Wilt Chamberlain who accomplished 70 6 times)
  3. If you eat 17 average-sized Lay’s potato chips you will have eaten more or less calories than what is in a can of coke? (Coke has 150 Calories – 20 Chips for 150 Calories)
  4. The record for most overtime periods in a single college game is 9 and it occurred in a: Basketball, Football, or Championship Hockey Game? (10/23/21 Illinois vs Penn St it took 9 overtime periods to decide a winner – in basketball 7 is the record in a game in 1981 Bradley vs Cincinnatti)
  5. Ash, Maple, or Pine – which wood is used to make NBA basketball courts? (Hard Maple – Connor Sports official court of Men’s & Women’s Mar Madness & Final 4, Summer Olympics, 14 NCAA Conference Championships, Plus, 15 NBA & 5 WNBA teams)
  6. Bible Question: For the book of John we learn that Jesus transformed: 5, 6, or 7 jars of water into wine? (Recognized as the first miracle of Jesus – Mary asked Jesus to spare the host of a wedding from the embarrassment of running out of wine)
  7. You will or will not see a Missouri Snapping Turtle moving around under the ice of a frozen pond in winter? (Yep, Snapping Turtles do not hybernate & normally surface every 50 minutes to catch some air – in the winter they survive by utilizing the oxygen contained in water thru the winter)
  8. When the Raiders moved to Las Vegas there was or was not any discussions about changing the name to the High Rollers? (There was not – the Raiders are here to stay because they are one of the NFL’s Top 10 most popular teams but after ticking off Oakland and LA – I think a name change wouldn’t have been a horrible idea – Gamblers/High Rollers/Let it Riders)
  9. The fastest known time for a Stormfront to develop into a 1-mile-wide EF-5 tornado is: 21 secs, 210 secs or 1,200 secs? (05/22/2011 – remember that infamous date? Joplin, MO was in the path of a cold front hitting a warm front – that confrontation took all but 20 secs to create a 1-mile-wide deliverer of destruction – Nature is beautiful & here in the Ozarks very dangerous – it’s a good idea to always respect it’s power – whether it’s flooding or manufacturing thunderstorms)
  10. The first KC Chiefs game Taylor Swift attended – the Chiefs were playing the: Bears, Broncos, or Jets? (Listen up Cowboys fans – it might be a more correct statement to say the Cowboys are the World’s team than America’s Team because, right now today America’s Team is the KC Chiefs – 50% of all NFL related searches are currently looking for information involving the Chiefs – The Cowboys do have BY FAR the biggest fan footprint when it comes to the world)