By Eldon Combs | October 5, 2024 | Comments Off on Trivia Questions 10/05/24
17 yr old Alabama Wide Receivier Ryan Williams scored the go-ahead TD after making an amazing jab step that left 2 Georgia would be tackler running into each other – the jab step took place closer to the 30 or 40-yard line? (36 yard line)
John Travolta or Mel Gibson – which refused the role of Forrest Gump opening the door for Tom Hanks oscar winning performance?
Barry Bonds is the only member of MLB’s 500 Home Runs & 500 Steals Club – True or False Bonds is also the only member of the 400 Home Runs & 400 Steals Club?
Harrison Ford or Robert Redford turned down the role of Professor Alan Grant in Jurassic Park?
In 1963 during an interview Hall of Fame Baseball Pitcher Gaylord Perry said, “They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run” – years later just hours before or after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon’s surface – Perry hit his one and only career Home Run.
Robert Downey Jr or Johnny Depp – who was supposed to play Ferris Bueller in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”? (Matthew Broderick was masterful in his performance of the Bash Ferris Bueller)
In 1934 Babe Ruth got his 700th Home Run ball back by paying the person who caught the ball: $10 or $20?
The Movie character Jason Bourne was born in Nixa, MO – True or False Springfield native Brad Pitt was slated to play the lead role in the Jason Bourne Movie Series? (Brad Pitt’s agent booked the role but later backed out because of scheduling conflicts – Matt Damon ended up delivering the goods very nicely)
Stan Musial had 3,630 career hits – True or False he was a better hitter on the road than at home? (He wasn’t a better hitter at home either – 1,815 Hits Away/1,815 Hits at Home – what are the odds of that ending up like that)
Bible Question: How old was Joseph when his brothers sold him into slavery: 14 or 17? (Joseph had a dream and unfortunately told his father and his brothers that in his dream he saw himself ruling of them – the brothers despised him and first threw him into a cistern but decided against letting him die in favor of selling him to Ishmaelites headed to Egypt to their Spices, Balm & Myrhh)