By Eldon Combs | February 28, 2015 | Comments Off on Trivia Questions Week 02/27/15
This year’s Super Bowl drew a record 114.4 million viewers – last Sun the Oscar’s viewership fell 16% from last year with only 36 or 63 million viewers? (Down 16%)
The college major with the highest earning salary is: Petroleum Engineering ($102,300) or Nuclear Engineering ($67,000)?
You can find “Gnurr” with your fingers or tongue? (The lint in the bottom of your pocket)
How do you Spell Nuclear? (N-U-C-L-E-A-R)
Bible Question: According to 2nd Samuel – Who did David tell, “I have sinned against the Lord”: Nathan or Bathsheba? (David’s sin with Bathsheba that involved the killing of her husband Uriah the Hittite displeased & dishonored the Lord and cost David the life of his firstborn son with Bathsheba)
Baseball’s highest maximum exit speed – the speed of a pitched baseball off the bat has been measured at higher or lower than 125 mph? (1st: Vladimir Balentin 122.3 mph 2nd: Albert Pujols 119.6 mph)
Baseball “Shin Guards” were used before or after 1900? (1907 Roger Besnahan/Giants)
Married couples do not have to file taxes jointly – a recent tax study reveals that closer to 10% or 20% of married couples would actually benefit from filing separately?
In 1965 the minimum annual salary for a baseball player was: $6,000 or $12,000? ($1,000 more than 1947 salaries)
The record for most dimples ever put on a single golf ball is: 570 or 1,070? (414 larger dimples in 4 different sizes and 656 pinhead sized dimples)
Minor league baseball teams can or can not change their team names every 2 years? (Allowed to change every 3 years)
Krispy Kreme opened their 1,000th store this week in: Kansas City or Oklahoma City?
Which of these 3 major Airlines is the best at arriving on time: Southwest (73.5%), American (77.9%), or Delta (83.7%)
How much of the world’s money is real physical money: more or less than 10%? (8% is can touch money – the rest exists on computer hard drives in electronic bank accounts)
Baseball’s have a small cork core with 163 or 361 yds of wool yarn wrapped around it?
True or False A Zorilla is the smelliest animal in the world – it’s anal gland secretions can be smelled up to a half-a-mile away? (Zorilla, is a striped polecat/skunk)
Secretariat ran the greatest race in horse racing history – winning the 1973 Belmont by 31 lengths while running the entire mile & half race at an average speeed of more or less than 35 mph? (An amazing 37.5 mph)
14% or 41% of US adults plan to kiss someone at midnight on New Years Eve?
In the history of boxing there are only 4 or 8 boxers than have been knocked out in the first 11 seconds of the first round?
From the movie: “Talladega Nights” during the family dinner scene with Ricky Bobby praying – in the middle of the table there’s an unopened 2 liter bottle of Pepsi or Coke?
Over a 1 year period which would be the larger number: The amount of kills by a Lion (under 20) or the number of kills by a Great White Shark (over 25)?